2 | Kyle Walker - 2024/25

[urban genie]

anyone blaming walker today is just scapegoating and petty

 

[Mr Partridge]

Has he actually had a good game since sulking about not starting the CL final?

 

[Bluewonder]

Has he actually had a good game since sulking about not starting the CL final?

No, and he was dispensed of for most of that season in favour of the 4 CBs system.

In reality, he's been crap for years now.

 

[skillman]

Lost his pace. His one remaining key attribute. Get him out the team.

 

[Gabriel]

Lost his pace. His one remaining key attribute. Get him out the team.

For?
Alas, due to some diabolical planning/development, coupled with a squad that contains 4 apparent crocks, there is nobody else.

 

[skillman]

For?
Alas, due to some diabolical planning/development, coupled with a squad that contains 4 apparent crocks, there is nobody else.

Anyone. Genuinely anybody.

 

[Quilted]

I need people to very carefully read these two posts in their entirety.

He's had an amazing career and will go down as one of the best right backs in Premier League history. But you should have read my post in its entirety, rather than just the first sentence.

The Premier League is built for players that excel in aspects such as pace, athleticism and physicality due to the sheer intensity of this league. So this league emphasises the severity at which these attributes compensate for decision making, technique and IQ.

People laughed at me back when I said if Walker didn't have pace, he'd be playing for Oldham Athletic.

Throughout his career, you'd be naive to say his pace hasn't been his redeeming factor.

When a player has such an abundant amount of pace, they never have the need to develop their technical ability, decision making and positioning. All 3 very important aspects of a full backs game alongside pace.

So, throughout Walker's entire career up until now, his pace has bailed him out for every minute of game time he has played.

Look at Sergio Busquets, perfect example of the point im making.

Busquets excels extremely well in technical ability, decision making and positioning BECAUSE he lacks pace and this would have been identified about him as a player since he was in academy.

If busquets lacked technical ability and IQ, he would have been discarded by his academy due to his sluggish nature.

Likewise, the inverse applies to Walker.

Remember, football is not a game of athleticism, but rather intelligence.

 

[decmancity]

I need people to very carefully read these two posts in their entirety.

What reply are you expecting?

He was amazing athlete, huge part of our success in the last decade and now he's not got his pace. Congratulations, you were correct.

 

[Craig]

anyone blaming walker today is just scapegoating and petty

Correct. He’s a fucking bellend who is well past it but he wasn’t to blame for tonight’s debacle

 

[MadchesterCity]

Terrible again, sell him in January to Saudi

 

[Gabriel]

Anyone. Genuinely anybody.

Well we need to sign Anyone or Anybody then.

 

[Quilted]

What reply are you expecting?

Something level headed from those who might have not understood my initial point saying "I see what you mean now".

From a purely footballing perspective, I love the little intricacies about this sport and its welcoming to find others on the same wavelength.

I always strive for further analysis on footballing topics as opposed to surface level squandering.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Lost his pace. His one remaining key attribute. Get him out the team.

The problem is that he still thinks he’s got the pace that he’s so clearly lost. Getting tired him of him jogging the first 5 or 6 paces of every foot race, thinking he’ll be able to overhaul his opponent like he always has done in the past, and then failing to catch them. Got the brains of a rocking horse

 

[skillman]

The problem is that he still thinks he’s got the pace that he’s so clearly lost. Getting tired him of him jogging the first 5 or 6 paces of every foot race, thinking he’ll be able to overhaul his opponent like he always has done in the past, and then failing to catch them. Got the brains of a rocking horse

He jogs full stop. He puts more energy into spitting his water out pre-game than he does in-game.

Their second was a prime example and it seems to happen every game where their player is working harder to get to a ball first before him.

Happened at Bournemouth, Brighton and again today. Absolute liability who is offering nothing. Especially no leadership.

 

[VOOMER]

I need people to very carefully read these two posts in their entirety.

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What an ego.

 

[grifter]

The signs were there last year. Thinks he can just stroll it now he’s a treble winner. He’s more bothered about making podcasts than stopping crosses.Never a captain and shouldn’t be anywhere near the team anymore.

 

[RayCTID]

Doing a great job in torching his legacy but again that was partly down to us keeping him longer than we should.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

He jogs full stop. He puts more energy into spitting his water out pre-game than he does in-game.

Their second was a prime example and it seems to happen every game where their player is working harder to get to a ball first before him.

Happened at Bournemouth, Brighton and again today. Absolute liability who is offering nothing. Especially no leadership.

Third was worse than the second.. just watch it again..

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Third was worse than the second.. just watch it again..

That third goal was crazy. They ran through us like we were holograms.

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

Everytime I read a quote from him I roll my eyes

Also, Whoever advised him to start a podcast called you’ll never beat Kyle Walker?