Pre-season specialist Haris Vučkić joins FC Twente

What I was looking for is an indication that both would consistently be starting.

I will bet you or anyone £1000 that we'll drop if Smith and Nolan start more than a combined 55 league games.

Wouldn't be a bad bet for those who'd bet against you tbh.

Taking into consideration that Nolan is the captain and will play 35-38 games (if there's no injury). Leaving a rest of 20 for Smith and he already has 3 of them around the corner. 

Knowing my luck, we would stay up comfortably but they would only make it to 54 games and Ronaldo would be totaly right in that case as he's in every case.  

What I was looking for is an indication that both would consistently be starting.

 

I will bet you or anyone £1000 that we'll drop if Smith and Nolan start more than a combined 55 league games.

I would so take that if you and your word had any credibility at all.

What I was looking for is an indication that both would consistently be starting.

 

I will bet you or anyone £1000 that we'll drop if Smith and Nolan start more than a combined 55 league games.

 

I would so take that if you and your word had any credibility at all.

Should make it realistic say 50 quid, ask Dave or one of the admin if you can both pay into the sites paypal account, then they release the funds to the winner and takes say 10% for the site.

What I was looking for is an indication that both would consistently be starting.

 

I will bet you or anyone £1000 that we'll drop if Smith and Nolan start more than a combined 55 league games.

 

I would so take that if you and your word had any credibility at all.

 

Should make it realistic say 50 quid, ask Dave or one of the admin if you can both pay into the sites paypal account, then they release the funds to the winner and takes say 10% for the site.

 

I like the way you think. Come on now guys put your money where your mouth is!

What I was looking for is an indication that both would consistently be starting.

 

I will bet you or anyone £1000 that we'll drop if Smith and Nolan start more than a combined 55 league games.

 

I would so take that if you and your word had any credibility at all.

Well, I just admitted that I hadn't placed the bet when it would have been easy to fib. You won't take it because you have no bollocks.

How did mr Vuckic do tonight? was he centre-midfield?

lasted the full 90

How did mr Vuckic do tonight? was he centre-midfield?

 

lasted the full 90

Thought had a few good touches/passes and closed down in the middle well but when he wasn't near the ball he looked a bit lazy.

Also quite a few wayward passes and often looked a bit out of his depth. Some nice plays mixed in. All in all rather mediocre really though and nothing to write home about. Don't know if there was a fear factor, playing at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea etc. Would effect different people diffferent ways.

Usually plays a bit more advanced than central midfield though, right?

He was decent, he didn't play much with our first team before and it showed as he was nervious at the start, grew in confidence from then on and looked much better, think he has some potential in him.

No more out of place than Smith, Loven and Jonas for the most part imo, some good/some poor overall not too bad last night.

How did mr Vuckic do tonight? was he centre-midfield?

 

lasted the full 90

 

Thought had a few good touches/passes and closed down in the middle well but when he wasn't near the ball he looked a bit lazy.

Agree with this. He looked ok, but out of position. Played a great bit of football with Gutierrez to set up Ranger's miss, but otherwise he was fairly anonymous.

Would like to see him in a more advanced role next time, tbh he should have moved up behind Shola and Lovenkrands more.

Decent performance from him but people were expecting fireworks...

he looks like a big lad. taller/stronger than colo from photos i saw, but i guess thats not saying much

Just watched the highlights (again), forgot how much he was involved in the 1st goal, and how close he was to slotting in from Shola's shot come cross thing. He was by no means the best out there, but for a 17 year old at Stamford Bridge against some very good players, he looked comfortable. At the very least, with him, Ranger and Ferguson playing well, we have youngsters who look like they can break into the first team, and not only that, have the potential to become very good players. Which is rare for us.

The hassling of the first player and robbery of the second for the Shola chance kicked away near the line was fucking class, exactly the sort of thing you want to see. He wasn't outstanding per se but it was a promising performance. For me, better than he played against Accrington and against far better players.

he did look really tall in one the pics he over 6ft ?

6ft 1 isn't he?

I think people are a little too over excited about the fella tbh, saw a few saying they felt a bit let down by his performance  far too much expectation over a 17 year old.

TIME TIME TIME

He needs lots of it

To be fair to him, he was up against some extremely seasoned performers in Ramires, Zhrikov and Benayoun. I've not seen anything of him really but i get the kind of feeling that he's a player the team needs to be based around. It's only been 2 games and yeah he wasn't great against Accrington but we played hoofball and bypassed the midfield 90% of the time, how can a creative midfielder really dominate in such a scrappy game? He looks to have good technique, vision and a very strong physique, there's a lot of potential there.

6ft 1 isn't he?

 

I think people are a little too over excited about the fella tbh, saw a few saying they felt a bit let down by his performance  far too much expectation over a 17 year old.

6ft 3, and he's 18, your stats are from last year.

No reason to be let down by his performance, he was ok and didn't do much wrong, was actually fighting for the ball and chasing Chelsea players down which i didn't know he had in him.

Think it's been said before, but he's definitely a #10 kind of player rather than an allround midfielder in 4-4-2.

Specialist players like that tend to struggle when they're played out of position, even world class allround attacking midfielders like Sneijder can struggle if they're shoehorned into a deep midfield role or made to play out wide.

Gotta remember aswell he's just gone 18, and was playing alongside Smith against a midfield costing around £40 million. Think we should reserve judgement just yet, especially when you consider just how much Carroll came on in just a 6 month spell 3 years on from where Vuckic is in his career.