MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Dan Burn will be a massive liability at the World Cup. The way he grabs and pulls players at set pieces, he’d be nailed on to concede a soft penalty.
Dan Burn will be a massive liability at the World Cup. The way he grabs and pulls players at set pieces, he’d be nailed on to concede a soft penalty.
NathDogg
Player Valuation: £60m
He was a disgrace agains us, but gets away with absolute murder.
Not sure the World Cup refs will allow Sunday league alehouse tactics to go unpunished.
JB is many levels above burn, and a number of the other cbs that the jarhead will select ahead of him - mings, konsa etc. all yard dogs.
The partnership should be JB with Guehi - pure class.
We have missed JB hugely this season, who knows how high up we would be had he been fit.
I guess Tuchel just feels like they're overstocked with centre halves. Somehow Stones, who never plays, is ahead of Branthwaite, as is Quansah who is now at 6th in the Bundesliga Leverkusen. Guehi is an automatic pick, and Chalobah has been in the squad for quite a while now too. Konza is another automatic pick (although I don't rate him, looking at it objectively he's been a mainstay in Villa's defence and they're having a great season), so that's 5 centre halves already. Dan Burn (lol) has been in the squad a while too, which makes 6.
Then Branthwaite has been out for 6 months, so would need to be proving himself over a period before coming back into contention.
IMO he should definitely be in there over Quansah and Burn at a bare minimum. And he's clearly a better defender now than Stones is, who is past his best and backup at City. Better than Chalobah too. And Konza.
Haha.
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
Player Valuation: £20m
Love him but he looks like Jonah from Veep.
IMHO the only chance he’s got is if he keeps scoring…..
he won’t get in on defensive form alone for the reasons you’ve listed, so he’ll have to do something outstanding like score 4 or 5 more while also defending staunchly and even then it’s doubtful.
If it wasn’t for that save we’d be talking a lot more about that header.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
Colour me shocked… we play our best cb in our strongest proven cb pairing, and he gets in team of the week.
he makes the others around him look better too. Myko wasn’t shocking, neither was Tarks.
I've always thought he looks like Martin Clunes about 40 years ago
Gary and Dermot
Story checks out, budweiser innit.
Burn definitely isn’t getting a single minute.
who'y & who'y?
Harry & Martin?
Anyway, I can't see the resemblance re Branthwaite. But there is a 'six degrees' at work here. Neil Morrissey who replaced Enfield was Amanda Holden's bit on the side. And she's a blue with a very perky exterior.
