Fantastic display all round by Adel. Huge praise from Trevor Francis in commentary. His link up play with the new front two looks like it could be crucial.
I agree with Sooperhoop, just let him do what he did yesterday. Barton not worthy of the armband in my opinion, my choice would be Ferdinand - who by the way is getting better with every game.
I loved the fact that Zamora was giving Barton instructions yesterday as in the first half it was clear that Barton was behind positional at times and Zamora was directing things .... Adel had a free role that was clear but Barton keeps yapping to hold position which he did very very well. When Adel switched a couple of times barton did not move over ... Barton also was guilty i saw twice of seeing Adel but spinning and playing to the right (SWP) in fact it got tight a few times because of bad ball play by Barton. I honestly think that Barton is jealous or has blinkers on regarding Adel. The truth is very much that Barton is the poison that caused a lot of of off pitch problems. I wish a few on here would see what i have been saying for the last few months. Weigh it up lads: NW's gone and claimed that it wasn't rosy behind the scenes Who has the gob? Adel was portrayed as a dim wit child ... he isn't at all .. he is just a superb talent coming to terms with his talent ... let him play If we stay up (We will) Adel Taarabt will become the best player in this league by a mile and we will see a 30m bid plus We are so lucky to have him Barton prove me wrong ... it isn't gonna happen brothers
Forgot i have seen Paul Scholes play a few times and there has never been a better midfielder than him
Should play 4-1-3-2...but you're getting it...you're definitely getting it! Mh likes 4-4-2 so the slight variation of 4-1-3-2 is more likely imo.
We have been playing 4-1-3-2, ever since MH got here! He's put Joey in front of the CBs and look at what's happened. Totally worthless give-aways. We don't need the midfielder to sit back there. Back 4 can handle themselves, overlapping. The front 5 need to play up, and move each other around. Adel needs to be in the middle of all that.
Nope...you must have a defensive midfielder in front of the back 4. Barton has to do it cos there's no one else other than Derry. Faurlin would have been ideal! Diakite will sit there and, if it were me, Barton would be on the bench.
Adel is not captain material. Dispite success last season there was to many occasions when he showed his childish behaviour. Going forward in think that Faurlin or Onouha are the best options.
Has there been a recent poll on here about who should be club captain.....if there has what was the result, i'd be quite interested to know...
I only ask because I have no idea who the captain should be....and I think that is part of our problem at the moment. When things like yesterday happen we dont have anybody who the other players look to....Barton is never a captain in my opinion and should have had the armband taken away when he slated Warnock, Derry won't play enough, Tarbs needs to just do what he does best so that leaves no-one. I wonder if Sparky sees one of his signings as the next Captain.....