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*Official* English Football Season 2011-12
- Thread starter Johnners
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grecian
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Oh good more Phil Jones hagiography, not enough of that around, umm where was he when Sinclair should have scored?
grecian
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Wasn't aware the rest of the team was playing at right-back, marking Sinclair.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Yeah Jones might be promising but he's becoming pretty embarrassingly overrated in certain quarters.
grecian
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Very good comment, I actually think in a few years he'll be quality, I certainly don't want to look like I'm doing a Scaly-type-Henry-campaign against him. Yet he seems ridiculously over-hyped, anyone who can think he had a better match than Vidic yesterday, needs to take a good hard look at themselves.
cpr
International Coach
I was quite sceptial when we spent £16m on him, happy to eat my words.
Still needs to mature, sometimes the final ball is missing going forwards, sometimes the brain-fart moments are there in defence. A bit like Ferdinand was in a way - very good with the ball at his feet, can bring it out of defence, but can have the shaky moments too.
What I'm really liking is you can start to see Fergies next wave in defence shaping up. Jones and Smalling in the centre, with the twins either side and De Gea behind. Yes its not what I'd want to see lining up next week, but you'd easily say all of them could spend the next decade at the top, and gelling together it could well be formidable.
Next stop, sorting that midfield out.....
Still needs to mature, sometimes the final ball is missing going forwards, sometimes the brain-fart moments are there in defence. A bit like Ferdinand was in a way - very good with the ball at his feet, can bring it out of defence, but can have the shaky moments too.
What I'm really liking is you can start to see Fergies next wave in defence shaping up. Jones and Smalling in the centre, with the twins either side and De Gea behind. Yes its not what I'd want to see lining up next week, but you'd easily say all of them could spend the next decade at the top, and gelling together it could well be formidable.
Next stop, sorting that midfield out.....
Uppercut
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Hmm, everyone's talking about his ability to take the ball out of defence but I'd say his strength in the challenge is his defining feature. He wins the ball about as often as the other three defenders combined, a 50-50 is a 90-10 when Jones is involved. It really stands out in a team that still isn't putting enough pressure on the ball in their own half.
Jarquis
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sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Haha, tbf though, they're not. Or at least they wouldn't be, if he hadn't sold a load of players of superior ability.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
tbh
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