Maka still showed more at left back imo. Drameh gave us a completely new dimension today going forward. Hope he can continue, was like early Christie but with more pace.
Macca was okay as an additional centre half, he didn’t show more as a full back as he never had the legs to get forward so stuck to holding the line in some of the most lacklustre footy I’ve ever seen.
Pharrell Brown is like Vaughan if Vaughan hit the weights. Brown has that Raheem Sterling physique of looking small but with deceivingly good upper-body strength.
Maybe they'll offer Shelvey a pay if you play deal.... ?... or a play/pay if we absolutely have to deal...
As gets said every year, these friendlies are about minutes in the legs, nothing more . Don’t understand people trying to read stuff into it , around 95% of what happens is meaningless when it gets to real life in august
Do they even do those contracts anymore? Never heard of a pay-as-you-play deal in the top four tiers of English football for years. I’m dead against signing Shelvey. It’s not just age catching up with him either as he’s always been like this. Even at Newcastle and Swansea when he was in his prime, he was notoriously lazy, unprofessional and has never taken fitness seriously. Brad Jones, the Aussie keeper who used to play for Liverpool, was talking about how some of his former teammates were unfit when they returned to pre-season. He said ‘Pepe Reina could himself go’ and ‘Jonjo never really got in shape. It wasn’t that he let himself go’
