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In possession. Out of possession though his positioning is a very poor. He often gets caught high up the pitch, looks unsure of when to sit and when to press. Will press when he should sit and vice versa. Rarely, if ever, tracks a run. It's very common to see him come out and press in the...

Using last season: Rodri played 34 games last season, Rice 32. Despite this Rice made 59 interceptions, Rodri 36. Rice lost 105 duels, Rodri lost 135. There are some areas Rodri was better though, like recoveries and clearances. I don't mean to write Rodri off entirely by the way, so I...

I don't think you made them up, you could've but I give you more credit than that. I just think you should city your source when using stats. Otherwise they're just numbers on a screen. And I did look, hence why I asked. I shouldn't have to though, it's good faith to include a source when you...

Of course, but you need to cite your source. And Rodri is a largely conservative passer of the ball, "only passes backwards" is obviously nonsense, but a trend towards more conservative passing is why he'll have a higher percentage complete than De Bruyne for example - who's always looking for...

Or you can highlight numbers that could be entirely made up and not cite your source. Legitimate stats are worthless without the eye test. They'd have you believing Fred was a better passer of the ball than De Bruyne because his average percentage complete was higher. Patently nonsense.

Still haven't provided a source mate. And like I said, stats don't tell the whole picture. Rodri rarely gets involved in physical tussles or one v one battles, usually only doing so when he's favourite, as otherwise he usually comes off second best. No-one is going to tell me he's a more...

Being a "gullible idiot" has made some people extremely wealthy, for next to no investment. Your attitude is that of a dinosaur mate, sorry. There are idiots in the space, and conmen trying to sell crap, but crypto is a legitimate asset class at this point and it's reflected in the market cap...

Source for those stats? Some of them are collective team stats? Fail to see how you can include them. 90th percentile for successful dribbles tackled as a defensive mid poor, especially given he usually only commits to duels he's favourite for, and often still gets done. Getting successfully...

I disagree though, Rodri doesn't win the ball a lot. It's one of his biggest weaknesses, it just rarely gets exposed as we dominate possession so often. We'll have to agree to disagree, I don't see Rodri as a key component. You could argue he is, but it's only due to his lack of competition for...

Or that the dominance of the side is so great that Rodri's weaknesses are usually compensated for more often than not. Just of the opinion that in a more competitive league season those margins are smaller and such weaknesses will prove more costly. We can agree to disagree though like you said.

That would be true were it a single error, maybe two, it's not. It was several against Arsenal, in a game where they had 19% possession. It's indicative of a weakness in Rodri's game. They're not isolated errors, they're flaws to his game. We've seen this consistently in his time at the club...

As I've said before, Rodri looks like he fits the bill when we're flat track bullying dross, but there are still glimpses of some major weaknesses to his game even then. We had 80% possession against a garbage 10 man Arsenal on the weekend, and the consensus seems to be that he played really...

Rodri isn't excellent. He has major flaws, and we see glimpses of them every week. Less so when we're flat track bullying dross, but they always get massively exposed in tightly contested fixtures. And that's where the league will be decided this season. It'll become a priority position for the...

Everyone seemed to think Rodri played a belter on the weekend, but he played with 80% possession against an awful 10 man Arsenal, and without the ball he still got too tight and turned leaving us exposed defensively about 3 times. He'll get turned inside out all week when we play Chelsea, PSG...

Loan to PSG lol. Fuck's sake.

He what? Sounds like bullshit to me, nothing on his Twitter.

That summer we signed Boateng, Yaya and Silva all in the same summer seems like a long time ago now. We're regular league winners now and were CL finalists last season, we shouldn't be struggling the way we have recently in the market. Piss poor as far as I'm concerned.

This summer feels a lot like the complacency of the 2012 summer. Not quite as bad, but worse in terms of ineptitude of the way we've handled things.

Literally no excuse whatsoever not to secure Haaland now. Have to be all in next summer.

Our work this summer has been piss poor, let's all best honest. Grealish is a great addition, but in a position we're very strong in and was a release clause check box. We're left with several players who don't want to be here and no goalscorer - spent all summer chasing one, didn't come off...