..exactly.

We're talking two different kinds of experience here. Murray has "football" experience, which is to say experience across the game that's given him a "football brain." Regardless of the level at which he's picked up that experience, he's attuned to the nuances of defenders and instinctively knows how to use his attributes to the best effect. Thus, even though is not a physical specimen, he's hugely influential on the pitch. He's what used to be called a "player's player."

Wickham, on the other hand, has far more high level "match experience" than Murray but that doesn't substitute for craft. He has the raw talent to be a much better player than Murray, but right now his football brain isn't even close to being as developed. If the pair can work in tandem; if over the next two seasons Murray can mentor Wickham, then we may get the best of both worlds. For now and for me personally, there is absolutely no way I would sell Murray not least because he is more valuable to us than any fee he would command on the transfer market.

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We're talking two different kinds of experience here. Murray has "football" experience, which is to say experience across the game that's given him a "football brain." Regardless of the level at which he's picked up that experience, he's attuned to the nuances of defenders and instinctively knows how to use his attributes to the best effect. Thus, even though is not a physical specimen, he's hugely influential on the pitch. He's what used to be called a "player's player."

Wickham, on the other hand, has far more high level "match experience" than Murray but that doesn't substitute for craft. He has the raw talent to be a much better player than Murray, but right now his football brain isn't even close to being as developed. If the pair can work in tandem; if over the next two seasons Murray can mentor Wickham, then we may get the best of both worlds. For now and for me personally, there is absolutely no way I would sell Murray not least because he is more valuable to us than any fee he would command on the transfer market.

Have to agree with you here syd, the fact is every person in football uses this one word to describe Murray, intelligent. Its his movement that lets him buy those little free kicks and relieve pressure on the team as well as winning headers against far more physical players, if his brain was in someone like Wickham we would have a world class player.

Edited by coulsdoneagle (30 Jul 2015 11.42pm)

Also anyone know why quoting has stoped working for me tonight, on every thread I can't seem to get quotes to work properly.

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