Thought I'd eulogised enough over my perceptions of his shortcomings... But here we go again,
He looked more sluggish around the pitch than Garcia, hardly my favourite of all time. I think much of this was to do with ponderous decision making, but Garcia at least only looked that way when on the ball.
Fernando didn't seem to know where to be or where to go, and for a player with a relatively small area to patrol and limited duties in this respect, this was a big concern for me.
When someone did come near him, he was easily turned again and again, and on the rare occasion that he did make it to the ball first, was seemingly brushed aside or simply made such a bizarre attempt to clear or win it that that attacker got clean through and he ended up completely out of the picture or on his backside.
I saw this time and again last year and for me the book is closed in similar fashion to when Souness watched the first ten minutes of George Weah's 'cousin's' debut for Southampton.
