Arthur

BBZ8800 said:

His stats till now reminds me of Dembele from last season.
Poor matches, scores a goal=stats looks awesome.

His play in the attacking 3rd is only slightly better than the last season and his game is still full of backpasses, ballhogging, slowing down the game, passing to a nearest teammate and bad passes in the attacking 3rd.
Masked by a good pass (assist) here and there.
Midfield is even more chaotic than the last season.
Midfield is MIA in almost every away game, which wasn't happening in the first 2 EV's seasons.
Our overall defending (where Frenkie and Arthur are helping a lot) is worse than ever in EV's 3 seasons.
His physique and stamina already reminds on the 2nd part of the last season.

I have said a few weeks ago, just wait until any player plays more and 10s of bugs and obvious flaws will surface.

I am glad that more users are lately posting some doubts about Arthur.
Because a hype, alibies and pushing a head into a sand regarding his flaws are reminding me on Dembele on this forum in his 1st two years.
1. Sport was attacking poor Dembele and inventing bad stories about him "for no reason"
2. Suarez was yelling at him for no reason
3. a lot of teammates said remarks about him
4. EV was dropping him or subbing him all the time
Yet people had alibies for everything. A team is not moving, he has no one to pass the ball to, Suarez is dumb, EV is dumb, Sport is inventing stories.

Arthur is a nice player to have in a team.
A guy with some good areas and a guy with some really poor areas.
But you guys are acting as if we are watching a reincarnation of Xavi, lol.

In this moment, he is by far the most overrated player by our fanbase.
Dembele was no1 in the last season.

Now, on larger samples, I don't think that a current Arthur's season is any better than the first season.
The only difference is that some stats (Assists and 2 goals) are now on his side.

At the end of the last season, he dropped to a 5th place in the pecking order (Busi, Raki, Vidal, Alena, Arthur).
EV tried a lot of new things at the beginning of this season, due to a pressure of fans and the board.
But if Arthur will continue to play as bad as he did in the last 5-6 matches, I wouldn't be surprised if he'll lose a starting 11 spot again even to grannies Vidal and a goner Raki.

In the first 2 EV's seasons, we played boring, sterile and static.
But except matches like Anfield and a few of big matches, we weren't outplayed by Mickey Mouse teams.
In the last 3 weeks, with Frenkie-Arthur midfield duo, we were heavily outplayed in midfield by mighty giants Slavia Prague, Eibar and Levante.

You guys will offer 100s of random excuses before you will finally point fingers to 2 new players in midfield who are also responsible for an extremely chaotic and all over the place midfield.

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JohnN said:

Even Arthur wouldn't help today, as EV would probably put him alongside Messi far up the field. By not playing through the middle we can't take advantage of our two great on the ball midfielders.

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serghei said:

Would not have mproved our overall performance because nobody can under this garbage manager, but could've been decisive with a great pass here and there.

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JohnN said:

Some say he has no stamina but he seems to run like crazy at minute 92 to prevent a throw in. Weird stuff..

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Riordon said:

For me its a bit worrying that our two CM's didn't even create a single chance. We need some creative spark in our midfield.

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Riordon said:

For me its a bit worrying that our two CM's didn't even create a single chance. We need some creative spark in our midfield.

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serghei said:

Because you need movement to create chances. This team has none.

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Riordon said:

Agree. There are situations though where I wish both Frenkie and Arthur were braver in their pass selection but hopefully will come with time. Movement upfront and lack of runners in behind are our problem numero uno.

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