As Jimmy said. He lacks focus imo, a constant mental sharpness. Also, he's a bit ungainly, raw, and marches to his own drum at times. All these could have been polished however if he had the will to, as he was young. And if he did have the will to improve on them, I think we should have kept him on the bench. He would have offered a more cavalier approach forward then Coutinho when the latter would have an offday or was being bullied physically without refs help. Or a free role akin to Henderson's yesterday. Or even as a provisional forward, as Texeira was used at Fulham. And weirdly, his gait and movement remind me sometimes of Zidane's (a late bloomer himself) - superficially only obviously . So don't agree about Shelvey's lack of range. It's rather his lack of polish and discipline that doomed him at LFC.
No. Never a player who was going to command a permanent place in our first XI . Decent enough but too rash in the tackle, not quick enough and can only score against us. (Good strike though)
The only reason you're asking is because of that goal, a goal that he only scored because our marking for it resembled a 200 mile exclusion zone around a nuclear reactor post-meltdown. Apart from that did he do anything else during the match, if he hadn't scored that goal or we forget it, that would prompt you to ask the question. The majority of other posters have the answer.
Nice moment yesterday, though I am not a big fan of the not celebrating thing. Cheers for Shelvey at a bargain price but I have to agree, we could give him the game time to iron out the creases he may probably not have got with you. His all round game has really improved this year, especially his close range passing (96% completion yesterday) which often let him down initially when he always looked for the hollywood pass / overplay it first. If he continues on his current tangent with maturity on and off the pitch, he could be one hell of a player for Engerland. Good to see ickl Joe get some kudos after his cameo...we told you he is a player Good luck for the run in
More importantly I doubt he regrets being sold. Proper footballers want to play football. With Swansea he gets to be an important player and I think that will benefit him and them. Everyone happy.
I wouldn't have minded having him as a notion from the bench this season however he left for first team football and have to respect that. Top gesture from him on Sunday. Don't think any of us would have thought any less of him had he celebrated wildly (assuming it wasn't deliberately infront of our fans) but nice touch which was nicely clapped from the fans. I hope he develops into a good player. He needs to calm his temperament but Paul Scholes could never tackle and he did ok for himself.
I'd have preferred him to celebrate TBH. Its why we play football, to enjoy those moments. Don't spoil it for yourself. then again, my favourite goal celebration is the Adebayor one against Arsenal, that was quality
Undecided are you? I actually have a lot of time for Jonjo, he's a sound lad. What a goal against us too. My only regret is that he didn't break Evans in half that time Halsey sent him off.
Yeah but if he was gonna get a red card and a ban he might as well have broke him in half, Evans is a dirty batard.
Evans is horrible talentless scum. If a player should ever be judged on reputation he'd be ****ed, but his Man Utd shirt saved the day many times.
