Chippy_boy
Well-Known Member
Don't know about you guys but he's probably the one player who has me screaming at the TV more than anyone else.
My intense frustration is that unlike certain other players who I won't mention, he most certainly is NOT useless. Pace, check. Skill, check. Work rate, check. Attitde, check. Willingness to get back and defend, check. He does so much right and really helps stretch play.
He's got everything in the kitbag to be a really top drawer wing player.. well, almost everything. He has the footballing brain of a two year old, i.e. not a fucking clue. When it comes to decision-making, he is absolutely fucking inept.
He'll cut back inside when the obvious play is to run on and get to the by line. He'll try and pick out crosses that will come off once in a millenium. He'll dick about in front of goal instead of shooting, or he'll try and blast a shot into row z with no composure whatsoever. Take yesterday for example. Nasri, through on goal, prods the ball goal-wards, the keeper spills it and it falls to Navas who - faced with a keeper out of position, a 10ft barn door of goalmouth yawning and no defenders in sight - decides to arse about for precious seconds and then pass the ball to someone else. Just shoot, FFS.
So the big question is, can he be coached into becoming the player we all want him to be? Or is this just the way he is, destined to be always someone who promises so much but never really delivers?
My intense frustration is that unlike certain other players who I won't mention, he most certainly is NOT useless. Pace, check. Skill, check. Work rate, check. Attitde, check. Willingness to get back and defend, check. He does so much right and really helps stretch play.
He's got everything in the kitbag to be a really top drawer wing player.. well, almost everything. He has the footballing brain of a two year old, i.e. not a fucking clue. When it comes to decision-making, he is absolutely fucking inept.
He'll cut back inside when the obvious play is to run on and get to the by line. He'll try and pick out crosses that will come off once in a millenium. He'll dick about in front of goal instead of shooting, or he'll try and blast a shot into row z with no composure whatsoever. Take yesterday for example. Nasri, through on goal, prods the ball goal-wards, the keeper spills it and it falls to Navas who - faced with a keeper out of position, a 10ft barn door of goalmouth yawning and no defenders in sight - decides to arse about for precious seconds and then pass the ball to someone else. Just shoot, FFS.
So the big question is, can he be coached into becoming the player we all want him to be? Or is this just the way he is, destined to be always someone who promises so much but never really delivers?