Swansea - Post match thread

BAB.DAB said:
Did you see pep on sky sports news when asked about Jesus ?
Pep said since arriving Jesus wants to learn English to communicate with the rest of the team
Pep's sly dig at Aguero
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Why not a dig at Silva? Who has been here longer and still doesn't speak much English, in interviews at any rate.
 
BAB.DAB said:
Did you see pep on sky sports news when asked about Jesus ?
Pep said since arriving Jesus wants to learn English to communicate with the rest of the team
Pep's sly dig at Aguero
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No but I heared that stupid twat of a reporter will you play Jesus in the next game pep looked at him much to say fuck off you moron what sort of questions that
 
BAB.DAB said:
Did you see pep on sky sports news when asked about Jesus ?
Pep said since arriving Jesus wants to learn English to communicate with the rest of the team
Pep's sly dig at Aguero
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This is just getting silly now.
 
No matter what the pundits say, the biggest thing for me to emerge from yesterday's game is just how good Jesus is.
This kid has everything in the game, everything.
His strength and link up play are incredible for such a young player and he is an absolutely instinctive goal scorer.
His comments in interviews shows great maturity and he does not look the type to let success go to his head.
I really think we are witnessing the birth of a world superstar here.
And he is ONLY 19!!!!
 
Norbiton said:
Why not a dig at Silva? Who has been here longer and still doesn't speak much English, in interviews at any rate.
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Silva started yesterday and was captain Aguero was on the bench so I think it if it was a dig at players not learning English more likely to be aimed at Aguero
 
Norbiton said:
Why not a dig at Silva? Who has been here longer and still doesn't speak much English, in interviews at any rate.
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When we did the stadium tour last year, the guide told us that Dave can speak English pretty well, but he prefers to do his interviews in Spanish
 
One thing to add. Not sure what was up for Fern in that first half but he was all over the shop. Misplaced passes and shots
 
BBC hate campaign against City continues. This is from the Jesus entry on Crooks team of the week.

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shaiomarali said:
She's trying to surmise that Aguero thinks he will be sold, which our club's statement have put to bed with saying he's going nowhere.
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What do you expect them to say. Kun will be gone in the summer if a big bid comes in and Pep can line up a replacement. Yesterday was very much glass half full half empty stuff. Felt that Pep was very very slow to react to the obvious sea change in the match after the break and this was not the first time he was tardy. We are developing a bit of a soft centre at home defending leads and away when we fall behind. Hope we can sort this out in the summer.
 
cibaman said:
Or play him there often enough for him to master the position. I think he's got the skills to play that role, but it would take time for him to be comfortable in that position.
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The first thing Zabba did, when he came on, was get skinned alive & hack down the oppo player. I'm glad he wasn't on from the start.

Imo Fernadinho did absolutely fine, for a new player starting at fullback & far better than Zabba did when he started there. And the surprising thing was that it was his passing choices which were the weakest part of his game, not his defending.

Perhaps some people think Zabba 7 Sagna are actually better footballers than Fernandinho, & therefore have an advantage. I'd say they can't lace his boots, so therefore, if Pep requires it, Fernandinho can learn the right back position, far quicker than Zabaleta did.
 
Neville Kneville said:
The first thing Zabba did, when he came on, was get skinned alive & hack down the oppo player. I'm glad he wasn't on from the start.

Imo Fernadinho did absolutely fine, for a new player starting at fullback & far better than Zabba did when he started there. And the surprising thing was that it was his passing choices which were the weakest part of his game, not his defending.

Perhaps some people think Zabba 7 Sagna are actually better footballers than Fernandinho, & therefore have an advantage. I'd say they can't lace his boots, so therefore, if Pep requires it, Fernandinho can learn the right back position, far quicker than Zabaleta did.
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I'm sure he can, but what's the point? He's superb as a defensive mid - comfortably the best we have in that position. So let's simply buy a decent right back and let Maffeo have a run too. Sure, Fern can play there occasionally if needed, but I'd hate to see Fern being at right back all the time personally.
 
Father Paul said:
What do you expect them to say. Kun will be gone in the summer if a big bid comes in and Pep can line up a replacement. Yesterday was very much glass half full half empty stuff. Felt that Pep was very very slow to react to the obvious sea change in the match after the break and this was not the first time he was tardy. We are developing a bit of a soft centre at home defending leads and away when we fall behind. Hope we can sort this out in the summer.
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On the last couple of instances he's reacted quickly, we've let goals in immediately, as we did when he reacted tardily yesterday.

I don't think it's even a talking point personally. Sometimes it works, sometimes it has the opposite effect.

The problem isn't substitutions, it's learning to defend properly, as a team, & especially the back 3,4, 10 or whatever, whoever plays. We are playing some of the best football in the world, but it's very difficult for us to actually score & far too easy for anyone to score against us imo.
 
Chippy_boy said:
I'm sure he can, but what's the point? He's superb as a defensive mid - comfortably the best we have in that position. So let's simply buy a decent right back and let Maffeo have a run too. Sure, Fern can play there occasionally if needed, but I'd hate to see Fern being at right back all the time personally.
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Sure, if we need him in the centre, play him there. But we didn't improve in that area when we made the change & we weakened the rb position.

Barca might have thought that about Mascherano at cb. But it became a way of getting more quality into the team. If Fernandinho got his shit together on the ball, he's a whole world better than most fullbacks we could find, who are usually deeply flawed & very expensive, some are slow & skillful, some are fast & shit, some are skillful fast & stupid, some can attack but not defend, etc etc.

There is no guarantee that the fulbacks we sign, will turn out better than the ones we have already. We just hope they will.

Having players who can solve potential problems is a godsend & is what Pellegrini should have been doing with the squad, & the kids, for 3 years.

I don't mind either way, but I'm sure Fern can learn that role & probably be as good as anyone else, is my point.
 
Chippy_boy said:
I don't see the point. He's great - arguably one of our most important players - in a central defensive mid role. And we have two right backs who although are knocking on are both OK and also Maffeo who have shown great promise.
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I thought it was a very strange selection coming on the back of the West Ham game. I can only think that he wants to play both Yaya & Fernandhino but also wants to stick with a single pivot. Perhaps the selection was made with an eye on the CL games, perhaps he doesnt think that ok will be good enough if we are to progress much further in the competition.

He did say earlier in the season that Fernadhino can play almost any position and I think he has the skills to perform that role. But he would need a few games to be comfortable in the role.
 
BillyShears said:
You can tell Raz didn't score or assist a goal as the usuals are dropping him again.
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He assisted the first goal for me, don't know if he got a touch or not but he forced the issue which saw the ball pop up to Jesus, that's an assist in my book.
 
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