William Carvalho

[COYBL25]

Waitin for a black centre mid to come through and not be compared to either Makelele, Toure or Viera

I think I`ve found the very man for you - Tom Huddleston lol

 

[Blues Harp]

Anton Alcaraz. I think that about covers it.

Crock of crap from Wigan....along with Kone, Robles, sicknote McCarthy etc

 

[Deleted member 43796]

From what I've seen of him, what he lacks in pace he more than makes up for with fantastic positioning and reading of the game (see also: Gareth Barry during Martinez's first season).
Like a few above have said, put a box-to-box midfielder in there with him and Sigurdsson/Dowell at no.10, and just ask him to screen the defense and play the first forward pass to beat the attacking press and he'll be golden.
May be marginally less mobile than Schneiderlin, but his commitment will be ten-fold, which is a far more important factor imo.

 

[Norwegian Cow]

lacks pace and isnt very good in the air, but great positioning, strength and tackling. we need this type in midfield.

 

[Zezti]

If he doesn't have a portrait in football manager, he must be gash

 

[ultra]

 

[Goat]

lacks pace and isnt very good in the air, but great positioning, strength and tackling. we need this type in midfield.

Work rate 13, pace 11, GOOD GOD.

 

[Toffeelover]

Work rate 13, pace 11, GOOD GOD.

Not everyone can be an Alan Ball.

 

[Azza]

And Schneiderlin has completed more backwards passes than anyone in the history of football.

 

[Stephenlloyd]

I can’t believe how many people on here are going on about him being slow. For the last few years we’ve had loads of legs in midfield, yet we couldn’t string 2 passes together.

One of the best midfield we’ve had in recent years, was Moyes last season. Arteta had gone and I think Cahill left half way through the season. Moyes last match v West Ham was a fantastic performance, we had Gibson in front of the back 4. And Fellaini & Osman in front of him. Add Pienaar. And you have 4 players who are hardly renowned for running around like headless chickens, yes they can put their foot when needed.
But all 4 were technically very good, comfortable on the ball.

I’d take footballers in our midfield every day of the week, over most of the players with have now.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

I can’t believe we’ve stooped to using FM attributes to evaluate a player. Anyway, here are his FIFA ratings.

 

[royalbalou]

Nobody can ever be an Alan Ball.

Corrected

 

[nsno-chris]

Sake

Computer games??

 

[gonetomorrow]

The important thing is the name. Carvalho. Sounds fine to me. Come to Goodison!

 

[CRIMHEAD]

This just in, FM isn’t real. Fun, but not real.

Carvalho is fine in the air and isn’t that slow. He can push up the field just fine. He’d work great with Gana as twin DCMs in Silva’s 4-2-3-1.

 

[longers]

This just in, FM isn’t real. Fun, but not real.

Fun Fact: The database from football manager was actually bought, tweaked and rebranded into a real life scouting database that is used by hundreds of clubs around the world.