If he was prepared to take a cut in wages I'd have him back at the club. If Bowyer is in charge of the team he'd sort out the mental side of his game I'm sure.
He looked like a Premier League ready player playing in the lower Championship. Really unbelievable to see how far he's fallen.
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.
Poyet had insufficient pace to have a successful PL careeer: the days of Jan Mølby and Tomas Brolin are long gone.
He looked like a Premier League ready player playing in the lower Championship. Really unbelievable to see how far he's fallen.
That's how he saw it. 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.
He looked like a Premier League ready player playing in the lower Championship. Really unbelievable to see how far he's fallen.
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.
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.
You don't need pace everywhere but if you are - like Poyet - a defensive midfielder then its hard if you are not speedy.
This is where the globalisation of football has changed everything, back in 1992 you could get away with being a chubby Steve Mackenzie - you can't now.
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?!
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?!
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.
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?
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?!
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.
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"...
No way was he just strolling around casually in his own space, while Cousins did all the work, that massively devalues his contribution
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.
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Poyet had insufficient pace to have a successful PL careeer: the days of Jan Mølby and Tomas Brolin are long gone.
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.
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.
This is where the globalisation of football has changed everything, back in 1992 you could get away with being a chubby Steve Mackenzie - you can't now.
I've got no regrets too, 50p in a charity shop.