DJ_21
Evens winner of 'Odds or Evens 2022/2023'
Happy days. Our build up play is so much better with him. Especially down the left
We should be able to beat Luton without him, and I definitely don’t want him to be rushed back early and then he’s gone for the rest of the season. He’s so important to us right now, wrap him in cotton wool between big games if need be. And definitely sign a good enough deputy in the summer.
Injury or another precautionary sub?
And the hits keep coming.14/15: 21 games missed
15/16: 51 games missed (leg break season)
16/17: 38 games missed
17/18: 25 games missed
18/19: 8 games missed
19/20: 27 games missed
20/21: 8 games missed
21/22: 20 games missed
22/23: 8 games missed
34 games so far this season. He has been unavailable for 20 of them. So in 4 of the last 7 seasons he has missed 20+ games.
Shove your metrics. Club needs to move on with a stable left back that helps build a stable backline. Not a good left back who misses half the season and we struggle to adapt when he's gone.
The discussion shouldn't even be controversial. This is not going to get better.And the hits keep coming.
Get rid.
I wouldn’t expect us to do anything this summer as Malacia will (eventually!!) be back and we’ve only just signed him so we can’t sell him — but which LBs should be on our minds for the next 12-18 months? Not really any that scream out to me.
Amass from the youth teamI'd go for Antonee Robinson
Amass from the youth team
But brilliant, Any European team would have no problem playing him. Keep interchanging him Shaw and Malacia next season, using Shaw more as backup to MartinezAye but he's only 16
But brilliant, Any European team would have no problem playing him. Keep interchanging him Shaw and Malacia next season, using Shaw more as backup to Martinez
Haven't seen enough of him to have an opinionNo issues with starting to get a look at him but we need a ready to go option and I think Robinson ready for a bigger club. Been linked strongly with Liverpool and City previously
It’s just time to make sure the squad is more balanced and we have two players of equal ability in every position. I think we can leave the right back position til the winter window 2025, we should make Theo Hernandez our number 1 target, keep shaw and have him as squad member, he’ll get himself fit and probably play 30-35 games at a high level, he can’t play any more than that his body breaks down ?Wouldn't get rid of him but we definitely can't go into next season with him and Malacia, I'd get rid of Malacia before Shaw every day of the week.