There ’maybe’ a new policy to move the ’older’ players out?
As simple as that!
Like we have that luxury...
Not a bad idea really... Younger players who haven’t peaked yet have greater potential for improving and also generating a profit if we choose to sell. Plus the manager may have been making a point to keep the guys on their toes.There ’maybe’ a new policy to move the ’older’ players out?
As simple as that!
I personally think it was exactly as Poch said - he had to leave someone out and felt that Toby and Davinson deserved to start, and Dier offered more flexibility from the bench in terms of positions covered.
From day one Poch has always said he will pick a team on merit. It is how Kane and other youngsters got their chance in the first place. He has often said that the club pays players to train and improve, with the best ones picked to play on Saturday. I imagine Poch picked his team based on fitness following pre-season and effort / sharpness in training in the week leading up to the game. It's also why Eriksen was benched to start with.
Hopefully now training will be intense with 25 quality players pushing to get into the 18 at the weekend and the team being 'at it' from the first minute each week. If Vertonghen is a leader and has fire in his belly he will be first in on Monday and be the sharpest player in drills and make training difficult for Harry, Son, Moura and the other forwards in practise games.
Yep, I'm going with the 'weaker' opponent argument. Trying to stay positive, as I'm a big Jan supporter.Just a theory, but maybe Poch decided to rotate the squad to give Sanchez some game time against a relatively weak attack and picked Toby alongside him for his long passing. Jan then got pissed off as he was practically a guaranteed starter when fit last season, so Poch left him out of the squad entirely as punishment. At least that fits in with the "Jan was dropped" comment from ValYid.
Given his age and the fact that he constantly featured throughout our pre-season, I think it would be odd if he was suddenly dropped now for contract reasons.
Also, while Sanchez is clearly our 3rd choice CB, we need to give him game time as he's our future, and it makes much more sense to play him against Villa at home than against City away.
Whatever the reason I hope it's just a minor disagreement as Jan's one of our most important players and we could really use him against City.
By that token why play Toby or Danny who are more injury prone . Rose avoided pre season to find a new club.
I'm just going to put this out there...
My take on this is that Poch and the management are slightly concerned about Jan's long term fitness, hence why we haven't offered him another contract. If this is the case it would make perfect sense for them to have rested him for a game against Villa (which let's be honest, we should have won at a canter) in favour of a huge game against City. Too.
As others have said, I think this can be turned in to something if he doesn't play against City. If he does it's exactly what I've mentioned above.
Not a bad idea really... Younger players who haven’t peaked yet have greater potential for improving and also generating a profit if we choose to sell. Plus the manager may have been making a point to keep the guys on their toes.
Listening to Poch post match he said something about Ndombele having 30-40% more potential. Maybe it’s time to try Sanchez, Foyth, Walker-Peters and other young guys, and get them up to their potential.
I love Verts to bits, but he won’t be around forever. This could well be his last year with us, so I could understand if we played others more to settle them in and prepare for the future.
No other fit left back
Yes, I agree at times our defending and in particular Sanchez was poor. Was that the player not being good enough, a formation that exposed us, or a bit of both?It's not a problem phasing older players out per se
But when the replacement is patently not good enough ,,,this is where my worry lies
Its like replacing Gough with Fairclough or Campbell with Perry
The gulf in standard is simply too vast
Do you have anymore 'in the know' on this? Feces samples, photos, videos of him using the public toilets at WHL...that sort of thingI read that Jan had the shits. That’s why he didn’t make the squad.