Joao Cancelo

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Walker is an excellent defender and a tremendous athlete. His weakness is that he is very one footed so he is predictable in attack and has to go down the outside. If he is forced to pass with his left he is clearly nervous and tries to run out of trouble. Much as he has been a superb player for us, it will be good to improve that aspect of the right-back position.
 
1) wrong, 2) wrong, 3) wrong

To be fair all of the stats he posted were a complete load of shite and no one over the age of 6 should care about Who Scored Player Ratings.

Cancelo also won't play left back. Reason 1, he's only played it about 5 times in his career. Reason 2, we've got 3 LB's already.

Danilo "could play LB" too...

So that's very clear then - who to believe ???
 
Walker imo isn’t guilty of giving away the ball too much, he’s guilty of holding onto it too long and telegraphing his intentions when he has the ball. He is utterly predictable and hurts our attack.

By the way while I’m bashing ... the other telegraph-extraordinares is Stones. Looks up. Sees a pass. Looks down. Takes a touch. Looks up. Positions his body to where he is (eventually) going to pass. Looks down. Looks up. Might give an old point or nod to ensure that the intended recipient is fully prepared. Looks down to get the ball ready. Looks up, yes he is still ready. Ok, Ready. Steady. Oh Jezuz better look down and up and down again just to be sure. Boot. Ball. Pass. Smile. Happy days as a footballing center back.

He does do that a lot, especially when low on confidence, but in his defence a lot of the times he looks up, looks down, turns a bit, looks up etc. it's because he's waiting for the players in front to move, get free, change the angle.

It's the same when our 2 CB's knock it between themselves half a dozen times, they're just waiting for the right pass to open up.

But yes, sometimes he just seems to be psyching himself up to make a pass.
 
Yeah, pace and physicality is what sets Walker apart from other RB's, like Danilo.

I don't know why you're incapable of seeing weaknesses in our players without taking it as some sort of personal attack. If Walker was the perfect RB you think he is, Pep would likely not be spending €65m on another one.

@MarsLlama listed a while load of ‘weaknesses’ earlier and I briefly responded.

You’ve then jumped in with one of your big ‘look how clever I am’ essays you bore everyone to death with where you tell us things we already know.

Never said Walker was perfect. Never said we don’t need or I wouldn’t like Cancelo.

You’re literally making things up.

Have a day off mate.
 
@MarsLlama listed a while load of ‘weaknesses’ earlier and I briefly responded.

You’ve then jumped in with one of your big ‘look how clever I am’ essays you bore everyone to death with where you tell us things we already know.

Never said Walker was perfect. Never said we don’t need or I wouldn’t like Cancelo.

You’re literally making things up.

Have a day off mate.

Ouch !!
 
Remember Arsenal away at the start of last season. Mendy started at left back but in possession was playing a sort of false number 8 (yeh I've made that up) role, and literally breaking the lines by carrying the ball inside through the half-space. It caused absolute chaos in a pretty similar way to those great old Yaya power-up runs from deep.

We didn't really see it again for obvious reasons, but I think it was meant to be a regular game plan to break down packed defences. I also think this is exactly the role Cancelo is being bought for (if it happens). Stones or Otamendi will be defending the whole right flank in the same way Laporte covered the whole left flank in that game.
 
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Mendy won't be available for a while, Zinch has done really well there as a converted midfielder and shades Angelino (at least for now) but Cancelo is probably better than both.
If Cancelo was actually an option to play on the left side why did we buy a specialist leftback last month?
 
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