2025/26 Charly Alcaraz

Gilbert.. said:
Either gets 5 minutes or thrown on when we're losing.

He did exactly that against Palace. His reward was to be chucked out wide away to City and then benched. His game time is so limited its very difficult for him to do much. 290 minutes game time this season is less than tim iroegbanums.
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My gut feeling is that if he gets an extended run in the team we'd probably see why he cost £12m. Obviously until that extended run happens it leaves the door open for a lot of fans to argue that he's being deprived of opportunities.
 

dannyboy said:
My gut feeling is that if he gets an extended run in the team we'd probably see why he cost £12m. Obviously until that extended run happens it leaves the door open for a lot of fans to argue that he's being deprived of opportunities.
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I dont think the fee comes into mate tbh. Ndiaye cost 15m and barry 27m.
I dont personally think he's been given a fair crack by Moyes. We all knew iroegbunam was getting picked today. We know how moyes rolls.
 

dannyboy said:
My gut feeling is that if he gets an extended run in the team we'd probably see why he cost £12m. Obviously until that extended run happens it leaves the door open for a lot of fans to argue that he's being deprived of opportunities.
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It’s another Lookman situation for me. We’ve made the exact type of signing we need to be making. Cheaper, clearly talented, and overlooked for reasons that may not be totally ability related. He’s shown in flashes a lot of potential. There is no guarantee, as there was not with Lookman, that the flashes ever become consistent enough to make it work out. But we need to play him enough to know. People up and down this forum swore Lookman couldn’t do it for a lot of the same reasons we’re seeing with Alcaraz now (positioning off the ball, work rate, better as a sub, whatever). They may be right! But we don’t have enough talent lying around to not do what we can to try and get it to work. If it doesn’t it doesn’t, that’s the beauty of finding talent for 12m.
 
TheBigIguana said:
It’s another Lookman situation for me. We’ve made the exact type of signing we need to be making. Cheaper, clearly talented, and overlooked for reasons that may not be totally ability related. He’s shown in flashes a lot of potential. There is no guarantee, as there was not with Lookman, that the flashes ever become consistent enough to make it work out. But we need to play him enough to know. People up and down this forum swore Lookman couldn’t do it for a lot of the same reasons we’re seeing with Alcaraz now (positioning off the ball, work rate, better as a sub, whatever). They may be right! But we don’t have enough talent lying around to not do what we can to try and get it to work. If it doesn’t it doesn’t, that’s the beauty of finding talent for 12m.
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I actually really rated Lookman, but I just don't see it with Alcaraz. Your post right now probably applies more to Dibling in my opinion who is being really starved of games considering how much faith the club put him in with that transfer fee.
 
dannyboy said:
Do you mean Palace? If so, he definitely did start the next game. As I said in previous posts, other people such as yourself really think we're depriving the team by keeping Alcaraz on the bench - I just don't see it.
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Alcarez started on the wing in the city match which is a position he is not suited for, he should be playing centrally either in a 10 role or further back , placing him on the wing is hindering his ability to contribute. Moyes has to offer him a proper incentive towards distinguishing himself
 
TheBigIguana said:
This idealism won Palace the FA Cup and took teams like Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford to their best ever finishes.

I truly believe season ticket holders can get behind a club that takes a viewpoint that a slightly slower build up to a real payoff is the way to go about this.

I mean there are both statistical ways to look at this with chance creation, pressure, ball retention, control of territory, etc. or the much simpler did we play better than the opponent today? I know that’s a bit of a moving target, but I think everyone knows sometimes the result in a game doesn’t reflect who played better for longer stretches.
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By all those metrics the RS played better than Forest last week, but no one can say Forest didn't play a better game and obviously get the result.
Equally Utd beat us on those metrics last Monday

Results are the most important metric, ignoring them makes no sense.
 

Toffeepot said:
By all those metrics the RS played better than Forest last week, but no one can say Forest didn't play a better game and obviously get the result.
Equally Utd beat us on those metrics last Monday

Results are the most important metric, ignoring them makes no sense.
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Current results are not a good guide to look term results though. Performances are a better guide. Being overly obsessed with short term results is not the way to build a business or a successful sports team. You have to believe in something and stick with it for a while regardless of results.
 
Toffeepot said:
By all those metrics the RS played better than Forest last week, but no one can say Forest didn't play a better game and obviously get the result.
Equally Utd beat us on those metrics last Monday

Results are the most important metric, ignoring them makes no sense.
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Yes Sean Dyche is a manager who will over time not improve a side even if he occasionally gets results. You’ve got it.
 
BigBeto1 said:
Anyone slating him hasn’t got a clue. What’s he going to do when you bring him on when we’re 3-0 down, the shapes gone, the heads are gone and the games already gone
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There will be an opportunity with Afcon to drop KDH back and give CA a run at 10. Based on his treatment this far this season which I find hard to understand, I have doubts it will happen.
 
TheBigIguana said:
It’s another Lookman situation for me. We’ve made the exact type of signing we need to be making. Cheaper, clearly talented, and overlooked for reasons that may not be totally ability related. He’s shown in flashes a lot of potential. There is no guarantee, as there was not with Lookman, that the flashes ever become consistent enough to make it work out. But we need to play him enough to know. People up and down this forum swore Lookman couldn’t do it for a lot of the same reasons we’re seeing with Alcaraz now (positioning off the ball, work rate, better as a sub, whatever). They may be right! But we don’t have enough talent lying around to not do what we can to try and get it to work. If it doesn’t it doesn’t, that’s the beauty of finding talent for 12m.
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I always liked Lookman and thought with the right manager he would of been a big asset which he's since proven to be elsewhere. I think it's because going to Italy helped him mature as a player and as a person. He was also unlucky that Silva got sacked and Allardyce took over as those 2 didn't see eye to eye I seem to recall
 

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