- Feb 21, 2006
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Is it me or are we only now starting to realise a fair few of our players are just not good enough-again!.Yes we shouldn't be where we are in the league(due to our poor start), BUT even if we'd had a decent start, I still don't think we are quite all that we make out to be, as a squad and as individuals.
Firstly, this season is one of the highest quality seasons for a long time, there are a good 8-10 who possess very strong squads. There are the top4 who i think we are still a fair bit away from and there are then:Everton,Man.City,Blackburn,A.Villa,Portsmoth,us.
I think that those5 teams all have a far better defense as units and probably individually. Blackburn,Man.city,Everton AND mabye Villa, ALL IMO have stronger more balanced and creative midfields main difference is we have 4 fantastic strikers who without we'd be in the bottom 3!!!
Now individually, the following players IMO aren't good enough.
Robinson-IMO not quite good enough, our players IMO MUST be at least as good as those 4/5 teams above if we are to try and break into the top4 and stay in the top6. I'd take Howard,Carson,Fridel,Hart and mabye James over Robbo i'm sorry to say.
Dawson-He is young yes but lately he's really being found out, the likes of Dunne,Distin,Lescott,Samba,Laursen are all of a higher quality.
Lee.Y.P-He works hard and gets up and down quite well, but his lack of a left-foot put us off balance, and he's too small so we suffer from set-pieces. Again, he's up against Corluka,Neville,Bouma,Warnock ok he's similar but then theres Evra,A.Cole,Clichy and Riise lol!
Lennon-Yes he has pace but how often does he score? put in a decent delivery, or even get an assist? answer-not very! I may now be being negative but I really think the likes of Arteta,Bentley,Kranjcar,Young are all better players and offer more to a team.
Zokora and Jenas- Both IMO far too average, rarely shoot or do something creative or impressive, both just very average premierleague players. The likes of Barry,Muntari,Elano,Cahill are all far better,we NEED midfielders of AT LEAST this quality! never mind LAMPARD,ESSIEN,GERRARD,SCHOLES,FABREGAS ETC!
That leaves our strikers, who I DO RATE, VERY VERY HIGHLY. For they don't actually get that decent service but yet score week in week out! ALL of them! Berbatov may sometimes strop, Keane may complain too much, Defoe seem like he's not in the game and Bent seem a waste of money but the fact of the matter is they are ALL FANTASTIC WORLD CLASS!! STRIKERS and they are the reason we could go places and have done reasonably well over the past few seasons. Apart from them, the defence are fairly poor with the exception of Bale,Chimbonda and King who 2/3 are rarely fit. IMO Malbranque is our only half-decent midfielder and Lennon sometimes.
SO yea we'll see how things go, we still have a decent squad with alot of young potentiol which is very pleasing, but as a team and individuals i just can't help but feel we lack the quality players to get where we want to be because if i'm finding it hard comparing us to the teams who are 5th-9th in some areas, fuck knows how we'll challange the top4!
Anyway Ramos and Poyet are quality and IF we finally give a manager time and more importantly,not just money but some fucking lenience to mabye break the wage and or age structure, we may just go big places, if not i feel we'll continue to bring in players who are decent but not of the level we need!
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Firstly, this season is one of the highest quality seasons for a long time, there are a good 8-10 who possess very strong squads. There are the top4 who i think we are still a fair bit away from and there are then:Everton,Man.City,Blackburn,A.Villa,Portsmoth,us.
I think that those5 teams all have a far better defense as units and probably individually. Blackburn,Man.city,Everton AND mabye Villa, ALL IMO have stronger more balanced and creative midfields main difference is we have 4 fantastic strikers who without we'd be in the bottom 3!!!
Now individually, the following players IMO aren't good enough.
Robinson-IMO not quite good enough, our players IMO MUST be at least as good as those 4/5 teams above if we are to try and break into the top4 and stay in the top6. I'd take Howard,Carson,Fridel,Hart and mabye James over Robbo i'm sorry to say.
Dawson-He is young yes but lately he's really being found out, the likes of Dunne,Distin,Lescott,Samba,Laursen are all of a higher quality.
Lee.Y.P-He works hard and gets up and down quite well, but his lack of a left-foot put us off balance, and he's too small so we suffer from set-pieces. Again, he's up against Corluka,Neville,Bouma,Warnock ok he's similar but then theres Evra,A.Cole,Clichy and Riise lol!
Lennon-Yes he has pace but how often does he score? put in a decent delivery, or even get an assist? answer-not very! I may now be being negative but I really think the likes of Arteta,Bentley,Kranjcar,Young are all better players and offer more to a team.
Zokora and Jenas- Both IMO far too average, rarely shoot or do something creative or impressive, both just very average premierleague players. The likes of Barry,Muntari,Elano,Cahill are all far better,we NEED midfielders of AT LEAST this quality! never mind LAMPARD,ESSIEN,GERRARD,SCHOLES,FABREGAS ETC!
That leaves our strikers, who I DO RATE, VERY VERY HIGHLY. For they don't actually get that decent service but yet score week in week out! ALL of them! Berbatov may sometimes strop, Keane may complain too much, Defoe seem like he's not in the game and Bent seem a waste of money but the fact of the matter is they are ALL FANTASTIC WORLD CLASS!! STRIKERS and they are the reason we could go places and have done reasonably well over the past few seasons. Apart from them, the defence are fairly poor with the exception of Bale,Chimbonda and King who 2/3 are rarely fit. IMO Malbranque is our only half-decent midfielder and Lennon sometimes.
SO yea we'll see how things go, we still have a decent squad with alot of young potentiol which is very pleasing, but as a team and individuals i just can't help but feel we lack the quality players to get where we want to be because if i'm finding it hard comparing us to the teams who are 5th-9th in some areas, fuck knows how we'll challange the top4!
Anyway Ramos and Poyet are quality and IF we finally give a manager time and more importantly,not just money but some fucking lenience to mabye break the wage and or age structure, we may just go big places, if not i feel we'll continue to bring in players who are decent but not of the level we need!
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