he's certainly playing better than previous but i dont think he's playing well.
Agree mate but we've spent a huge amount od money comparatively to our budget on a player the manager doesn't play at all. And I understand why, he looked miles off it on his debut.
Do you think he will be ready?
Don't know because I haven't seen him play. But I'm not going to write him off as a failure and waste of money just yet.
Yeah I know that but money could have been spent elsewhere obviously not rolling in it.
Neither am i, i just feel with the limited budget we had money could have been used more wisely.
we needed a LB though as borna was back to his mediocre self last season.
Great idea, drop our best player and Chuck him in.
Because although BB has been one of our best this season, it hasn’t been a high bar to reach. Secondly, Borna hadn’t any experience in Scotland until he was thrown in. I think BB has a habit of going on spells of up and down form and we simply cannot have that. When he’s on form, he is good ( with the occasional greet performance) when he is not on form, he is so poor it’s unbelievable.
Five weeks into a five year contract. A young expensive investment in our future given time to settle in a new club and country while the current incumbent is playing well in a misfiring team.
If he was signed as a backup to Borna, it's too much money.
It doesn't matter how low the bar is, dropping an in form player for a new one is bad for morale. He'll get his chance.
He'll need to be.
It's a very good point mate, but no matter how we want to badge it, in general he's done nothing to deserve to be dropped, he is a confidence player undoubtedly so dropping him to see if Ridvan is ready could see us have his confidence dip and if Ridvan then blips, we're kind of fecked. This is a decision I think GvB is getting right.
He's not getting any mins at all except for QotS and the odd cameo off the bench.
I’m doing some amount of moaning re Rangers at the moment and i hate it, I’m one of the biggest Rangers supporters going season ticket over 20 years etc but I’m just scunnered at the moment of how this club is being run! This signing in my eyes just didn’t make sense from a financial point if view.
A few issues.
The difference being is Everton can afford to spend that money on one player and have him settle in 6 months, we don’t.
I get where you're coming from but quite simply you can't drop a player who is in great form just to try your new signing out. The lad will need to wait his turn which will come.
Yeah, there's a lot of negativity around at the moment. I think it originates from the manager to be honest. The football being served up is turgid pish, wins or no wins, it can't go on. I think the players themselves sense this too.
If he's not played then it's ultimately to his detriment. Worst thing is seeing young players waste their relatively short careers sitting on a bench because they don't get played.
Yep....but won't be surprised if he's sold in January.
To be fair the theory is that you should have 2 quality players for each position so at least left back has that.
