Sorry but just don’t agree at all that he ‘completely lacks any technical ability, technique or skill’, I’ve seen him bring the ball down out of the air with lovely touch and technique many times.
His passing is fine and his touch is good and his dribbling is ok.
The issue is really simple as said before that he is NOT a RWB! He’s never played in that position until this season. He is/was a fairly defensive right back. It’s like buying prime Gary Neville (a RIGHT BACK) and wondering why when you play him RWB is he underwhelming.
Im not saying he’s the best signing ever by any means but for me a lot on here criticising him don’t quite understand that RB and RWB are very different positions which require different skillsets.
Emerson is for now the best option we have at RWB, he’s 23 and can improve but conte is no idiot and he will know that Emerson at RWB is not the answer if we want to win things so we will for sure look to upgrade in summer.
Sorry but just don’t agree at all that he ‘completely lacks any technical ability, technique or skill’, I’ve seen him bring the ball down out of the air with lovely touch and technique many times.
His passing is fine and his touch is good and his dribbling is ok.
The issue is really simple as said before that he is NOT a RWB! He’s never played in that position until this season. He is/was a fairly defensive right back. It’s like buying prime Gary Neville (a RIGHT BACK) and wondering why when you play him RWB is he underwhelming.
Im not saying he’s the best signing ever by any means but for me a lot on here criticising him don’t quite understand that RB and RWB are very different positions which require different skillsets.
Emerson is for now the best option we have at RWB, he’s 23 and can improve but conte is no idiot and he will know that Emerson at RWB is not the answer if we want to win things so we will for sure look to upgrade in summer.
Sorry but just don’t agree at all that he ‘completely lacks any technical ability, technique or skill’, I’ve seen him bring the ball down out of the air with lovely touch and technique many times.
His passing is fine and his touch is good and his dribbling is ok.
The issue is really simple as said before that he is NOT a RWB! He’s never played in that position until this season. He is/was a fairly defensive right back. It’s like buying prime Gary Neville (a RIGHT BACK) and wondering why when you play him RWB is he underwhelming.
Im not saying he’s the best signing ever by any means but for me a lot on here criticising him don’t quite understand that RB and RWB are very different positions which require different skillsets.
Emerson is for now the best option we have at RWB, he’s 23 and can improve but conte is no idiot and he will know that Emerson at RWB is not the answer if we want to win things so we will for sure look to upgrade in summer.
It's amazing Brazil has produced legendary Cafu, Alves, Carlos etc but still have the occasional blips of Gilberto and Emerson. One would have thought they shouldn't even make it more than 5-10 caps for the international team and yet they do.Him being a Brazilian international has helped him to get in this position for us, however the reality is that he is not a very good footballer. Doesn’t seem to have control of the ball when he has it.
I only read the first sentence of each point and it took me courage to progress:5 things that Emerson Royal will bring to Barcelona this summer
Here we look at the five things that the latest Barcelona right-back signing Emerson Royal will bring to the Nou Camp next season.everythingbarca.com
Interesting read from a Barcelona perspective when then signed him in the summer.
So far really do not recognise that it’s the same player described here that we signed.
I’m desperately trying to give him time. As feel he was last minute summer transfer, new to the country, doesn’t speak the language, been unsettling time at the club with the mess we have been in for past 6 months. Also being that it can take players a season to adapt to the premier league.
However with each performance he is really pushing that patience! I think last night has to be his worst performance so far. Struggled to pass the ball to a team mate, the amount of times he lost the ball in the attacking third when not under pressure from Southampton players was alarming. He played reasonable well on Saturday night, would have thought he would have been full of confidence going into last nights game. But he looked a bag of nerves everytime the ball came near him.
He was so poor i ended up just chuckling at the thought of the 30m we have laid out on him and the fact that literally it has been a step down to each fullback since Walker Proper Tottenham performance that.
I don’t even think that’s true either though. His defending for the first goal was utterly criminal. The way he let the ball run across his body demonstrated his total lack of awareness to anything going on around him. People can rightfully point the finger at Davies for his poor clearance but at least that was an accident. Emerson chose to let the ball run across the box.He may be better than Doherty defensively but that is all. Barca must be laughing at us.
It's amazing Brazil has produced legendary Cafu, Alves, Carlos etc but still have the occasional blips of Gilberto and Emerson. One would have thought they shouldn't even make it more than 5-10 caps for the international team and yet they do.