Transfer Rumour Frank Onyeka (34 Viewers)

Lamps said:

We need to accept the occasional red card with the way he plays. The refs at this level can be very poor and he is very good at tackling from where you wouldn't expect.

The good thing is they won't be ready to dive as they won't be expecting the tackle.

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Well with not many games left if he is going to get a few red cards hardly worth him coming?You can just time your tackles better.

bukayosakamoto said:

What I don't understand is where he fits alongside Matty Grimes. When I look at his career stats he's registered barely any goals and assists which leads me to believe he's a very defensive midfielder. Does that mean we play him alongside Matty Grimes and have two defensive midfielders? Does only one of them play at a time? Does Frank go into the CDM role and Matty Grimes slightly further up in the 8?

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1) He isn't very defensive

2) There is this myth on her that during the period where we were smashing everyone Grimes wasn't playing in the build up phase as basically part of a back 3 as he was. The other midfielder was much deeper which allowed us to play through the other teams press without having to just lump it forward and it also meant if the other team did turn it over there was an extra man to hold up their attack and allow us to drop back into out defensive 4-4-2 shape. 3-1-6 can work well and is the attacking that a lot of the best teams in the world are aiming for but we had slipped into playing 3-0-7 and vacating the midfield.

coop said:

Well with not many games left if he is going to get a few red cards hardly worth him coming?You can just time your tackles better.

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I was thinking more long term after signing him permanently. His timing in a tackle is as good as you can get, but mistakes are made by every player in the world no matter how good they are.

PVA said:

You'd imagine the first choice three will be Grimes, Onyeka and Rudoni.

Eccles as Onyeka's backup and Torp as Rudoni's.

Grimes to continue playing every single second for all eternity

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Is that why he's got the Quaker beard? Because he knows he's going to heaven.

Be interesting to see how others perform around him. I think we all accept Rudi hasn't been the player this season that he was last, but hopefully the freedom afforded by having an engine in the middle linking the play, will bring out the best in him too and free him up to play the killer passes and become the goal threat that we all know he can be.

rob9872 said:

Be interesting to see how others perform around him. I think we all accept Rudi hasn't been the player this season that he was last, but hopefully the freedom afforded by having an engine in the middle linking the play, will bring out the best in him too and free him up to play the killer passes and become the goal threat that we all know he can be.

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Im hoping because he’s an all action energy player it will raise the levels, because some others have become very complacent. Need to work hard first and the results come. No time for passengers now.

In that AFCON semi final he was up against Brahim Diaz and didn’t fare too badly.

This is a brilliant watch about his journey as a kid from Nigeria on his football journey to Europe.