Originally Posted by
Nineteenx
Fabinho remains a major part of our problem, in terms of actual threat coming into his area last night, it was ONE, one fucking time, all he had to do was get to Valverde qucikly, which is a problem as his sprint is like most other players jogging, and make the fucking block, ONE fucking thing he had to do, he did fuck all with the ball, was too slow to move it and move it intelligently involving all our players who can create
Look at Casemiro last night and Kante in our games v Chelsea and even Hendo making a crucial intervention towards the end of the first half in the position Fab should have been in
It IS NOT FUCKING GOOD ENOUGH, it has never been good enough, aside from for about 14 games of his first season when he didn't actually play as a No6 or a DM, he started in the position, but predominantly played a high destroyer role, with Gini and RCM picking up the pieces behind him, that got rumbled just past half way through that first season and we had to bring Hendo back in at RCM to pick up the rest of the slack for him
Fabinho is not a good No6 of DM, he doesn't read the game well, if he did he;d have stopped that ball getting to Valverde as he'd have stayed with his man which was Casemiro instead of blindly fucking charging to Robbo's man leaving Casemiro wide open - He's a fucking joke, he's a cult hero among all of our fans who have that weird Gerrard/Hendo shit still going on, for taking Henderson's place at DM, that's it, that is his single greatest thing that has made him popular, because anyone even putting him in the same league as Rodri, Casemiro, Kante etc needs to lay off the crack, he makes consistent basic errors that cost goals
We were at our very best under Jurgen with Gini LCM Hendo No6 and any other at RCM in the 19-20 season, that midfield would have done better than what we put out last night, the writing should have been on the wall after the evolution we made as a team in Fab's absence when Hendo became the accidental playmaker
We've wasted 2 seasons not using that now, bought the injury prone Thiago in place of Gini and his insistence on trying to dominate the ball is hindering us also, we're not getting Virgil Trent or Hendo on the ball often enough to initiate attacks from different areas, it's all too predictable - Hendo's slowed down now too, we need a top class No6 brought in who can do all the things Hendo did in 19-20 a little better and has the greater reading of the game, athleticism, speed and agility to plug holes and gte where they need to be as Fabinho so often fails to
Honestly, I'm absolutely sick and tired of seeing this side held back by Fab and now Thiago, I've kept a lot quieter about it this season to keep the peace, but it's fucking painful, Milner and hendo are getting older and slowing down, we know what they bring and they do it consistently, we know what Fab and Thiago are supposed to bring and they consistently fail to, get 2 new mids in who do actually regularly produce what that pair were/are supoosed to
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