Ross Barkley

[onlyme]

Mom? Your off your head if you think that was a mom performance ... he slowed play down countless times and lost passion heaps ... he did need to buy time from the fans because fans were getting on his back... koeman said he needed to improve and dropped him. His work rate without the ball was non existent ... he has turned the corner and has been playing well in 2017... his passing was off and he was not "bossing it" against burnley... but he made countless headers and tackles and done the ugly work... when he is doing this people won't get on his back because he's fighting and having a bad day... under bobby and the start of this season ... he looked lazy and didn't work hard enough ... whenever he had a bad game offensively ( which was most games at the start of the season) he was a passenger and people got on his back...

Fans like me are the reason he might leave?

I actually believe fans like you that saying he's "bossing it "
When he's not are more of a problem tbh... overhyping him... I'm not saying sell him , I'm not saying he's useless ... I'm saying he wasn't bossing it and offensively wasn't good but overall he done ok because he worked hard and contributed to the team... his headerswere important and he cleared one off line line.. but saying he's mom and bossing that game is wrong and not even close to being accurate

No offence mate but the cricket season has just started. Try watching a few games, perhaps you'll discover a sport you may understand.

 

[Ashtonian]

Well in , back in there with a typically terrible post

It was a piss take for all the moaning in here.

 

[Tel001]

Dunno why any fan would go out of there way to post so negatively about one of our better players. He isn't perfect, but does boss some games. So much energy put into putting him down.

Your posts stink of an I know better than you tone. You and @Niapper dropping excrement all over this thread.

All I said was that he didn't play well offensively and that he did ok... and that he didn't boss them and wasn't notm that's all....

 

[GBH73]

Right? 89% of passes completed? That may be true... but 99% of them were 4 yard passes and he lost possession heaps of times (not by attempting a pass by the way) these 4 chances... I can't remember them tbh... and his 7 shots? How many on target? Two of them were mis hits that came within 5 secs of eachother... another tool two deflections before going in.... if you think that game was ross playing well or bossing it then I would hate to see a bad game .... you can use stats to prove literally anything... my eyes are what I use to make decisions... statistically Joel is one of the better keepers in the league... my eyes during the Spurs and burnley game tell me otherwise tho.. and so my opionion is that he's not... that was not a notm performance , he didn't boss them and he didn't "tourment " their defence as that article says ...

Easy there, Homer...'you can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true'...

 

[brigadier]

If you obsess about his mistakes it will drive you mad, if he made the right decision every time he would be one of the best players in the world, I think if you step back you will see a very effective player.

 

[thebluenosebolt]

I have gone from being one of Ross's doubters (last season) to being scared for him to leave us this.
The lad has improved 4fold from the headless chicken from last season and I feel a little ashamed that I said he didnt have a footballing brain. It appears he just needed better instruction from a better teacher.
Never leave Ross.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Much better headlines than last Monday and Tuesday, safely tucked up in bed and being the very good professional.

 

[Westend Blue]

I guess some people still dream of the halcyon days of Neville and Heitinga in midfield...

the game so bad its etched into my memory west brom 0- everton 1 Jan 2012
Everton line up
Howard
Hibbert Jags Distin Baines
Rodwell Heitinga Nev Osman
Cahill
Saha

 

[BlueToff]

Played well without being outstanding.

But it was a good response to the ongoings of last week and getting that goal will mean a hell of a lot.

 

[chrismpw]

It was a piss take for all the moaning in here.

Welcome back, Ash, nice to see you here again.

 

[Eggs]

...Harry Redknapp is the new Birmingham manager. He's a big fan of Barkley.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Sell him.

Tbh getting a bit tired of Ross every week now. Either he is playing crap or he does one good thing to raise hope with him over and over again.

He will be 29 and there will still be the same conversations on here about him. Similar experience levels or more than some young English players who have developed and reached the levels Ross has failed to get to.

The team would be better off without him. Doesn't matter how many 'chances' the stats sat he creates, it's the amount of good chances he fails to create by trying to outrun the defence that should matter.

I'm liking this new dislike feature.

 

[TrixyStevens]

the game so bad its etched into my memory west brom 0- everton 1 Jan 2012
Everton line up
Howard
Hibbert Jags Distin Baines
Rodwell Heitinga Nev Osman
Cahill
Saha

Anichebe score the winner late? Awful game if I remember it right!

 

[jonnyg]

the game so bad its etched into my memory west brom 0- everton 1 Jan 2012
Everton line up
Howard
Hibbert Jags Distin Baines
Rodwell Heitinga Nev Osman
Cahill
Saha

The absolute lack of width in that line up is just painful, the highlight for me has to be a game against Bolton in the cup I believe. Moyes brought on Heitinga for Jelavic in his usual negative fashion, Heitinga scores a lucky long shot and after the match we get Jags giving off interviews on the OS about how they totally meant to do that.

Glad I can actually watch Everton for the football nowadays.

 

[Simon baker]

...Harry Redknapp is the new Birmingham manager. He's a big fan of Barkley.

Perhaps he likes your favourite Barry