I don’t fully get the criticism. He’s still very young, I think his quality and professionalism belies his age and so he can be judged quite harshly. He’s industrious and always sticks a lanky leg in when it matters. I think he will excel here and I think he’s made a solid start, particularly when you consider how long it can take for a player to adapt. We have many, many cases of players taking a year or longer to settle.
Come on now. How could we have replays AND the expanded World Cup and club World Cup and additional European games and nations league we were all so desperate for?
He’s allowed a dip in form like anyone else, but we desperately need him back to form. We are so weak when he’s not at it. But it isn’t just him it’s the very one at the back including Martinez.
Tbh it was a head scratcher when we signed him in the first place. It never really felt like it fit.
Anyway I like him and good luck to him. By all accounts from people in the club he’s a model pro.
Looking at some of the big decisions in this round, the refs have got them all right other than our corner which couldn’t have been reviewed anyway. I know we always moaned about refs anyway but if we are also moaning with VAR I really don’t see the point. I LOVED celebrating a goal knowing that it was a goal.
We were shit except for about 10 minutes and then it was just game management that we nearly stuffed up if it weren’t for Kosta. I don’t think it’s mad to give one of their players MOTM. They bossed the midfield.