Florian Wirtz

[Nineteenx]

In my eyes we lack a Rice/Casemiro/Rodri

They aren’t destroyers

It’s all about picking up and knowing where they need to be positionally in the game now rather than diving into tackles

[jozza800]

We already have three very good midfielders, they just have to sit a little bit deeper.

[Nineteenx]

Wirtz has been delivering for months. You just couldn’t see it. But I’m glad you’re now a believer. Don’t suppose you could have a chat with your mates? They’re still in the dark ages.

He really hasn’t it was killing us all the short needless passing trying to make everything go through him

It’s only now we’ve stopped that for 2 and a half out if the last four games it works, what we saw for 60 minutes yesterday isn’t how Slot was trying to play when everyone said we were shit to watch, dull, one paced, predictable

[Nineteenx]

We already have three very good midfielders, they just have to sit a little bit deeper.

Agreed just pick up and play positionally responsibly throughout

[miller0863]

What we are seeing from Wirtz now is hugely different from the first 20 games, you just couldn’t see it as you don’t know the game.
Caused us no end of trouble, between him giving the ball away constantly and having zero recovery skills and Mo Salah playing with his boots tied together, it’s little wonder we were conceding goals for fun.

[JockStrap]

Clown

[Nineteenx]

What we are seeing from Wirtz now is hugely different from the first 20 games, you just couldn’t see it as you don’t know the game.
Caused us no end of trouble, between him giving the ball away constantly and having zero recovery skills and Mo Salah playing with his boots tied together, it’s little wonder we were conceding goals for fun.

Correct

Hie admitted as much himself in his recent interview

[JockStrap]

Maybe you could post the interview where he said he was overpriced and would never make it here?

[Nineteenx]

A great example would be Ekitike’s second goal Wirtz was in the hand space left and Kerkez ignored him and played it straight to Hugo

That’s wouldn’t have happened in too many games and actually wasn’t happening in yesterday’s game the way Slot set out to have us play

There’s always the risk with Slot he’s going to try and revert to that ridiculous short passing only overplaying set up that was clearly his plan in the summer and has failed miserably

He started with it AGAIN yesterday despite it being clear we play much better how the players took it on themselves to

[teesred]

We already have three very good midfielders, they just have to sit a little bit deeper.

True but we'd be a better side with an out and out DM I think. You see in yesterday's game how effective Grav can be when he's going forward with the ball.
Wharton in our side would be quality. Baleba looked good last season but seems to have fell out of favour this one.