Xavi Simons

parklane1 said:

Lets hope so, his ability is very good needs a bit more confidence in himself. Hopefully that will come.

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I honestly don't think he lacks confidence, but he's a combinational player and under Frank we just didn't really have that for him to excell. He's someone that wants to bounce passes off nearby teammates and then move into space for the return ball.

With the additions we are seemingly trying to make and just the nature of the football De Zerbi likes to play i think we'll see a better fitting Xavi Simons regardless.

Bishop said:

I honestly don't think he lacks confidence, but he's a combinational player and under Frank we just didn't really have that for him to excell. He's someone that wants to bounce passes off nearby teammates and then move into space for the return ball.

With the additions we are seemingly trying to make and just the nature of the football De Zerbi likes to play i think we'll see a better fitting Xavi Simons regardless.

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Do not diasgree with either point really it just seems to me that he rushes some things which could be down to expectation as our main outlet. I am sure we will see more from him once he settles into the new system under Zerbi.

He's talented, for sure, but came into this league at an obvious disadvantage in terms of physicality, and still needs to develop ways of coping with and/or counteracting that. He had kind of started to show that was happening before the injury; let's hope he can pick up where he left off.

mudshark said:

He's talented, for sure, but came into this league at an obvious disadvantage in terms of physicality, and still needs to develop ways of coping with and/or counteracting that. He had kind of started to show that was happening before the injury; let's hope he can pick up where he left off.

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I think he looked absolutely fine in terms of coping with the physicality of the premier league. At first he struggled a bit with the pace, sometimes taking too long and at other times over compensating and rushing but appeared to be getting that right as well in the couple of games before his ACL injury.

I was actually surprised at how brave he is in the tackle and how he seems to relish the physical confrontations.

Finney Is Back said:

I think he looked absolutely fine in terms of coping with the physicality of the premier league. At first he struggled a bit with the pace, sometimes taking too long and at other times over compensating and rushing but appeared to be getting that right as well in the couple of games before his ACL injury.

I was actually surprised at how brave he is in the tackle and how he seems to relish the physical confrontations.

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Also will be very different okaying for a football coach rather than the plebs he had leading the majority of his time herr
We may actually work on attacking play and ball retention

Bedfordspurs said:

Also will be very different okaying for a football coach rather than the plebs he had leading the majority of his time herr
We may actually work on attacking play and ball retention

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He will come on really well under RDZ IMO (hopefuly Madders/Kulu too), after the Brighton game RDZ said:

"He's lucky to work with me - not because I'm good, because I was number 10. What he thinks now, I thought 20 years ago. So, we have a special connection. I have a special connection with all number 10s I work with. I love a number 10. A number 10 has to understand that he has to score and he has to make assists, not just play to be nice to the people - goals and assists. He played very well [against Brighton], a great game. I think he can play better and better, because a player like this, he needs to feel confidence from the manager, and I stay here to transfer all the confidence he needs, because I was a player, I was number 10, and I think I know what he thinks, because I thought the same when I was a player. I think I'm lucky to have this player on my team, but also he's lucky because with number 10, I can understand better than other coaches."