27 | Matheus Nunes - 2023/24

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Eds said:
Foden, despite being two years younger has played a dozen more games in his senior career, all of which are PL. Nunes played 36 times for a very average Wolves and is now making a huge step up. There is a very good player in there, he needs a full season. Bear in mind how poor the likes of Mahrez, Rodri, Laporte etc were in their first season, the lad needs more time to adapt and become a key part of the team. One thing he has which I think we are lacking is pace, last season he was clocked as the seventh fastest player in the league. He will only become a better player surrounded by the likes of Rodri, KDB, Foden, Kova etc
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Agree there is a very good player in him but will he get the time or will he be patient? Especially with our summer signings coming in plus our youth players!?
 
waspish said:
Agree there is a very good player in him but will he get the time or will he be patient? Especially with our summer signings coming in plus our youth players!?
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That's down to him and Pep. Impossible for us to know whether he'll get it and kick on. Many predicted Ake wouldn't and a whole list of others, but Ake is the best current example.
 
I've been very critical of some of his performances, but I thought he was OK last night until his finger issue, and no player was ever going to continue playing after that.

I'm not sure where he was meant to be playing, but KdB replacement he isn't.
 
nellyonthewing said:
Think he has the Cancelo mard arse gene.
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I haven't heard a single thing come out at the club to support your thought. In fact, word is he is very well liked by his teammates. I find it odd that you would choose to basically slander one of ours on some hunch that lives in your head...not a good look my man...
 
cleavers said:
I've been very critical of some of his performances, but I thought he was OK last night until his finger issue, and no player was ever going to continue playing after that.

I'm not sure where he was meant to be playing, but KdB replacement he isn't.
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Bert Trautmann continued playing a game with a broken neck, nevermind a bent fanny finger.
 
Goldust said:
Don’t see many city players throw their arms in the air at his teammates and last.
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How do you know he's not showing frustration with himself? I would think if he were directing his angst at a teammate someone would have called him out on it by now. You don't have to like the guy, that's your prerogative, weird as it may seem to me, but can we leave mind reading out of the analysis...
 
JewelZee said:
I haven't heard a single thing come out at the club to support your thought. In fact, word is he is very well liked by his teammates. I find it odd that you would choose to basically slander one of ours on some hunch that lives in your head...not a good look my man...
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I’m only referring to what I see on the pitch . So you have misinterpreted my comment but I’ll let you off .
 
bluenova said:
I hadn't realised this.

Looks like he made his first team debut a few months before he turned 22.

He only really played reserve team football from 21, with no Academy background. No wonder he still looks pretty raw.
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Ah right this makes total sense now with how he looks when he plays like a one of our youth players coming through who will need time!
 
nellyonthewing said:
I’m only referring to what I see on the pitch . So you have misinterpreted my comment but I’ll let you off .
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Fair enough, but Cancelo has a reputation as being a very volatile guy, difficult to deal with even by the likes of Pep, who has caused a stir everywhere he's been. To use your term, I agree he's a mad arse, a genuine one. I don't see anything in Nunes "bio" that puts him anywhere near the Cancelo mold. Just sayin'...

And thanks for letting me off. I was worried there for a bit...
 
Without wishing to disrespect anyone on this forum, we wonder if some people really know football and learn from the past. Since I've been following this forum (it's been a few years now), I always read the same impatient people making the same mistakes and not understanding that it takes time to adapt when you play in a Pep team except when your name is Erling Haaland or Ruben Dias. All the players had difficulties in their early years and the best example is Rodri, whom some people here had the nerve to call Plodri. It's exactly the same people who still don't understand how soccer works who come every year to spew their gratuitous venom at our players because they don't express their full potential in their first season. Having said that, I have absolutely no doubts about Matheus Nunes, who has the potential to become a word class player, and I stress the word potential, because in football you can never be 100% sure of anything. For me, he has more potential than Gundogan for example (that doesn't mean he'll do better than him, I'm ONLY talking about his potential). He's quicker, a better dribbler, but he's still got a long way to go in terms of game intelligence (maybe that'll come in time). He's sorely lacking in self-confidence at the moment, but the potential is MONSTROUS.
What is funny is that if Paqueta had been signed(some blame Nunes for being signed instead), he would be facing the same blame that some people are making at Nunes.
Some will never learn from their mistakes
 
Vincennes Blue said:
Without wishing to disrespect anyone on this forum, we wonder if some people really know football and learn from the past. Since I've been following this forum (it's been a few years now), I always read the same impatient people making the same mistakes and not understanding that it takes time to adapt when you play in a Pep team except when your name is Erling Haaland or Ruben Dias. All the players had difficulties in their early years and the best example is Rodri, whom some people here had the nerve to call Plodri. It's exactly the same people who still don't understand how soccer works who come every year to spew their gratuitous venom at our players because they don't express their full potential in their first season. Having said that, I have absolutely no doubts about Matheus Nunes, who has the potential to become a word class player, and I stress the word potential, because in football you can never be 100% sure of anything. For me, he has more potential than Gundogan for example (that doesn't mean he'll do better than him, I'm ONLY talking about his potential). He's quicker, a better dribbler, but he's still got a long way to go in terms of game intelligence (maybe that'll come in time). He's sorely lacking in self-confidence at the moment, but the potential is MONSTROUS.
What is funny is that if Paqueta had been signed(some blame Nunes for being signed instead), he would be facing the same blame that some people are making at Nunes.
Some will never learn from their mistakes
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It's OK though because they were right about Phillips all along.....
 
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