2017/18 Michael Keane

[caught]

I didn't see a lot of him last season so just sort of went along with the idea that he was very promising, despite the fact that the one time I did watch him he got absolutely done by Lukaku.

We've been terrible this season - which hasn't helped - but individually he's been pretty poor. Gets turned far too easily, no pace to speak of, and cumbersome and awkward on the ball. He's also not particularly aggressive in the air, while his concentration defending set pieces has been appalling at times.

Still a fairly young CB who has evidently shown some quality at times, so I wouldn't be kicking him out the door just yet. But he really needs to up his game considerably.

 

[Stutheblue]

...he looks very poor in his own right i’m afraid.

I really wanted this lad to do well. Seemed just what we needed (or one half of what we needed). Been disappointed with him.

 

[sageyefc]

Well who do we stick next to him for the next three games? Couldn’t cope today with the long ball and physical players.

Holgate isn’t exactly the tallest or much of a physical presence.

Yet he's done perfectly fine whenever he's played CB

 

[Stutheblue]

He does mate. Always seems to be wrong footed. A bit of a fanny if we are being honest.

Looked a good buy at first. Stock right down at the moment. Hope he can improve, but not expecting it.

 

[sageyefc]

Factvburnley have been miles better this season without tells you all you need to know aswell. Shocking signing

 

[Kev The Rat]

Slow indecisive and lacks any authority

 

[nsno-chris]

His former managers entire game plan was aimed at keanes inability to defend

Says it all

 

[Goat]

Hes utter garbo sadly.

 

[Stutheblue]

...we simply can’t play a high line with this lad in the team or we’ll get crucified, I presume having a deep back four was part of Walsh’s playing strategy otherwise we surely wouldn’t have bought Keane. The trouble with playing deep is that we struggle to get up the pitch.

It’s all such a mess.

And the trouble with playing deep is that we can't defend crosses or corners. Apart from the top 6, the vast majority of the rest rely on set pieces and corners to get goals or create mayhem/chances. They must love playing us.
Stoke can't wait to get 3 vital points.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

As weak as a kitten and as slow as a tugboat

 

[Zezti]

Seemed solid during his first couple games for us, seems a lifetime away now.
Doesn't look prem standard at all.

 

[edge]

Looks like somebody playing with the flu, heads all over the place and physically not up to it.

 

[roydo]

Looks like somebody playing with the flu, heads all over the place and physically not up to it.

That is the perfect description at the moment.

 

[JJK]

He’s shocking. Barnes’s simple runs where mind boggling to him. He didn’t know where he was all afternoon.

 

[ToffeeJord]

Moves like the QE2. Lazy. Looks shy and cowarldy. Longer we keep him the lower the money we’ll get. Don’t play him again and move him on the day the window opens!! Mori and Holgate please