The Player Improvement Thread

[thinktank]

Added these two to OP.

Bentaleb:

• Simplicity - Don't want him and Dele battling it out for the most tricks in a season. He's got some tekkers in his locker but still would like to see him bring clean simplicity into his game first and pick and choose his moments to dazzle and express himself i.e. not in the middle of the park.

• Forward balls - has the tendency to pass back too often and interrupt our fluidity. Want to see him being sharper on the half turn and always thinking a move or two ahead and have a better picture of the game in front of him and how he can play an incisive ball forward to initialise an attack.

There's lot's of scope for improvement with Nabil. He can be a very valuable, versatile squad member who can play in a variety of positions imo. I think the key to his progress is being humble.

Onomah:

• Precision - I know he's not had a huge amount of minutes but think it's something he needs to focus on straight away. His final ball can be short in pace and direction at times from what I've seen of him so far in the first team and he just needs to concentrate even more and make sure at crucial moments. I have no doubt he'll develop this quickly, especially the more he gets time on the field.

• Shooting - It seems that whenever he's made an appearance for us he's had a chance to score (which is a very good sign) though his shots are often lacking the required power or direction. This will come with confidence and more game time, but would like to see him grab the bull by the horns as early as possible and command his shooting and begin to introduce fierceness in that area.

He hasn't played that much, but I wanted to get started on him as I think he's going to be an incredible player for us and think he'll also improve at a ridiculously fast rate, so will be interesting to track.

The above points will no doubt improve with confidence as he gets more time and grows into his game in the first team.

Him and Dele are the two players I'm most excited about at the moment, potential wise.