But it’s taken him till now to be fit. Would have been absolutely no good to usNo, it’s that a bloke who had played regular top flight football in France and Greece and is the position we are crying out for would have been able to do a job
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But it’s taken him till now to be fit. Would have been absolutely no good to usNo, it’s that a bloke who had played regular top flight football in France and Greece and is the position we are crying out for would have been able to do a job
Not if we’d signed him way before January. It’s not like we didn’t know we needed a defensive midfielder all season.But it’s taken him till now to be fit. Would have been absolutely no good to us
Him and his agent were still f***ing around waiting for an imaginary top end move in those days. There’s better than him. Go get them.Not if we’d signed him way before January. It’s not like we didn’t know we needed a defensive midfielder all season.
It doesn’t matter now like as the season is over.
Fully agree mateHim and his agent were still f***ing around waiting for an imaginary top end move in those days. There’s better than him. Go get them.
It was against one of the worst sides to ever play in this division like.
Given he's only just got up a level of match fitness now, with 7 games to go, he wouldn't have made any difference to our season anyway. Presumably he's earning a fortune as well.
We've needed a holding midfielder since Evans went off injured about a year ago. Not sorting that out in the summer was the missed opportunity. I didn't understand the clamour for M'Vila in January, he was never the answer to anything.
From what I’ve seen from west brom fans they seemed to think he looked fairly rusty and his passing was quite wayward
He wasn't really a scapegoat, that would have meant he was blamed for other people's mistakes. I think he mainly got shit because of his own mistakes. A boo-boy maybe, but again that was down to his consistent mistakes. A decent, honest pro who gave his all but was an accident waiting to happen in defence and it usually did and didn't quite have the quality to go any further as a winger.We got a million for Gooch. Committed, heart like a lion, but too attacking to be a defender, too defensive to be an attacker. We would have forever blamed him for things, he was our favourite scapegoat. Stoke are where they are in small part because it was the right deal for us.
just searched M’vila on twitter. A couple people saying similar to you that he looked good against poor opposition. Some saying he did ok but others saying he was off the pace. One joked he was 10 minutes behind everyone else and was clumsy.Aye. I qualified my earlier post with that too.
He has been available all year. He was a free agent and he could have been signed at any time and got up to fitness a lot quicker. We’ve been desperate for a player in that role and he was an easy and viable option. Mowbray was practically begging for a midfielder with experience. He would have come and not broken the wage structure.
We signed none.
Any links to those comments? I suspect it might be one comment on twitter about three minutes into the game!
Passing success rate of 87%, 76 passes. He was really comfortable and just looked entirely at ease. Poor opposition to say the least however
There has to be better players around than M’Vila now surely. Go get them instead.
In fairness this is a reasonable point, we could have signed him in the summer or at any point as he was out of contract. He could only be registered in an open window but he could have been training and getting properly fit ready for January. In the summer I think we expected to sign someone else. In January we were just not very good in the market.Not if we’d signed him way before January. It’s not like we didn’t know we needed a defensive midfielder all season.
It doesn’t matter now like as the season is over.
Unearth a gemI’m sure there is. They’ll cost serious money that I’m not sure we’ll be willing or able to pay
Plays for Albion = he's shite
Play for Sunderland = He'll be the bollox.
Got to love SMB.
What did you think of him last night?
Poor opposition and not particularly challenged but I thought you could still see his quality.
Do you think he’s done enough to earn a deal for next season?I thought he was Ok, but obviously needs a good pre season. I think it was a no brainer on our part given he was a free agent and we needed CDM cover for Yokoslu.
Do you think he’s done enough to earn a deal for next season?
And yet none of them look comfortable at CdmMind, by not signing him, we've given Ekwah a full season, Neil has flourished and Rigg looks nailed on to be a first team regular next season, with Jobe and Auchiche pushed on.
4 from 5 of those on any given Saturday looks like a very strong midfield to me. Add maybe one more in the summer.
As if the SMB is saying he's shite. Mind I haven't seen any of those posts.Plays for Albion = he's shite
Play for Sunderland = He'll be the bollox.
Got to love SMB.