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not a big fan, but he also changed the game against brighton.

also...that miss

Although I'll freely admit he has his moments, I've never been a fan of Barkley going way back to his early Everton days.

Technically he's really good, had a couple of bad injuries & he's still PL quality where that's concerned, but his football brain is just pants.

I didn’t see the game yesterday - was Barkley playing with Kovacic in a central 2? If so, is that why we allowed Barnsley so many shooting opportunities? Neither of them can really be considered a defensive midfield player. Even Kante plus Kovacic never seems entirely secure - never mind Barkley. On the plus side - Barkley can shoot and score (and miss apparently).

'brings us another option if we want to play him as part of a 2 man midfield.'

We've got Gilmour for that, whenever he comebacks from injury and already shown to have more game intelligence, spatial awareness and mental capacity than Barkley on the pitch.

Even when Frank moved Bill further up the pitch (with Reece at the base of midfield) looked the part, seamless.

I'd definitely keep Barkley in the squad this season. As a good squad player he's invaluable and he does make the difference in certain games. Next summer we can reassess the situation and see if he's worth keeping further.