Brooksy Posted 28 December 2014 Share Posted 28 December 2014 Only if you mention it every five minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedlock Posted 28 December 2014 Share Posted 28 December 2014 We went up with a good young midfield with no PL experience.It was obvious pre-season that the spine of the team needed strengthening. I was astounded the long running saga of EC's recruitment resulted in him joining.He is clearly still a quality player.As the season has progressed other players have become more familiar with his play.He gives us quality and different options.With familiarity our forwards will profit from some of his stunning passes. That said, I agree that a strong DM is also needed. It's a squad game guys and we are 3 or 4 additions of similar quality to Esteban short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 28 December 2014 Share Posted 28 December 2014 We went up with a good young midfield with no PL experience.It was obvious pre-season that the spine of the team needed strengthening. I was astounded the long running saga of EC's recruitment resulted in him joining.He is clearly still a quality player.As the season has progressed other players have become more familiar with his play.He gives us quality and different options.With familiarity our forwards will profit from some of his stunning passes. That said, I agree that a strong DM is also needed. It's a squad game guys and we are 3 or 4 additions of similar quality to Esteban short. Yes i think thats a fair post.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCFCSOULBOY Posted 28 December 2014 Share Posted 28 December 2014 IMO when you reflect back over the season so far you will have to come to the conclusion that his performances have out shone any other midfield player overall. Yes a single player in one or two games may do better. But overall when he is not in there we appear to get overun most of the time. Against Spurs (without him in there, think NP was saving him for Hull game) I thought the lads did really well. But I also thought that if he was in there we may have gotten something out of that game. But then If my Mum had wheels; she would be a cart. We will never know. But yes, our best OVERALL midfielder so far this season. If we could only get someone else with similar passing and posession qualities in there to help in January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpicko Posted 30 December 2014 Share Posted 30 December 2014 He's probably our best midfielder individually but half the time when he plays it seems as though we have no midfield bar for the occasions in which he gets the ball and makes a brilliant pass. He can certainly do that but we looked much stronger with Drinkwater and James rather than Cambiasso and James. Players walk right through him and the commentators spend more time wanking over him whenever he plays than he actually contributes when he does. And yeah he's played the 3 matches we've won but 2 of those have been down there with our worst performances of the season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickov22 Posted 30 December 2014 Share Posted 30 December 2014 He's probably our best midfielder individually but half the time when he plays it seems as though we have no midfield bar for the occasions in which he gets the ball and makes a brilliant pass. He can certainly do that but we looked much stronger with Drinkwater and James rather than Cambiasso and James. Players walk right through him and the commentators spend more time wanking over him whenever he plays than he actually contributes when he does. And yeah he's played the 3 matches we've won but 2 of those have been down there with our worst performances of the season A Hull player (Meyler I think) walked past him and had an effort on goal that Hamer did well to save. We just can't afford to have a midfielder in the team who allows that to happen so regularly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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