I don't really understand how Walker is being hailed as the best RB in the PL and Aurier as a terrible player in the same thread, maybe even by the same people. They are almost identical players with almost identical strengths and flaws. Walker is just three years older and three years of Poch help too. And I feel about Aurier exactly how I felt about Walker back then.
Aurier isn't a bad option if your other options aren't better, but in Trippier we have a player who's strengths definitely outweigh Aurier's and his weaknesses aren't weak enough to outweigh that. In KWP we have a player who even the die hard youth integration doubters can now see what we've all bee saying for a couple of years. That he's been ready to get more playing time for a couple of years now, and his potential exceeds that of Walker, Trippier and Aurier.
I don't want KWP out on loan next year. Apart from the fact that I think he represents our best RB option going forwards, I think he also would give the side some much needed hunger and desire. He absolutely loves this club, is bursting at the seams to succeed and it shows. And if he wasn't a great little player too, this would be irrelevant, but he is, and not all the most talented kids have this overt attitude, and that's OK, sometimes the talent is enough, but when you add in that character to the talent, it brings something else to the team, and into the dressing room, which has served us well and Poch's teams need. Young, exuberant, hungry to fight for every inch.
The problem with Aurier is he is more of an accident waiting to happen than Walker. I never feared walker in defence as I do Aurier, but I think Aurier links up better with the team than Walker did
Really?, think back to Walker when Poch got here. Defensively he was atrocious. And I don't just mean the outlandish fuck bombs he'd drop. He would get distracted from the man with the ball if someone ran past him quicker, he had virtually no game reading, just "race me" and people like Zaha and Bolasie had him eating his own arse.
Much of the rest of their games are pretty similar. Up and down well, end product again lacking intelligence, but Aurier probably is a bit more of a natural footballer than Walker.
I don't really understand how Walker is being hailed as the best RB in the PL and Aurier as a terrible player in the same thread, maybe even by the same people. They are almost identical players with almost identical strengths and flaws. Walker is just three years older and three years of Poch help too. And I feel about Aurier exactly how I felt about Walker back then.
Aurier isn't a bad option if your other options aren't better, but in Trippier we have a player who's strengths definitely outweigh Aurier's and his weaknesses aren't weak enough to outweigh that. In KWP we have a player who even the die hard youth integration doubters can now see what we've all bee saying for a couple of years. That he's been ready to get more playing time for a couple of years now, and his potential exceeds that of Walker, Trippier and Aurier.
I don't want KWP out on loan next year. Apart from the fact that I think he represents our best RB option going forwards, I think he also would give the side some much needed hunger and desire. He absolutely loves this club, is bursting at the seams to succeed and it shows. And if he wasn't a great little player too, this would be irrelevant, but he is, and not all the most talented kids have this overt attitude, and that's OK, sometimes the talent is enough, but when you add in that character to the talent, it brings something else to the team, and into the dressing room, which has served us well and Poch's teams need. Young, exuberant, hungry to fight for every inch.
Love to know what the Man City coaches think of Walker now they have had him for a season. Many on here and elsewhere seem to think he is the best right back in the PL. If that is true that tells me the right backs in the PL are not of a very high standard.
Nothing about the essence of your views, mate. It's more about turning "I like steak" into "I like a steak that's marinated in blood of a virgin, then soaked in 50 years old cognac, then lightly flambéd, then rolled in a puff pastry that's made by a michelin starred chef whilst singing opera, then grilled over lava that's handpicked from Icelandic volcanoes".
Many on here and elsewhere seem to think he is the best right back in the PL. If that is true that tells me the right backs in the PL are not of a very high standard.
I can only assume that you have some old fashioned image of a right back in your head. Someone that doesn't contribute to attacks at all and is very steady. (Maybe Gary Neville?). Walker does make mistakes but has the pace to clean up after himself. He also offers a real attacking threat- often attack is the best form of defence.
He offers an attacking threat provided he is given a pass he can run onto and thus use his pace to go past any defenders. If he gets a pass where he already is then he is stuck as he can’t go past a defender rather like Trippier.
Good point, he isn't great withthe ball played to feet, but then again he has players around him that can pass him the ball.
Those stats are virtually meaningless with regard to Walker. They're useful for comparing Davies and Trippier as they're doing the same job in the same team (although even then only to a point, as they play on different sides - I'd argue that even comparing Trippier and Aurier would only be useful to a point, because their different strengths and weaknesses will mean a different strategy), but Walker is doing a completely different job in a completely different team, where creating chances is not a part of his remit.
Our wing backs are expected to play the percentages to an extent, getting plenty of balls into the box for Kane and Alli, whereas the City wing backs are there to widen the pitch to allow the creative midfielders more room, and when the wing backs do get the ball they are generally instructed to pass it back inside to the creative midfielders, unless there is a very clear opportunity for a goal by crossing it.
Using those stats as 'proof' of Walker being overrated is at best misguided and at worst disingenuous.