Player Thread: Patrick Roberts

[Neville Kneville]

With Pep, I think its as much about personality and wanting to learn as it is about raw natural talent.

Pep will do his homework on the lad and no doubt speak with him and if he thinks he can improve him and make him a part of our future he will be back, make no mistake about it.

Ability to understand instructions, physical strength, workrate, attitude will be the deciders I think. Talent is without question.

Same with Barker if he ever sees him.

 

[blueinsa]

Ability to understand instructions, physical strength, workrate, attitude will be the deciders I think. Talent is without question.

Same with Barker if he ever sees him.

Absolutely agree mate.

It so exciting thinking about the next 3 seasons and hopefully beyond with pep as manager of the undoubted pool of talent we have.

Mouth watering.

 

[PhillyBlue]

Can we get him back - he's gone for 18 months I think but is there an option??

Can we atleast get him back for our preseason?
Would be fascinating to see how Pep uses him.

 

[RandomJ]

We can't get him back unless they send him back and they won't be doing that. Seems a bit silly 18 months. Should have been a 6 month loan and then left it up to Pep to decide if he should be sent out again or stay with us.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Ability to understand instructions, physical strength, workrate, attitude will be the deciders I think. Talent is without question.

Same with Barker if he ever sees him.

I think the raw materials are different when it comes to a player comparison.Roberts obviously has a love for the game and a desire to be the best,with Barker,from looking at his body language,i don't even think he enjoys the game.

Maybe Pep can alter that?

 

[Neville Kneville]

Absolutely agree mate.

It so exciting thinking about the next 3 seasons and hopefully beyond with pep as manager of the undoubted pool of talent we have.

Mouth watering.

We have so many talented kids in the various age groups. I'm hoping the best of the older ones will get a chance to reassert themselves as some were fantastic a year or so ago but seem to have lost a little bit of spark whilst waiting.

But some positions have several contenders, & it could be that it's not necessarly the obvious one who ends up getting the job. Could be Roberts turns out to not have the right stuff & someone like Aaron Nemane, not as clever, starts knocking loads of goals in, runs his balls off & goes up a level sneaks infront. Or Diaz moves out wide. Buckley. Sancho. Barker. They are all different & all have tgeir strengths & weaknesses. I would have added Lopes to that list. Wish Pep could have got hold of him.

But if we don't get a few players out of these we are really unlucky.

 

[Neville Kneville]

We can't get him back unless they send him back and they won't be doing that. Seems a bit silly 18 months. Should have been a 6 month loan and then left it up to Pep to decide if he should be sent out again or stay with us.

They wouldn't have taken him. Pellegrini wouldn't have played him. He wouldn't have wanted to sit on the bench at Barnsley, so he'd be in the EDS, fucking miserable & playing like shit, as he was before he went.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I think the raw materials are different when it comes to a player comparison.Roberts obviously has a love for the game and a desire to be the best,with Barker,from looking at his body language,i don't even think he enjoys the game.

Maybe Pep can alter that?

Just posted that imo Roberts looked miserable as fuck in the EDS & was a greedy waste of space. They know they are too good to be still at that level. Special players.

I would be absolutely depressed.

Hope there is still enough left of Barker, for Pep to bring it out.

 

[Centurions]

We can't get him back unless they send him back and they won't be doing that. Seems a bit silly 18 months. Should have been a 6 month loan and then left it up to Pep to decide if he should be sent out again or stay with us.

Celtic wouldn't agree to a 6 month loan, they have stupidly early CL qualifiers to get through at the start of next season and they didn't want to have to struggle to get someone else in with the Euro's on as well.

 

[ninjamonkey]

He might never make it at City.

Doesn't mean he couldn't skin a few players & win us a game or two. Same as a whole bunch of others.

Would never be allowed to under Pellegrini. Sterling is capable of doing it, hell, even Navas did it when he was at Sevilla, Nasri did it at Arsenal etc etc. It's almost forbidden in our team.