#6 | Nathan Aké - 2021/22 Performances

[OB1]

The latest witch hunt has begun.

I'll reserve judgment in addition to primarily relying on Pep to decide who is worth their salt in the squad.

 

[BlueTG]

I always thought £40m for a recently relegated centre back with less than 200 professional appearances at 26 years old wasn’t going to be an astute signing.

 

[jimharri]

The latest witch hunt has begun.

I'll reserve judgment in addition to primarily relying on Pep to decide who is worth their salt in the squad.

Most on here recognise that, with the one glaring exception, he was perfectly adequate yesterday. Unfortunately, that one glaring exception is what his game will be remembered for. Both by the media, and by the flappers on here. Shame, but there you go.

 

[BlueTG]

Most on here recognise that, with the one glaring exception, he was perfectly adequate yesterday. Unfortunately, that one glaring exception is what his game will be remembered for. Both by the media, and by the flappers on here. Shame, but there you go.

Of course it will be. He’s a central defender who gifted the opposition a winner. The game is played over 90 minutes and if he makes a glaring error then he hasn’t had a good game because he’s failed to do his job to an adequate standard over the course of the match.

 

[jimharri]

As I said. The good aspects to his game will be forgotten by many. I remember Stones being persona non grata for the thick end of 18 months. But he fought back, and turned his career around, due in no small part to Dias. A mistake doesn't have to mean the end of his time here.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Not too long ago many would have been well happy to have Ake as a LCB partnering Kompany. He made a costly mistake yesterday and several on here now think he's dogshit and not a good enough 4th choice player, and this is largely based on him giving away a penalty!

He has hardly played enough games to be judged through having 3 better options ahead of him but I'm happy enough to have him as a squad player to come into the side when called upon.

 

[bondsman]

Decent but not as good as Laporte I hope we don’t lose Eric as he’s levels above Ake.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Thought he was doing pretty good until he got that suicide pass from Rodri.

 

[BucksBlue]

The latest witch hunt has begun.

I'll reserve judgment in addition to primarily relying on Pep to decide who is worth their salt in the squad.

Ruben made a rare mistake to give Blackpool a penalty in the friendly on Tuesday. If he had done it yesterday I doubt, rightly so, he would be a witch hunt target.
Ake has done well in all the friendly fixtures and up to the penalty yesterday was arguably a contender for our MOTM.
All players are prone to errors albeit with different frequencies. Shit happens.
To his credit Ruben (future captain) went to Nathan to offer support at full time.
You know who your friends are when things go wrong.
Up the Blues.

 

[Mr HJ]

Not going to jump on him on one mistake - it's only a glorified friendly and we played with most of our b team. However worth noting that he has played the most in pre-season, however short, whereas others have hardly trained never mind played a game. I'm sure he'll be fine but I thought both Ake and Ruben dallied too much on the ball yesterday. Best to get the mistakes out of the way but he has to stop the habit of giving away soft penalties. Big season ahead for him, it's kind of now or never with him.