Martin Ødegaard: Öde To Joy

[hydrofluoric acid]

It’s one of the most confusing things about him. Surely you rest a player before it’s apparent on the pitch and to everyone at home that they need a rest?

Worrying if we are signing players that can't play 250 minutes of football anymore.

 

[Legend14]

Baseball is honestly one of the wankest sports in the world.

psychologically the hardest

 

[Legend14]

40 million would be brilliant.

You cant write someone off after one quiet game against the best team in the world (on current form), especially when hes sitting in front of muppets like mo and granit

Too early to make an assessment. Its the PL; there is nothing like it.

He needs to trust his abilities. I think he will as he becomes acclimated. He’ll review ManC game and come back stronger.

 

[Geofranco]

This guy doesn't have the power or burst to really take over games. He is clearly very good technical player with vision, but something about him gives me Özil vibes. A player that can be taken out of games with some physicality. If the players ahead are not going to offer intelligent movement and the other mids are not going to play the right passes to him, he could be very pedestrian. Still like him, but we shouldn't put all our eggs in the Ødegaard basket. We have to look for other options in that position.

 

[TakeChillPill]

It's difficult to look good against man city TBF. Didn't have much impact. To early to judge, more positives then negaives

 

[scytheavatar]

Very bad performance from him today.

If we get tricked into paying 40 M or something for him next summer I might get mad for few hours.

The market for attacking minds is so weak right now........ you think we can sign a better attacking mid for 40million? Buendia is not better.

 

[blrgooner]

He was really poor today, but he is unlikely to face pressing like this in other games. This game was just too difficult for him with the other two midfielders choosing to stay behind the man city lines at all times. Can`t judge him based on this.

 

[DanDare]

He was really poor today, but he is unlikely to face pressing like this in other games. This game was just too difficult for him with the other two midfielders choosing to stay behind the man city lines at all times. Can`t judge him based on this.

He and Pepe were specifically targeted by their press all game

 

[Trilly]

This guy doesn't have the power or burst to really take over games. He is clearly very good technical player with vision, but something about him gives me Özil vibes. A player that can be taken out of games with some physicality. If the players ahead are not going to offer intelligent movement and the other mids are not going to play the right passes to him, he could be very pedestrian. Still like him, but we shouldn't put all our eggs in the Ødegaard basket. We have to look for other options in that position.

@Rimaal similar to what you were saying right? Without the Özil slander ofc!

 

[pikey2000]

I like him but am still dubious over signing him for some reason, I feel like given our lack of goals from wide area's we need a 10 that will weigh in with goals as well as assists, a bit like James for Everton, not expecting 15 goals a season but someone who can pick a shot out when given the chance, if for nothing else it gives the opponent something else to worry about, with an Ødegaard player you just know he will look for the pass and stay on the edge of the box, as long as they close the gaps and space on him it mitigates his effectiveness much like Özil, we need a 10 that can either go past a player or two dribbling or pick out top bins every now and again......obviously hard to come by, but that's my reservation with the Ødegaard type.

Of course, would be entirely different if we had goals coming from other areas i.e out wide or CM, but we don't unfortunately.

 

[HomeSteak]

I'm done with number 10's. He is a good player, would do better if he has time to adapt to he league, true. But no more number 10. It's over. Give me an all around CM, that never stops running and has some sort of physical ability

 

[Rex Stone]

Should have gottten JLingz on loan instead

 

[<<reed>>]

Unreal sauce

 

[Rex Stone]

Unreal sauce

Guy even makes Umbro look good ffs

 

[Maybe]

We need more players like him around, not Elneny's and Xhaka's. Technical players thrive when they have players similar to them around, not grunt workers.
I'd like him to move deeper in the midfield and have ESR in front of him, with Partey taking care of protecting our back 4. Very similar to what Real Madrid was doing with Kroos, Casemiro and Modric with great success.
Not gonna happen with Bumteta though, the guy is addicted to having nontechnical midfielders dictating our game

 

[Rimaal]

@Rimaal similar to what you were saying right? Without the Özil slander ofc!

He's nothing like Özil. He's very much in the James Rodriguez mold, but not quite as good.

 

[Gooner416]

Didn't know One Direction were hammers.

 

[OSBK]

I didnt see it before, i dont see it now. If he cannot make a any impact against city then wtf would we buy him for. We dont play leeds every week sadly.

 

[AbouCuéllar]

Honestly quite confused by some of the comments about him here that I read...He gives us badly needed quality and composure on the ball in the 10 space, not to mention a better final ball than anyone on our team (with respect to Saka).

ESR gave us a boost in quality by giving us an actual option in the 10 space, but between ESR and Ødegaard in terms of quality, there's not really much discussion. Ødegaard has that pause and comfort on the ball that ESR doesn't yet, saying nothing of the superior final ball on Ødegaard. The left interior position suits ESR to a tee, honestly, given that he's rather athletic, and can press well and create good overloads or take advantage of interesting spaces. But yeah, it's no surprise that when Ødegaard and Saka are on the right that our attacking play is highly biased toward that side. It would be nice if ESR could get on the ball a bit more and create some overloads for Tierney since he's a far better attacking full-back than Bellerín on the right...

 

[Monstar-Gunn4r]

Not sure why hes in the team, gets the ball passes it backwards nearly every time.

Very similar to a lot of our problem players over the years, safe pass after safe pass, if there is anyone tight to him he will make a safe pass.

Hes looking like a hard working Özil without that spark that Özil used to have.