one of the pundits (forgot who) recently said Salah doesn’t get calls because he is a “bad diver”. He didn’t mean that Salah was a repeat diving offender when he said it. He meant Salah was literally bad at diving. It that’s a oerce that is figuring into that too….woof.
This doesn’t mean that those individual player stats say anything about a players ability. Does a player completing more passes mean that he is a better passer? No. He just gets on the ball more. Is a high completion rate an indicator of passing ability? No. Says more about how risky your passes are. Are tackles made a good way to judge a good tackler? No, it says more about how much players take you on. Mustafi made more successful defensive actions Van Dijk in 2018/19 according to almost all of those stats. He had more tackles, interceptions, and all that. Was Mustafi better than Van Dijk at making tackles and interceptions? No.
If you're saying you don't rely on any stats to judge players, which is interesting since you have used stats before when they fit your arguments, we're back to one of my initial questions which you did not answer. What objective method can we use to judge players when people watch them and come to different conclusions?
Some stats are good. Goals, assists, chances created. That sort. Not stats like "passes completed" because completing a pass isn't always even a good thing.
Poch took an average Spurs team to the CL final.
Again, I think you're missing the point?
This is what I would de as well. If viable. There’s no backup with Neco at Fulham. Maybe we see some Gomez there but we know that’s not good. Trent injury is one of the two worst case scenarios though. Doesn’t sound like it’ll be TOO bad but you never know.
Oh I’m ready but I’m not going to like it. Milner can do it. I don’t think he can do it well any more though. But at least Trent gets some rest
I could say the same for the "big" clubs like Liverpool. They have such a host of squad advantages over a club like Burnley that they should be able to easily navigate 3 subs versus 5 without whinging atevery opportunity.
Every other league does this now. It’s so stupid to be against it. Let the “small teams” use it to give minutes to their youth players that then can develop them if they are so worried about it. Honestly I wouldn’t even mind a compromise where at least one of the “extra” subs would have to be for a u23 and/or homegrown player. What Dinosaur Dyche doesn’t realize is that Klopp (for example) doesn’t want the extra subs to show off squad depth. He wants it to have less minutes on his players. The irony of all of this is When it comes to PL owner net worth Liverpool isn’t in the top half to the table last time I checked. So it’s not like these teams CANNOT spend more. They choose not to just as much as the contrary. Not saying FSG are the financial good guys here, but LFC owners have less net worth than teams like Everton, Villa, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Leeds and Palace to name a few.
