Florian Wirtz

[Kev0909]

Diaz wanted out.. we wanted Nunez out. so both needed replacing.. I think Ekitike can play off the left..we have 4 forwards.. and Wirtz makes a 5th more of 10.. but likes been mentioned. by me and some others..have doubts he can play that role.. Obviously we can see teams will defend deeper against us this season. its happened in quite a few games already.
So maybe Wirtz was brought to unlock the defence.. I still have huge hope for him. once he gets into the grove.. Hes only played an handful of games anyway..

Doens't matter if he can fill in on the left.....

people have been saying we have no width... that's not going to help

Still need a top wide player, as well as the other positions

Gakpo stinks the place out currently, so does salah

we can't attack very well currently and we can't defend at all of course we was going to get found out v palace, I just hope we don't drift away by time next 5 games is over..... needs improvement i'd start robbo more in the tough games.

[Red October]

We gave Nunez 3 years. Surely we can afford Wirtz at least 3 months, lol...

+1

[RedMagic]

The problem with playing Wirtz is that his inclusion is currently unbalancing the rest of team. Until Saturday we managed to get away with that lack of balance, but that game on its own needs to be a serious wake up call to Slott that some difficult decisions need to be made in regards to who plays, when they play, and where they play. Those tough decisions should cover all of our players including the likes of Salah.

If Slott is intent on playing a number ten, he needs to either make sure that player can do his bit both on and off the ball, or he needs to play two top quality, deeper lying midfielders who will offset some of the deficiencies those in front of them may have.

[jozza800]

There was some decent analysis from Carra last night. Wirtz isn't getting nearly as much as the ball as he did at Leverkusen.

As I mentioned previously if we're going to play with him as the 10 then we need to play like it. None of this 8 1/2 / semi-left winger stuff.

Macca and Grav are both good enough to be in a two behind him.

It feels as if Arne wants them all to be more dynamic, which isn't helping us when we lose the ball. The amount of times the two 'holding' midfielders are ahead of the ball when we lose it is frightening! Even Endo was caught in the oppo's pen area when Bournemouth scored on their breakaway.

[Steveo]

Was the club expecting this..?



If so is Germany the place to go shopping?? If it happens tho - it would be something else. This is what I call control.. My nerves in games would be far less were to finally get this level.

[justme]

everything is to soft from him.. always wants to pat balls at half pace..

[jozza800]

His weight of pass is excellent.

[justme]

You see 3 good passes and ignore the MANY times hes tried to pass and its been intercepted.

[miller0863]

Jeez.

£100m and £200k a week for what is being served up is bad enough but it was on a 10 which WE DID NOT NEED!!!

We don’t play with a 10, we haven’t won anything with a 10, so WHY ffs???

[Kev0909]

Not his fault but yeah money spent on CDM/CB would've been better instead of spunking money for fun and not resolving what we still needed, not to mention a diaz replacement, gakpo isn't the one