Fernando

I imagine this is because he rarely gives the ball away saying that he only plays safe sideways backwards passes.
 
Had a monstrous game against Arsenal. I think we may have taken the 3 points had he stayed on. I saw something in him in that game that made me think its totally fine if he sticks around. Peps system will give us far more structure and cohesiveness defensively which should make his job easier.
 
He's a tactical intelligent player who does what he's told, so I'm not surprised Pep would think he could do something with him (much more so than Delph). He's very reliable on the ball, people seem to confuse being unadventurous with being poor with the ball, but if you're a holding midfielder then you really shouldn't be trying risky passes very often, it's much more important that you consistently pass the ball to a teammate in space. Unfortunately our movement from attacking players has been pretty non existent for most of the past year so the safe pass for a player is usually a backwards or sideways one, but he's been just as willing to pass it forwards if the players in front of him actually get in space instead of just standing around.

My one criticism of him would be that his movement to make himself available for the ball hasn't been as good as it was at Porto, but given that none of our players seem to try to move into space I can't help but feel that will improve under a manager who values that as highly as Pep does, instead of a manager who clearly doesn't give the midfield much thought at all.
 
BigOscar said:
He's a tactical intelligent player who does what he's told, so I'm not surprised Pep would think he could do something with him (much more so than Delph).
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I will agree on Fernando, but where do you get the impression that Delph cannot also fit in ?

He was often played stupidly out of position last season, I still don't think we should write him off (though injuries are the biggest concern for me), I think there is as much reason to think Pep can work with Delph as Fernando, and Delph is 2 years younger, not to mention quicker.
 
cleavers said:
I will agree on Fernando, but where do you get the impression that Delph cannot also fit in ?

He was often played stupidly out of position last season, I still don't think we should write him off (though injuries are the biggest concern for me), I think there is as much reason to think Pep can work with Delph as Fernando, and Delph is 2 years younger, not to mention quicker.
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I think he just runs around a lot pretty aimlessly, rather than really thinking about what he's doing and why, I don't think he has any discipline. Technically I think he's hit and miss, capable of some good things, but also pretty sloppy. I think he's far more suited to playing for a bad/average team where he can run around doing whatever he wants and occasionally coming up with a great moment, rather than consistently doing a reliable job. I just don't see what position he is supposed to play, as he's nowhere near consistent enough with the ball to play as a central midfielder in a Pep team and he's not disciplined enough to play as the deeper midfielder imo.

I really don't rate him tbh and never have, I think he's a quintessentially British box to box midfield player, all running, no thinking.
 
BigOscar said:
I really don't rate him tbh and never have, I think he's a quintessentially British box to box midfield player, all running, no thinking.
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You may well be right, but who knows what Pep can make him into, left back wouldn't surprise me, we'll see I guess, we should not write him off yet, as he was criminally misused at times last season.
 
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