Judging by the Chelsea friendly, he is behind Joao Pedro and Adingra now. And even those players have to dislodge talents like Mitoma or Lallana to get a starting place. He was never going to get 35 games this season which I think he needs in terms of development. He has signed a longer term...
RDZ tends to play a box-to-box midfielder (Mac last season) alongside a defensive midfielder (Caicedo last season).
Those two were comfortably our central best partnership against any team (because of Caicedo’s all round game). But we still looked amazing against poor sides where Caicedo’s bite...
RDZ has all but confirmed that he is off.
I was really looking forward to seeing him this season but he plays in similar roles to Lallana, Joao Pedro, Enciso and Buonanotte so I guess that game time would have been an issue, especially with Mitoma and March nailed on as our 1st choice...