- May 18, 2006
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As the title says, how good is Benoit Assou-Ekotto? I just saw a few posts about him in the ITK thread but didn't want to spam it up so maybe we can have a debate in here?
I've seen a lot of people over the years comment that they rate Benny but think he's prone to make mistakes and I'm not sure if this is really fair. Show me a full back who doesn't make the odd mistake here or there, I don't think there can be many so the question is, does he make more mistakes than the others? Does anyone have stats or could you point me in the direction of a site that would let us see Benny compared to the likes of Evra, Cole and Baines?
Personaly I can't think of many left backs that I would prefer to play in our team that don't also make an occasional error, he seems to be getting better and at 28 should be reaching his peak soon. There's talk in the transfer forum of the posibility that he could leave although I can't believe that we'd think about selling him. I'd like to see him finish his career with us and maybe even move on to a coaching role or some position in the club that would keep him involved with the community. It all depends what he wan't to do but I'm very happy with the job he does.
This isn't to debate how cool he is by the way, we all know he's the master.
I've seen a lot of people over the years comment that they rate Benny but think he's prone to make mistakes and I'm not sure if this is really fair. Show me a full back who doesn't make the odd mistake here or there, I don't think there can be many so the question is, does he make more mistakes than the others? Does anyone have stats or could you point me in the direction of a site that would let us see Benny compared to the likes of Evra, Cole and Baines?
Personaly I can't think of many left backs that I would prefer to play in our team that don't also make an occasional error, he seems to be getting better and at 28 should be reaching his peak soon. There's talk in the transfer forum of the posibility that he could leave although I can't believe that we'd think about selling him. I'd like to see him finish his career with us and maybe even move on to a coaching role or some position in the club that would keep him involved with the community. It all depends what he wan't to do but I'm very happy with the job he does.
This isn't to debate how cool he is by the way, we all know he's the master.