Wijnaldum comparison

Albert has asked me to put a comparison list up for Wijnaldum as he's away in Portugal, lucky ****. So here we are.

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Cheers Funky!!!

Looks top class by those stats, can't wait to see him in action which is when he'll have to prove it.

 

Cheers Bri.
Sterling work there mate.
I'm looking forward to seeing this chap in action.
He looks quite clinical in his passes and shooting which in the PL will be an asset.

 

Shooting accuracy worse than Gouf?
He must be ****e and we should sell him now.

Seriously though we can't read too much into those stats as it's an entirely different league and in a team that was more successful.

But cheers anyway Funky.

 

Gouff has great shot accuracy but i've had turds come out of my butthole faster than his shots.

 

900 less mins and yet as many key passes as wij in a harder league. Think cabella will look a lot better if we have a clinical striker next season

 

Had his year to adapt. Better players to play with hopefully. That alone should afford him another 6 months.

 

I'd rather we kept him than carried on with this Thauvin enterprise. It just seems to me he (Thauvin) doesn't want to come, I only hope it's media fabrication that we keep pursuing him.

Cabella seems happy here and we have bigger priorities than having to worry about replacing him.

 

Cabella will come good under McClaren, I'll hang my hat on that statement. The kid was immense in Ligue 1 before you signed him.

I think him and Wijnaldum are a great pairing in midfield by the way, their styles compliment each other well. I just can't see where Sissoko fits in, unless he goes on the wing but that screams Pardew tactic to me, not McClaren.

 

Sissoko is a funny one. We have struggled to fins any position for him. Most of his best games have come on the right. He is way too lazy to be your box to box man. He has had good games for us in the attacking midfield role Pardew housed him in last season when we played counter attack. His ball carrying and power came to the fore. The main problem with playing him anywhere centrally is the lad is thick. He as know guile about him and is not a great reader of the game. This means he struggles to find space when in an attacking role and is only really useful as a battering ram. In the box to box and defensive role he doesn't read the game or is just too lazy going back over.

The lad has talent. Like we've discussed before, I think he has a use as bit part player. Would he accept a role like that at Newcastle, definitely not. I'd love to have seen him swapped for Cabaye. I think we may have to sell him or use him as a wide player. It would make a powerful right side with Janmaat.

 

He's creative but it's never really consistent is it? Hell, maybe he will play much better with better players around him and better coaching. The lad's earned a chance if nothing else, to prove that he's not just a battering ram. as you put it.

Fitting him into the side is the puzzle, but I'm sure when you see where Mac plays him, if it works it won't matter.

 

I look forward to Cabella personally, I still think this lad can it turn it around. He was trying, he just got a bit bullied and couldn't cope with the pressure on the ball. Pre season will help and he knows what to expect.

Maybe with Sissoko but I'm not convinced. To be honest 90% of his creative work is from wide areas. I think he is talented in his own way, but I do think some of our lot overrate the lad. Perhaps I'm just more easily seduced by an easy on the eye type like Cabaye! I like a player you can just look at and say "he's a proper footballer"

It was one of the best (and most annoying things) about that side you had with Scholes, Beckham, Giggs, Keane. Keane was probably the least technically proficient and his technical level was seriously high. Scholes was just a wizard with a football, probably one of my favourite english players ever. Beckham too, for all he got stick because of his extra activities, he was a terrific footballer. Shearer never got the credit he deserved for us. Technique wise he was as good as any. He didn't haven't any trickery but the bloke's control, passing, crossing, shooting, heading - the lot - were all technically correct. I suppose we should be grateful you didn't sign him aswell.

 

I remember Shearer used to end up out wide a lot just to get himself on the ball, the commentators, every time would say 'You'd want him on the end of that cross, not supplying it'. He grafted but you had a generation of players alongside him who just didn't want to put in the same effort, with the obvious exceptions of Speed, Batty, Lee, Ferdinand, maybe a couple more.

The 'kids' who formed the class of 92 evolved together, they formed the spine of our team, Fergie just had to put meat in the pie. You can't buy that, even when teams tried to buy it, they got told no. Scholes told Inter's owner, 'If you want me to play for you, you'll have to buy Man United'. None of them ever wanted to leave. Scholes is the best player I've ever watched, but it was much more than ability when we dominated.

 

I remember writing a blog post, when Gary Neville retired, comparing the players of the class of 92. I got a lot of abuse from Man United fans because of describing Scholes as workmanlike compared to Beckham and Giggs. I understand why cos it was poor wording, but it was meant as a compliment. I rate him as probably the greatest midfielder of the Premier League era. He was certainly my favourite out of the class of 92. He just worked and worked and worked and worked. His technical ability was incredible but his football brain was even better. I think that was why so often he chose the simple option and didn't loom spectacular - even though he was more than capable of the spectacular.