Control has been improving steadily since he joined us. His control is far superior to CMS's for example. His awareness I would say is very good, Vicente was always picking him out when on the pitch. Distribution again I would say has improved massively since joining, and he's often a part of...
This is going to make me sound arrogant, but I think it's more that some people take a very simplistic view "Buckley and CMS scored, so they must be good, cos they're exciting etc" meanwhile the likes of Dicker and Barnes do three or four equally important jobs for the team that go unnoticed...
Dicker was an objectively better player than Buckley last night. Buckley wasn't bad, Dicker was just very, very good.
And that's bollocks. My favourite players are Bergkamp, Berbatov, Murray. Classy, "lazy" players.
El Abd's worst game for us since Gus took over. Easily. I love the man but something was badly wrong with him last night, passing was awful and was very lucky not to be sent off, 2nd to every single tackle.
Generally agree with most other marks although find it bizarre so many people are...