davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Three very odd pieces of business.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
Watched him play for the U21s the other week - they played him left wing and he's got quality, but physically he looks miles away
I'm not at all surprised we haven't seen him yet
Yep I agree. He got a proper mens game tackle on him about 10 minutes before half time and pretty much said "that's it for me" and didn't want to know.
Of course that was his first game back, but he didn't look like a 1st team player there for minutes, he looked like an u21 player struggling to stand out.
If he's that far away he was a really really poor signing. We arguably needed an upgrade at left back, to not even have found decent cover is criminal. As I said, I wouldn't even be confident that it would be a good long term signing if that's the case, he's a full international who's played for Bayern and in La Liga, I very much doubt he's going to stay here if he gets no game time at all.
He's from the school of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and will need time to get ready for playing in the Pitz. Hopefully that time will see us have an actual full back who can give us something going forward.
Odd that he is not getting that much game time for the U21s, though.
He's miles away from being ready for the first team, they're obviously having him train with them and be around the matchday squad to try to speed up his development. Throwing a player in before they're ready can be detrimental in the long term so I'm glad he's being properly managed.
Why did we sign him if the manager won't use him
God Benfrey
Player Valuation: £8m
Yeah I get he might be raw but yesterday at 1-0 down why didn't we bring him on instead of myko. We were chasing the game and Aznou is considered an attacking fullback, plus Myko has struggled with injury so far this season, thought that was a perfect chance to play him for 20 mins
dannyboy
Player Valuation: £60m
He looked lost against Roma. Completely out of his depth any time he was in a one on one situation.
OzarkBlue
Player Valuation: £500k
Absolutely the correct answer. Moyes being very myopic here.
y'all remember when everyone was saying "we don't need to bring in fullbacks, Moyes doesn't think it's a priority"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
FCBarça
Player Valuation: £10m
After 5 matches to start season, the definition of knee jerk reaction - especially when Moyes himself said he was not ready yet & that he wouldn’t be rushed
Also the claims he must bulk up is unusual considering his frame/size was not an unknown before being signed
But I weighed in on player assessment when he was linked - patience, resist the ManYoo approach to try new toys
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