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His holding of the ball for the goal was very good waited until it was on instead of wasting it for like him very hard worker

I’d play him up top. Clever little player, busy, good feet, eye for goal. His link up play would be levels above the two options we currently have.

Not an awful shout at all.

Except maybe for the two dejected strikers on the bench with low morale.

Crap

brap2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 03, 2025 1:44 pmCrap

I do genuinely get why some might have that opinion, he often makes the wrong decision, or he's careless when making the right one and doesn't make the pass or it's not quite right for the receiver to take and move in one go. There were also 2-3 times last night he got dispossessed in tight areas whereas Grealish and KDH wriggled out of very similar positions with the ball.

His pressing is fantastic though and I felt that actually played a big part in us nullifying them last night, he works super hard off the ball and we have missed that press machine since Doucoure left.

The difference with Alcaraz and Doucoure is though that I genuinely think if we just started Alcaraz he'd iron out the sloppiness and poor decision making because he's very good technically. He just isn't anywhere near the finished article. A finished version of him imo is actually a really good player... We need to develop him though through game time to make that happen...let's remember he's only just turned 23 so same age as Barry.

Cods wrote: ↑Wed Dec 03, 2025 2:12 am Not an awful shout at all.

Except maybe for the two dejected strikers on the bench with low morale.

I have more sympathy for the 52,000 dejected fans having to watch these two tits fanny about on the pitch all season with no end product.