meagher94
Player Valuation: £35m
True. He even disappears in them games though.
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True. He even disappears in them games though.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
I would like at the season end for the club to give him his P45. This is a position just as much as CM and Striker that needs to be sorted. We need a new younger goalie.
Hes been superb for most of the season, I see no reason to offload him just yet.
VaguelyBrown
Player Valuation: £5m
Yeah, I'm with you Ijjy. He's good, and I reckon he'll be playing in a top league within the next year or two
ijjysmith
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I was pretty critical of Howard last season but I think he's been really good this season. Yea, he should have done better at chelsea but he has also saved us in a good few games.
On his distribution, I couldn't disagree more, Under Moyes he would hoof the ball up to the halfway line or further and we'd loose it, this year he's far more integrated in to the back line, almost acting like a sweeper at times. He bowls the ball out to the attacking full backs pretty fast and keeps the game going. We have no problem getting the ball from our goal to the final third.
And from what I've seen of Roebles, there's no way I'd drop Howard for him (yet). Although I do like the element of loyalty in Martines's game and hope Robles gets his start tomorrow.
Blades
Player Valuation: £500k
I thought he was good last season because he didn't need to do much outside of the basics. As long as he could keep the ball out of the net he was doing his job. Moyes played a deep defensive line so he was very rarely, if ever, required to come off of his line and act as a sweeper. His distribution was no issue as Moyes was happy for him to hoof it at every opportunity.
This season however I believe he has been exposed because he needs to be more reactive and act as a sweeper at times. Sunderland at home when he gave the penalty away was a disaster. The second Sturridge goal at Anfield was just utterly brainless and the same for the missed penalty. I think his distribution is really bad tbh, if he is pressed then he looks incredibly vulnerable and he will either pass it to a teammate in a difficult position or simply give it away. In terms of throwing it out then that's not an issue, but most goalkeepers can do that.
he's a good shot stopper but for a team that wants to play more aggressive and possession based then I don't think he is good enough.
I agree with most of that, but the way Martinez sets his defenses up, you need an absolute world beater of a keeper not to make any mistakes and for me that's not Robles. I don't think he did much wrong against Sunderland and I can't comment on the Anfield game as I've blocked it from my memory!
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
This, spot on, Howard has had a good season, its one area of the park we dont need to look at. We could only think of a replacement if we had money to burn, we dont.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
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