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2024-25 Performances


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4.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
38
Goals
5
Assists
2
Yellow cards
1
Championship player. Southampton, Ipswich and Leicester wouldn't start him.
 
That lame shot from Garna's pass, when having all the time and space to prepare. He should be embarrassed being called a forward.
 
I would sell him on June 1. Utterly useless player. Stunning he lasted 90 minutes. I would have hauled him off after 10 minutes. He is the definition of a "Nothing" player. Just occupies space.
 
Time is running out for him to have 3 good games in a row and show something reliable. If not, then to the transfer list now that he still has some value.
 
One of the most infuriating players to watch.

If we brought on Eriksen instead of him for the last 10-15 minutes I reckon we'd have won that.
 
So frustrating, you can see what he's trying, first touch is good and can hold up so does the difficult bits well but can't pull off the simple passes, and you know he's got it in him, but just so lax.
 
cut down on the hollywood passes, he had an easy pass on for chido ( in the end) if he can turn it unto his left foot
 
He was genuinely claiming handball from that header that hit Branthwaite fully in the face?! :lol:
It was from the rebound. After it hit Branthwaite it bounced down and hit another defender (might have been Young) on the arm. Still not a penalty as it was close range and in a natural position but of course our players are going to claim for it in that situation.
 
Him and Hojlund are competing with each other over who's the worse player in a heated duel
 
He has good feet for a big man. That's all I can say for him. Not a striker, not an attacking midfielder, nowhere near athletic enough for the pace of the Premier League. I can see him going to a slower competition and thriving ala Antony. Not in England though.
 
Back to worst player of al time again then? :lol:
The league is about a second too quick for him. You can see why and how he excelled at Bologna. He has ability, it just needs a very specific platform to showcase it.

Best case an Italian side takes him back from us for 20-25m in the summer.
 
He's not even a poor mans Berbatov he's a poor man's Tom Huddlestone
 
I know there’s loads of talk about whether this on the system or the players. Replace Zirkzee with a standard premier league forward in that number 10 position and we win the game.

He’s good from the half way line to about 5 yards outside the opponents box. No goal scoring instinct at all.
 
He was horrific for the first 15 minutes where everything went wrong. After that he was hit and miss for the rest of the match, and by 'hit' I mean some nice touches and passes but still nothing actually dangerous. The ball to Garnacho for the final chance was decent though.
 
So frustrating, you can see what he's trying, first touch is good and can hold up so does the difficult bits well but can't pull off the simple passes, and you know he's got it in him, but just so lax.

I don't think his performances was as bad as Hojlund in this instance but Zirkzee is playing ahead of time too much.

He's playing passess into areas where the team mate hasn't run, to some extent it's good to have anticipation as a player but you can't use it every time you make a decision. He needs to lift his head up and look, then make a judgement.

He deserves more time between him and Rasmus, either way a new forward needs to be purchased as a priority.
 
Was confused as to all the credit he was getting after Spurs for managing to not feck up basics.
He’s just so off the pace with everything it’s alarming. Passes too slow and short, shots too slow and short, too slow to close down, too slow to get away from players.
I genuinely don’t understand how folk can watch this garbage week in week out and think there’s a good player in there.
 
I thought He had a very good 2nd half, his control in tight spaces is awesome.
He gets into this team easily at the moment.
Currently better than Kobbie and Eriksen for the 2nd no 10 position.
 
its driving me mad that hes being given the tag "inconsistent".

It's not inconsistent if you are garbage 95% of the time and fluke a moment every now and again. That makes you are pretty good athlete but not a professional footballer.
 
Weird fecking player. Can’t make a 5 yard pass at all (67% accuracy today) but can manoeuvre himself out of the tightest situations and can glide past players.

Very weird. Never seen a player so technically class and technically deficient.
 
He only outlasts Hojlund because he can control a football in the AM position. That's how dire our options are.
 
its driving me mad that hes being given the tag "inconsistent".

It's not inconsistent if you are garbage 95% of the time and fluke a moment every now and again. That makes you are pretty good athlete but not a professional footballer.
He's not even a good athlete. What is he good at? Running? Jumping? Strength? He's not good at anything!!!!
 
His final third involvements tend to be pretty hopeless most of the time. Nice touch but don’t think we have room for a luxury player at all, if he even is that.