Philw
Player Valuation: £50m
No he isn't. He's just asking him to control the ball when it's occasionally played up to him and hold a man off for a while, or pass it off to someone. Asking him to be able to do that a few times doesn't mean asking him to be a hold up/target man. At his size he should be capable of that, but too often the ball just bounces off him. Even with trying to play out from the back and build attacks that way, there are gonna be times when we need to be able to put the ball into him and build from there. If he is unable to simply control the ball and use it from there then that enables them to pressure us up the field, making building from the back more difficult, meaning we get less chances to put him in positions we want him to be in. Again, we are not asking for him to be a holding player (even though with his physical attributes he should be capable), we just want him to be able to do that occasionally.
Also, I don't think it's very good form for the site owner to be going around calling people pathetic for disagreeing with him, especially when he's actually ignoring the point of their posts...
