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If you’ve watched McTominay and reckon his good enough to propel us to where we would like to be, then it’s pointless having this very conversation with you, respectfully. And like I said, it says as much about McT as it does the rest of the squad as well….which really answers your question. Ps as bad as Bruno can be (& I’m one of the minority who would like us to move on from him to a more possession orientated midfield/10), he still shits all over McT the last 3-4 years.
Ah, the good old 'hard work' myth for McTominay. Amazing that it's still going after watching him just jog around so often. Defensively he does no more work than Bruno, while Bruno gets through about double the work load when we have the ball.
Except of course that’s just not true.
If he is truly our most valuable player then the transformation into Watford is complete. His work rate along with his supposed goal threat is a complete myth. Literally jogs around the place making no attempt to get back and scores the occasional goal. If he is the ‘captain on the pitch’ then no wonder we are 8th and dropping badly. Truly astonishing how standards have dropped.
That myth still exists?
He shouldn’t be playing full stop.
He's not though. He's one of our worst players in almost every match, it's just that occasionally he'll score a goal or two which kind of compensates in that match.
He is not even close to having his best season. In terms of general performance this is probably his worst ever season. Only 21/22 was arguably worse. The fact he's scoring some goals doesn't change that.
That’s a fair enough viewpoint, albeit I still think he’s only playing due to a lack of options (injuries to Eriksen, Casemiro, Mount etc). Even though he scores most of our goals, I actually don’t think he’s a top performer. In fact, having him in the team actually harms us as it automatically means we have zero control of the midfield. He barely makes himself available for the pass, let alone being actually able to dictate play etc. There’s also a lack of shielding for our defence with him in a midfield 2/no. 8 position. But yeah, ideally when everyone is back fit and available, we’ll start phasing him out. Maybe use him as an emergency option upfront when we need a goal late in a game.
Yeah spot on re EtH as well. I had hoped for the same. Granted he has been dealt a bit of a blow and had his hand forced (sort of) with our extensive injury list. It’s still disappointing nonetheless.
He scored 4 of those in 2 games, one was when he was on for 5 mins against Brentford and the other was against the mighty Chelsea.
This is the problem with people they only see goals. They don’t understand anything else and then they wonder why we can’t string a few passes together or have any pattern of play.
Exactly. We sacrifice so much just to hope that this guy can nick a goal.
Spot on. This is an issue per se, becoming a core debating point in Bruno and Rashford threads over the last months. But for McTominay it is borderline comical because we are as low scoring as it gets and notions like he is our top scorers are as misleading as it gets. He got 4 goals in 2 games ffs. In the last matches he had next to no chance made probably 2 or 3 attempts. Keeping him in the team because of his goal threat is crazy. What if Pellistri scores a hattrick today, will he be a mainstay in the team for the whole season?! I think, for some people he would.
Not just club, fanbase as well. Imagine, there are people who still carry the myth around that McTom is a hard worker or big goal threat. All of this is based on lazy comparisons against our own shitty players. Compare McTom to the players of other teams, then we could have an argument. Comparing him non-performers in our own team is like a circular reference in Excel
Yeah we really are plummeting the depths when this guy gets praised for speaking well in a post match interview and not getting injured at a particular time. The transformation into Watford is truly com
“Even though he scores most of our goals”. You make it sound like he’s peak Ronaldo or Van Nistelrooy. He literally managed to bag a couple of goals in 2 games this season. He’s never done that in any of the other 200+ games he’s played and at best his goal scoring record is extremely modest. This myth has grown this season like he’s a hard worker. Equally untrue.
not sure why you’re over analysing that throwaway comment. But yeah, he’s scored a fair amount of goals this season - he’s our top scorer isn’t he? In the league I think anyway. But yeah, I’m nowhere near his biggest admirer anyway, so I don’t really disagree with what you’re saying. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the starting XI, debatably even the squad.
