Football. Lets see where both players are in two years time.
He's comfortably better on the ball than Walker and Mendy. Physicality aside, he's an excellent dribbler. You can't have the touch of a donkey if you're dribbling at full sprint speed like he usually do. And his tempo changes are world class. However he can be quite inconsistent, not like from match to match inconsistent, more like a minute to minute rate. One action he looks like Messi with 20kg extra muscles, and the next time he gets the ball he makes Bony look like a world beater. However he seems to improve his consistency more for every match nowIs his ability on the ball really any worse than some of the players we already have? Walker, Mendy and Sterling are all regulars in our side, I am not having that Traore is any less comfortable on the ball than any of them.
Better than Sterling.
Better than Sterling.
Can't tell if people are actually serious or just extreme wumming over a guy who'd be Wilfried Bony Mk2 here. A quick glance of who's endorsing this seems to reveal a lot of pro-Gundoganers though, which probably says all you need to know.
I can see the factors that are attracting us to him but whenever i see him he is on the right hand side, we already have Mahrez, Bernardo and Sterling that play there on a regular basis, Foden also seems to favour that side.
It's the left hand side that concerns me, Sterling being played there out of position and god knows what is happening with Sane.
Better than Sterling.
He isn't better than Sterling, Even on current form. If you want pure strength then why not give Akinfenwa a chance (putting age and Liverpool allegiance one side)
That's the biggest issue, he's a Livarpool type forward, we demand more involvement in the game as a whole and for me he's nowhere near the level we demand. Mahrez is 50 times the player Traore is technically and even he's struggled, there's more of an intelligence and positional structure here than at Livarpool. There he would be allowed the freedom to be whatever he wanted, in the knowledge they have 3 defensively minded midfielders behind him.Last night, he left both Trent-Arnold and Robertson for dead from standing starts, and at one point he breezed by Wijnaldum, no slouch, with an ease that verged on the ridiculous. His main weakness is when he gets caught in the centre of the park, often when facing his own goal, but he has undeniably improved his end product in the final third. Still don't think we'll go for him, but last night's performance was the kind that might make Klopp think about buying him.
I'll choose my words as carefully as @Pablo1Is his ability on the ball really any worse than some of the players we already have? Walker, Mendy and Sterling are all regulars in our side, I am not having that Traore is any less comfortable on the ball than any of them.
There's no offence at all, I have no idea why you would even come to that conclusion. It's a very commonly used (I'm getting old) expression of someone's comedic surprise and exasperation at anothers view. Offence would mean I had to consider your opinion meaningful.I truly have no idea how you have taken so much offence to my response, that you have come back with that.
He does from his attacking players, Sterling has been bad lately but the last two seasons he’s been exceptionalIs his ability on the ball really any worse than some of the players we already have? Walker, Mendy and Sterling are all regulars in our side, I am not having that Traore is any less comfortable on the ball than any of them.