Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [13th - 19th January 2023]

Robbo said:
Antony doesn't look anything that special considering what he cost, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. He's got a cracking shot on him but that seems to be about it so far.

Great save from De Gea.
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Yeah, not sure how they justified the price? Hopefully he can develop, especially from a mindset perspective.
 
Wout has been OK. First touch has been good at times, poor at times. Antony needs to up his game to keep his place. I think he can, just needs to settle a bit more. Palace are always a decent side whenever I see them. A little short on quality at times but work hard and always compete.

Rashford needs to come off. Doesn't look right and we need him for the rest of the season. Stick Garnacho on at half time.
 
sigma said:
I missed the start but looking very fluid from what I can see.

A world away from the midfield of McFred and Pogba.
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I remember that training vid of the squad doing the quick 1-2s and ETH saying something like no, quicker, like this or something. That seems an eternity ago. We are passing so quick and pretty bloody accurate too. The amount of times we have played out from the back in 5-6 passes and went on to have a chance of a goal is crazy. I dread to think what we will be like later in the season with this progress.
 
fez said:
Wout has been OK. First touch has been good at times, poor at times. Antony needs to up his game to keep his place. I think he can, just needs to settle a bit more. Palace are always a decent side whenever I see them. A little short on quality at times but work hard and always compete.

Rashford needs to come off. Doesn't look right and we need him for the rest of the season. Stick Garnacho on at half time.
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You always get the feeling that Zaha wants to prove a point every time he plays us as well.
 
sigma said:
Yeah, not sure how they justified the price? Hopefully he can develop, especially from a mindset perspective.
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The price is symptomatic of our weakness in doing transfers. Theres quite a revealing article on the Athletic about how clubs exploit United into overpaying. It's not Antony's fault that we paid £80m for him but he doesn't look better than Garnacho albeit he tends to play right side. His pace is nothing special, can't beat a man, only uses his right foot for standing on and is also now playing very conservatively when he receives the ball. I also think he's finding the league too physical. 5 goals is decent enough but he has no assists and surely thats why he was bought.
 
Calpol said:
The price is symptomatic of our weakness in doing transfers. Theres quite a revealing article on the Athletic about how clubs exploit United into overpaying. It's not Antony's fault that we paid £80m for him but he doesn't look better than Garnacho albeit he tends to play right side. His pace is nothing special, can't beat a man, only uses his right foot for standing on and is also now playing very conservatively when he receives the ball. I also think he's finding the league too physical. 5 goals is decent enough but he has no assists and surely thats why he was bought.
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Surely ETH/the scouts (lol) saw enough potential in him to justify a high price though? Nobody forced us to buy him. Hopefully he will improve.
 
sigma said:
Surely ETH/the scouts (lol) saw enough potential in him to justify a high price though? Nobody forced us to buy him. Hopefully he will improve.
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It's not up to EtH to have input on transfer fees. He justs says " get me Antony" and leaves it to Murtough. We left it so late in the window and ended up looking desperate and with no credible plan B to walk on to. It's early days but he's not impressing and I have a personal intolerance of elite level players being so one footed.
 
Ronaldo's first 3 seasons he didn't do that well, it wasn't until his 4th season before he hit his stride. I'd say this season is a freebie.
 
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