Kalvin Phillips

[Keeper!]

'good' is an elastic term.

Maybe Kalvin should take this up

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

the only way I see him coming back at all (to the level he had at leeds) is if he plays for a club thats destined to go down with literally zero pressure on him.

Anyone have Brexit Jim's number?

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Agreed. You get the sense that some footballers never loved the sport but were just very good at it, but he feels like a lad who would have played every chance he had growing up. Sad that his career has come to this.

Really common. I always got that vibe from Sterling - was a brilliant player own his day and shame he never really recovered his form to the top level he reached with us for a couple of years - but I always got the feeling he wasn't really a fan of the sport as such, or give much of shit about club allegiances, he just happened to be really good at it.

Not a criticism btw.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

If you remember, Kompany started as CDM in his first season and didn't do well.

Then Mancini tried him as a CB and magic happened.

I always thought Kalvin would be more suitable for that position, especially the one Stones / Akanji play.

CDM - ain't gonna happen.

Yeah but Kalvin Phillips isn't Vincent Kompany, John Stones or Manuel Akanji is he.

 

[HaalandEffect]

Maybe Kalvin should take this up

 

[Keeper!]

lol And I though Hough end on a winters morning was tough!!

 

[Goatmeal]

Kalv has the unique ability to make world class players around him look shoite

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Really common. I always got that vibe from Sterling - was a brilliant player own his day and shame he never really recovered his form to the top level he reached with us for a couple of years - but I always got the feeling he wasn't really a fan of the sport as such, or give much of shit about club allegiances, he just happened to be really good at it.

Not a criticism btw.

Anelka is always the player I think of. Even Kev gives me a sense that he sees it as a career rather than a passion. Why I have a niggling voice in my head that he might not do coaching, just call it a day and get on with his life. I could be completely wrong on that, mind, so hard to tell. But you just know Pep, Kompany, Gundo seem like lads who would sit and watch an amateur five-a-side game and want to coach it before they sat down to watch Netflix.

And like you say, it's fair enough really. These days you're plucked from the street as young as five and encouraged to see it as a job before you've even hit puberty, of course some lads lose their love of it or just want to turn it off the second they get home.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Agreed. You get the sense that some footballers never loved the sport but were just very good at it, but he feels like a lad who would have played every chance he had growing up.

I recall an interview with Stephen Ireland where he said he never liked football

 

[decmancity]

I hope for his sake your right but I must have watched a different game.

I thought it was a good performance, if Stones had been passing the ball around etc like that then he would be getting rave reviews.