Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
This isn't actually true though, James out the other day and we created 14 chances and we still lost whereas he played the week before and we created 9. Lucas Digne has more assists than him this season in the league and has actually been more productive. James is 8th in the list for Goal Creating Actions per 90min, aside from that he is not in the top 10 for Assists, Assists/90min, Key Passes, Passes into the Final Third, Passes into the Box, Through Balls, Crosses, Dribbling, basically all the stuff we need him to be good at. He is getting a free ride from folk at the moment because of his name but the fitness thing isn't going to change with him as it's always been there. We need to have a functioning team that can win gams without him then him be the plan b option as another poster said earlier onYe good point. I imagine Berge would be the sitter which would allow Allan and Doucoure to be box-to-box which would be a heck of a lot better than what we're currently doing.
Still think we need someone with a bit of creativity in midfield though as when James is out we're so bland.
Apologies for burst of stat related stuff.