You have to hand it to us, we operate in a rather unique world of utter mental-ness and complete disdain for how football works.
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You have to hand it to us, we operate in a rather unique world of utter mental-ness and complete disdain for how football works.
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But he is 100% fit now and ready to play in our first team, very difficult to penalise him for something which may or may not occur in the future and may or may not be of his making.
If there is a serious underlying medical issue different, though based on his first team presence I assume there is not.
As for a pay rise I don’t know what he earns but I expect some or many would be willing to offer this on a free transfer.
As for first team place I don’t think that is guaranteed with us, it certainly should not be, but it could well be elsewhere.
As for winning the league we both know there is no club in England who can offer a better route to this success than us.
We have paid millions to loads of players for doing fúck all for years, reserve players, non first 11 players. It's football I'm afraid.
He has now regained fitness, proven his fitness, however you want to term it.
This is not like a Diaby where the lad was fúcked and was never un-fúcked. He is fit and as before unless there is a serious underlying medical condition then he is arguably no more likely to incur another long-term injury as any other player.
I just can’t see how we can choose to play him as we are, and then sit down with him and say we think you’re too high risk. If he is high risk fair enough, fúck him out the window.
Given nature of his injuries I don't think it is unreasonable to think they might be behind him.
And maybe it's me, but I thought he has looked heads and shoulders above the rest of the team recently and - more importantly - the sort of midfielder we need i.e. he actually plays in midfield.
And no, he shouldn't ever play next to that useless Welsh tw@t. :-)
Agreed. Given how hopelessly **** the rest of our midfield are we need to keep JAck- even if he only plays ten games a season.
It is not as if we are going to be terribly attractive to a host of top players. There are five better options just in england.
[QUOTE=Ash;4195474]twelve new players ../QUOTE]
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Come now Pedro, a modicum of restraint here please coupled with some sort of knowledge of the game and/or position.
Ramsey is either playing with a) no tactical restriction or instruction or b) playing with no tactical restriction or instruction within a midfield combination which is devoid of order or balance.
To say he simply cannot play is a nonsense.
Surely depends on what your view of a midfield player is :shrug: It seems he carries out instructions form his manager to a tee, scores plenty of goals and covers the ground better than others in that position. Seems to me that he can play midfield but perhaps the other players around him are the ones that need changing?
His average over the past 3 seasons in the league is 4 goals and 3.7 assists per season, that is a rather generous definition of 'plenty'. And given that he has shown himself to be an utter liability defensively (I point you to the 4-0 defeat at Liverpool as one of many examples) if he isn't scoring them or creating them, what use is he?
And if by 'covers the ground better than others' you mean he endlessly pushes forward regardless of the situation and is slow to track back, then I agree with you. There are those that would question that this is a good thing, however. Me among them.
How many games has he played over that 3 season stat list? The Liverpool game you mention ( and this point has been poiinted out on TV) was that he was receiving instructions from the bench while the defensive cock up was happening. Not tracking back is certainly a less of a problem with him as it is with GX, who seems to let anyone who wants to run off him do it.
He pushes forward as that is what he has been instructed to do by AW, certainly during the second half of games.
He is playing with the same tactical restriction or instruction as anyone else. That is not entirely relevant anyway. He refuses to play in midfield, or at least in either of the deeper central roles, because he does not want the ball from the back four and hates receiving it under pressure.
Once Ozil leaves Ramsey may well be fine in a role further forward. THat really doesnt help us with the two deeper roles which are clearly the problem, and where Jack is clearly the best option.
I hope that clarifies the situation as I see it. Happy to provide further information but I shall not be trading any mudslinging of the 'who knows best' variety. :)
I clarified my stance on this above.
He isnt suited to anything that involves dropping deeper in possession, staying in position, protecting the shape of the midfield and back three/four, tackling.........
As I have said many times, I am not convinced he ever totally got over the injury, psychologically. Notice how JAck is the only midfielder who still keeps the ball long enough to draw in the opponent and ride the tackle....
Under Eddie Howe Jack learned to moderate when to commit fully to the tackle and when not to