03-03-2019, 08:14 AM
I personally think Mendez had AK's pants down when he approached him about Carvalho, Goncalvez and Dias! Not one of them have really brought anything to the table and to be honest we have wasted a lot of money. None of them are hard tackling ball winners, their passing is at times woeful and apart from the occasional decent through ball have not contributed enough to be in the side. I know Dias has gone, and i for one was delighted we got rid!
I feel that Carvalho is to us what Oliver Burke was to RB Liepzig, a punt on the words of an agent rather than the prolonged conclusion of some decent scouting.
For those of you that are fans of Carv's, i respect that. Sadly, i am not. I feel, (and this is just my opinion, and nobody else has to accept that) that the £13m price tag on the lad has had an effect on supporters opinions of him. I am pretty certain that if we had picked him up for say £1m, fans wouldv'e been on his back over some of his performances. But because he is the club record signing, are almost wishing his performances are warranting the money we paid for him.
Take Ben Osborne for example, that lad gets stuck in week after week, ok sometimes he makes errors, but he is getting stuck in! His running throughout the game is exemplary. Look at the amount of flak he regularly gets, which i personally don't understand. Yet Carvalho will lose the ball and make no attempt at winning the ball back. He pulls out of tackles, and i have not seen him win one aerial duel for the ball. It just seems to me that the lad is scared of getting hurt if he goes into a challenge. Interestingly, that is supported by NG3's stats, whereby he comes in at 16th in the squad for average tackles per game!
Like everyone else, i was saying hes a young lad in a foreign country, give him time and he will show us what he can do. We are now in March and I am still waiting. We cannot afford to be carrying players at this stage of the season, especially as we do still have a chance of a sniff of the play offs.
I don't like slagging off our own players, irrespective of how good they are or not, but in this case, i just feel that we were mugged over when we signed the lad.
Please prove me wrong Carvs
I feel that Carvalho is to us what Oliver Burke was to RB Liepzig, a punt on the words of an agent rather than the prolonged conclusion of some decent scouting.
For those of you that are fans of Carv's, i respect that. Sadly, i am not. I feel, (and this is just my opinion, and nobody else has to accept that) that the £13m price tag on the lad has had an effect on supporters opinions of him. I am pretty certain that if we had picked him up for say £1m, fans wouldv'e been on his back over some of his performances. But because he is the club record signing, are almost wishing his performances are warranting the money we paid for him.
Take Ben Osborne for example, that lad gets stuck in week after week, ok sometimes he makes errors, but he is getting stuck in! His running throughout the game is exemplary. Look at the amount of flak he regularly gets, which i personally don't understand. Yet Carvalho will lose the ball and make no attempt at winning the ball back. He pulls out of tackles, and i have not seen him win one aerial duel for the ball. It just seems to me that the lad is scared of getting hurt if he goes into a challenge. Interestingly, that is supported by NG3's stats, whereby he comes in at 16th in the squad for average tackles per game!
Like everyone else, i was saying hes a young lad in a foreign country, give him time and he will show us what he can do. We are now in March and I am still waiting. We cannot afford to be carrying players at this stage of the season, especially as we do still have a chance of a sniff of the play offs.
I don't like slagging off our own players, irrespective of how good they are or not, but in this case, i just feel that we were mugged over when we signed the lad.
Please prove me wrong Carvs
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