Salibatelli wrote:Tomiyasu and Ramsdale have been consistently good, so they’re hits.
Odegaard started badly, improved but we’ll have to see how he gets on going forward
White has made plenty of errors and has some glaring weaknesses in his game, definitely not worth 50 million on that basis you cannot call him a hit.
Lokonga doesn’t look ready, on that basis he’s not a hit right, likewise Tavares he started well but his performances have dipped.
You’ve been going on about how amazing our transfer window time and time again, yes there’s been positives but it’s not quite as amazing as you’re saying.
The season has been up and down, we had a few months of abject displays and some bad defeats, we then improved again and have now lost our last 2 again (though we did play well against City, but ultimately we lost due to our own mistakes).
Still a long way to go in the season and all that matters is the end result, if we end the season without top 4 and fail in the CC as well it will have been a failure given we have no European football and how other teams have really stuttered thus really opening up the race for top 4.
We’ve had a good run and some good performances for a few weeks but it will count for nothing if we don’t end up achieving anything.
I wouldn’t consider top 6, given we have less games than our rivals, spent 150 million in the summer (and are looking at spending more as well) and that our rivals have been poor a good result personally.
You've shown your hand on this, though. In the Forest game you made a claim after 14 minutes that White was being beaten nearly every time by Davis in their duels. I watched that 14 minutes again and logged their duels and as it turns out White won almost everything against Davis.
Detail of this first 14 minutes here:
https://www.goonersworld.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32736&p=2009224#p2009038You either lied because you wanted to drive an agenda or you a pre disposed to pay more attention to anything White does wrong.
He hasn't made 'plenty of errors' at all. He's made about as many as Gabriel or any other top defender. It's just you are focused on them for your own reasons.
That makes your opinion on White entirely worthless. It doesn't come from a place or either objectivity or reality.
As the PL numbers show above, defensively White is easily performing at the levels of Tomiyasu and Gabriel and his forward play with the ball has been excellent. You, for example, have said several times that he can't head the ball, yet he is our BEST defender in aerial duels, better even that Tomiyasu who we recognise is strong in that area.
Odegaard has played well this season. He's really developed well. Earlier in the season he was pressing very well and now he's shining in terms of his passing and chance creation. Any objective fan would call him a good signing.