Also longstaff needs to start passing the ball forward because every pass he makes is safe and backwards.
Every time a centre half passes to him he just rolls it back to them rather than turn and get his head up
I don’t think anyone is on his back we are just saying as a midfielder he needs to be a little more confident on the ball and look up and pass forward.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but it looks like we should have allowed Man United to throw a ball of money at us for Longstaff.
Ah now we know why longstaff does not pass forward. He can’t do it. Shame we can’t merge longstaff and Shelvey. You would have a good player there.