ElGato
Player Valuation: £25m
Quick and an excellent reader of the game are wild shouts
I'm not his biggest fan, in fact, I think he's dreadful, but he had an ok game today.
I'm not his biggest fan, in fact, I think he's dreadful, but he had an ok game today.
Blues sometimes let a victory go to their head.Quick and an excellent reader of the game are wild shouts
I'm not his biggest fan, in fact, I think he's dreadful, but he had an ok game today.
Flynnthistle
Player Valuation: £2.5m
I'm not fickle. Ive always rated him. Some everton "fans" have done their best to destroy his confidence, but yet here he is, being our best performing centre half, again.
Always been capable of stringing together good runs of form. Just usually punctuated by a big dozy own goal too unfortunately.
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
Tarks has made more errors this season. But maybe it’s because he doesn’t have Jarrad alongside him. The defence is so much calmer and solid with him in it.
Terrarian
Player Valuation: £50m
When he's good, he can be a good solid defender but when he's off form he's an unmitigated disaster and his jitters spread to the rest of the defence. He's inconsistent, probably bordering on more bad games than good the last few seasons but when he's on form he fine.
Problem is you just can't risk him over a long period. He has started the season decently, i hope it continues.
Problem is you just can't risk him over a long period. He has started the season decently, i hope it continues.
This is it.
I don’t mind him - he’s been fine the last 4 prem games he’s played. I’d love to know the stats for most back passes to a keeper cos leave defo tops it by a country mile
don't rate Michael Keane at all but have to give him credit yesterday, actually looked confident and his passing was superb
All on Tarks yesterday, farting about with it. I thought Keane had a very good, no nonsense game.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
When we chat about players one thing that all football supporters do is exaggerate the failings of players , just as we sometimes overplay their strengths. It’s human nature it adds spice to our debates.
We caricaturise the strengths and especially the failings of our players to add emphasis to our post match critique, to draw attention to what we perceive as the failings of our team.
Sometimes we do it just to release our frustration, to apportion blame.
The problem becomes when the caricature begins to obscure the actual performance of the player, we look for the actions that support that cartoon image and ignore the good points.
Keane has been a recipient of that caricaturisation over the years , he isn’t a great centre back for sure , but he is a decent PL one .
Tarkowski is highly regarded, yet yesterday I watched him freeze in the box , then place a perfectly weighted pass to the oncoming Brighton player that only the brilliance of Pickford prevented a certain goal. If Keane had conceded as many recent penalties as Tarks , we would have been posting multiple comments illustrating how rubbish he is.
The truth is more nuanced, Tarkowski is a good not great CB and Keane is a decent not poor one.
They both make occasional mistakes , like all footballers and could almost certainly be improved on.
But where’s the laughs in that ?
We caricaturise the strengths and especially the failings of our players to add emphasis to our post match critique, to draw attention to what we perceive as the failings of our team.
Sometimes we do it just to release our frustration, to apportion blame.
The problem becomes when the caricature begins to obscure the actual performance of the player, we look for the actions that support that cartoon image and ignore the good points.
Keane has been a recipient of that caricaturisation over the years , he isn’t a great centre back for sure , but he is a decent PL one .
Tarkowski is highly regarded, yet yesterday I watched him freeze in the box , then place a perfectly weighted pass to the oncoming Brighton player that only the brilliance of Pickford prevented a certain goal. If Keane had conceded as many recent penalties as Tarks , we would have been posting multiple comments illustrating how rubbish he is.
The truth is more nuanced, Tarkowski is a good not great CB and Keane is a decent not poor one.
They both make occasional mistakes , like all footballers and could almost certainly be improved on.
But where’s the laughs in that ?
