Player Topic: Nicolas Otamendi (2015/16)

[BenLlewellyn]

Great game, but that really was pathetic at the end

 

[lancs blue]

Is he?
I'm yet to see it, too rash, poor positioning, barely a clean sheet and average against good sides. I hope to be proven wrong mind but top class?

Pretty much how I see him too, a good-ish defender but not yet top-class with definite flaws. Also at 28 in Feb he has less potential to improve than Mangala.

 

[BillyShears]

Been meaning to post in here for a while. Top player and top defender. Also brings a level of aggression to the side which is much needed. Schooled in the dark arts.

 

[bulldogblue]

Good aggressive defender and had a reasonably good game last night. However he gets turned and left for dead very easily and you're just waiting for that bad mistake in every match.

 

[moon]

Has the deadline now passed for a possible ban for 5 bookings for him?
Mangala heading for the 10 bookings ban though

 

[come-on-barney]

Lucky lucky boy last night

 

[cleavers]

Lucky lucky boy last night

How so ?

 

[come-on-barney]

How so ?

The theatrics on pretending to have been struck could have led to a red. If that had happened to us we would be demanding retrospective action. No place in our side for that crap cut it out.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I like him but he's dropping too many bollocks, even last night, when he had a very good game overall, he had a couple of quite ridiculous moments & got out of jail. He looks to solve defensive problems & puts his heart into it, unlike wankers like Nastasic who just hide & let everyone else do the hard stuff, he goes looking for it & tries to defend.

But he's overcommitting too many times when he doesn't need to & ending up on his arse when he needs to be on his feet. He takes himself out of the game. If he can stop doing that, we could get a decent 5 years out of him in the squad.

 

[KDBestplayerintheworld]

I'm yet to see it, too rash, poor positioning, barely a clean sheet and average against good sides. I hope to be proven wrong mind but top class?

I agree... way too rash, looks a bit clueless sometimes. Definitely when compared to Vinny. He's committed that's for sure but worry about his intelligence.