Did we ever look better when Alcarez played? Did we ever look better when Dibling was on the pitch?
BenToffee79
Player Valuation: £8m
Someone arguing with me earlier in the year tried to make out Glasner done a bad job last season by not getting top 10 in the league.
He claimed they had a top 10 squad and named Elise who was sold to Bayern the summer before the season. He also named Wharton who was signed two weeks before Glasner joined.
If Moyes replaced Hodgson, Wharton would have sat on the bench or got played on the wing.
Hodgson = Moyes
Negative Pragmatic managers
How can we answer this question objectively if they haven't played ?
But they have played? Look at their respective threads for when they did actually play.
BenToffee79
Player Valuation: £8m
Dibling played 350 mins this season / we judging him in that
Second point Yes we were much better when Alcaraz/ Armstrong and George came on yesterday
Hard to know. Alcaraz played 20 minutes since January. Not sure Dibling played since February
We literally learned nothing about our squad this season. A complete waste.
The one thing I am certain of is that Armstrong should have played much more.
What did he do in those 20 minutes? Remind yourself with his thread if you want.
Yes but sadly that was a very long time ago and both players were thrown to the wolves coming on with 5 minutes to go sometimes.
After Christmas both haven't played anywhere near enough to judge if they're good or not whereas mcneil was allowed to consistently cost his team goals for weeks and weeks without consequence.
Ndiaye has needed a break for a while, everyone has been used as a right sided midfielder except our right sided midfielder.
I dont think he's great but it's 20 minutes over about 4 matches
That's setting any player up to fail. And the team hasn't been picked on merit in recent months.
My main 2 arguments are Armstrong in midfield and playing an actual RB because O Brien is out of his depth in that position. Keane Tarkowski duo doesn't work. It's a failed Burnley combination.
Should we just start players when they're playing bad for the purposes of changing things for changes sake then?
O'Brien can't even mark a winger, and is constantly done on the turn - he's not the answer to our CB problem. Patterson is brainless and constantly caught out of position, and Garner is easily our most talented player and shouldn't be stuck slotting in at right back at this stage of his career.
I'm as annoyed as anyone about the way the season ended, but to pretend that there have been absolutely zero improvements on the pitch when we didn't have to look behind our backs at any point is farcical and devoid of any baring in truth.
Why do you think Dibling didn't start? Geniune question.
I was pleased that we did recruit younger players.
The problem is the majority didn’t play so either a) the manager didn’t want to trust young players or b) they were poor recruitments. Or a combination of both.
Irrespective of which it is we are unlikely to be seen as a great place for other young players to come this summer due to their limited time.
Moyes is only person that can answer that .
If i were to speculate I would simply assume that moyes doesn't like him.
It cant be because hes made mistakes as ive pointed out that moyes has allowed this to consistently happen with others.
Its nothing to do with social media as he turned a blind eye to Barry and carried on playing him through mistakes and poor showing .
But dibling isn't alone either here , rohl , alcaraz , aznou, George, Armstrong, Patterson all could have contributed a lot more and couldn't have done any worse than some players that have been rendered undroppable.
