- Oct 19, 2004
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I personally think Dembele getting pressed out of it happened very rarely. Probably the best at keeping and manipulating the ball when under pressure in our whole squad and probably the one that can releive pressure the most from the back four by taking it and being comfortable with people right up your arse. If you're under pressure and I was a ch or fb would feel more comfortable knocking it into Dembele and not getting a hospital ball back than i would be with Carroll and actually pretty much anyone else in our squad.
I think people just seem to remember the Newcastle game when he lost the ball like that and in the next phase we conceded. He does play at his own pace but that's not always a bad thing in that area of the pitch I have a real issue with people thinking releasing the ball first time is always the right ball.
I obviously hope you're right that Carroll's a real talent and it'll be great if the kid makes it here. Personally I'm dubious and it will be interesting to see what the new manager makes of him. I dont think its fair to keep on blaming managers, the players got to take responsibily too. it'll also be interesting in regards to Dembele and the new manager.
I'm not convinced Carroll has what it takes to make it at our level. But I think the abilities he does have could easily make him as useful to our squad as some of the other flawed players we have and I think it's got to the stage where we needed to test him properly at our level.