Richmondfox

Correct, but we know he’s not shit.To me that’s the difference between him and other players. He spent the first half of the season getting battered by shots because of Coopers insane tactics of absorbing pressure for 90 mins and the shit defence/midfield offering nothing. Then comes back from injury knowing he has Soumare, Ndidi, Faes and Coady to protect you. All of them happy to send the ball backwards after inviting the press and being closed down.

Wouldn’t you if your workmates were complete donkeys who were constantly screwing you over and making your job way more difficult than it needs to be and the manager does nothing about it.

I believe he has just put in a request in for covid furlough from the government.

The problem with the “prem experience”trope that always gets rolled out is if they have little ability then experience doesn’t matter. Cooper choosing two dog shit players summed him up as a manager and the direction of the season. That was even before he started playing players out of position and dropping better players.

He’ll play the same useless idiots, get the same results and then shout from the sidelines and act surprised when they do the same stupid mistakes. Soumare and Ndidi to stink out the middle, JJ, Faes and Coady to stink out the back, Bilal and Facundo have to drop deep and do everything while being outnumbered by players that press and tackle.

Enzo drilled him into doing one thing correctly, running into the space created in the box with the overload and crossing across the goal for KDH to nod in. He has been shocking at everything this season. He moves constantly but doesn’t tackle, can’t pass and can’t shoot. Since Ruud his short passing between Soumare and the cbs has been just as bad.

Judging by what the article said about Soumare, I would say they know nothing and AI will not kill journalism for a few more years.

Bilal is one of our harder working and skilful players that hasn’t been able to perform as you would expect due to the set up. The main problem is the dross that he has around him. He has to drop deep as Ndidi and Soumare are useless, so he’s picking the ball up, like Facundo, and then having to do everything with only Vardy or Daka in front.

It starts with Ndidi closest to the player then for some reasons he jogs away to the box so Ricky sprints over to defend. You can see how static Soumare is as well, everyone else in the picture is running apart from him, the closet to his man. If the player moves away from him by a foot it’s not his problem anymore. While Faes and Coady are complete idiots in defence, I feel there are times when they get caught out because any half decent midfield would have it handled. But then a half decent cb would be switched on. Faes’ positioning and effort on crosses though hasn’t improved at all, like the goal above. A lot of problems come from Soumare and Ndidi doing nothing with the ball apart from passing back straight away, Coady and Faes piss about so invite the press, they then pass back at the last second to Mads who now has an already pressing attacker to deal with. The spine of the team needs to be replaced.

Soumare. He’s had more than enough chances to prove he can do the basics, yet always fails

Ndidi runs away there and Soumare standing still in the box.

And then Bilal and Facundo have scraps to feed on deep in our area because Ndidi and Soumare provide nothing.

Because of the useless midfield infront. Ndidi and Soumare make no attempt to turn and just blast the ball back. Remember how Youri and Maddison would do it with ease and split the midfield apart in a second.

Every player avoiding turning with the ball and just pinging it back.

To me he is miss and how can someone be that braindead. I can’t stand watching his call for the ball to ping it back without even looking and then the cbs end up having to reset. They then look to pass out and watch Soumare mark himself by standing behind a player. They then end up punting it long. Soumare will do one good run late in the second half when it’s game over. He’ll do the hard part, run into their half, ignore the players in space and then pass sideways so the wingers have to stop which kills the attack. Also the watch the amount of times that a player will jog by Soumare, he won’t react, another player will try to cover and Soumare will peel away even though he’s closer and can help. Then we have Reid in the mix as well.