Actively trying to avoid the ball is the new meta.
Jokes aside: no point in ridiculing him today.
Jokes aside: no point in ridiculing him today.
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Yeah am just pleased that Ole showed that he still believes in him.
Who cares that he never touched the ball
Granted his movement lead to the goal but to not get a touch on the ball is some stat all the same
Other teams have False 9s... but we have the False Actively Competing In The Game position locked down.
Ghosted through the game sublimely. Even got a ghost assist with the ghost run.
Ghosted through the game sublimely. Even got a ghost assist with the ghost run.
Sure but it's not like it was intentional, the way the game panned out I doubt Cavani touched the ball much in the 2nd half either. How many did Greenwood get once he was subbed on?Who cares that he never touched the ball
Granted his movement lead to the goal but to not get a touch on the ball is some stat all the same
Anyway, I dunno why people are still ragging on him, just seems a bit of an agenda now.
Greenwood started, I don’t have an agenda on Van der Beek I want him to succeed here and I think he’ll see a lot more game time next season
Imagine if we had not brought in Donny 40m and Diallo 32m (postpone to next year) then we could have had 70m for Grealish who was available at that price.
Great business
This is sort of what annoys me about the way we’ve been run recently. We apparently have a tight budget and won’t budge on valuations etc, yet will quite happily spunk 40m on Matic, 35m on VDB or 50m on Wan Bissaka.
Very eye-opening.
Incredibly he did literally create the space for the winner.
Van Der Beek to pioneer a new role in football.
Space-Ghost
The stats for the game are surprising but you can't really have a pop at him when his movement and running in the channel then back into the box created the winning goal.
Hes not a #10 and doesn't know how to get into the game when he plays there
Would have scored if Greenwood wasn't there.
He did well to duck out of way of Bruno's pass for the Greenwood goal, though not quite as impressive as when he let it run through his legs a couple of weeks ago.
But in all seriousness he does have good movement which is something most of the side lacks. I'd play him in the centre up front and let him drag defenders of of the way to create chances for others.
But in all seriousness he does have good movement which is something most of the side lacks. I'd play him in the centre up front and let him drag defenders of of the way to create chances for others.
Good visualisation of the space he made for Brunos goal.
To almost end up scoring then from where he was initially is quite remarkable.
So should be be played as the second striker then? Just behind whoever is starting. He certainly isn't a traditional 10 who creates chances for others.
You get your sensible opinion the feck out of this place. We don't want it!
His contribution is proof that we need more off the ball runs and not players standing around watching and wondering when they'll get the ball to their feet.
I would have preffered GrealishSeems a bit premature to write VDB and Amad off already
Reminds me somewhat of my last Sunday league side team that I joined because they needed an extra player to fill their team. Hardly any of their players knew me so I'd make a great run and be through on goal or something but they wouldn't pass to me every time.
To fix a position that doesn't need fixing?
VDB and Amad could both be very important players for us in areas we have weaknesses.
If he was available for that price why did nobody buy him?
The fact that Ole had enough trust in him to throw him on at 1-1 is progress and he was in the box for the second goal and could have capitalized on it if Greenwood's shot had been saved on the goal line. Small wins.
For what price?
Grealish can play the same positions as VDB and can also play wide so that comment is a bit silly
According to Transfermarkt, Rashford has 5 goals and 1 assists in 6 matches playing on the right this season (Also Leipzig match). I think Rashford/Grealish could have easily played on the right, Rashford based on the past and Grealish from his skillset.
VDB occupies the central positions 6, 8 or 10. Grealish either plays wide left or CAM where we have our two most productive and important players. So not really.
So trying to squeeze players into positions neither has played consistently. No thanks. We don't need to buy yet another Left sided player in the hope we can make them work elsewhere. We already have three in Rashford, Martial and James.
I dont know about Grealish but playing Rashford on the right is a total waste. Can debate stats or whatever but anyone that have seem him play knows he’s so much better on the left.
brilliant post
Sums him up. He's like the anti Bruno. Never involved. Never takes the initiative. Never influences the game. What a signing.It's not really an agenda. We all want him to do well. But if his peformance levels are nowhere near the acceptable standard then it has to be discussed.
VDB's position is our strongest. And Amad is just a kid.
totally!
Grealish can play 8 10 and wide. And VDB clearly cant play 6 for us
Donny cost 35 mil and we paid 18 mil for Amad. Grealish would have cost 80-85 mil at least. We clearly didn’t have that much money that’s why we wanted installments and add ons for Sancho.
Which happens an awful lot in football at the highest level, it's not like squeezing him into rightback. Based on his skill set and strong foot, I see no reason why he couldnt excel at that position, which he has from the small sample size. His play wasnt always great, but neither has he performed great consistently from the left. Wonder what Madrid fans were saying when they moved Ronaldo to the left.
I feel like Ole is getting more and more closer to using him as a shadow striker/false 9 player.
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