Ben Chilwell: A possible star in the making

[cal21212121]

Honestly, people are criticising a player for taking too long on throws. This place f***ing baffles me.

[Collymore]

I bet people run their reply through a spell and grammar check ten times when calling others on their mistakes 

[st albans fox]

12 hours ago, cal21212121 said:

Honestly, people are criticising a player for taking too long on throws. This place f***ing baffles me.

Your expectations are far too high then .....

[st albans fox]

14 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Summed up by a decent run after we went 2-1 up and could have slipped Tielemans in for a 1 on 1 but there was minimal brain activity and Burnley went straight up the other end and nearly equalised. 

Hi ric - are you perfect in your everyday job ?

 

 

[st albans fox]

12 hours ago, worthosoriginals said:

the irony. some of our dim fans accuse ben of being thick.

but do keep finding ways to berate our players eh.

Moreso than rain on your wedding day (which I’ve never really understood to be ironic) 

 

the main  issue probably being that a large percentage of the peeps on here wouldn’t understand irony ....

[Beechey]

1 minute ago, st albans fox said:

Hi ric - are you perfect in your everyday job ?

 

 

Wait for the "doesn't matter, he gets £x per week!" nonsense you'd normally receive, after asking a question like this.

[worthosoriginals]

12 hours ago, cal21212121 said:

Honestly, people are criticising a player for taking too long on throws. This place f***ing baffles me.

cal, I honestly think some people are scraping the barrel to look for ways to slate one of our young stars. 

non supporters.

[st albans fox]

7 minutes ago, Beechey said:

Wait for the "doesn't matter, he gets £x per week!" nonsense you'd normally receive, after asking a question like this.

 

Of course .... would be almost ironic ....

[cropstonfox]

He looks like he might be a decent mid table premiership player one day. Possibly a LH side midfielder.Not quite got it positional  for defending yet .but will never get beaten one on one.A lot better prospect than Demari .

[Jimmy]

2 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

He looks like he might be a decent mid table premiership player one day. Possibly a LH side midfielder.Not quite got it positional  for defending yet .but will never get beaten one on one.A lot better prospect than Demari .

starting left back for England, wanted by Pep at Man City but is only a lower mid table player? seriously?

 

I wonder if he would be more popular if he had his own pun based clothing line and posted funny videos on social media?

[AKCJ]

10 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

He looks like he might be a decent mid table premiership player one day. Possibly a LH side midfielder.Not quite got it positional  for defending yet .but will never get beaten one on one.A lot better prospect than Demari .

He's arguably our best player and we're slap bang a 'mid table premiership' team.

[cropstonfox]

9 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

starting left back for England, wanted by Pep at Man City but is only a lower mid table player? seriously?

 

I wonder if he would be more popular if he had his own pun based clothing line and posted funny videos on social media?

Assume you are comparing him to our other left back who won circa 70 + international caps and captained hid country into major tournaments.Also was integral in winning the premier league. He needs to spend a lot of hours watching and learning and he could become a better player. Lot of potential but still at a crossroads. 

[Dan]

He's got a great engine but there is room for improvement in his game. Rate Ricardo as our best full back.

[Kinowe Soorie]

I really don't understand the hype with him. I think he's poor defensively.

[Beechey]

12 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

He's got a great engine but there is room for improvement in his game. Rate Ricardo as our best full back.

His game is obviously more complete, but he's also like 4 years older than Chilwell.

[Jimmy]

33 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Assume you are comparing him to our other left back who won circa 70 + international caps and captained hid country into major tournaments.Also was integral in winning the premier league. He needs to spend a lot of hours watching and learning and he could become a better player. Lot of potential but still at a crossroads. 

Chilwell is better than Fuchs is now though and that's what some people won't admit and that's why they have to keep tearing down Chilwell

[H.a.r.r.y]

10 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

Chilwell is better than Fuchs is now though and that's what some people won't admit and that's why they have to keep tearing down Chilwell

Chilwell's defending isn't as good as Fuchs' yet, plays more like a LM (I'm not ripping on him)

[Jimmy]

1 minute ago, H.a.r.r.y said:

Chilwell's defending isn't as good as Fuchs' yet, plays more like a LM (I'm not ripping on him)

Chilwell isn't better than what Fuchs was in the title winning season no, but he is better than Fuchs is now, Fuchs last start he showed exactly why Chilwell has overtaken him

[Guest]

I know it's in vogue to slag off our young players because they're not already the complete footballer at the age of 22/post too much on social media/care about their appearance but even so I'm quite surprised by the continued criticism of him. Quite aside from the "he's one of our own" factor, he's been one of our better players this season and is probably one of the first names on the team sheet. He's not the finished article by any means and there are some areas of his game he needs to work on, but how many 22-year-old left-backs (or players in general) in the world is that not true of?

[yorkie1999]

Best English leftback in the country.

[Tom12345]

Fuchs is a more efficient and effective player and has a wiser head. Chilwell can still learn a thing or two from Fuchs, if he is humbled enough (which is really my concern). Otherwise, whilst he is not the finished product yet he has huge potential.

[Dahnsouff]

7 hours ago, Guest said:

I know it's in vogue to slag off our young players because they're not already the complete footballer at the age of 22/post too much on social media/care about their appearance but even so I'm quite surprised by the continued criticism of him. Quite aside from the "he's one of our own" factor, he's been one of our better players this season and is probably one of the first names on the team sheet. He's not the finished article by any means and there are some areas of his game he needs to work on, but how many 22-year-old left-backs (or players in general) in the world is that not true of?

Quite right, clear we would be better off with a load of 27-28 year old journeymen. 

 It seriously...

Young teams do what young teams do whilst they grow, they don’t make fully experienced decisions.

I just hope our impatience does not result in further witch hunts for manager or young players.

This default position of “moan moan moan” is extremely tiresome, and is in fact more indicative of immaturity than these young lads trying who are trying to improve.

[anstey blueboy]

Has Ben been told not to cross the ball into the penalty area or has he lost a bit of confidence because all he seems to do is pass the ball backwards 

 

[shailen]

13 minutes ago, anstey blueboy said:

Has Ben been told not to cross the ball into the penalty area or has he lost a bit of confidence because all he seems to do is pass the ball backwards 

 

What sometimes frustrates me with him is that he never whips crosses in first time, he loves having a couple of touches which slows down our play.

 

He has so many good qualities but this is one I hope he does more often.

[Bluetintedspecs]

Brendan stated he's very good yet he can be so much better.... that works for me.