January Transfer Window 2023

[MikeH72]

You do realise how utterly insane this sentence is, right?

I mean you have played football, you surely know there is VERY little difference about which side of the pitch you play in midfield, right?

I don’t think he has.

 

[TheBigIguana]

You do realise how utterly insane this sentence is, right?

I mean you have played football, you surely know there is VERY little difference about which side of the pitch you play in midfield, right?

I'm not going to pretend it makes sense but I think it's just a fact at this point that the guy is a much better player when not over there. Stop asking him to do the things he can't do.

 

[Goat]

. Stop asking him to do the things he can't do.

Like play Premier League football?

 

[Connor]

I mean, do we all remember the Richarlison miss from last season v Leicester??

Purposefully, no

 

[nsno-chris]

I'm not going to pretend it makes sense but I think it's just a fact at this point that the guy is a much better player when not over there. Stop asking him to do the things he can't do.

Because it doesn’t???

 

[RomanReigns]

looking like we will end the window with a front three of

Danjuma (loan with option to buy) -----------Michael Keane-----------------Elanga (loan)

not bad that

should win a few games

 

[nsno-chris]

WTF am I actually reading

 

[Goat]

WTF am I actually reading

That if a player switches 10 yards across a football pitch he cant perform.

 

[Nyhus]

That he was not good enough to force out Marc Albrighton because he’s a brain dead player

Brain dead is an understatement. Remember that video of him nearly killing himself by helicopter?

 

[Zatara]

You do realise how utterly insane this sentence is, right?

I mean you have played football, you surely know there is VERY little difference about which side of the pitch you play in midfield, right?

This isnt a shot at @TheBigIguana but theres no chance hes played football...

...its evident simply by the Tarkowski comments.

Now iwobi ones. Lampard ones too

 

[Rich1878]

looking like we will end the window with a front three of

Danjuma (loan with option to buy) -----------Michael Keane-----------------Elanga (loan)

not bad that

should win a few games

Michael Keane up top ??

 

[BlueToff]

I've said several times today I think they're good enough to finish a comfortable 15th.

right and look at the table now...

There's 5 points between 13th and 20th.

So there's 8 teams in the mix. Of those 8 teams, I'd expect six - based on the quality of their squads - to fill the bottom six places at the end of the season. We're in that 6.

 

[Goat]

Michael Keane up top ??

Im all for it.

 

[RomanReigns]

Michael Keane up top ??

the new steve watson lad

has a foot like a traction engine and a fod like maguire

 

[BlueToff]

That if a player switches 10 yards across a football pitch he cant perform.

I'm gonna half stick up for @TheBigIguana here in the sense that Iwobi is definitely better when he's more towards the left touchline than right when it comes to the numbers - i.e. he's more dangerous from that side. Like how we can say that Gray is definitely more dangerous playing left wing than right wing.

What annoys me slightly about Ig's comments on it is that he seems to disregard things Iwobi does like hitting the ball at a player 2 yards in front of him, or miscontrolling simple passes, or making an erratic decision, just because he's on the right side of central midfield and not 15 yards to the left.

That's where the issue is for me. I'm not disputing Iwobi is better when he's more towards the left of the pitch because generally he is. But where you play on the field doesn't mean you can't do simple things right and lately he's been doing simple things badly.

Still the only creative player we have from midfield, mind.