13-04-2019, 01:56 PM
(13-04-2019, 12:48 PM)Alf Wrote: For me this encourages the player-power somewhat.
Carva may be a good player, but no player is bigger than the club. Christ I remember having conversations about Stan Collymore not being bigger than the club, a 20+ Prem goalscorer who could rip Man U's defence to bits. That's a player who I can understand folk getting on the manager's back for dropping, not a kid with 4 goals to his name who disappears when we need him the most.
Club can't revolve it's entire game around Carva. He's too inconsistant & easily bullied.
He has to earn the shirt like anyone else. Otherwise you have the same 'dark forces' that Worrall talked about before Aitor finally cleaned out (mucked out?) 'Warburton's' stable (but in truth, it was the barnacles of the previous 3/4 years worth of managers' players one on top of the other...)
The key weakness is that the ball doesn't stick with him, doesn't seem to hold the ball up and seems easily bullied off the ball. That's why he's not getting game time. He either adapts to this league or he's going on loan to Greece.
He seems to have less impact on games than Raddy. A player who adapted to the Championship better. A player I feel was better, tougher (and he was no heavyweight...), held the ball up better, seemed to pass more incisively, more influential and far cheaper.
SA.