GunnerShy
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Painfully off the pace last night. In fairness he's missed some football. But that was grim stuff.
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Lucas Torreira: 2019/20 Performances
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Country: England
How many games at Arsenal has he been an 8+?
Malky
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Hopefully some Italian club is daft enough to take him off our hands at a decent fee.
Country: England
Atalanta or a EL side will come in for him, loan and obligation no doubt.
Jury
A-M's drunk uncle
Nearly 5 months away from PL action due to a bad ankle injury can do that to the best of them.
rich 1990
Not A Big Believer In Diversity
He's too small.
GDeep™
League is very weak
He’ll get moved on in the summer. On loan probably, nobody is paying the fee we got for him.
Country: England
It’s a shame because he was meant to be a Coquelin that could pass.
Instead he’s just as bad on the ball, shorter and less athletic. We actually paid 25M to downgrade and that is crazy to me.
Instead he’s just as bad on the ball, shorter and less athletic. We actually paid 25M to downgrade and that is crazy to me.
Country: England
He had/has potential, to me it looks like a case of him just not having it between the ears. I don’t think he’s ever settled, the fall off was far too drastic.
tcahill
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Come on, he was playing really well in a significant portion of his first season here. 5 MOTM awards in a row including Pool and Sp**s.
lomekian
Essays are my thing
It is rather alarming the difference in quality from him compared to the beginning of last year, but I think he's totally unsuited to a 5-2-3. He needs someone in that central zone or a more advanced midfield partner to pass to because that's his strength on the ball.
His game is press quickly, win it, play it quickly forwards to someone not too far away. Emery tried to play him like Vieira which was insane, and Arteta isn't currently playing in a way that suits him.
Ultimately I don't think he has the physical attributes to succeed in the EPL at the base of the midfield 3, because he's only effective with the ball on the floor and with smallish distances to cover. He'd probably be great for someone like Napoli or Sevilla.
His game is press quickly, win it, play it quickly forwards to someone not too far away. Emery tried to play him like Vieira which was insane, and Arteta isn't currently playing in a way that suits him.
Ultimately I don't think he has the physical attributes to succeed in the EPL at the base of the midfield 3, because he's only effective with the ball on the floor and with smallish distances to cover. He'd probably be great for someone like Napoli or Sevilla.
Artisan
Not Emery's Old Pal
No way we are making our money back on this guy. We didn't even really need hindsight to know we should've dumped him on Milan when they were interested, he was ****e for most of the season and was already crying about England not being Italy.
At least the profit from Guendouzi sale will offset any major loss we make on this guy.
Bloodbather
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Country: Turkey
Not sure why people are surprised that Torreira sucks in a midfield two in a 3-5-2. He's a DM that stands behind two other central midfielders, that's it. He does well when he plays there, doesn't do well when he doesn't play there. Not rocket science.
BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
No one is surprised by anything, I’d be more surprised by a good performance. He stinks regardless of formation, terrible signing.
Tir Na Nog
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Country: Ireland
You can picture the typical Torreira performance in your head. A lot of pointless 5 yard passing, runs about a bit, makes a couple of tackles and maybe gets an interception. But fails to really do anything progressive with the ball and has an tendency to be chasing shadows a lot of the time off the ball.
I just think of that defeat to United in the cup last season when Pogba absolutely ragdolled him. He looked like a child, you can't be building a serious side with some who gets embarrassed like that. Since then it's not exactly gotten better, cannot remember the last time he's really put in a top performance in a serious game.
But yeah, I wasn't surprised at all. You see Ceballos-Torreira as your midfield partnership and your expectations are on the floor.
I just think of that defeat to United in the cup last season when Pogba absolutely ragdolled him. He looked like a child, you can't be building a serious side with some who gets embarrassed like that. Since then it's not exactly gotten better, cannot remember the last time he's really put in a top performance in a serious game.
But yeah, I wasn't surprised at all. You see Ceballos-Torreira as your midfield partnership and your expectations are on the floor.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
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He has been here about 24 months or so now.
His first 6 months he was probably our best CM, then he had about 12 months of averageness really, up and down games...but these last 6 months Jesus he has been bad, would rather have had Elneny here
His first 6 months he was probably our best CM, then he had about 12 months of averageness really, up and down games...but these last 6 months Jesus he has been bad, would rather have had Elneny here
Country: England
Send him back to Italy, tanned Warwick Davis.
MD3 Gunner
All Deals Off
He was shocking when he came on, I wanted him to stay early on but now I think I may have second thoughts. He's also one of our sellable assets..
Pop Tart
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He has been here about 24 months or so now.
His first 6 months he was probably our best CM, then he had about 12 months of averageness really, up and down games...but these last 6 months Jesus he has been bad, would rather have had Elneny here
He is too south american for my taste, goes steaming in and loses his cool completely . Easy for opposition to target. Probably a good player but the pace of this league is not for him
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