Donyell Malen

[brontebilly]

He was caught on his heels constantly.

This is by far his biggest issue. I don’t know whether it’s confidence, attitude or talent. I’d imagine being left out of the CL squad could have had a huge hit on the first two.

Think Emery lost him then in all honesty.

[RamboandBruno]

Every time something didn’t work out for him last night - lost the ball, duff pass, whatever - his instant reaction was to stand there hands on hips rather than to track back or whatever the situation required.

I thought his body language looked awful, not that of a player fighting for a regular place in the team.

I agree and whilst Guessand was largely equally ineffective, he worked hard and tried imo.

[eamonn]

I like him but his form has collapsed like a lot of others

I think he's lost confidence a bit from hardly ever starting games.

He is still a regular in the Dutch squad but you have to think that would be a doubt if he continues not playing much and missing out on the World Cup would be devastating and sum up his move.

I think he'll go out on loan in January.

A year ago he was starting for Dortmund away to Real Madrid in CL. From just the first 30 seconds of this you can see what a fully confident Malen can do against top level defence:

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Wow, the first 60 seconds even. Look at his movement for his goal. Why the fuck can't we get the best out of new signings?!