Its a massive risk to rely on him even for this, the pressure alone will be no good for his confidence, he's a complete unknown for us still. The midfield needs a lot of work still in the centre in my opinion.
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Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
He'll need to be able to receive and recycle possession under pressure, otherwise it'll be chaos having him and Doucoure in the same midfield.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
From video clips he looked fine at this.
However it does concern me slightly with each week the expectation is growing on him. It's gone from, he will be ok to come off the bench to help, to him being a nailed on starter to bow lots of people being of the view that he is almost going to save our season.
I think we are quite likely to be underwhelmed when he comes in. It's going to take him time to get the pace of the league, if hes over his injuries, which is a whole different debate.
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
It's a shame that he wasn't ready in September, when he could have been the sub-on for Gomes in a team doing well, but then at least there'll still be mostly neutral / dead atmospheres for the foreseeable future.
"the pressure".
From whom, exactly? The tens of thousands of supporters in the stands?
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Which makes me think the links to khedira make some sense. On a free, ok he will want a decent salary. But for 18 months it will give Gbamin time to settle back into the squad.
I know some people are obsessed with pace, but as we seen with Barry, that experience of knowing where to be on the pitch, could straight away help out the defence, while also freeing Allan & Doucoure and letting them get on the front foot. And we seem on Saturday how outstanding Allan was, when he goes forward.
KaiserEFC
Player Valuation: £70m
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Fair enough
But half of them on that page are less than a week.
I’m sure we all could pick out a 33yr old who’s played for 15yrs. And seems like he has a good injury record , but probably easily fills 2 pages of 3 and 4 day injuries.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Yes great point. I mean I'd take Khadeira all day here.
everton1953
Player Valuation: £40m
Is Khadeira OK for vegans? I have not seen it on any menus.
Well, pressure to come into an underperforming side/midfield.
Someone who is intelligent, reads the game and is disciplined in the holding role would do me. Haven’t seen Khadeira in yonks but if he can do that I’d have him. We’d need Doucoure and Allan to do the running but we already have that issue when picking Sigurdsson or Gomes!
The only pressure he will have is from himself. That's literally every single player in football. It's not like the supporters can influence him one way or another.
Well that's not strictly true.
If we've lost 2 of our next 4 or whatever it will be by the time he comes back in, then there is pressure to perform. There's always pressure, regardless of whether fans are there. It's how the players deal with that pressure that separates the good from the bad.
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