Kyle Walker

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hihosilva said:
MCRJON said last week this was 100% done so that's good enough for me
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He just said it was "done" but didn't define what was done. It could have been an agreement with player and agent or a medical?

We are close rivals to Spurs and Levy will look to hinder our progress as much as he can. Have we got a plan B?

From his past transfer dealings we know how difficult he is to deal with. IMO this could be every bit as tricky as the Sanchez transfer.
 
I still can't get how he will suit to Pep's philosophy. His passing is awful and he has almost nothing common with tiki-taka and posession game. He is also arrogant and fightee as a character. As a personality he is not different of Zlatan, Hart, Ribery and others which had problems with Pep. I think Pep must reconsider this signing. I will not be surprised if Kyle and Pep will have problems on personal basis in future.
 
Kamran Shirinzade said:
I still can't get how he will suit to Pep's philosophy. His passing is awful and he has almost nothing common with tiki-taka and posession game. He is also arrogant and fightee as a character. As a personality he is not different of Zlatan, Hart, Ribery and others which had problems with Pep. I think Pep must reconsider this signing. I will not be surprised if Kyle and Pep will have problems on personal basis in future.
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I agree that he's far from ideal. He's an athletic runner and good provider of width, but that's all, his technique is pretty average. He'll be pretty useless cutting inside, so I presume our main tactics will be fairly rigid 433 with Walker running up and down the flank and the remaining trio (Mendy+2CBs) playing from the back with 2 or 3 players spread wide, we're already using this approach quite often. The upside is that it will allow our RW to move inside freely, be it Raz, KdB or B.Silva.

But I disagree that Pep should reconsider this deal, I see the logic behind it: Walker is one of the most suitable players with a British passport (others are obviously Gibson, Keane, Bertrand, maybe Barkley), there's simply no one else to choose from, Dier and Alli don't fit our football. Don't forget that we're buying a squad player coupled with a free foreign spot. His age also suits us fine, if we'll manage to sign a rising star like Henrichs in 1-2 years, we'll already have a good backup option. It's a compromise transfer, but it's worth it IMO. I also hope we'll get Bertrand or Berchiche for the same reasons.
 
Andrew___K said:
He'll be pretty useless cutting inside, so I presume our main tactics will be fairly rigid 433 with Walker running up and down the flank and the remaining trio (Mendy+2CBs) playing from the back with 2 or 3 players spread wide, we're already using this approach quite often. The upside is that it will allow our RW to move inside freely, be it Raz, KdB or B.Silva.
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That's how he did it at Barcelona with Dani Alves. Why is everyone so obsessed like Pep only has one tactic, he's not a one trick pony.

He said it himself after which game I can't remember that he can't use the full backs run up and down because they're in their 30s and can't run like that the whole match.
 
rollingnakedinmoney said:
That's how he did it at Barcelona with Dani Alves. Why is everyone so obsessed like Pep only has one tactic, he's not a one trick pony.

He said it himself after which game I can't remember that he can't use the full backs run up and down because they're in their 30s and can't run like that the whole match.
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Walker is very one-dimensional, that's the problem. He doesn't suit the idea of a makeshift 5 with fullbacks used all across the pitch which I find very cool and perspective. Using Walker would probably mean less possibilities of in-game switches, that's why I supposed the same simple asymmetric setup as at 2008-2011 Barca. With Henrichs as RB we would do some crazy (and effective) shifts, you need truly versatile players for it.
 
we need to get 2 fullbacks and centre backs that are going to take the shirts every week and not swap and change from game to game its simple and make sense to play your best players all the time in the games that we are really going flat out to win. the squad will play its part and players covering for a role he does not play or understand must end and i want to see the best 11 start as much as possible and mean business
 
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Andrew___K said:
Walker is very one-dimensional, that's the problem. He doesn't suit the idea of a makeshift 5 with fullbacks used all across the pitch which I find very cool and perspective. Using Walker would probably mean less possibilities of in-game switches, that's why I supposed the same simple asymmetric setup as at 2008-2011 Barca. With Henrichs as RB we would do some crazy (and effective) shifts, you need truly versatile players for it.
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Would Fernandinho not provide that alternative?
 
I think with Mendy and Walker we would have 2 full backs who can provide the width and overload the wings. Look at Spurs, they have son, Alli and Erikssen behind Kane and all of them play narrower. This creates space for the full back and also means we have bodies in the area when the full back put in the cross.

I'm not expecting walker to be too involved in the build-up so Im not overly worried about his technique, we've seen already that the center backs pull wide and the CM drops in to the middle when we play it out. The full backs would be higher up the pitch. I'm excited to see how attacking we can be.
 
Andrew___K said:
He actually provides it, you're right, but he's far from being worldclass and will last only 1 year unfortunately.
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Yup, Fair enough, think we may get a bit longer out of him now we don't have to flog him to death.

I think we'll see in that year if Walker can adapt or whether we deploy horses for courses.
 
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