24 | Joško Gvardiol - 2024/25

[Lavinda Past]

Not a good defender. No presence other than in the opposition box at corners.

 

[meeesh]

Strange and at times frustrating type of player, but whilst he’s young there is still a chance

 

[David White]

Centre half playing at left back and doing a decent job going forward. Why do we buy quality prospects and proven players and then play them out of position?

He is young and he’s playing a lot, which he’ll obviously want but he’s getting caught playing silly balls inside because he’s playing in a position that isn’t his. I know he’s played there since he joined us but the other 10 years or so he’d played professionally and in an academy wasn’t he in central defence? Maybe there is a shout for him to play in midfield but surely he should be given a sustained chance in his actual position, especially since we’ve chopped and changed our central defenders every game? He's a ball carrier, we all love that about Stones, I don’t get it.

 

[M23 Citizen]

This lad is the least of our problems. He’s class on the ball, out of all Under 23s in world football in all positions (not just left back), he makes the second most forward passes with the highest accuracy of all of them. He’s a very positive forward in thinking attacking wing back who is also a goal threat. He’s arguably been our best attacking threat this season. He needs to learn a lot defensively but he looks like he easily can and is still young so just needs the experience of acting out the things he needs to improve on.

 

[youngbob]

Would rather judge him when he's able to be rested and rotated instead of playing 90 mins every four days.

He was absolutely mega during the latter half of the 23/24 season and he'll get back there when he can pace himself.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Keeps making far too many elementary mistakes in defence but looks like one of our biggest goal threat's going forward at the moment.

A bit of a conundrum.

I don't think he's ready to play CB in this struggling team.

 

[doobyedoobye]

Every player right now is playing well below expectations because of the deterioration of the overall team dynamic this season..

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Not a good defender. No presence other than in the opposition box at corners.

I agree. We bought him to defend and he isn’t doing it well enough.

 

[sir baconface]

Needs some focused coaching but our coaches seem to have gone AWOL.

 

[oldhamblue]

He seems error prone at the moment but I think that's because he's playing every game. In his wrong position.