Jesus Navas

Loved Navas, I thought he brought a lot, he might have even been a good Pep player. His time with us though coincided with Pellers and as much as I like Pellegrini he didnt inspire great football and I think Navas was wasted to a degree.
 
Was great in his first season. Pellegrini possibly made all of our players worst by his second season. Don’t agree that he was bang average. He was a useful player, but not quite top standard. His record though speaks for itself.
 
asia fields said:
It soon became obvious that after his first season he lost confidence and too often stopped and cut back playing an easy pass rather than getting to the byline, surely as a winger that’s not what you do every time your in possession and I don’t believe the manager advised him to do this. It was a lack of confidence nothing else.
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I dont think it was lack of confidence why he cut back often, IMO it was because there was rarely anyone in the box to cross to.
 
I don't think Pellegrini was a bad manager, I just think he lost his way a bit my with what city wanted him to be, in the end this tranferred itself over to the players and we lost our way a little.
 
As said earlier, I was delighted to witness his goal at Wembley. It would be nice to give him a clap if we play Seville again soon. I loved the fact he was a really down to earth guy, with his little car and the fact that he regularly took his family for tea to the Mersey Farm on Carrington Lane!
 
seemed a nice lad but just used to put his head down and run into dead ends and he couldn't cross for shit, Nolito was a much better player.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Not a bad career for "bang average":

633 Senior appearances

2 - UEFA Cups
2 - Copa del Reys,
1 - European Supercup
1 - Spanish Supercup
1 - World Cup Winners medal

1 Premier League Win
2 League Cups


Yep, Tom knows best as always....
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That's a cracking CV maybe we should buy him?

Do you want me to list Nanis achievements? He was bang average for us, ran his bollocks off yes but his end product and his return in terms of numbers was very poor. We are past the point of "trying" being enough. Good luck to him and I am glad he is doing well he seems a nice guy.
 
grim up north said:
It’s a shame that some still have to slag him off even now he has left, suppose its gives Gundogan Jesus Walker and Mendy a break
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So once they leave you can only say good things? That Lee Bradbury was a cracking player wasn't he.
 
grim up north said:
Some of us can appreciate players some can’t
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Other than his effort there wasn't a massive amount to appreciate was there. Not his fault but I'm not going to get giddy over a millionaire trying hard. Nowhere near a top clubs level. My response was to the many people claiming he was a good player for us because they look back fondly.
 
Navas always struck me as somebody who lost his major asset, the moment we tried to change his style. (just look at his run for Nasri's goal in the 4-1 v United).

He was perfectly capable of what we all craved, but was obviously coached to wait/come inside.

Not a disaster, but definitely a frustration.
 
Consummate professional, worked very hard and always got into good positions to cross etc due to always being able to buy a yard with his pace but lets not sugar-coat it he was the least threatening winger we've had post-takeover. 4 goals in 123 league appearances is abysmal and the only thing that came from his crossing was the opponents left-back having bruised shins
 
seemed like a nice lad and tried his best.

I got incredibly frustrated watching the right back, right mid, centre midfield pattern of play though. Seemed like it could go on for 10 minutes. The right wing was a black hole for progress while he was there.
 
Rolee said:
Thanks, so the 'bang' is just for effect?
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Just a word isn't it, I didn't make it up. I imagine you probably agree with me for once so instead of choosing to reply to the context of the post you rather focus on one word used. No worries x
 
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