What has happened to Diego Poyet?
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23.....and no, I'm not Poyet in disguise!Cafc43v3r said:How old is he? 21/2? Give him a year in the u23s. There is a player in there, not as good as he thinks/we thought but still a good player.
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Billericay....The_President said:Will be playing for Orient next season methinks.
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Gravesend & Northfleet0
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That bloke at Billericay Town likes offering waifs and strays a gig.0
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Could be a great move for both parties. And he's growing his hair again so may even get in the team.SurvivaloftheFittest said:
Wouldn’t be at all surprised if he ended up at Bromley.The_President said:Will be playing for Orient next season methinks.
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One of the strangest hero to zero stories ever. Literally our best player in the champ.4
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Yep sad really - i wonder what he is thinking right now.0
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Probably sitting at home counting his money.The_President said:Yep sad really - i wonder what he is thinking right now.
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He looked like a Premier League ready player playing in the lower Championship. Really unbelievable to see how far he's fallen.0
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Well I for one am grateful to RD and Daisy for the chance to have seen one of the Cypriot first division stars of the future.17
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Bet he'll rock up at Sparrows Lane, and ask if he can train there...0
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No one there to say no to him.East_Stand_Loopy said:Bet he'll rock up at Sparrows Lane, and ask if he can train there...
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I disagree. Tony Blair said "Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education, education." To plagiarise that, any Premier League manager would say "Ask me my three main attributes for players, and I tell you: pace, pace, pace". Even as a water carrier these days pace is number one in a player's skill set. In the PL, the only positions were you might get away with a lack of blistering pace are centre back and goalkeeper.Callumcafc said:He looked like a Premier League ready player playing in the lower Championship. Really unbelievable to see how far he's fallen.
Poyet had insufficient pace to have a successful PL careeer: the days of Jan Mølby and Tomas Brolin are long gone.
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That's how he saw it.Callumcafc said:He looked like a Premier League ready player playing in the lower Championship. Really unbelievable to see how far he's fallen.
The reality is, if he had it in him he would have been playing regular football at a professional club.
I liked him in his first stint we us, looked like he would be making a good living for many years in football but as we all know he's been found lacking where ever he's gone.0 -
cafcfan said:
I disagree. Tony Blair said "Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education, education." To plagiarise that, any Premier League manager would say "Ask me my three main attributes for players, and I tell you: pace, pace, pace". Even as a water carrier these days pace is number one in a player's skill set. In the PL, the only positions were you might get away with a lack of blistering pace are centre back and goalkeeper.Callumcafc said:He looked like a Premier League ready player playing in the lower Championship. Really unbelievable to see how far he's fallen.
Poyet had insufficient pace to have a successful PL careeer: the days of Jan Mølby and Tomas Brolin are long gone.
Not true, obviously it helps but there's plenty of players of all positions. One who certainly doesn't have blistering pace is Kane and I would also put Ageuro in that group now as he has slowed in recent years. For Poyet's position I would put forward Shelvey who in the eyes of a lot of people (Not Southgate) has been superb this season.
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I'd be interested to know if he regretted moving to West Ham.0
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He said recently he has no regrets.PopIcon said:I'd be interested to know if he regretted moving to West Ham.
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Thought he said no Rugrats. I'm told he hates cartoons.andynelson said:
He said recently he has no regrets.PopIcon said:I'd be interested to know if he regretted moving to West Ham.
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I never believe people when they say that. Everyone regrets at least one thing.andynelson said:
He said recently he has no regrets.PopIcon said:I'd be interested to know if he regretted moving to West Ham.
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You don't need pace everywhere but if you are - like Poyet - a defensive midfielder then its hard if you are not speedy.
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He said recently he has no regrets.PopIcon said:I'd be interested to know if he regretted moving to West Ham.
I've got no regrets too, 50p in a charity shop.3 -
He absolutely bossed championship midfields. He was intercepting absolutely everything (with no pace, apparently), making through ball passes to start attacks from our own half and had incredible control of the ball. All in all, I can’t believe he was playing Cypriot first division football last year. Will take me a long time to get over that one - what happened?!2
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Again, I disagree. Most of his passing was sideways. He was also playing so, so deep. Invariably in acres of space because the opposition knew he would do them no damage, so they couldn't be arsed to chase him down. He looked good solely because Jordan Cousins was doing all the hard work for him. Diego was a "fur coat but no knickers" kind of player.Danny Addick said:He absolutely bossed championship midfields. He was intercepting absolutely everything (with no pace, apparently), making through ball passes to start attacks from our own half and had incredible control of the ball. All in all, I can’t believe he was playing Cypriot first division football last year. Will take me a long time to get over that one - what happened?!
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Sideways passing, too deep, Jordan Cousins did ALL the work for him yet he still walked away with player of the year after whatever it was 18-games? I’m wondering if he’s married to The lovely Debbie McGee now?4
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No way was he just strolling around casually in his own space, while Cousins did all the work, that massively devalues his contribution11
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Watch Jacko's famous goal against QPR again. It came from a corner, which was made by an absolutely thunderous tackle made just outside the box by Poyet, the ball fell to Ajderevic, whose shot was tipped over the bar by Green. That doesn't sound "so, so deep"...cafcfan said:
Again, I disagree. Most of his passing was sideways. He was also playing so, so deep. Invariably in acres of space because the opposition knew he would do them no damage, so they couldn't be arsed to chase him down. He looked good solely because Jordan Cousins was doing all the hard work for him. Diego was a "fur coat but no knickers" kind of player.Danny Addick said:He absolutely bossed championship midfields. He was intercepting absolutely everything (with no pace, apparently), making through ball passes to start attacks from our own half and had incredible control of the ball. All in all, I can’t believe he was playing Cypriot first division football last year. Will take me a long time to get over that one - what happened?!
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We were getting ripped to pieces through the middle that season so Poyet was brought in to play a very specific, deep lying role that worked well for us. It doesn't diminish his contribution to point out that almost no one else will ask him to play so deep and that being forced to play further up the field might have contributed to his rapid decline.killerandflash said:No way was he just strolling around casually in his own space, while Cousins did all the work, that massively devalues his contribution
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it was that tackle that really made me think he would become a special player, almost exactly like steve brown's tackle at wembley, same area of the pitch etc.East_Stand_Loopy said:
Watch Jacko's famous goal against QPR again. It came from a corner, which was made by an absolutely thunderous tackle made just outside the box by Poyet, the ball fell to Ajderevic, whose shot was tipped over the bar by Green. That doesn't sound "so, so deep"...cafcfan said:
Again, I disagree. Most of his passing was sideways. He was also playing so, so deep. Invariably in acres of space because the opposition knew he would do them no damage, so they couldn't be arsed to chase him down. He looked good solely because Jordan Cousins was doing all the hard work for him. Diego was a "fur coat but no knickers" kind of player.Danny Addick said:He absolutely bossed championship midfields. He was intercepting absolutely everything (with no pace, apparently), making through ball passes to start attacks from our own half and had incredible control of the ball. All in all, I can’t believe he was playing Cypriot first division football last year. Will take me a long time to get over that one - what happened?!
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Played a beautiful 40 yard ball to Marvin Sordell to put us 1 up at Wigan in his first game.
Surely can only be a confidence thing. It must be shot.1 -
It wasn’t just keeping possession where he impressed, it me was also his tackling and intercepting. He’s probably not played as well since that run but he didn’t win POTY just by avoiding giving the ball away.cafcfan said:
Again, I disagree. Most of his passing was sideways. He was also playing so, so deep. Invariably in acres of space because the opposition knew he would do them no damage, so they couldn't be arsed to chase him down. He looked good solely because Jordan Cousins was doing all the hard work for him. Diego was a "fur coat but no knickers" kind of player.Danny Addick said:He absolutely bossed championship midfields. He was intercepting absolutely everything (with no pace, apparently), making through ball passes to start attacks from our own half and had incredible control of the ball. All in all, I can’t believe he was playing Cypriot first division football last year. Will take me a long time to get over that one - what happened?!
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