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