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for me it's not that Winks is a bad player it's just that he should never be in line to be ahead of ndombele and lo celso in the rotation
He’s basically Modric lite. Really nice on the ball and carries the ball very well, but that’s where it ends. Modric on the other hand would offer so much defensively and offensively, which is the difference between a real top class midfielder with ability, to an average midfielder with ability. Harry Winks has the ball ability, but just doesn’t offer any threat whatsoever and doesn’t offer any protection either. Not good enough boys sorry.
Singling Winks our after every player bar possibly Sanchez was poor is agenda driven nonsense. When Jose’s tactics are basically to bypass the midfield by making the centre backs and goalkeeper hoof the ball at every opportunity I really don’t understand what Winks is supposed to do. He’s a player who is ideal for a team that wants to keep possession not for watching the ball going over his head and fighting for knock downs.
Comparing his performance to NDombele who came when the match was already lost and there was more space on the pitch is ridiculous as well. And despite this Tanguy still looked like he fucked after 10 minutes!
He was very poor but he was also alone because Sissoko had to cover for Aurier all the time. The lopsided fullback tactic is not the way to go away against the better teams. It's fine for home games where we have 70+% possession but suicidal in a match like this with pacey forwards.
All winks fault we got dominated in the middle though yeah
What injury did he pick up? Wasn’t watching the game.
Why can’t a player just be playing poorly and not a scapegoat?Some of the comments in this thread are just ridiculous. Can we just stop with the whole scapegoat thing?
All winks fault we got dominated in the middle though yeah
For me, when it's a pile on and over the top - then we are in scapegoat territory. Plenty of players to pick on from last night - Jan at LB, Aurier at RB, Toby looked slow and ponderous, Moura was poor - but some players get more flack than others and for some posters any excuse to dig out Winks is too good to miss.Why can’t a player just be playing poorly and not a scapegoat?
I agree with you, but this does beg the question of what the fuck Winks actually does if he's a midfielder who can't create or defend. What's the fucking point of him? He can control a ball and make simple passes. He's a "tidy player". That's it. Every player should be able to do that. He's better technically than Sissoko, sure, but so are 99% of the players in the PL, so that's damning him with faint praise.I still don’t think Winks is as bad as everyone says he is. But IMO Winks can only be good in a system where he has one ball winning DM behind him and a creative player besides him. So we need to buy a DM and have Winks & Ndombele but then I would rather play Lo Celso.
Winks is a a decent squad player, nothing more