bluerobert
Player Valuation: £25m
I thought exactly the same thing when he didn’t come back into the shot. Probably had to limp off to the physios room
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I thought exactly the same thing when he didn’t come back into the shot. Probably had to limp off to the physios room
He will fill out in the next few years.
Patterson seems to be filling out since he came as well.
bluerobert
Player Valuation: £25m
Patterson’s found Chius chippy, been seen ordering 5 portions of spring rolls for the drive home from Goodison
bluerobert
Player Valuation: £25m
This kid is so charismatic, love the way he engages with the fans so early into his career with us. I bet he’s already very popular in the dressing room. Kid knows how to play the football to.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Tbh in the training vids, shocked me just how bulked up Davies got, and a few others, something definitely changed in terms of individual programs
davids
Player Valuation: £60m
Just hope it's monitored properly, remember Anichebe bulked up when he was out after the Nolan assault ,when he came back bigger but slower.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Davies definitely looked a lot bigger physically in the derby, and dare I say it but a bit of a handful at certain moments. Some of it is genetic like your body has to be ready to bulk up, and that comes at different wages. Think Davies having time away will have helped too.
Hopefully Holgate and to a degree Godfrey are working on similar.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £35m
I thought he was fine until about 65 mins then ran out of gas. I’d have hooked him for Tom or Garner then I think. But it turned out ok so no dramas
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
Yeah I thought he wasn’t great in possession
He’s still settling in though and looks like he’ll have all the tools to be a top player. I just don’t want to see us use him like we did Fellaini at times, as a target man number 10 arriving into the box and winning flick ons.
I thought we’d bought him as a number 6 to sit in front of the defence, win it and give it simply. Maybe he’ll move there in time with a bit more experience but as an 8 I thought he could have done a lot more yesterday and I was hoping he’d come off earlier for Garner to give us more control in possession.
In general there was far too much conservative play in midfield, much too many backward passes and failing to drive forward into space or play forward passes first time. Hopefully this comes with greater confidence.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Straight to th treatment room. He can find it with his eyes closed.
Chius spring rolls.... One of lifes great joys. Just to add to that Chaus on St Mary's Rd their Salt and pepper Wings are quite sensational. Sorry for going off topic.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
I think right now we can't pigeon hole what type of cm he is gonna become mate, hes being tasked with different roles depending on the opposition - so far he's done them all well too, for the lads development it'll be brilliant as he's got every chance of developing into a complete cm (remember what Roy Keane said when asked to describe his best position (6,8, box to box, am etc), what type of role suits him etc and his answer was 'i'm a midfielder'.
Think Lampard wants 4-5 lads here who all give that same answer.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Aye good call that mate. His extra weight also caused him to start picking up lots of little stress injuries too as he put it on too fast I think.
Got the feeling that with the staff we have in now, the monitoring will be like night and day compared to the past.
The integration of new players and returning from injury ones suggests were using a lot of checks to see fitness levels before chucking them in too.
Side note, but not on Iwobis scale but Davies improvement so far has really impressed me, and gone under the radar a lot, a lad who looked bombed out here and off the championship effectively now looks actually like a genuine option again should he maintain the improvement he's shown
…I think there has been a major change in Davies. I mentioned in the Derby match thread how he had his ‘game face’ on from the moment he stepped out of the coach. He was in isolation when he stepped onto the pitch and in a zone when he left to get his kit on, totally ignoring youngsters asking for his autograph.
As you say, he’s clearly been working on his fitness. I actually wonder if it’s lots to do with him, a realisation that Lampard is signing CMs and his future at the club is under threat.
ToffeeScot
Player Valuation: £1.5m
He is sometimes very naive and it's easy to forget how young he is because of how mature he is. A bit of a weird player currently as he can play like a prime Gana and an U-18 player in the same game.
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