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Ridiculous performance from him. He's taken the RB position and secured it for years if he keeps this up. Him not having a single backup is a huge worry, though.

As if his age or current form have had nothing to do with his performances all season, right.

Well that certainly doesn't look good. Why was the board seriously content with having him and Roberto "compete" :lol:

He's been largely at fault for at least a goal per game over his pasts several appearances. Keep denying his lack of pace and age have anything to do with it, but it's a fact that he's declining hard and on this form there's no way he should be our starter. If Mathieu was playing like this he'd...

Arda has experience with Atletico, but not against them. He's never going to be the impact player he was brought on to be. Let him have the minnows until we finally ship him on. I'm certainly not against giving Lucho scorn when he deserves it, which is pretty damn often. I don't think he was...

Rafinha has always been a natural RW for us while Arda has shown himself to only be good from the LW. Makes little sense why we'd use Arda on the RW in this situation.

He didn't slip because he's suddenly an uncoordinated mess, he slipped because he got burned by a pacy attacker. This has been a problem for him for the past several games now, his one on one defending is getting worse as he ages. There were several mistakes made in the buildup to that goal but...

Him or Palencia, between the two I would hope at least one becomes a decent back up. I'm more leaning towards Palencia, though. I don't know much of him from his days prior to Juvenil A but since I've started watching him he's been more or less exactly the type of player Lucho wants in his...

Calling up players from the B team looks like the only realistic solution. We can only hope Palencia's hard working attitude is good enough for him to handle the minnows of La Liga, if such a chance is ever even afforded to him.

Ibra actually had a better start here than Suarez did, lel. It was as the season went on that the dream started to die...

By the way, left out of the match squad, again. Our only backup RB and he's so bad he can't even make the bench.

My question exactly. The guy has never been anything decent for us.

This notion of "proving the haters wrong" is so flawed it's ridiculous. Him suddenly turning into prime Alves won't make all of his shit performances vanish into thin air...

There's nothing we can do, we don't have any ties to Grimaldo, because... Lucho.

Well then that's plenty of time for us to see, but until then I'll go on the assumption that he won't be, rather than the often wrong assumption that he will be.

Better safe than sorry. I'd rather bring this kid in and watch him flop (It's not as if it hasn't happened before) while Roberto reigns supreme than not bring him in and watch Roberto flounder without any backup plan.

The major question here is can he? Most arguments I'm seeing are based on the assumption that Roberto is already proven, but in reality, he really, really isn't.

Maybe because he's not a RB. We can "what if" all day, mate, for every position. I don't care about how much it'd be for a defender, I care about improving a team. If we can spend 100m+ on the likes of Mathieu, Paco, Arda, etc. then there's no fucking way we can't afford to improve a...

Oh.

Remember when people said Lucho made the right decision when Grimaldo wasn't starting for Benfica 3 months after signing? Even more fun times.