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Reece James

Also a shame because the partnership between Reece and Sterling was looking so promising.

 
Hot Since 1882 said:
Chances you buy a RB? Anyone to promote from Cobham - and odds on that over spending £15-30M on a 'stop-gap RB'?  

How highly do you guys rate James? - for England/Neutral - I've always rated Walker miles ahead, then Trent, Trippier.

Enjoy watch him play, seems talented - but if he turned into your Wilshere - how long before you look to spend £100M on a right back?
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James is the most complete. He would be about 2nd for any technical, tactical or physical aspect if comparing those players. Take Trent for example - more creative than anyone on that list but James is better defensively, physically, would probably rack up the same number of assists if he was feeding the Liverpool frontline, and is a bigger goal threat. 

Alas, I think it's time to move the guy to midfield and bring back memories of those Wigan days. Note, Disasi can cover at RB as well which is probably a good reason as to why the club got him.

 
ozboy said:
So I could support Whitewall's suggestion of having Pavard as a backup.
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Waste of funds. Use Disasi or buy a youngster. Wouldn't be a surprise if they bought, although I personally would just keep Lewis Hall and use him there.

 
ozboy said:
I am very confident, maybe without enough reason, that Gusto will do a great job defensively, but yet to show what he has in attack. In short Gusto excellent off the ball but unknown to me when he's on it.

So I could support Whitewall's suggestion of having Pavard as a backup.

Equally i think this may speed up the switch to 4 3 3 and have the midfield do more of the defensive screening.
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Gusto looked good in pre-season. I think he will be able to provide decent cover. Of course we will miss Reece but hopefully his absence will be a little less felt than last year

 
venom2011 said:
Waste of funds. Use Disasi or buy a youngster. Wouldn't be a surprise if they bought, although I personally would just keep Lewis Hall and use him there.
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Lewis Hall has made it pretty clear he wants to play in midfield though. Disasi or Chalobah would be options to look at if Gusto is unavailable

 
ozboy said:
I am very confident, maybe without enough reason, that Gusto will do a great job defensively, but yet to show what he has in attack. In short Gusto excellent off the ball but unknown to me when he's on it.

So I could support Whitewall's suggestion of having Pavard as a backup.

Equally i think this may speed up the switch to 4 3 3 and have the midfield do more of the defensive screening.
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Interested in your thoughts on James @ozboy. You were one who regularly called for Kante to be moved on for his injury record. With James picking up so many injuries and missing so many games, and at such a young age, would you be looking to sell him on now?

 
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Interested in your thoughts on James @ozboy. You were one who regularly called for Kante to be moved on for his injury record. With James picking up so many injuries and missing so many games, and at such a young age, would you be looking to sell him on now?
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Actually I would also ask the same question of @ducavis and @OriginalS and @Scott Harris.

James missing so many games now, do you look to sell?

 
Hot Since 1882 said:
Chances you buy a RB? Anyone to promote from Cobham - and odds on that over spending £15-30M on a 'stop-gap RB'?  

How highly do you guys rate James? - for England/Neutral - I've always rated Walker miles ahead, then Trent, Trippier.

Enjoy watch him play, seems talented - but if he turned into your Wilshere - how long before you look to spend £100M on a right back?
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Trippier over James? I don't know what you've been watching.

James is by far the most complete player, excellent ball control, passing, crossing, and very sound defensively. 

I'm not even one of those to say "our player is better than x" when it comes to England, I said Shaw was a better option to Chilwell for the World Cup and EURO's and I love Chilwell (I would say different now mind). But James is better than all those RB's you mentioned, the only thing Walker has over him is pace and that's it. The problem with James is that he's always injured and it's going to impact his potential. But to be honest, he's the best talent I've seen from our academy since John Terry. 

 
just said:
Interested in your thoughts on James @ozboy. You were one who regularly called for Kante to be moved on for his injury record. With James picking up so many injuries and missing so many games, and at such a young age, would you be looking to sell him on now?
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James is a young club captain and the extent of his present injury isn’t known. Kante was ageing and the fact that he went to Saudis shows he was past his best. So I certainly don’t advocate selling James but I do think Gusto might need a backup. James’s is an excellent player when fit. So far he hasn’t had the opportunity to show that over a whole season in the way that Kante did over his 4-5 peak years. So regrettably James may end up as one of those “if only” careers. Sigh. 

 
He just became the captain, he'll be back stronger than ever. Still sad that we can never have the opportunity to play the best possible team, Liverpool and Man City can do that most of the time. So I fully expect that someone else will get injured once James is back, it's just the theme of the squad.

You can't really win the league if your key players are always missing.

 
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ozboy said:
James is a young club captain and the extent of his present injury isn’t known. Kante was ageing and the fact that he went to Saudis shows he was past his best. So I certainly don’t advocate selling James but I do think Gusto might need a backup. James’s is an excellent player when fit. So far he hasn’t had the opportunity to show that over a whole season in the way that Kante did over his 4-5 peak years. So regrettably James may end up as one of those “if only” careers. Sigh. 
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I can't see the difference personally. Firstly it's the range of different injuries Reece has accumulated. Secondly I don't follow the age argument. Logically, as time moves forward and he gets older, you would expect his injury issues to become worse not better. There is something majorly wrong with him for sure.

The other option of course is we never have him as the first choice starter. We use him, (when fit), as the backup player coming off the bench only when the situation demands it.

Incidentally, I'm playing Devil's advocate here. I wouldn't get rid of Reece James anymore than I would have got shot of Kante. But to those who were vocal in calling for Kante to be moved on because of his injury record, I would like to hear their reasoning as to why they wouldn't also want the same logic applied to James. Or perhaps they do?

 
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just said:
I can't see the difference personally. Firstly it's the range of different injuries Reece has accumulated. Secondly I don't follow the age argument. Logically, as time moves forward and he gets older, you would expect his injury issues to become worse not better. There is something majorly wrong with him for sure.

The other option of course is we never have him as the first choice starter. We use him, (when fit), as the backup player coming off the bench when the situation demands it.
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I like the pkan b option. Expensive to have him playing 30 minutes every second game but it may be the value maximizing way. 

 
Gol15 said:
He just became the captain, he'll be back stronger than ever. 
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Unfortunately Gol, you can easily argue, based on his injury record at such a young age, that is more wishful thinking rather than the likely outcome.

Same for Fofana. And I really rate him too.

 
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Unfortunately Gol, you can easily argue, based on his injury record at such a young age, that is more wishful thinking rather than the likely outcome.

Same for Fofana. And I really rate him too.
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I think that it is hard to accept, but the club should have a long term first choice right back on their shopping list. Sadly Reece simply cannot be relied upon to stay fit for season after season.

The talk that Reece will likely be out for months really is a severe blow to our chances of finishing much higher up the table. At the very least it will mean that victories will be a little less spectacular and much harder work without that attacking threat down the right.

 
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