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Realistic said:
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Right. Enlighten me then. Why does he never shoot ? And that's not a criticism BTW, just curious.
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Same reason why he wasn't making forward passes until the last few games. He was taking the safe option. Maybe he's been instructed to be more positive or maybe he's feeling better having good forward options in Sinclair, DJ and Barkhausin.
I can't imagine any manager telling his players not to shoot when they have a shooting opportunity.
 
pnenycx said:
Right. Enlighten me then. Why does he never shoot ? And that's not a criticism BTW, just curious.
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Same reason why he wasn't making forward passes until the last few games. He was taking the safe option. Maybe he's been instructed to be more positive or maybe he's feeling better having good forward options in Sinclair, DJ and Barkhausin.
I can't imagine any manager telling his players not to shoot when they have a shooting opportunity.

Thanks. Just think he needs to put his foot through it (occasionally) when there's no better option. And I think he'll score (occasionally).
 
Realistic said:
Same reason why he wasn't making forward passes until the last few games. He was taking the safe option. Maybe he's been instructed to be more positive or maybe he's feeling better having good forward options in Sinclair, DJ and Barkhausin.
I can't imagine any manager telling his players not to shoot when they have a shooting opportunity.

Thanks. Just think he needs to put his foot through it (occasionally) when there's no better option. And I think he'll score (occasionally).
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its actually more than that.... IF he actually shot sometimes teams wont know whether to rush to block him or mark tight.... at present they know he 'wont shoot' and Wigan aside can concentrate on marking up whenever he has the ball 30 yards out or less.

Having said that, his shooting is pretty bad if you watch in pre match !
 
sports rehab said:
its actually more than that.... IF he actually shot sometimes teams wont know whether to rush to block him or mark tight.... at present they know he 'wont shoot' and Wigan aside can concentrate on marking up whenever he has the ball 30 yards out or less.

Having said that, his shooting is pretty bad if you watch in pre match !
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Noted, thanks. I'm not currently (regularly) attending so I've not clocked his warming up routine for a while, if that's what you mean. Personally I don't think there's enough longish range shots from any of the team. But as someone else said previously, maybe the games changed.
 
kingpne said:
People said the same about Grealish. Many could see he was a top top player in the Championship. Six months later, Pep refers to him as one of the best players in the league.

You may think mid table would be his limit but I genuinely wouldn't surprised if he's in the 2022 World Cup squad.
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Fully agree with this. I got laughed at at work by my Premier League supporting colleagues when I mentioned Pickford would be England number one in the next few years (at the time he played for us).

Butland was always the response I got, how he was streets ahead of him and nobody had even heard of Pickford.

Sometimes you just know and the quality is there to see. I think Pearson has the talent to do a Maddison and Grealish and step up so well in the Prem. He needs to keep his temper under control and helps if you play for a fashionable club.
 
Mr Meeseeks said:
Fully agree with this. I got laughed at at work by my Premier League supporting colleagues when I mentioned Pickford would be England number one in the next few years (at the time he played for us).

Butland was always the response I got, how he was streets ahead of him and nobody had even heard of Pickford.

Sometimes you just know and the quality is there to see. I think Pearson has the talent to do a Maddison and Grealish and step up so well in the Prem. He needs to keep his temper under control and helps if you play for a fashionable club.
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This guy gets it. This guy ... This guy man .... Dude
 
Sports Trader said:
Fair. I rate Winks so that’s one selection in the squad that we would fill separately 😉

England midfield options:
Henderson, Ox, Maddison, Winks, Barkley, Alli, Mount. Maybe even include Grealish (although he’s playing LW these days).

Pearson isn’t quite there yet.
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to be fair though all the midfielders you listed there are box to box midfielders or number tens. Pearson is a defensive midfielder so there is a role for someone like him in the team
 
ChuckD said:
Comparing Pearson’s performance against Championship teams with the likes of Rice, Winks, Dier who are up against prem quality / international players week in week out is ridiculous.
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I think Pearson could perform at that level but yeah, I agree.
 
sports rehab said:
its actually more than that.... IF he actually shot sometimes teams wont know whether to rush to block him or mark tight.... at present they know he 'wont shoot' and Wigan aside can concentrate on marking up whenever he has the ball 30 yards out or less.

Having said that, his shooting is pretty bad if you watch in pre match !
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Really? I think he's one of the more natural ball strikers. I commented last week in the warm-ups that he scored nearly every one of his shots, while Nuge missed 8 out of 9.

He has ball control, curl and precision.

Stick him up front and watch the goals flood in 🙂
 
top defensive midfielders in the premier league: Kante, Henderson, Fernandinio, jorghino, Matic are a long way above Ben, but after the top clubs i could see him easily playing for the mid table teams- Everton, West Ham etc would be better teams with him in..

our problem is that he is probably on £10-£12k per week and these sorts of clubs are happy to pay £40k + a week.. sadly i think he will be gone next season even if we go up..
 
Ben will need an extra large dose of his keep calm meds tomorrow.
I can see Stoke "at him" right from the start and they have some nasty/snidey players in their ranks.
By way of getting retaliation in first we should take turns to get McClean............
THEY DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM
 
SuffolknWhat said:
Ben will need an extra large dose of his keep calm meds tomorrow.
I can see Stoke "at him" right from the start and they have some nasty/snidey players in their ranks.
By way of getting retaliation in first we should take turns to get McClean............
THEY DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM
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... and Fisher after he sorted out McLean
 
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