2020/21 Tom Davies

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Efcjake said:
I'd argue Sigurdsson.

Tom has been good recently, I won't deny it.

He's been poor for 4 years before this and if he can finish the season strongly then I will come around to the idea that he isn't just in the squad to fulfill a homegrown quota.

Iwobi has looked good for about 2-3 games this season. People were doing the same thing to him then as they are doing for Tom and Siggy now. It has to be consistent or they revert back to the mean.
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I've taken this from the Iwobi thread as it was going off topic.

My take on this doesn't relate to Tom Davies specifically but to all our younger players. As a fan base, certainly as regards this forum, we expect far too much from our young players at an early age. If they aren't the finished article then they must be crap. In Toms case he made the mistake of having a good game against Man City when he was still 17/18 and he has since been judged against that one performance. In the wider sense, I believe they are all judged against Wayne Rooney.

Tom hasn't improved greatly over the last 4 years it must be said, but he has been played in a range if positions under 5 different managers and in countless numbers of systems. No wonder he hasn't developed. But for somebody who is still only 22 and 4/5 years away from his prime, the amount of absolute dross that's been written about him in these pages is mind boggling.

Now he's working with a world class manager we've started to see some improvements. His form since the start of the season has been good. Initially coming off the bench to see out games and then covering for injuries and starting games, he has done whatever the manager has asked of him. Seeing him close up in games the manager has identified a specific role for the lad and his last 5/6 games he has really stepped up to another level and been our best player in many of them. I don't think there's ever been a more convincing winner of manager of the month on here. That's not recency bias, it's bloody well deserved. He's been our best player for a month and I'd have no hesitation throwing him in against Chelsea, he's earned it.

But here's the crux of the matter. What we're seeing happening to Tom now is not the slightest bit unusual in the world of football. Most players improve substantially in their early twenties. See Dom, Mason Holgate, Ben Godfrey. What we're seeing in Tom is the natural progression of a young player, albeit it aided and abetted by a world class manager who knows a thing or two about football.

This nonsense about him being crap for 4 years is just that, nonsense. He was just a young lad who was still developing and having to work under managers who weren't particularly good at their job. Now he needs to continue developing, part of which is becoming more consistent. But he is still a young lad and effected by confidence so will still have some ups and downs along the way. I just hope the neanderthals keep their heads below the parapet when he does. Ha. Fat chance.
 
Bluepablo said:
Somebody on another forum mentioned he had issues with a hamstring & could be out for a while which would be a shame because it would be good to see if Allen, Doucoure &TD would work together.
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We’ll have to guess tbh because Carlo isn’t exactly accurate or truthful with his injury updates.
 

Nice to see him try and pop it off one and two touch, already looked more dangerous doing that down the right despite it not quite working.
Lovely little flick for Bernard to send the ball over the other side of the Thames
 


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