TheSecondComing
Player Valuation: £35m
No denying he’s a decent player, but does Marco have to shoehorn him in because he cost £45 Million? Yes he does.
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Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
How about Sigurdsson for Everton?
Lelouch
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how is it shoehorning when he fits the team ????
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
Strange one is siggurdson.
At the point of a lot of good things last season and one of the causes for the poor form as well.
Short term he is a goalscoring playmaker for us and the upturn in form by the end of the season suggests we now have a settled team.
Long term he will be replaced but not a priority. Would love to see competition for him though. That's always been out issue with our playmakers. Never have a backup to push them, didn't with arteta Barkley and now siggurdson.
At the point of a lot of good things last season and one of the causes for the poor form as well.
Short term he is a goalscoring playmaker for us and the upturn in form by the end of the season suggests we now have a settled team.
Long term he will be replaced but not a priority. Would love to see competition for him though. That's always been out issue with our playmakers. Never have a backup to push them, didn't with arteta Barkley and now siggurdson.
Furey1878
Player Valuation: £70m
Mate I think he builds the team to accommodate him because he is pretty much our best player
I think Silva would rather play a 4-3-3 with one holding mid and 2 box to box players but we don’t have enough good CMs to play that way.
At the end of the day you play the system that best suits your players, not play the players that best suits your system and that’s what Silva does so fair play to him.
blueconverse
Player Valuation: £35m
The anger against our top scorer is a strange one.
This. One of the first names on the team sheet due to talent irrespective of cost.
I doubt Iceland would have qualified for back to back major tournaments for the first time without his contributions, which was shown by him winning sports personality of the year in their country for 2016
Honestly don't get this whole "Player is 30, so he's finished" attitude that seems to be prevalent on here with some people
It's not how old you are, it's how old you feel
These guys are athletes, so long as they take care of themselves and stay disciplined then they can play to a high level past the age of 30
It's not how old you are, it's how old you feel
These guys are athletes, so long as they take care of themselves and stay disciplined then they can play to a high level past the age of 30
Jags
Player Valuation: £10m
He was 24/27 before joining us, he is 2/5 with us.
He missed that one for Iceland in the World Cup, and I think it's playing on his mind. Hopefully a decent summer off lets him get back to his best, because I don't see him moving off of them for a little while.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Yes. I've been thinking a bit about this recently. Lots of people point to how well Moyes did with younger players, but actually his bigger strengths were getting something out of older players. When he first arrived he got a tune out of Ferguson, Campbell, Stubbs, Weir. Over time you could add in Carsley, Unsworth, Osman, Hibbert, Neville, Cahill, Saha, Martyn, Watson, Pistone, Peinaar etc etc. All of them provided decent to excellent service for the club past their 30th year.
The wider point is there is value and importance to older players and a good coach will be able to recognise and utilise this.
As for the specific of Sigurdsson I think he will be fine as players go. Most of his game is not based on physicality but intelligence and technical skill. Generally it's the physical attributes that decline. He does cover a lot of ground but he doesn't do so at enormous pace, more he has a good football brain that helps him tactically.
In truth I underrated the intelligence of Sigurdsson. Some of the through balls he plays are fantastic and he's always looking for the clever ball through. With a Lukaku he'd had had a bundle of assists. Calvert Lewin is still learning in that regard. He will be fine. I do love this lets sell him stuff, who is going to pay us a decent fee as he approaches 30? He'll be more value to us as a player than the figure we get for him.
He scores goals. He should obviously play.
Actually Silva said in an interview last week that he likes to play 4231 with a number 10
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