Donyell Malen

[Olneythelonely]

Malen’s thread was three pages down so given the Durán events today we need to bump him up and talk about whether he can fill the hole

And? Can he?

[algy]

SJM “Maatsen says you’re a good guy”.

[Demitri_C]

I thought he looked promising was robbed of a goal. Only  thing is he was playing up front but jept drifting out of position and dropping back. But looked promising

[LeeB]

Out on his own in our team yesterday by actually looking like a professional footballer.

[Monty]

Goal absolutely thieved off him.

[PeterWithe]

He looked 'busy', I liked the look of him but he didn't really look like he could play Watkins role on the shoulder of the last man. More a kind of latter day Steve Claridge.

[Astnor]

 The goal that he scored - that was ruled out for something to do with Rogers in the build up, was a bit "fox in the box" ish - something we dont have much of in our squad.

[brontebilly]

He looked 'busy', I liked the look of him but he didn't really look like he could play Watkins role on the shoulder of the last man. More a kind of latter day Steve Claridge.

Definitely didn't look a guy comfortable playing with his back to goal. Looked better in the left channel, robbed of a goal and forced a save. Now we have Rashford, Asensio, Malen maybe Emery is thinking of switching back to 433, which was a disaster under SG.

[darren woolley]

His goal should have been allowed so angry with the officials.

[SoccerHQ]

On another day he gets two goals yesterday.

Unlucky with the offside but showed his poacher instinct if the cross is good enough.

Also liked the run he made across their CBs for the late chance. Shame he couldn't lift it over Sa but that's exactly the run you need to make if playing central.

Think he could be a good player for us but why is it taking so long to actually start him in games. He should've been in from the start yesterday as we're not talking about a 19 year old kid.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Think he could be a good player for us but why is it taking so long to actually start him in games. He should've been in from the start yesterday as we're not talking about a 19 year old kid.

Probably because we started Garcia; and would have had 2 new players on the right side. 

[VillaTim]

Impressive EPL debut, deserved his goal. I think he looks like has the attributes to be useful in the Prem.

[Louzie0]

I’m very pleased we’ve got him.

[Small Rodent]

Impressive EPL debut, deserved his goal. I think he looks like has the attributes to be useful in the Prem.

Yes, I enjoyed his performance.

[SoccerHQ]

Think he could be a good player for us but why is it taking so long to actually start him in games. He should've been in from the start yesterday as we're not talking about a 19 year old kid.

Probably because we started Garcia; and would have had 2 new players on the right side. 

What about West Ham when we had Cash around.

A big problem this season has been the lack of trust for most of the new signings we've made.

Emery only really seems to trust a core of 12-13 players to start regularly. We keep on playing them every three days and then wonder why they keep on chucking in terrible first halves.

I think the season might've been better if we'd rotated a bit more in the early months so the new players would've felt part of some of our good victories instead of being asked to try to turn the season around when others are low on confidence.

Malen been playing for a top club for years and also one of the better national teams so he really shouldn't be taking months to learn Emery's system.

It becomes harder to justify given our average level of performance for most of this season. At least last year you could understand Tielemans taking a while to get a run of starts because Luiz-Kamara was brilliant between September-December.