jimmygreaves Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 6 hours ago, juanpablosaliceband said: His performance was the only real downside for me. He almost looked disinterested. He offered nothing in pressing and closing Arsenal players down. Either wouldn’t run or couldn’t run. Either way, it’s a bit concerning. That's fundamentally incorrect. The absolute opposite of that statement is closer to the reality of his performance yesterday. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I didn’t think his body language was great at times, may be struggling with settling in / homesickness or something but he’s not quite right in my opinion at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 12 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said: I didn’t think his body language was great at times, may be struggling with settling in / homesickness or something but he’s not quite right in my opinion at the moment. Yeh, he’s been disappointing this last few matches. Probably the only negative really. We’re fortunate that we now have a squad to deal with bad form. Ramsey, Tielemans and Bailey can all fill in for Diaby in some guise. A spell out of the team might do him good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanpablosaliceband Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 57 minutes ago, CVByrne said: Like this is the type of nonsense I'm talking about. It;s like people are trying their best to find issues where there are none because they like to moan I’ve no interest in knocking players for one or two bad performances. That can happen to anyone. It was my genuine opinion that Diaby didn’t put in 100% effort yesterday and that his lack of work rate stood out like a sore thumb compared to Watkins and McGinn who ran themselves into the ground in a similar area of the pitch. Diaby is a speedster so closing down defenders should be easy to him. To me, he offered no resistance in this regard and Arsenal easily passed the ball beyond him. It irritated me to the point that I felt compelled to comment on it. No other agenda beyond that and again, that’s just my opinion based on what I saw. Maybe I saw it wrong. Otherwise, phenomenal few days for the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I thought he did okay could see him running about, if I'm remembering right he set up a few chances for Digne and Watkins. Also his attitude seems exceptional from what I can tell, for a player of his style and ability he's never selfish, very much a team player, goes wild with celebration when others score. I saw a feature on him from when he was in Germany and they interviewed one of his former managers or coaches, and they said one of his standout qualities was his attitude and how down to earth he is. Five assists and three goals in PL so far is pretty good going for a player supposedly struggling, he put in a cracking cross for Watkins header just last weekend His job isn't to track back to the same extent as some of the others, he will have different instructions, so that we may use his pace on the counter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Our highest transfer signing can't get a start and people say we have no depth. Man City didn't play a central midfielder in their box 4 and people say we have no depth. Neutral pundits said Villa has a better bench than City in the game just gone but we have no depth. Hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 45 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: Our highest transfer signing can't get a start and people say we have no depth. Where's this sorry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted December 10, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 10, 2023 Players lose form, Bailey/ Tielemans are stand out examples of it. Diaby will be one if not our best player of that I'm sure. Some fans have a tendancy to judge players instantly and then entrench their opinions from there on in. I can guarantee Bailey will lose form at some stage and Diaby will gain it, that's what a squad is for. As fans we need to back players when they are off form even more than when they are on form. We can make a difference and we did against Arsenal. UTV. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 25 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Where's this sorry? In his head, where everyone is negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 When it clicks, Diaby is going to be a huge player for us over winter. It's amazing we've got him and Leon driving each other onwards. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I thought he was good when he came on. He was there to provide the threat on the break and did that. He broke and set up Watkins and he did the same and set up Digne. Both were the right passes and he carried the ball well to set those chances up. The threat is key as it forces Arsenal not to commit too many players forward to create overloads because a second goal for us is game over. Emery said in his post match Press Conference he was "Excellent". He meant exactly that, he was the threat we needed to give us more control over Arsenal by forcing them to keep players back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Kiwivillan said: Our highest transfer signing can't get a start and people say we have no depth. Man City didn't play a central midfielder in their box 4 and people say we have no depth. Neutral pundits said Villa has a better bench than City in the game just gone but we have no depth. Hmm He's not, that's still buendia. The club has never said diaby is our record transfer and ornstein who is most reliable for transfer details said it was 34.6 riding to like 45. So only if he fulfills all bonuses requirements would he be our record fee. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Great thing is he’s off form at the moment and we’re flying so he can work his way back into the team and lift us as and when … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy7211 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I feel sorry for the opposition who face him when he's on form and back in the team with a point to prove. Had a fabulous start and his output has dropped a little recently. Still not played badly though. He's also played a lot of football since joining, and I suspect he's probably not used to that with playing in less demanding leagues with less fixtures. Emery and co will get him firing again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPJCB Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I used to think the big (positive) difference between him and Bailey was that diaby was far less selfish and would inevitably pass at the right times while Bailey ran down blind alleys. I actually think that selflessness is becoming a weakness of his game. Too many times when he’s got yards to burn in front of him he becomes ponderous looking for a pass rather than driving on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermon Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I do wonder if he'd be better suited to play from the left, it was so obvious he was looking to cut in from the right, broke down our attacks at times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Its sinply because of the change to playing Tielemans as second striker at the moment. It has taken Emery 10 months to coach Bailey about the requirements of the defensive side of the game. Same will happen with Diaby. He is a humungous asset that will thrive more and more. Squad before eleven these days 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Looks just short of confidence. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted December 14, 2023 Author Share Posted December 14, 2023 Big drop off in form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul33 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 12 hours ago, DJBOB said: Looks just short of confidence. ..... and everything else ! Been very poor in recent weeks and has been generally "meh" since he arrived. I believe he has something to offer and its down to Emery to get the best out of him but the repeated hype about what a great signing he has been and how "blisteringly fast" he is ...... is starting to annoy me now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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