2 gakpos are better than 1 Salah
Truly we're entering the winter of our discontent
Let's not be daft. Salah is still better than 12 of that pudding.
2 gakpos are better than 1 Salah
Truly we're entering the winter of our discontent
Two thirty million quid players sharing £300k/week would have us in a better situation. Even letting him go on a free in the summer will be better than us having to spunk £300k a week on him. He’s finished.
Salah deserves eternal gratitude and praise for his form the last few years. But this year he's fucking shite and deserves dropping.
Why be so defensive over criticism of a player out of form? He's not the be all end all
Agreed, and would add that (like any other player doing the same kind of job) Salah needs the right service, which isn't coming from our stuttering midfield. Dropping him won't fix that - on the contrary it would make things worse, because none of our options (the fit ones anyway) are of equal quality.
But what is a hockey pass???????
There is also a lacrosse pass - the pass before the pass before the pass before the goal?
You don't want to hear about the badminton pass
I understand the badminton pass is when the player is given the option to smash or pass, and they pass.
Been on the receiving end of a few myself.
Hasn’t Salah always gone through little periods of scoring loads followed by periods of not scoring any - these usually coincided with one of Mane’s streaky scoring runs, so hit overlooked.
If Gakpoo or Donkey brain were banging them in no-one would care.
He hasn't scored loads for a year.
Take the psychology of having less opportunities into account. He’s playing shit, obviously, but the team being utter shit definitely doesn’t help a player like him.So he's getting about 20% less service.
Meanwhile, he's gone from scoring .65 goals an appearance, to .36 goals an appearance.
20% fewer touches. 45% fewer goals.
So he's half as useful as he was in a team that's getting him useful service 20% less? Why, that's crazy, I didn't have graphs, and I already somehow put that together from watching him.
Worth taking into consideration the no. of minutes we trail in games too, having often conceded the opening goal.
He’s scored 17 in 30 games this season.
I hear you - he’s been slack in league - but still, it’s not a complete disaster - it’s one less than Kane & Rashford and he’s been playing like shit in a team that’s playing like shit.