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Laughable Chimp

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  1. Basically every single stat aside from his tackling is not good. I’m not saying he’s shit or the team is playing poorly, just that his stats don’t look good. On the topic of whoscored ratings, specialist DMs like him are very capable of posting good ratings there without goals and assists anyway. Kante posted a 7.61 rating which is insanely high the year Leicester won the title for example. if there are players who I think are underrated via whoscored’s system, it would actually be DMs who are less physical and more passing oriented because they don’t have the defensive nor the attacking stats to boost their rating. High passing accuracy tends to be meaningless when it doesn’t lead to high amount of key passes.
  2. I don’t know what Luton fans think of him, but his stats there so far do not look good.
  3. Tbh, his stats looks about the same to me either wing. 170 minutes per goal or assist on the left wing 170 minutes per goal or assist on the right wing. He's had more total goals and assists on the left but that's primarily because he played more on the left than on the right at Leverkusen.
  4. Nobody cares what he did 5,6,7 years ago for christ's sake.
  5. Not sure if he actually fouls him, but regardless you can't put your hands on a player like that. If he falls, its always gonna look like you pulled him down even if that's not the case.
  6. Its the Championship though. Comparison with Mings is a bit unfair considering the differing standards of football. But yes, overall I agree his stats look good. Sofascore and transfermarkt rate him at about 10m. Seems a bit low.
  7. He couldn’t cut it at league 1 first half of this season, so they moved him down a league
  8. Yeah that doesn’t compute for me. You can think its a good move to bring him back, I certainly agree, but if you don’t even expect him to step foot on the pitch more than a couple times than that level of excitement seems a tad extreme no?And judging by the way people talked about us bringing him back, people definitely expected him to play a lot more than just a couple sub appereances. It seems to me that the hype around his return was mostly driven by people who were desperate for a reason to defend our lack of transfer business in January.
  9. To put it into further perspective, I think those stats are undisputadly better than what Kamara showed in his last season in ligue 1. Although yes it seems like he's a lot more attacking oriented than him but still.
  10. Unlike the relegation thread, I still find this a possibility, even though extremely unlikely.
  11. Just a random name but how about ademola lookman? Can play right-wing although probably not his best position. Currently tearing up Serie A with a goal every 115 minutes. Sofascore and Transfermarkt evaluate him at 20m euros, although I think we'd be comfortable with paying up to 30m. Can probably double his salary too and Atalanta might not finish in a european spot this season.
  12. This sounds just like the second Leicester goal scored
  13. That’s actually hilarious. He’s so animated, like some kind of cartoon villain ”This can’t be, my perfect set-piece plan, foiled again”
  14. If he says he would never tell the goalkeeper to go forward then why was Martinez forward? Do you think Emery saw Martinez saunter up the pitch and just went “oh well, I would never tell him to do this, I explicitly think this is a bad idea, but I’m just gonna let it happen anyway”. Him stating that he would never tell the goalkeeper to do this implies that its a criticism of Martinez.
  15. Also pretty sure your maths is wrong. Both were on 16 points after 10 league games.
  16. If he’s good enough, of course it doesn’t matter how old he is. The problem is we don’t know if he is good enough. And the problem with his age is that if he isn’t good enough, its much less likely that he will develop into a players that could be good enough in the future. Lets say Azaz gets a loan next season in the championship and he fails to impress. Do we cut our losses on him then? Well the club is far more likely to do that compared to if he was only say 19 years of age. The odds of a 24 year old player suddenly improving from not being good enough for the championship to being good enough for a pl club like us just isn’t very high.
  17. Yeah you don’t normally go openly announcing something like that for a player with such a high asset value, especially for a club that doesn’t need to sell like us. It strikes me as if something serious has gone on behind the scene with him to the point where we must either really want to sell him or we must really think we can’t keep him beyond the summer.
  18. Fbref has much better stats for goalkeepers you can use. The picture they paint is that he was genuinely world class in 20/21, but was only average in 21/22. Even this season his stats are only decent. I know we all love Emi but lets be honest, despite his international exploits, he hasn’t been an elite keeper in the league for a long while. He’s merely been alright. Not irreplaceable.
  19. Huddersfield played 23 league games when he was there. He only started for 9 of them.
  20. I don't know what anyone else expected. We bought him to be a squad player and that's his current role in the squad.
  21. I feel like this happened as well but after googling it, but I don't think its quite true as the lineups for the game where Steer got injured didn't include Heaton whatsoever, just Nyland and Steer. Heaton must've been injured before the match itself which explains why we had Nyland on the bench.
  22. Interestingly, our passing accuracy was actually lower than usual for that match at 75.7 percent. That's quite a low number in general. If that was us playing it safe, I shudder to think how low it would be if we were taking risks.
  23. Our average league position for the entire premier league era is 12.4(assuming we count championship positions as position number 21, 22 and so on). Everton is probably the most middling club in the pl with average position of 10.4 but after that, its between us, Newcastle and West Ham.
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