Easy to say in hindsight, but how on earth did we equal the Championship defensive record? Seemed we had opposition 'strikers' missing big chances against us on the regular, and apparently we were only 4th on the xGA table last season. WTE looked decent in the Championship, but certainly not infallible, just like all of them apart from possibly Sierralta
I was watching his positioning in the second half, it looks like he's playing a free role. Instead of holding his position he just went off chasing the ball, leaving a giant hole in behind for Kiko and Cathcart to cover. The confusing part was this wasn't occasionally and by a few yards, he ran off a good 10-15 yards in front of the back line repeatedly, almost every Man City attack - it was like watching school kids ball chasing.
Yeah, I mentioned that on Shoutbox. He was in a weird free role in the second half, almost like he’d been untethered from the back line.
Correct. No shock to me that Cathcart has looked better alongside Nkoulou because he hasn't had to cover him unlike WTF. Neither Cathcart, WTF or Kaba are the answer, but they're the only 3 available CB's at the moment so that's unfortunately where we are. The blame lies solely with the recruitment team and Pozzo/Dux that we are relying on these 3 defenders at this level along with Kiko & Masina! Some of us said this back at the end of August that if we had an injury crisis at the back that could be our undoing this season. January HAS to be used to bring in a minimum of two solid defenders at this level. Minimum.
I remember this being the case, and forming the basis of an analysis piece on either MOTD or Monday Night Football, back when Micah Richards had that weird 'late'-career period when he left City, moved to Villa and insisted on being a centre back. For some reason I'm not entirely sure, I always remember them highlighting how he would just depart from the defensive line and chase the ball like a dog after a car - I think their conjecture was essentially that despite his insistence, he was still playing as a full back and could not work out how to stop himself and gain the requisite positional discipline. WTE is just like that, but has no such excuse to fall back on.
He was a Udinese reserve. What were we expecting? Another Sierralta? We’d used up all our “turn Udinese reserve into gold” luck on him.
Not sure what anyone was expecting to be honest - probably not quite for him to end up being the worst centre back in Prem history, but regardless, he started 29 times in the league the season before he moved here - he was incredibly far from a reserve.
That’s kind of irrelevant really, and surely just makes it even worse that the owners ever thought he could be relied on as a serviceable option in the PL.
It just says it all when it's clear at this point that Kabasele would be a significant upgrade over him in the team. Kabasele, who's barely played the past couple of years, has never been very good himself and is probably past whatever his best was. I'd genuinely look to move Troost on in January. He's nowhere near good enough to even be fourth of fifth choice and I wouldn't want him in the side if we go down, either.
Just get out of the club you useless donkey. You're simply not good enough. Just eff off you farkin clown.
If this c**t starts against Burnley I am done with this sh*t club. Not even joking. It's beyond words now. Pathetic YouTube sh*tc**t.
He's literally cost us at least a goal a game and not just any goal... an absolute howler of a gift goal. What extra lowly depths of incompetency does he have to reach to be dropped. He is the worst player to ever play for the club and i will not watch another game he features in... I absolutely detest his existence in the team
Don't think I've hated a Watford player more. Dreadful footballer who costs us at least a goal a gamei. His social media videos pop up and they're ******* dire too. "Man gotta know what man's good at". Clearly not football you ****.
Sadly seems to have lost a lot of goodwill from the supporters after his defensive contributions last season and his part in getting our promotion campaign back on track. I was thinking he has to be dropped now but with Nkoulou and Sierralta still out who replaces him? Then I remembered...surely Kabasele can't be any worse?
Worst PL defender ever. Who even comes close, Titus Bramble? Can’t think of anyone else even remotely as bad. At this stage it really is beyond a joke, and soul destroying for us fans, no doubt all his colleagues and him.
Wow I thought kabs was the king of the clangers ,ekong takes it to another level just not good enough surely kabs got to be given a go Wednesday
Would love to see Kabbs AND WTE together, just for a laugh. Not ours obviously, the rest of the world.
Kabasele is a once in 4 or 5 clanger merchant. He can only dream of churning through clangers at the rate Troost is producing at the moment.
There's always a silver lining in every situation. AFCON is just around the corner, just remember that.
Yeah, from memory Kabbs is prone to producing an error under pressure, towards the end of the match if the result is on the line (much like today with WTE). WTE has them all nailed, from ones like today, through to ones for no reason at all, totally out of the blue and under no pressure what so ever.
With the irony being you’d be hard pressed to find an international player more deserving of being dropped.
Not sure the last time i turned on a player. Shame because reading the villa programme notes he seemes like the type of character i want in a team. Unfortunately he reminds me of me playing football and my team mates will tell you whilst I tried and was liked I should not have been anywhere near the pitch...
Nothing good lasts forever, but just enjoy AFCON while you can. Hopefully Nigeria will get to the final.
The problem is he only had a good game because he had yet to make an error, you know he can’t last 90 minutes without making one, it’s just that when his error comes in say minute 10, he’s crap for the rest of the game as well because of it. If his error comes later in the game you might get a better performance overall, but it’s irrelevant because the outcome is the same. Ultimately it makes no difference either way because he costs us one goal per game, which isn’t sustainable regardless of how he performs for the rest of it.
