Kevin De Bruyne - 2016/17 performances

[domalino]

100% agree.

He's one player I'm really not sure fits into Pep's style.

That thought has struck me at times.

Seems a waste of his talent with the roles he has been asked to play in a lot of games this season.

Hope it all eventually clicks.

He really doesn't, much better fit for a more open side.

Disagree with all of you, he showed how suitable he was when he was exceptional in the first few months of the season, when the team was playing the most "Pep" football, with high intensity and we were winning the ball back high up. He was absolutely brilliant back then as you can see in this thread, full of universal praise around that time.

He's gotten worse as Pep has compromised. The old players couldn't press for 90 minutes, so we stopped the intense pressing, and he got less effective. And then we dropped the defensive line back after the Leicester game, and he got less effective because our play slowed down with the attack and defence much further apart.

His regression over the season has almost completely matched Pep compromising his system to cope with the flaws of the squad, and I'm completely confident that when Pep gets in the players he wants and we start doing what he really wants us to do again, De Bruyne will go straight back to the top of the pile.

I don't know how anyone who watched games like the OT derby, Barcelona away, Everton at home, Chelsea at home - our best performances of the season, and think KDB doesn't suit Pep's style or this system.

 

[Bluster]

Disagree with all of you, he showed how suitable he was when he was exceptional in the first few months of the season, when the team was playing the most "Pep" football, with high intensity and we were winning the ball back high up. He was absolutely brilliant back then as you can see in this thread, full of universal praise around that time.

He's gotten worse as Pep has compromised. The old players couldn't press for 90 minutes, so we stopped the intense pressing, and he got less effective. And then we dropped the defensive line back after the Leicester game, and he got less effective because our play slowed down with the attack and defence much further apart.

His regression over the season has almost completely matched Pep compromising his system to cope with the flaws of the squad, and I'm completely confident that when Pep gets in the players he wants and we start doing what he really wants us to do again, De Bruyne will go straight back to the top of the pile.

I don't know how anyone who watched games like the OT derby, Barcelona away, Everton at home, Chelsea at home - our best performances of the season, and think KDB doesn't suit Pep's style or this system.

I'm not sure that he does suit Pep's style of football. De Bruyne is capable of brilliance, there's no doubt, but he does lose the ball very easily and often. The manager has to calculate whether the assists and goals (fewer than last season) are worth the ball being lost so often and our subsequent vulnerability to counterattacking.

You can see that he trades traditional goalkeeping brilliance for improved ball retention so you have to wonder whether he fits the Pep identikit player.

 

[domalino]

I'm not sure that he does suit Pep's style of football. De Bruyne is capable of brilliance, there's no doubt, but he does lose the ball very easily and often. The manager has to calculate whether the assists and goals (fewer than last season) are worth the ball being lost so often and our subsequent vulnerability to counterattacking.

You can see that he trades traditional goalkeeping brilliance for improved ball retention so you have to wonder whether he fits the Pep identikit player.

....again,i pretty much dressed all of that in my comment you're replying to. go rewatch any of our best games this season, Barcelona, United away, Everton home. De Bruyne was absolutely integral to them.

 

[Mr HJ]

Disagree with all of you, he showed how suitable he was when he was exceptional in the first few months of the season, when the team was playing the most "Pep" football, with high intensity and we were winning the ball back high up. He was absolutely brilliant back then as you can see in this thread, full of universal praise around that time.

He's gotten worse as Pep has compromised. The old players couldn't press for 90 minutes, so we stopped the intense pressing, and he got less effective. And then we dropped the defensive line back after the Leicester game, and he got less effective because our play slowed down with the attack and defence much further apart.

His regression over the season has almost completely matched Pep compromising his system to cope with the flaws of the squad, and I'm completely confident that when Pep gets in the players he wants and we start doing what he really wants us to do again, De Bruyne will go straight back to the top of the pile.

I don't know how anyone who watched games like the OT derby, Barcelona away, Everton at home, Chelsea at home - our best performances of the season, and think KDB doesn't suit Pep's style or this system.

100% agree domalino De Bruyne is going to pivotal in the team once Pep fills the team with players that commit to his methods. There are not many players who have his passing range and he has suffered as we lacked pace and returned as you say to type. On the weekend there was a moment when he turned three Boro players with one movement and whereas I accept he has not had the best season, he still manages to provide assists and moments that few can do.

 

[Bill]

Disagree with all of you, he showed how suitable he was when he was exceptional in the first few months of the season, when the team was playing the most "Pep" football, with high intensity and we were winning the ball back high up. He was absolutely brilliant back then as you can see in this thread, full of universal praise around that time.

He's gotten worse as Pep has compromised. The old players couldn't press for 90 minutes, so we stopped the intense pressing, and he got less effective. And then we dropped the defensive line back after the Leicester game, and he got less effective because our play slowed down with the attack and defence much further apart.

His regression over the season has almost completely matched Pep compromising his system to cope with the flaws of the squad, and I'm completely confident that when Pep gets in the players he wants and we start doing what he really wants us to do again, De Bruyne will go straight back to the top of the pile.

I don't know how anyone who watched games like the OT derby, Barcelona away, Everton at home, Chelsea at home - our best performances of the season, and think KDB doesn't suit Pep's style or this system.

100% spot on.

 

[Delphacito]

Disagree with all of you, he showed how suitable he was when he was exceptional in the first few months of the season, when the team was playing the most "Pep" football, with high intensity and we were winning the ball back high up. He was absolutely brilliant back then as you can see in this thread, full of universal praise around that time.

He's gotten worse as Pep has compromised. The old players couldn't press for 90 minutes, so we stopped the intense pressing, and he got less effective. And then we dropped the defensive line back after the Leicester game, and he got less effective because our play slowed down with the attack and defence much further apart.

His regression over the season has almost completely matched Pep compromising his system to cope with the flaws of the squad, and I'm completely confident that when Pep gets in the players he wants and we start doing what he really wants us to do again, De Bruyne will go straight back to the top of the pile.

I don't know how anyone who watched games like the OT derby, Barcelona away, Everton at home, Chelsea at home - our best performances of the season, and think KDB doesn't suit Pep's style or this system.

I'd say the compromise took a turn for the worse when Gundogan went down. Funny that in the early part of the season people here were saying that Silva has 'lost it' and now he's the magician again and now Kev doesn't fit and must be sold. The only team that Kev doesn't fit in are teams that are allergic to goals.

 

[Neville Kneville]

The problem with KDB imo, is where to play him.

 

[VOOMER]

....again,i pretty much dressed all of that in my comment you're replying to. go rewatch any of our best games this season, Barcelona, United away, Everton home. De Bruyne was absolutely integral to them.

But it was the same last season, he blows hot and cold regardless of the tactics used.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

He needs to pull his fucking finger out the next four games.

 

[Dax777]

I must be watching different games. Think he has been very good the last 4 or so games.

A lot of the talk about him being poor sounds like delayed response to me.