Stephy Mavididi

[Nolucklcfc]

He looks like a championship winger at this level. 

[LVFox]

The Cameron Jerome of left wingers

[Noahfence]

He’s actually a lot slower than people realise I think. Doesnt really have a burst of pace like Fatawu does. Even in the championship I thought he looked quite slow and heavy 

[StanSP]

1 hour ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Maybe I'd had too many beers, but I'm not sure why he's getting so much criticism. He's streaky as you'd expect from a winger and I really feel he's the least of our problems. 

Lost the ball a lot as he tried to take on defenders. Bad miss when it was 0-0 just before Barkley's goal.

 

Hes inconsistent these days and perhaps needs some competition/break out of the side but thanks to terrible transfer business and a lack of a clear plan we haven't been able to replace him and give him a break. Agree he's not a big problem but when you need effective wingers, he's not doing much. 

[sylofox]

Oh the difference 50 pages make.

 

People last season to quick to label him a world beater. When let's be honest from his showing so far in the prem the championship is about his level.

[SafewayFox]

As others have stated, he’s not quick and that often pans out in how he plays in matches.

 

His hold up of the ball whilst at times last season could be down to him being doubled up against, you can’t lay that at his door this one.

 

I think he’s ok even at this level as a squad player but if he’s your starting winger with no quality on the other flank, add it to the multitude of reasons we are in the bottom 3.

[dmayne7]

9 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Oh the difference 50 pages make.

 

People last season to quick to label him a world beater. When let's be honest from his showing so far in the prem the championship is about his level.

I'm genuinely staggered people thought he was going to excel at this level. He's far too limited and being in his mid 20's having played lots of top flight football, would probably highlight why nobody took a punt on him.

 

Absolutely expected him to be better and good enough for what we needed, maybe a mid table winger or rotation option for a top 10 side, but never thought he would tear it up.

[The boy Linacre]

I actually think his decision making is poor, when, to pass, shoot or take them on, he more often than not picks the wrong one, he’s got confidence issues & drifts in and out of games too much.

If he ditched the short adjustment thing, he’d be more productive

Edited 5 January by The boy Linacre

[FLAN]

Basically another Gray isn’t he. “Appears” to have a mental attitude he’s a top player yet fails to show any of those attributes. 
people talk about his defensive work rate but he actually makes little real effort to tackle or block once he is in position 

[Scotch]

At this level, for me, he would be a very good back up option. Unfortunately, LW isn't as big a problem position as other areas of the park but IF we were to stay up, I'd like to be starting next year with a better LWer ahead of him. 

[Claridge]

1 minute ago, FLAN said:

Basically another Gray isn’t he. “Appears” to have a mental attitude he’s a top player yet fails to show any of those attributes. 
people talk about his defensive work rate but he actually makes little real effort to tackle or block once he is in position 

exactly this

[Chelmofox]

Wingers are always hit and miss in the PL, but he is still one of the few that makes things happen out there. God do we miss Fatawu. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

I’m going to stick up for Mavididi here. People seem to want him to be a dominating winger he was in the championship. I think he was far too good for that level and it was easy for him. 
 

He is being criticised for being useless, ineffective and gutless at this level. I think that is completely wrong. 
 

Let’s take the last 3 games. My right winger has:

 

1. set up Ayew for a goal away at Anfield;

2. Set up Vardy for a chance where we absolutely should’ve scored against Man City;

3. Scored yesterday.

 

Thats three major contributions in games where we are not expected to dominate. You can add to that, he had his chance against Wolves cutting in. He had the chance against Man City, again, cutting in. He had his chance yesterday.

 

He is having 2 or 3 massive moments per game at the moment. Two out of three listed above had led to goals against good sides who like to dominate the ball.

 

If I’m RVN, I’m looking at Stephy and saying keep contributing. I think we can be over critical sometimes. Unless we spend £60/70m on an out and out winger, we are not going to have one who beats his man every time he gets the ball. He’s gone up against Trent, Cash, Lewis and Walker in the last 3 games - not a bad list. 

[Chelmofox]

I'm not sure who would want to be a winger in the PL. Fans expect you just to be strolling past defenders with ease as if you are playing mid 90's sensible soccer. The reality is that even the very best get a tiny number of legitimate chances to do that a game. Even Foden did fek all against us in the PL.

 

Stephy does need to be more clinical (and should be hitting the target with that first chance), but in the overall picture he is about as clinical as you would expect a £6mil winger to be. 

 

I think he will get better, but probably needs more chances to get more output.

[chapero82]

I've always thought he was not premier league quality.

Edited 5 January by chapero82

[Tuna]

He's ok but we need to upgrade in his position, his competition is Kasey, Bobby Reid and Ayew.

[Dahnsouff]

Needs competition.

[Dr The Singh]

I like to see him dropped.  Play BEK in his position or Reid.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Of course you'd always like to upgrade, but we've kept 1 clean sheet in 20 league games. We've got far bigger issues to sort out before we even get round to Mavididi.

[CrazyKopCorner]

He's one of those players that if he starts poorly you know he's only going to get worse. 

 

I appreciate he got the goal yesterday but he largely stank the place out 

 

Another position we requrie a serious upgrade in 

[Buzzell]

Prefer him to Bobby that’s for sure. Needs real competition.

[moore_94]

2 hours ago, sylofox said:

Oh the difference 50 pages make.

 

People last season to quick to label him a world beater. When let's be honest from his showing so far in the prem the championship is about his level.

Quite a few people last season saying he was better than Barnes 

[ian__marshall]

Don't think he's anywhere near as bad as people are making out. He's clearly experiencing a crisis of confidence and like any winger when that happens you end up looking like a donkey. Barnes was no different at times. When he wasn't on it he was awful at this level. 

 

Mavididi is a bigger threat than Perez ever was and yet he somehow managed to carve out a relatively decent PL career for himself. 

 

You can see in his performances it's a confidence issue as he's turning back in situations where the full back is caught flat footed rather than pushing the ball beyond them and getting the run on them. 

 

So long as RVN sticks with him he'll come through this patch and when he does he'll have be on fire for a period of time. 

[sylofox]

23 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

Don't think he's anywhere near as bad as people are making out. He's clearly experiencing a crisis of confidence and like any winger when that happens you end up looking like a donkey. Barnes was no different at times. When he wasn't on it he was awful at this level. 

 

Mavididi is a bigger threat than Perez ever was and yet he somehow managed to carve out a relatively decent PL career for himself. 

 

You can see in his performances it's a confidence issue as he's turning back in situations where the full back is caught flat footed rather than pushing the ball beyond them and getting the run on them. 

 

So long as RVN sticks with him he'll come through this patch and when he does he'll have be on fire for a period of time. 

He's probably not and also not as good as people claimed last season.

 

Go skim through the first few pages of this topic.

I would say he found his optimum level last season. This season is one step to far up the ladder.

[steveb]

lmao crisis of confidence, what you mean is the premier league defenders kick his ass not the other way round.

He`s a kid being paid several million a year to kick a ball around a few times aweek, if that doesn`t insipe you then your attitude is garbage.

Personally i think he could be much better , but at the moment far too lazy