2025/26 Tyler Dibling

[evertony]

The lad would certainly benefit from some mentoring. He looks very short on belief at the moment. Playing in a team that coaches and plays coherent football would help also.

This is the issue I think. Having to fit into an ultra-rigid set-up when you're a young flair player really doesn't help. It sucks the life out of you. I'm sure we bought him on the back of his exuberance on the ball and ability to go past players and not his ability to track back, do the hard yards and run up sandhills with a sack of spuds on your back.
Grealish and Ndiaye are more experienced - if you kook at their journeys to when they made it big you'll see it's very different to Diblings.

 

[PhilM]

At £7.5Million maybe so - Not for £35 Million they shouldn't

Perhaps they shouldn't, however I do find it odd that we hold the player solely responsible for a valuation, which they didn't set.

Dibling is a young lad, and not to be disrespectful has only played for a Southampton who were a whipping boy last year - that's a different pressure.

Will he make it at the top level? I ain't sure, nevertheless I am not going to write him off now, nor should anyone else. We should nurture, not hound.

The last few games, he'd received the ball and on a few times has made the wrong decision, but (importantly) he's been crowded by two or three players.

Why? Because we don't use full backs who support, let alone overlap. It takes a combination of skill and experience to beat players in those situations.

Grealish cost City £100m, because he could do it.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

When I was 19 I was about 47 tits. And we are still a very silly fanbase who write off very young players who aren’t world beaters immediately

He wasn’t good enough and was a known issue - whether she’ll we do keep, all our young lads incase they suddenly become good players?!

 

[overkill]

Perhaps they shouldn't, however I do find it odd that we hold the player solely responsible for a valuation, which they didn't set.

Dibling is a young lad, and not to be disrespectful has only played for a Southampton who were a whipping boy last year - that's a different pressure.

Will he make it at the top level? I ain't sure, nevertheless I am not going to write him off now, nor should anyone else. We should nurture, not hound.

The last few games, he'd received the ball and on a few times has made the wrong decision, but (importantly) he's been crowded by two or three players.

Why? Because we don't use full backs who support, let alone overlap. It takes a combination of skill and experience to beat players in those situations.

Grealish cost City £100m, because he could do it.

Agree

Grealish & Ndiaye get by with no support because

- Grealish is experienced, intelligent enough to keep the ball, draw fouls & get us up the pitch, it's why he cost what he did, he's elite at what he does

- Ndiaye has success without support as well, while being a little more direct, but it takes ridiculous subhuman dribble attempts of skinning several players (like his goal Vs Sunderland)

I feel some of our fan base are expecting Dibling to replicate what Ndiaye does, this isnt normal Ndiaye is exceptional at dribbling.

 

[Lapeno77]

Why not give him, Rohl and Aznou the last 14 games? They're dead rubbers. We're not going down and we're not getting Europe.

Tell them they're in for the next 3 months, no matter what. Pressureless Football and go out and show what they can do.

Instead, we'll spend the next 3 months stat padding, like yesterday, in utterly pointless and abject displays that teach us nothing and develop no one.

 

[millow1878]

At £7.5Million maybe so - Not for £35 Million they shouldn't

You are completely right. If it was 2003.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Perhaps they shouldn't, however I do find it odd that we hold the player solely responsible for a valuation, which they didn't set.

Dibling is a young lad, and not to be disrespectful has only played for a Southampton who were a whipping boy last year - that's a different pressure.

Will he make it at the top level? I ain't sure, nevertheless I am not going to write him off now, nor should anyone else. We should nurture, not hound.

The last few games, he'd received the ball and on a few times has made the wrong decision, but (importantly) he's been crowded by two or three players.

Why? Because we don't use full backs who support, let alone overlap. It takes a combination of skill and experience to beat players in those situations.

Grealish cost City £100m, because he could do it.

I feel like people are under the impression Dibling played fairly well for Southampton and I just have a much different interpretation of his form there. This isn’t a pressure thing to me.

 

[Swartzy]

OMG i just noticed on the BBC Scores page, they have a stat % for walking.

God i pray for this lad..

 

[kenada_blue]

Spreadsheet signing

 

[smileychap]

Why not give him, Rohl and Aznou the last 14 games? They're dead rubbers. We're not going down and we're not getting Europe.

Tell them they're in for the next 3 months, no matter what. Pressureless Football and go out and show what they can do.

Instead, we'll spend the next 3 months stat padding, like yesterday, in utterly pointless and abject displays that teach us nothing and develop no one.

Brilliant post that.

• Is Moyes getting us close to Europe "as is', I think we're close, but might fall just short. So why not have a go another way
• Are we developing these young players, no. So play them.
• Are we honestly gonna get/ learn more from Myko, Patterson, McNeil?

Give fans something different and let these lads develop.

Albeit Tim was pretty poor vs Brighton, but Barry's cut back for KDH was great to see. And he's benefited from a run of games.

Can't win anything with kids, though. Obvs.

 

[davids]

Perhaps they shouldn't, however I do find it odd that we hold the player solely responsible for a valuation, which they didn't set.

Dibling is a young lad, and not to be disrespectful has only played for a Southampton who were a whipping boy last year - that's a different pressure.

Will he make it at the top level? I ain't sure, nevertheless I am not going to write him off now, nor should anyone else. We should nurture, not hound.

The last few games, he'd received the ball and on a few times has made the wrong decision, but (importantly) he's been crowded by two or three players.

Why? Because we don't use full backs who support, let alone overlap. It takes a combination of skill and experience to beat players in those situations.

Grealish cost City £100m, because he could do it.

To be fair he probably doesn't have a membership to fan forums so wouldn't be aware of being "written off" Yes nurturing him is the sensible option but it can only go on so long. Sadly up until now he hasn't shown anything that would make him worth 10 million never mind north of 30. Not his fault but it has shown up the limitations of our transfer committee.

 

[navidson]

Any chance we could flog him this window and cut our losses?

 

[Professor Toffee]

Any chance we could flog him this window and cut our losses?

He may not be great but he doesn't deserve the cat o nine tails

 

[navidson]

He may not be great but he doesn't deserve the cat o nine tails

Probably too lazy to bend over TBH

 

[kenada_blue]

Perhaps they shouldn't, however I do find it odd that we hold the player solely responsible for a valuation, which they didn't set.

Dibling is a young lad, and not to be disrespectful has only played for a Southampton who were a whipping boy last year - that's a different pressure.

Will he make it at the top level? I ain't sure, nevertheless I am not going to write him off now, nor should anyone else. We should nurture, not hound.

The last few games, he'd received the ball and on a few times has made the wrong decision, but (importantly) he's been crowded by two or three players.

Why? Because we don't use full backs who support, let alone overlap. It takes a combination of skill and experience to beat players in those situations.

Grealish cost City £100m, because he could do it.

Patto's played behind him a few times and overlaps. And he was still poop.

The lad played more games under Jurić who preferred 3 at the back and Dibling played right at the top end of the pitch without much responsibility - either right of a 3 or as a 10 (very briefly). All in a side that won 2 games all season and he didn't play in either of them.

Bottom line is, hes playing with the big boys now who aren't going to reshape how we play to suit him. He needs to do the opposite and mould his talent to the team. Thats a big reason why he's not playing and why we've brought in another winger of the same age who no doubt will make more of an impact.