Joao Carvalho

[wassy04]

Back to Carv though, does anyone here think he might come back for pre-season, spend some time with CH and work his way into CH's thinking? I'm hoping it could happen. Just to come back and be given time to impress.  Be lovely to see him involved again, if CH can make him effective.

You can’t just put a player in the set-up we had last season and expect them to shine. David Silva would be poor. They need other players to link up with, giving them the ball quickly and giving them options when on the ball. Unless we play with enough of these players and have intent to attack, a player like Carvalho won’t work. 

So I think your question is: is CH likely to do that?

Do you not think though that CH may try to be a little bit more expansive next year? He's got to be as our goal return was woeful and teams that don't score goals are never successful, never mind how tight they are at the back. 

Carvalho is contracted to the club, the club have few options in an attacking sense at the moment and CH seems to have dispensed with the bomb squad approach of ostracising players. So if Carv comes back and impresses, then it's possible he might be accepted.

I would love to see him given another chance, he fits much better in CH system than he did in Sabri's as his position actually exists. I'm not convinced CH is necessarily the guy to get the best out of him but he managed to do great things with Knockaert previously so who knows. 

That said I just looked and Almeria are in playoffs for their league so imagine they'd sign him if they went up and that would be problem solved