He is an important player, which is why it is vitally important that the issues he has that have directly led to opposition sides scoring at least 4 goals against us this season off the top of my head and but for Phillips and a VAR call could easily have led to 2 more in our last 2 games need addressing, Jurgen really likes him, he'll keep playing him there, so he and the coaching staff need to coach the fucking player, that's what they get paid for, it isn't good enough, you can't have a player who can potentially cost us a goal every game through a basic, correctable error through lack of awareness and game intelligence and just not bother correcting that, you can't think "Oh he might cost us a goal but we'll score more"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/roy-keane-slams-fabinho-liverpool-24105214
Wasn't just Keane, Souness, Redknapp and others too, but I've seen him do exactly what they were talking about him doing for that Fernandes goal numerous times, seen him do it 3 or 4 times in a single game and it needs fixing, and it is a lack of football intelligence, that comment is entirely accurate, it is not having the football intelligence to appreciate when your 2 or 3 team mates have a situation under control and you need to stay with your man, never mind stay with you man, even recognise who your man is and the danger he respresents
They're supposed to be professional pundits and it's the first and only instance they've noticed it, I've seen it from day one, that's why I've been banging on about it, because at first I just thought, oh he needs to stop that, Jurgen and the coaches will sort that out, three seasons on, he's still doing it, no improvement in it, aren't Jurgen and our coaches supposed to improve players?
He does lack football intelligence and need to be educated, he doesn't scan the pitch enough to see and appreciate what's on for the opposition and where the danger is, he is a destroyer not a DM, so he does have these persistent urges to charge to where the ball is when he needs to stay with his man and recognise who his man is.
And he really lacks the higher intelligence of really good midfielders and DMs, he doesn't have the ability, timing, or awareness to know in situations when a team mate has missed a tackle, when to stay with his player, or to stay with his player initially, to allow our others players to recover positionally and when then to time when he moves off his player to the other player, blocking any pass to the player he moves away from in the process, a skill all our other midfielders have and Henderson is absolutely superb at
Originally Posted by skyebo
More assists than Kante, Rodri and N'Didi combined, playing the same position
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