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If Moyes thought he was good enough in sure we would've seen more him, all we literally need to do is play him in a few league games
But he's not cheap, £12mil (rising to £17mil) is what was reported
For that money he hasn't been worth it, and he's not like a young young kid who can get by on potential alone, he's 23 and will be 24 in the summer
Move on
I appreciate he hasn’t had loads of chances but he hasn’t shown anywhere near enough quality when he has played
I just think that's it's harsh to say he's not good enough based on so little football. I thought he played well in the Man U and Zagreb games, but was then immediately dropped.
No-one played well today, including Kral, obviously. But there's a marked difference between his situation and that of players like Yarmolenko, Fredericks and Diop who have been at the club for a while and regularly underperform.
Not saying I think he's great, but we have to give credit where it's due.
Vlasic also IMO has proved to be the flop signing, not impressed or convinced he’s good enough, for me he’ll end up leaving for a fraction of what we paid for him, I of course hope to be proven wrong though.
Head and shoulders above the rest.🎣
That doesn’t explain the rest of his time here though.
As we left the pub my nephew got chatting to me and I moaned to him about flipping West Ham. He said they had won 2-1. I told him to stop winding me up, got in the car and drove off grumbling. Then the bloke on radio 5 live told me the same thing.
On reflection, it was a massively uncomfortable experience that we were lucky to come away from. If we end up lifting the trophy, nobody will care about that performance, but it was bad. That team has never played as badly as that before & probably won’t ever again. Yarmolenko is not needed anymore. He has never offered anything apart from a couple of purple patches at the start of his first couple of seasons with us.
But, what I would say, is I think any other PL side who plays them yesterday struggles as much as we did. They really were superb &, although the pitch & wind was no doubt a leveller, they outplayed us at times. I am not sure any of the other PL elite would have faired much better.
They were brilliant for a non league team but they weren't by Prem standards. Not taking anything away from them but they did everything one would expect of a non league team playing a league team in the cup.
Seriously though, diving to win a penalty at Kidderminster live on the BBC on Saturday lunchtime - great way to sell our club to the neutral!
Fredericks seems to have got even worse. He’s always in the wrong body position, overruns the ball and when he’s got someone in front of him it’s like he’s scared to touch the ball. He stands completely square on with quite a bit of distance from the ball, it’s like he has no control over it. The only time I’ve ever seen some potential was I think early last season when we could use him on the break to pull back simple low crosses to Antonio and Bowen if he can get in behind. But we don’t get that time of opportunity to counter much any more, we definitely weren’t going to get it against Kidderminster and he doesn’t look like he’s even capable of that anymore.
We missed that yesterday, benrahma tried but he hasn't got the vision of Lanzini
How poor was Kral, can we forgive him for not playing regular football and the one who keeps on underperforming, Vlasic.
For me and I know I harp on about him, but WOW, for what we laid out money wise he's IMO been very underwhelming.
Can we give him some slack or should a pro who's played for his country loads etc etc be doing better, will next season be the better judgement?...But at present, I'd personally say he's simply not good enough....yet he seems in general to evade criticism like some others.....
Dion Dublin made the point that West Ham had to take an extra second or so to be sure of controlling the ball.