Has Jose received more latitude and love from Charlton fans and Charlton Life forum posters because he is the only player we have a song (borrowed from Jorge Costa) for or are his footballing abilities and contributions to our team worthy of our admiration irrespective of his song?
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Whilst he may not be the greatest footballer to have ever graced the cafc shirt, nor is he one of the most technically gifted players in our current side in my opinion (the likes of racon, wagstaff, jackson and ecclestone are far more productive with the ball i think), his attitude and leadership on the pitch is second to none. His presence alone insprires the other players to perform at a level that they would not often reach with him out of the team. And when we have our backs against the walls, when we're hanging on desperately to a one goal lead in stoppage time, and when its just time for simple scrapping and stopping the other team playing theres no-one who you need to look for other than jose semedo.
The first player on my teamsheet everyweek.
A great servant to the club, and i'd be gutted if this is his last season.
I too think he could play in the Premiership in the right formation/team
My current favourite player and one of my all time favourites
Also - and very importantly - everyone I know that has spoken to him says he is such a nice, down-to-earth bloke and always willing to chat. In an era of untouchable footballers that's a rarity
this. best post ive read on here for days.
My brother saw him carrying some Sainsburys shopping bags in Chislehurst a few months ago - said he looked like a right scruffy bugger which only makes me like him more - a bit of the Steve Brown's about him rather than the modern day football tart image.
This 'Makelele' role thing has gone a bit far. At Chelsea and Real Madrid, Makelele often played with 2 other centre midfielders, and came up against attacking midfielders/playmakers/trequartistas (whatever you want to call them). Many of the teams in our division don't have a midfielder in this attacking mould, playing between the defence and midfield. So do we really need a destroyer (Semedo), when there isn't a creator who needs crushing? You can get away with it in a 5 man midfield, but I agree with Bexley Dan that a 4-4-2 requires more versatile players.
He was supporting the attack, which broke down, and he made his usual 2 or 3 attempts to get the ball back, but he was left stranded as they counter-attacked.
30 secs later when this counter-attack broke-down, it was Semedo that had sprinted back to our corner flag and won the ball back.
He makes lots of important contributions to our all-round game, and I think the other players like to know he is there as a safety net.
The problem is, we need a flair player like Danny Murphy or Andy Reid to build on Semedo's ball winning skills. Racon is not doing it for me, nor is McCormack.
Love the bloke. Love his attitude. Love his work rate. Does what he is supposed to do very well.
My favourite player and up there with the rufus, browny, powellys.
Deserves his name being sung by thousands week in week out and he shows his love for us on the pitch
For the last two/three seasons he's shielded a lot of very slow and cumbersome centre-backs. In all he's not the sort of player who'll win you games, but he stops you from losing quite a few.
Trying to think of a more over-rated player in my 40+ years of following Charlton. Water carriers do a job but you don't need any of the attributes I enjoy in a player to do it. Skill, pace, ability to pick out a killer pass and eye for goal for starters.
Sadly we don't have anything better at present, so on we go, blaming Semedo's midfield partner for not creating anything........
ps, I always mark him as I see him. That includes 8+ on occasions when he really has had a proper good game.
the saying you usually get on here in answer to when you question why someone is pony is "what do you expect he's a 3rd division footballer" well that is what semedo is
he has been almost a constant in our decline, as we go thru the worse footballing years in our history, so unlike some i wont be pulling my pudding over any of the current crop who have been part of these dark days at the valley as we continue to find ourselves as the worse team in south london
I love Semedo though. :-)
If we go up and want to really push on I could only see him being a regular in a 3 man central midfield. Play 4-4-2 at a higher level and we might need a more all round player. Or some very good all round players alongside him.
Quite a lot of competition for that title Stoney but I completely understand where you are coming from.
For me I think if you look at the comments above almost all of them picked out his workrate, attitude, love for the club (not sure about that), etc, as being his main plus point. Sorry, but I think I'd demand a little bit more than application before I rate anyone alongside Powell, Rufus, Brown et al. After all, if any of us were in the team I'm sure we'd all apply ourselves and put a shift in.
Not saying he's a poor player, he's clearly not, and at what he does he's more than competent. He would clearly benefit from a better creative player to pick up the pieces alongside him but as a senior pro now he has a lot of responsibilty for our largely misfiring midfield and needs to start imposing himself on games much more.
He is a watercarrier no more, a neccessary evil in the beautiful game. Having said that he should be our captain as you would like a few more of our other players to have his committed approach to football with perhaps a bit more skill.
I think peoples comparisons are in terms of generation, not neccesarily quality. Semedo has been brilliant for us the last 3/4 seasons.
What with the shit the so called players & staff have put us through the last 5 years, fans look towards a character with a bit of passion and desire.
Semedo has that in abundance.
Bit harsh sounding Ketman. By that definition you could probably say half the team has never "won" us a game.