AFC Wimbledon leads against West Ham. Will Pellegrini get the boot before Mou?
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Ah. Thanks for clarifying
Sure. A several million pound yearly contract make sure you are ok even if they decide you don't have to come to work to collect the money
I've always had a soft spot for West Ham - I guess the days of CM with Rio, Fat Frank, Carrick, Joe Messi did it for me ...
They actually have the making of a decent team - not sure why they have dropped Cresswell (Perhaps a good option for back up LB if we sell Moreno?) but if they get two solid CMs to replace Noble and Wilshere, they could have a decent team.
They actually have the making of a decent team - not sure why they have dropped Cresswell (Perhaps a good option for back up LB if we sell Moreno?) but if they get two solid CMs to replace Noble and Wilshere, they could have a decent team.
I'm enjoying this as another part of the Wilshere story. He is one of the most obvious examples of a player who has some talent, but zero brain to apply it properly and consistently. He was part of the downfall of Arsenal once he became a feature of their midfield last season and he is now a central part of an awful West Ham team. They will probably be ok once Lanzini and Hernandez get back to full fitness but there is limited other talent.
I think Cresswell has had niggles. He wasn’t dropped.
Wilshere's problem isn't just his brain, he's overrated, slow and always injured, and I'd hardly say he was "part of the downfall" when that side had been sliding for at least three years.
He's never been anywhere near as good as he, or any of his many fans in the media and football thought, and he has to play in a midfield three because he can't run, can't tackle and doesn't score goals.
He's been living off one season - and one game in particular - for his entire career
I remember saying a while ago after watching him play that he seemed to spend the entire game running straight into tackles, hoping to ride them and emerge with the ball. And didn't very often do so.
He struggled to beat a man with close skill, and didn't have the acceleration or pace to go around players, so it turned into a hopeful war of attrition, like rugby.
And he wondered why he kept getting injured.
Here's what I wrote about him a couple of years ago.
Wilshere's elevated position in football in some sections of the media is weird. OK, Wenger's always talked him up, and quite a few England managers seemed equally bewitched (not Allardyce, though), but his almost permanent state of injury only seems to have made him even more popular and lauded.
But what's he actually ever done? What kind of player is he? Where is the skill and talent and mentality to justify such long-standing praise?
There have been a few games I've seen when his desire to take possession, beat players and always be involved in the action have been very impressive, but his ability to actually get beyond players - if it was ever genuinely there - seems to be entirely gone after all the injuries.
His game plan is short passes, then to run with the ball straight into trouble, and hope he can break the tackle and keep possession. It started to resemble a weird kind of attritional American football or rugby type of strategy, and he actually admitted it himself; that he liked to invite tackles and hope his close control and quick acceleration would get him out of trouble and past the tackler.
Problem is, he didn't have any acceleration, so all that happens is he crashes into tackle after tackle, and when he finally did get keep the ball, he couldn't get away quick enough, and another tackle came in.
Everyone seemed schizophrenic about where to play him too. Deep-lying playmaker for some, floating attacking midfielder - who never scored - for others. Perhaps Wenger saw a Modric type of footballer in there? He never seemed to have the brains or quality for me.
Wilshere's elevated position in football in some sections of the media is weird. OK, Wenger's always talked him up, and quite a few England managers seemed equally bewitched (not Allardyce, though), but his almost permanent state of injury only seems to have made him even more popular and lauded.
But what's he actually ever done? What kind of player is he? Where is the skill and talent and mentality to justify such long-standing praise?
There have been a few games I've seen when his desire to take possession, beat players and always be involved in the action have been very impressive, but his ability to actually get beyond players - if it was ever genuinely there - seems to be entirely gone after all the injuries.
His game plan is short passes, then to run with the ball straight into trouble, and hope he can break the tackle and keep possession. It started to resemble a weird kind of attritional American football or rugby type of strategy, and he actually admitted it himself; that he liked to invite tackles and hope his close control and quick acceleration would get him out of trouble and past the tackler.
Problem is, he didn't have any acceleration, so all that happens is he crashes into tackle after tackle, and when he finally did get keep the ball, he couldn't get away quick enough, and another tackle came in.
Everyone seemed schizophrenic about where to play him too. Deep-lying playmaker for some, floating attacking midfielder - who never scored - for others. Perhaps Wenger saw a Modric type of footballer in there? He never seemed to have the brains or quality for me.
I kept seeing this on Twitter a few weeks ago, and I still don't understand it.
I get that Noble does seem a rather Scott Parker-esque salt of the Earth type geezer, and he has the haircut too. But Wilshere?
He just strikes me as someone who loves his country too much.
Joe Cole. He was right up there with the chest-puffing Land Of Hope & Glory best of 'em, too.
And a bulldog
Its a pug that's nibbling on yer man's nipple
A pug is basically an ickle bulldog for girls though.
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