Morning All... Good fightback, Pleased for Mason, clearly, he has the ears of the players given the second half turnaround.
While we all know the Back 4 are poor I just wanted to flag something I have noticed for a while thats adding to defensive chaos (Granted the players) aren't good enough but systematically & tactically.... PEH Is making things worse
PEH creates unnecessary pressure on our back 4 (who aren't great) because he plays so bloody deep, has poor distribution, doesn't & doesn't retain possession.
If you watch him, not only is his range of passing incredibly limited but he only makes himself available to the man in procession in a sideways and backward position.
He is incredibly limited as a footballer despite being a decent guy by all accounts/. The fact he has been a cornerstone of this team for past 18 months explains how far we have fallen. The absence of Bentancur has shown him up to be exactly what he is.... Bang average
Games of Football are won in the middle of the park..... The best example I can give is Dembele... Nothing flash but understood brilliantly where the team needed to play (not on the edge of our own box) and dictated the tempo of games better than almost anyone I can remember.
PEH is a nose bleed footballer..... panics if he's not 10 yards in front of his CBs..... He causes formation and tactical problems all over the pitch.
Unlike Dembele He makes everyone around him worse
PEH..... Time To Go... I've Seen enough
posted on 28/4/23
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
It’s alarming that the player committee is made up of 3 players who clearly need to be moved on, Kane, and a completely average academy product.
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Yep it's a shambles.
posted on 28/4/23
Totally agree, I`ve been saying this ever since he joined, he`s just not good enough, particularly playing in a midfield 2. He might be a useful squad player playing in a 3, but I would rather we just upgraded. Apparently we are paying him 100K a week also, I would expect way more for that kind of wage.
You can`t really fault his work rate and attitude (most of the time), but we need a better baller in there.
posted on 29/4/23
Frankly Hojbjerg has good games and bad games. But he IS the driving force in midfield and you cannot fault his commitment to fight for every ball. Bentancur is out. Skipp is even less reliable. Perisic is a very good player, but he does not defend well.
Of the whole squad, no player has missed less playing time than Hojbjerg.
posted on 29/4/23
"Unlike Dembele He makes everyone around him worse"
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That is ridiculous, totally idiotic, and untrue.
You might as well say the opposite..."everyone else around him makes him worse". Name a good midfield that we've got?
posted on 29/4/23
midfielder
posted on 29/4/23
He just slows everything down.
I have never seen a player so pointless
90% of the time, he just gives the ball back to whoever passed it to him, then demands it back.
He is one of those players that I have never got and can't see what the big who har is. Others include, but are not limited to
Raheem Sterling
Mason Mount
Kalvin Phillips
posted on 29/4/23
Mount I'd agree with....I don't know what he's supposed to be.
PEH while limited is further down our list of problems than some.....
posted on 29/4/23
PEH very slow and has brain fart moments in every game! He needs dropping imo
i’d just promote from the under21
Both Hobby and Skip are not the right caliber right now
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posted on 29/4/23
It's not fair to compare PEH to Dembele. Totally different roles. If you're comparing him to past players, Wanyama would be a better yardstick. PEH is a defensive midfielder, Dembele isn't/wasn't.
posted on 30/4/23
Bad bad player and if we ever had a decent coach then he would be told what he is doing wrong.
Since Poch we have watched players making the same mistakes time and time again. A coach/manager is supposed to stop that.
PEH, Dier, Lloris, to name a few, constantly make the same mistakes and nothing is done.
PEH is just a bad player and if you did not notice that when you saw Bentancur play alongside him then I sugggest an optician.