Furey1878
Player Valuation: £70m
I think that's unfair mate, (1) Salah has scored loads against a lot of teams, and (2) he's done a job on him in the last 3 home derbies off the top of my head.
I think that's unfair mate, (1) Salah has scored loads against a lot of teams, and (2) he's done a job on him in the last 3 home derbies off the top of my head.
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £35m
One of the many things that drives me insane with Mykolenko is his refusal to run an overlap.
I recall people on here saying he runs beyond his man all the time (it was in an old match thread), but neglect to point out that these runs beyond often are UNDERlaps into the middle of the park and into congestion, instead of a proper overlaps into space on the width.
He is quite comfortably the weakest link on the team, and I don’t think it’s close. the complete and utter lack of positional IQ or awareness of space is killing all of our wing play, Ndiaye is wasted. His teammates won’t pass to him, says it all
I recall people on here saying he runs beyond his man all the time (it was in an old match thread), but neglect to point out that these runs beyond often are UNDERlaps into the middle of the park and into congestion, instead of a proper overlaps into space on the width.
He is quite comfortably the weakest link on the team, and I don’t think it’s close. the complete and utter lack of positional IQ or awareness of space is killing all of our wing play, Ndiaye is wasted. His teammates won’t pass to him, says it all
Needs to be a squad player or move on.
One of our worst pieces of business in recent years was selling Digne and brining in Myko.
A lasting reminder of horrible mismanagement.
One of our worst pieces of business in recent years was selling Digne and brining in Myko.
A lasting reminder of horrible mismanagement.
I'd say maybe more than the last 3 - Salah scored against us when he was arguably in the form of his life, sure, but he also scored about 30 goals those same years like.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
Salah has played 8 games against Mykolenko and has 7 goals or assists in them. Mykolenko has played his part in containing him in games where we've generally got 10 men behind the ball and worked extremely hard as a team to stop them from causing too much damage, but the idea that he routinely pockets him is a bit of a myth really.
He's the left back version of Michael Keane....
Only really suited to ultra defensive, backs to the wall defending...
Desperately needs an attacking upgrade if we want to progress
Only really suited to ultra defensive, backs to the wall defending...
Desperately needs an attacking upgrade if we want to progress
optatom154
Player Valuation: £950k
Like a ringer on a Sunday league team whose quite clearly the worst player and they actively try and keep the ball away from him
James Justin looked like Roberto Carlos in comparison
James Justin looked like Roberto Carlos in comparison
Little Ralphy
Player Valuation: £15m
This is what is wrong with football. They'll give him a new deal because it's cheaper/easier than buying someone to replace him. This is why recruitment is so important and why for years we have players like keane, patterson etc. stealing a living. If you get recruitment wrong it's so difficult to correct it when you have limited resources.
A back up option at best, if we aim to be a top half of the table team.
The personification of the modern game realised.
It is easier to find an athlete who can run and jump than it is to find someone skilled enough with their brain and feet to be a football player.
Metrics and measurements, person A can out sprint, out jump, is stronger, a foot taller and run further than person B. Person B is Paul Scholes.
The current malaise is that person A gets picked because the stats say they are best.
How is this pertinent to Myko. He's a gymnast, he didn't have a youth career learning the basics, he's been grafted into football to late. When he has to rely on the basics that were drilled into him over years as a kid and then youth prospect, they simply are not there. That's why he looks all at sea. It's an attitude and culture issue, the former eastern bloc never valued western sports, it was gymnastics and modern pentathlon and fencing. Either stuff out of the bolshoi or stuff off the classical battlefield. One or two generational talents might turn up, be he aint it, it's not his fault, the moron that was made manager and chased a player out as soon as he arrived is to blame.
He cares, he's a nice lad, he can disrupt and defend just about, but that does not a footballer make.
It is easier to find an athlete who can run and jump than it is to find someone skilled enough with their brain and feet to be a football player.
Metrics and measurements, person A can out sprint, out jump, is stronger, a foot taller and run further than person B. Person B is Paul Scholes.
The current malaise is that person A gets picked because the stats say they are best.
How is this pertinent to Myko. He's a gymnast, he didn't have a youth career learning the basics, he's been grafted into football to late. When he has to rely on the basics that were drilled into him over years as a kid and then youth prospect, they simply are not there. That's why he looks all at sea. It's an attitude and culture issue, the former eastern bloc never valued western sports, it was gymnastics and modern pentathlon and fencing. Either stuff out of the bolshoi or stuff off the classical battlefield. One or two generational talents might turn up, be he aint it, it's not his fault, the moron that was made manager and chased a player out as soon as he arrived is to blame.
He cares, he's a nice lad, he can disrupt and defend just about, but that does not a footballer make.
How you all laughed when Benitez spent £30 million on Nathan Patterson and Vitali Mykolenko in January 2022 - but he obviously knew what he was doing cos here we in January 2026 and they are STILL our starting full backs. Maybe time for some belated credit for the Spanish transfer genius?
Not to mention the 600% profit on Demarai Gray...
Will the portly Spanish waiter one day be seen as one of our most astute and under-appreciated managers, and do you think we could lure hime back from Panathanaiokos?
Not to mention the 600% profit on Demarai Gray...
Will the portly Spanish waiter one day be seen as one of our most astute and under-appreciated managers, and do you think we could lure hime back from Panathanaiokos?
