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View Omph's Profile Omph Flag Liverpool 05 Aug 21 9.03am Send a Private Message to Omph Add Omph as a friend

Originally posted by sprites

Potentially. Although Macca is much better on the ball than given credit for. People just see him as a workhorse. I agree about Luka though. My admiration for him is well documented on here, but he's not quick and he may struggle to keep up. We'll see.

True - I am quite probably misunderestimating Macca - he's a baller really and not what I think of as a "hot potato player' - and maybe he's one that is more genuinely pleased by PV approach and release from the shackles of Roy Ball.

 

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View slubglurge's Profile slubglurge Flag welling 05 Aug 21 9.12am Send a Private Message to slubglurge Add slubglurge as a friend

Macca's engine is showing signs of wear and tear and he can only do about an hour these days plus he has alway chipped in with a few goals and tellingly he didn't find the net once last season. Hughes is younger good on the ball and can put a foot in too. At the right price would be a good signing

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 05 Aug 21 9.14am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

I think his wages may be a problem he's a decent midfielder but if you believe that Watford have offered him north of £50k a week I can't see us matching that for an okay midfielder.

 


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View Omph's Profile Omph Flag Liverpool 05 Aug 21 9.53am Send a Private Message to Omph Add Omph as a friend

Originally posted by slubglurge

Macca's engine is showing signs of wear and tear and he can only do about an hour these days plus he has alway chipped in with a few goals and tellingly he didn't find the net once last season. Hughes is younger good on the ball and can put a foot in too. At the right price would be a good signing

Fair point on the engine and likely 60 + mins optimum pitch time.

Not sure that least season is a guide though. Not a sufficiently expert viewer to reason this out fully but it felt to me that after the early season splurge where we were tolerably front foot the midfield was around 5 paces behind or so from what you'd expect. Everyone more or less stationed as they were historically but just that telling bit further off goal.

My hypothesis was that Eze pushed everyone else back a bit. partly perhaps because there was a need to cover more in defence for him but also because he was notably our best option going forward - discounting Wilf of course. The other factor possibly being we were fielding 4th and 5th choices at CB almost the whole season and we were sitting back more to give extra cover there.

It just felt to my non-expert eye that we became a slight parody of ourselves as a Roy team last time out.
[I'd out Townsend decrease in output down to this same factor - if it stands up that is]


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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 05 Aug 21 10.02am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by slubglurge

Macca's engine is showing signs of wear and tear and he can only do about an hour these days plus he has alway chipped in with a few goals and tellingly he didn't find the net once last season. Hughes is younger good on the ball and can put a foot in too. At the right price would be a good signing

Macca injured quite a lot. Not sure he is match fit today.

 

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View palace99's Profile palace99 Flag New Mills 05 Aug 21 10.31am Send a Private Message to palace99 Add palace99 as a friend

Originally posted by sprites

Potentially. Although Macca is much better on the ball than given credit for. People just see him as a workhorse. I agree about Luka though. My admiration for him is well documented on here, but he's not quick and he may struggle to keep up. We'll see.

you've changed your tune very quickly.

Only a couple of days ago you were saying we didn't need another centre mid player and now you are all over Hughes.

IMHO this will not happen - his agent is just trying to get the best new contract for his client. If he has been offered £50k by Watford we won't be offering much more.

 

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View EddieMac's Profile EddieMac Flag 15 Aug 21 4.42pm Send a Private Message to EddieMac Add EddieMac as a friend

Will Hughes being linked to us is doing the rounds again today. Wouldn’t be a bad signing in my book.

 

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View Mathers's Profile Mathers Flag 15 Aug 21 4.51pm Send a Private Message to Mathers Add Mathers as a friend

Would be a very good signing. Knows the league well and would fit seamlessly into our midfield. Not likely to score many but his passing and tackling stats are decent. Definite Macca replacement

 

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View Painter's Profile Painter Flag Croydon 15 Aug 21 4.58pm Send a Private Message to Painter Add Painter as a friend

Originally posted by Mathers

Would be a very good signing. Knows the league well and would fit seamlessly into our midfield. Not likely to score many but his passing and tackling stats are decent. Definite Macca replacement

Hopefully addition not relacement, we are short of experienced options in midfield

 

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View BelfastEagle's Profile BelfastEagle Flag 15 Aug 21 5.26pm Send a Private Message to BelfastEagle Add BelfastEagle as a friend

A good championship standard player.

 

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View EddieMac's Profile EddieMac Flag 15 Aug 21 8.43pm Send a Private Message to EddieMac Add EddieMac as a friend

Originally posted by BelfastEagle

A good championship standard player.

A couple of levels above Riedewald so!

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 15 Aug 21 8.55pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

He was Marco Silva's first signing at Watford.

He acknowledged a few years ago that he needed to add goals to his game but since than has averaged about 2 goals a season.
In his younger days his game was all about passing and keeping the ball moving but he seems to have added a certain grit and determination to his play.

 

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