banduan Think there's also the fact that football fans in general have been conditioned to prefer a great touch, even if that touch goes backwards, to players who have a sense of directness about them. Ball retention is considered better than trying to make something happen. Even dribbling the way Doku and Savinho does it has become about keeping the ball in the final third.
I always thought that Madueke stood out at Chelsea in a negative way because they subdued his natural qualities. He would have looked better at Crystal Palace for instance.
JazzG Have very little time for prats like Neville who can't make these connections to be honest: it's one thing that fans don't see it, they mainly deal with the factual output of the team, but he's being paid as an analyst to consider the bigger perspective. What's his point if he's just gonna sound like one of the lads at the pub?
