Neville Kneville
Well-Known Member
Barker is no replacement for Navas & is a completely different kind of player, & shouldn't be starting anyway with no experience whatsoever, especially seeing he's been sat on his arse half this season not even playing football. Let him get his shit back together in the EDS & maybe give him the occasional late sub job.
If we had started integrating kids from the bench a year ago, we would now have an idea if any of the wide players or fullbacks could do the job, possibly even just for half a game. It could have been someone totally unexpected who grabbed the chance.
But we haven't got a clue whether any could step up or not & who is best suited for which game. Same with all the other positions.
Barker & Celina on the bench for a bar brawl game at Sunderland in a gale, Manu Garcia on the bench for a bar brawl game at Stoke, in a gale= 3 completely wasted sub's bench places imo.
Angelino may be able to do us a job out wide but is of course left sided & I doubt he could do it for 90 mins at this stage. He's a far better footballer than Kolarov though.
If we had started integrating kids from the bench a year ago, we would now have an idea if any of the wide players or fullbacks could do the job, possibly even just for half a game. It could have been someone totally unexpected who grabbed the chance.
But we haven't got a clue whether any could step up or not & who is best suited for which game. Same with all the other positions.
Barker & Celina on the bench for a bar brawl game at Sunderland in a gale, Manu Garcia on the bench for a bar brawl game at Stoke, in a gale= 3 completely wasted sub's bench places imo.
Angelino may be able to do us a job out wide but is of course left sided & I doubt he could do it for 90 mins at this stage. He's a far better footballer than Kolarov though.