MotoMkali

Wesley isn't a great player but he hasn't actually been bad. I think a lot of you are going after him because you don't want to face the reality that our entire team except for Jack is probably relegation fodder. I also think Dean really needs to get his head out of his arse and change our style up when it isn't working. I thought we should have swapped wesley fro trez today at half-time so we could counter quicker but instead he brought off nakamba. I think he needs to be better with his substitutions and in game management.

How anyone is blaming wesley for today's result I don't know. No one was good but and I'm sure people are blaming him for the goal but 5 of our players could have done better. Aside from that I thought he did alright he won lots of balls and created a couple of good chances. Today our worst player was elmo at fault for a goal and kept putting us under pressure. Although all our defenders were poor.

Deserved to lose. Once again a lack of movement. Shit defense from set pieces we need to **** sort it out. We still have yet to play watford and Soton so hopefully that will help us put some day light between us and the relegation zone but we need to get something next weekend to boost our confidence.

He wasn't good on Wednesday but once again I think title for worst player on the pitch has to go to mcginn or hourihane. Mcginn did 1 thing all game at least wesley had some alright link up play with Jack. On top of that I think mcginn should have been marking mount as it seemed like trez transfered mount to mcginn so he could mark pulisic (?). We also lacked movement almost the entire game except for that lovely passing maneuver that led to our goal. For me deano has got to be drilling in every day pass and move drop to create space. Again Wesley was poor but it was one of those games where suarez could have been playing for us and we still would have lost 2-1.

Didn't think anyone really deserved the award so I gave it to Luiz. At least he looked like scoring. The ball just didn't stick in midfield. Once again we lacked movement in the middle. We need to be much more aggressive as a team and far less passive at times it look like we wanted Chelsea to score. I think that is our main problem we just lack movement and give the ball away really easily.

The problem is if that happens 9/10 times they will win a foul. In the prem you have to balance strength with weakness. You can't just body players and get away with it. Now wesley is being refereed incredibly harshly with a huge double standard and I don't think his size is doing him any favours.

Why would he take the England job? The best managers manage clubs not countries.

Think at about 20-25 minutes against united he played a cross field pass to trez.

It is quite simple really. Goals keep you up. You can still finish top 6 with a crap defence look at Liverpool before last year, arsenal and Chelsea. You only need to be a good defensive team to win the league every other competition it is just about outscoring the other team. We are currently doing that but what happens if el ghazi, jack or McGinn have to miss extended time. We need another player who can create for themselves like bowen. I also think we need another midfielder to help the ball stick in the middle as well. But I think that may have to wait until summer.

You don't have to be good at beating men to be a good player. I think he beat a man at Newcastle but that isn't his game. He is supposed to receive the ball to feet and pick a man out with a good pass. He has been doing that and if we nearly had a couple of goals from these passes in the past few games so he is doing something right. As I have said he does need to improve but scapegoating a player is ridiculous. He clearly wasn't intended to be the only striker we signed or had but unlucky injuries and an inability to get a player over the line has left us with him. Complaining about him isn't helping especially when half the complaints are we are only playing with 10 men and he drops to deep links up play but doesn't get in the box. These are contradictory statements. Yes he needs better off the ball movement but so does our entire team. He hasn't had a huge number of shots lately and he and the team need to find him in dangerous positions.

In the other hand he is a striker and our wingers are expected to pull double duty when defending. So whilst he didn't run as far as anyone else him even getting close to the others show how hard he worked.

Give examples. That is justifying your opinion not just going he is bad because I said so. For example he clocked the 3rd highest sprint speed for a villa player on Sunday so he isn't slow. Lingard struggled to stay on him so he isn't weak. And he played some excellent crossfield passes to trezeguet who should have done better after not particularly great balls came into him so his hold up play and vision are good.

Yeah except the people who do the hating don't actually rationalise why wesley is poor. They say he can't finish and is a donkey when in reality he has the best finishing rate of any of our players. Maybe if they properly justified why they think he is crap.

We will take loan deals as long as we have a reasonable option to buy at the end. If we take iheanacho (for example) we would probably demand a 15m option to buy at the end of the loan.

Coloccini was a beast and was Newcastle best player this decade. Led them to success and remained a stalwart defender throughout his time there.

If you look at the league as a whole and the good young players coming through they are almost always at a top 8 club. Occasionally you will get rare exceptions who are actually quality coming through at a lower half club like grealish. The players at the top 8 aren't better they are just easier to put in the side for 1 or 2 games because they could play 10v11 against most teams in the league and still win. The reason why lingard seemed like he had so much potential and failed is the same he played for a big club so the game was easier for him, when asked to do anything he hadn't improved since he came through so he was shit.

This is what the people hating on wesley should be thinking. He has been alright, has had good holdup play and been creating good opportunities for our wingers. Yes he does need to work on his finishing and everyone agrees on that but it isn't as if he is a bad finisher it is just his off the ball movement (a problem that our entire team has except for el ghazi and grealish) is poor. That is something that can easily be worked on and trained. It isn't as if he is missing something essential to be a striker it is just his game is a little rough and he hasn't fully refined it to suit the prem. Like in the first few games he couldn't use his strength or he was pulled back for a foul now he is learning to use it better and is making himself a handful for every defender he plays.

Greg Evans has doubled down saying that unless we sell kodjia to bring in funds we are only. Going after a cheap winger or striker in January. Said No bowen or Morelos. Whilst I think this may be the club trying to lower the price for players we inquire after it does seem reasonable that this could be true especially if Davis comes back raring to go. However we currently have 2 spare squad slots to me that says we are going to sign at least 1 more player after they worked out what we were missing and potentially the last one free for either a loan recall or good free agent signing. If we do sign a championship winger I think we should recall Green and send him back on loan as a sort of placeholder.

For the first 60 minutes the squad is as good as him it is the last 30 that let us down. Partially it is conditioning as a lot of our players haven't played in a league even close to this intense and struggle to keep up with the pace of play. The other part is poor substitutions we need to make them Early and the right choice. Against united we should have Brought nakamba on at about 60 when it looked like we were losing control of the game. Instead we brought Lansbury on at 80 and we continued to struggle. We needed nakamba to come on and win the ball to prevent them from getting anything going.

First if grealish goes he will be on ridiculous wages because he is that good. 2nd because there will be so many suitors we won't have to pay that because that takes out of our signing fee. Say it is 50 thousand a week difference that is 2.6 mill a year. Why would we sell grealish in a scenario we are essentially giving the club an additional 7.5million. Hardly a smart maneuver and would never happen to us under our current administration.

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As I said in the wesley thread our 3 attacking outlets are grealish, mcginn and Anwar. If we are missing one we are missing a lot of end product especially if one isn't firing like mcginn lately. Hopefully the injury won't knock his confidence which must be huge after the last few games. Anwars potential is huge and by the end of the year could have 10 goals and assists, and played himself into contention for team of the season. Only really needs 3 things now, defensive mouse, consistency and being able to beat players without pace. Needs to learn from Jack.

He had a clause in his contract that boosted his wages like I'm sure kodjia and Chester had as well. I'm pretty sure he is on 100k a week currently and if we gave him much more we would have to give all our other starters 10-20k

Of course wesley isn't the focal point he is currently a cog. Our 3 best attacking outlets as I'm sure everyone knows are grealish, mcginn and el ghazi which is why over the last 3 or 4 games everything has gone through them. But when we are missing one you can see we struggle to create like when el ghazi was goje against united. We certainly could have done with him playing the full game although trez wasn't that poor.

His job is to receive the ball to feet and fin the right pass for us to get pass the next defender. He did this excellently against Newcastle and quite a few times against united especially for trez. I think if el ghazi was playing we would have won the game and that injury really hampered us despite that trez's goal was unlucky to be ruled out.