[SIGNED perm] Jeremy Ngakia

I'd rather he can defend and needs work on his passing than the reverse.
He's very young and needs to play and learn.

 

If he’s not so weak as to be knocked off the ball by a light breeze and not so brittle as to shatter like a china teapot when he makes a tackle, then he’s an upgrade.

 

If we bring in Struber, he doesn't like to have his full-backs uneven with one defensive and one attacking - his preferred 4-3-1-2 diamond formation asks both full-backs to effectively act as wing-backs.

One thing I don't understand in that analysis is how "defensive duels per game" and "defensive duels won %" is defined and where those stats come from?

He looks very good on that graph there, but the data seems to have zero relation to the tackles attempted and tackles successful data I can see where he seems decent but not exceptional - whoscored has him at 55% "tackle success" and FBREF at 63% "tackle success"; while that guy's graph has his "defensive duels won" at 73%.

Relatedly, Ngakia's "percentage of dribblers tackled" on FBREF is marginally below average at 30% (Femenia was 37%, Masina 31%).

One other odd thing it that guy's stats, why has he omitted Wan-Bissaka and Alexander-Arnold?

 

Too many reports talk about him being "close to signing" and us being amongst the club's interested. It's clearly not a done deal that he will join us.

 

Data from his four or five appearances. Pointless to look at imo.

 

Maybe they're waiting until after the tribunal to announce it?

 

If Struber likes wing-backs that can't defend, we don't need to sign anyone.

 

I was at that game and it was his debut playing against Mane. He kept Mane quiet and provided a bit of an outlet. I think his passing stats are a bit of a red herring - not many players will get great stats in a game against Liverpool when most your passes are hoofs up the line.

 

Five appearances.

I don't think it's completely pointless, the stats seem to reflect what appear to be his general strengths and weaknesses, and also that Johnson seems a better prospect out of Spam's young RBs.

 

That depends on:
- if we keep Pervis for the LB spot, because Masina offers next to nothing going forwards
- If we keep Femenia
- If we keep Janmaat and he stays fit

 

I think we'll definitely keep Janmaat. He will play less than 20 games next season.

 

It wasn't just in his matches against Liverpool though.

Ngakia's pass completion:

- Liverpool Away (0-2 loss) - 56%
- Liverpool Home (2-3 loss) - 54%
- Southampton Home (3-1 win) - 44%
- Arsenal Away (0-1 loss) - 76%
- Wolves Home (0-2 loss) - 52%

So he achieved the average pass completion percentage for a PL full-back in only one of his 5 matches, which included his lowest %age in a 3-1 Home win vs Southampton.

Some West Ham fans seemed to pick up in their thread on him that passing accuracy is a weak point of his at the moment as well.

Along with defensive concentration across 90 minutes it's clear that's something he def needs to work on.

 

If Janmaat can generally stay fit then him and Ngakia should be good rotation options.

 

Being exceptionally lazy here but how many minutes did he play in each of those games?

 

90 in all bar the last game (81)

 

@Hogg-DEENEY!!! already posted that on the last page: http://wfcforums.com/index.php?threads/jeremy-ngakia.57128/page-3#post-2877614

And I already responded to it on this page: http://wfcforums.com/index.php?threads/jeremy-ngakia.57128/page-4#post-2877644

 

Janmaat and Ngakia on the right, and Estupinan and Masina on the left gives us a good balance of experience and promising talent at full back.

Ideally I'd like to see a more experienced replacement for Masina come in, and a flexible back up who can play across the defencel (/ike the roles Mariappa and Doyley have played for us in the past) but if we need to settle on this so we can sort out centre back and centre forward positions then I'd be happy with that.

 

I think Masina could be a good a Center back, worth trying him there in pre-season atleast.

 

I doubt any of those 4 will be here by the time the window closes.

 

I can't see Estupinan ever putting on a Watford shirt.

 

True. Janmaat will be here but never fit to play.

 

Not sure if you're aware but Howe has gone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53624837

 

If this has been supposedly nailed on for so long I'm surprised there's no announcement yet.

Probably realised he's made a huge mistake.

 

Anything on this fella? It's all very quiet.

 

I hear we may or may not be signing him. More detaills to follow....

 

Haha, excellent.

 

He's not coming. Would've been announced by now, he and his agent obviously looking for a Premier League club for him.

 

As I've posted earlier, I wonder if there's a chance they're waiting until the required transfer tribunal has happened?

 

Wouldn't that be a few weeks away?

 

No idea.

 

Not sure if this is just a rehashed old story, but SkySports are saying he's on the verge of signing.......but he's been on the verge for about a week now hasn't he?

https://www.skysports.com/football/...ex-west-ham-defender-close-to-joining-watford