Congo Powers
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Extension + pay rise, grazie
why does he takes the penalties?
why does he takes the penalties?
why no kessie not even on the bench yesterday?
it's all mental, doesn't overthink them
Insane how so many players get bashed week in week out but nothing for Kessie ? This guy is a masssive massive liability . He has absolutely no understanding of build up play, no composure in the final third and thinks he can shoot like van Basten. The amount of small things he fucks up in a game is unreal. He would do fine in a counter attacking team and we should sell him to Wolves for 25mil or whatever they are offering without thought.
One of the reasons we looked good in pre season is this guy not playing imho
Agreed.
Just look at the number of times Kessie has passed to Suso in a dangerous situation ! It’ll be not more than once every 4-5 games honestly. Most of his passes are when Suso goes to wing completely free . Yes Suso makes less runs but after a point he will obviously make less subconsciously coz he knows Kessie can’t find him. That’s so detrimental for our whole right side and not just that - it makes Piatek worse and Hakan worse and the lW worse coz play is static when on the right side. Suso does possess good quality - that’s undeniable but you need to put your winger in good spots sometimes to make his quality shine. Not defending Suso here but it’s deffo a big point in his staticness and lack of efficiency.
It’s taken a couple months for Giampaolo to realise this because Kessie wasn’t there pre season and the team knows Kessie so subconsciously already adjusted to his playing style and avoided making those runs etc. Giampoalo was probably in love with his Potential and only just realised and confirmed this in his head that some one with such low football IQ will only hinder the team and hence took him out at HT last game. I hope he keeps him away from starting xi for now maybe get him on later when opposition is tired he can be useful with his immense energy then to break play and run with the ball.
Deffo feel if we drop him we will become far far better as a team.
Hope Giampaolo has understood this properly.
holy shit these midfields are prolly better for gp than our kebab, kessie, biglia midfield..after 400-500 mill spent we start most of the games with this mid. truly mindboggling.However, if we have a look at Giampaolo's former midfield trios:
Empoli 2015/16: Krunic/Croce - Paredes - Zielinski
Sampdoria 2017/18: Praet - Ekdal/Torreira - Linetty
As I had been screaming hoarse through the summer, he's such an obvious unfit to the style of the manager that our inability to sell him was one of our biggest failures of last summer market.. right after our inability to sell Suso.
Now we'll just end up selling him for peanuts next summer.
Lol what an overrating. What positional sense? He doesn't have that.. but he is physical beast to compensate for it.
Good first touch? If you are not usually the poster i appreciate and like to read, i would think you are trolling at this point.
Good ball control? Absolutely not true, again his physicality helps him with that.
"Underrated passing range both short and long" What does that even mean? Either he has good passing range or not... his attempts on long passes are totally random, hit or miss. That's why he doesn't do them often, he opts for the easiest close pass AND he manages to fuck those up sometimes.
Restrict his forward movement and you removed one of his few qualities (appreciation for space as you said.. and in general he is good at finding himself in good attacking positions)
He ruins number of our attacks every game, similar to Suso.
I appreciated him early but when you look more objectively.. he is NOT improving with us at all, every year same shit... he didn't upgrade even one aspect of his game and this current state is close to his peak
Kessie should be transitioned to an active DM since he sucks at ball control and helping the play forward, yet he is a physical presence. If he can become more defensive he can allow Bennacer to step up slightly more and create chances from mid. 4-2-3-1 is where it's at. Put Paqueta in front of them also and you have a much more solid midfield.