Charlie Sweet
Player Valuation: £35m
A star in the making
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Anyone got any stats on how many aerial duals he had and won?
It's like he's twice the height of everyone, simply colossul in the air.
It's like he's twice the height of everyone, simply colossul in the air.
Never wastes the ball, he's a very good footballer and its really difficult to get by him hes so huge.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
Richard Dunne at right back is an obvious comparison too.
Shouldn't really work but does somehow.
Charlie Sweet
Player Valuation: £35m
People saying he's a natural centre half - maybe - but for now we've got an absolute rock solid right back who then adds height and muscle to set pieces. Hopefully a blue for years to come
And he'll be sat at home now thinking he did a great job of keeping him on the bench getting him ready for this moment
zebedee
Player Valuation: £8m
Both could play a bit of football that's the difference. You don't have to be short and nibble with pace. If you use your football brain and know your limitations you'll play anywhere. God he's a brick wall
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £100m
brought in on his watch though, and not for a miniscule lay out.
Moyes has some history for working certain players in, and the fluidity of the side currently (because of the job working back by Lindstrom) means we have that extra man at the back to mop up. We don't have a terrible first eleven and a smattering of capability on the bench. They're playing with confidence now instead of grinding in games hoping for set pieces. It's like they've all shed a weight off their backs and have a bit of optimism. Some turn around for a previously monikered dour Davey...
He's got type 1 diabetes.
True story
True story
Reminiscent of playing Lescott at left back at first.
Not that it changes the point but just because I’ve seen it said quite a lot in the last couple of weeks, Moyes didn’t play Lescott at left back at first. It wasn’t like a learning curve thing where he wasn’t trusted in the middle until he’d done his apprenticeship on the left, he played centre half for pretty much his entire first season, then moved to left back in his second season because we’d signed jagielka and baines got injured.
It ties in with another misremembering that gets mentioned a lot - that baines couldn’t get into the side at first. He did, he went straight in but then got injured, came straight back in and got injured again, and then couldn’t get his place back because lescott was doing so well.
So I just took a trip down memory lane in the Premier League website and you're right that Moyes did play Lescott in the middle. He was being subbed on to replace the aging Stubbs , who then got injured so he was starting with Yobo for a bit. He did really well and we beat Liverpool 3-0 with him in the middle with Yobo.
Then by week 10 Stubbs came back and he was put out to left back for the first time because the other choices were Gary Naysmith and an utterly finished Nuno Valente and Stubbs was a better player than either of them so Lescott was put out left. He spent time rotating between CB and LB throughout that season depending on who was available or trusted out of Stubbs, Weir, Yobo, Naysmith, and Valente.
But it isn't true to suggest he was played at LB because he wasn't trusted in the middle, it was because he was so much better than Naysmith or Valente that if Stubbs or Weir were available we'd rather move him out wide to keep them off of the pitch.
Following on from my question last night.
@Nymzee is there anywhere I can find individual stats for player performances? Want to check his aerial duels last night
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