Player Watch Player Watch: Pape Sarr

[spurmin]

I’m gonna watch it again in a sec; but from what I recall watching it this morning on motd, it could easily have been given as a foul against Sarr.

It was.

 

[daveduvet]

It was.

I wrote wrong, didn’t I!? I meant in favour of Sarr

 

[cozzo]

He is young and made a mistake. Saying that the penalty decision was weak.

Maitland Miles played for it, he was already in the air before sarr air kicked

 

[chas vs dave]

Maitland Miles played for it, he was already in the air before sarr air kicked

It's wierd how intent isn't taken into consideration. There was no intent to kick maitland niles. He also didn't have the ball, or was in control of the ball. There was no advantage gained, and the contact was debatable. How is this a clear and obvious foul?

 

[sparx100]

Maitland Miles played for it, he was already in the air before sarr air kicked

Yeah absolutely agree, however the air kick was so high, it was clumsy that was all.

 

[seanyboy]

It's wierd how intent isn't taken into consideration. There was no intent to kick maitland niles. He also didn't have the ball, or was in control of the ball. There was no advantage gained, and the contact was debatable. How is this a clear and obvious foul?

I think that last question is what's actually wrong with the whole thing. That question is actually intentionally left out of the process.

They're not there to judge if it's a clear and obvious "foul," but rather if it's a clear and obvious "error" by the official. So instead of VAR actually judging the game, they're judging the decision of the referee given what he/she can see.

It's laughable that the intent isn't to actually improve the game itself but they're probably scared on how it'd reflect on officials if more call reversals were made so it's this frustrating loophole which is so innately frustrating and useless. I'd vote for an NFL style challenge budget and have replay officials judge the actual play, not the play call. It'd be better.

 

[H-SF]

8 league minutes since he was the best player on the pitch at the San Siro. What a boring coward Stellini is

 

[Yantino]

Must be frustrating for him to watch a player as limited as Hojbjerg getting in the team ahead of him all the time. I am sure that when a proper coach comes in (whoever that might be) we will see Sarr integrated pretty quickly. He’s shown too much potential not to be.

 

[hero]

We buy young players with a potential and don't give them game time for their development. Amid the fact that the more experienced players don't pull trees. I gave up to find a logic.

 

[spursfan1991]

8 league minutes since he was the best player on the pitch at the San Siro. What a boring coward Stellini is

Club signings are only allowed to play in emergencies according to Conte's entourage.

 

[Flobadob]

8 league minutes since he was the best player on the pitch at the San Siro. What a boring coward Stellini is

Have to agree. You could see the lad was a yard ahead of every other CM we have other than Bentancur in his head, he took assured first touches and knew exactly what his plan was whereas Hojbjerg takes a touch and then decides, it’s just poor. Along with that he’s a very good athlete and has the ability to score goals. He’s the future of this club and the future needs to begin now, enough wasting time on average players, this lad will go to the top, it’s extremely obvious

 

[RuskyM]

We buy young players with a potential and don't give them game time for their development. Amid the fact that the more experienced players don't pull trees. I gave up to find a logic.

It's such a basic error that I'm staggered it hasn't been resolved. I assume most of the time the people paid a lot of money to make these decisions are pretty good at their job, but with Clarke, Rodon, Reguilon, Bryan, Sarr and Spence, all we've done is waste their time with scattergun loans and a closed shop at the top. It doesn't increase their value, it doesn't improve them as players, it doesn't help the manager; what's the point?

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

8 league minutes since he was the best player on the pitch at the San Siro. What a boring coward Stellini is

Criminal treatment, absolutely criminal.

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

It's such a basic error that I'm staggered it hasn't been resolved. I assume most of the time the people paid a lot of money to make these decisions are pretty good at their job, but with Clarke, Rodon, Reguilon, Bryan, Sarr and Spence, all we've done is waste their time with scattergun loans and a closed shop at the top. It doesn't increase their value, it doesn't improve them as players, it doesn't help the manager; what's the point?

More so to the fact that most of our best players over the last 10 years have been this exact profile, and most of our flops have been "ready made", expensive senior signings.

Why we don't make use of these players when they are the type that have given us our best years recently is truly baffling.

 

[agrdavidsfan]

He should look to leave if he was at Brighton people would be talking about him like Caicedo

 

[HotSprut]

I truly cannot understand why he doesn't get to play more.

 

[Nick-TopSpursMan]

The mis-management of Sarr sums up what a complete shitshow we are and how clueless our management team are too.

Went to the San Siro at 20 years old, completely unfazed and was superb, miles better than all of our more experienced players. Showed superb composure, technique, passing and athleticism.

Barely played since.

It's negligence of the highest order.

We have to go back to how we used to be, where we actually played and developed younger players. It was part of our identity and it's a fact that we've actually developed and created most of the top players we've had over the last 10-20 years or so.

Even the likes of Modric, Eriksen etc. If we had bought them in this current environment we'd have refused to play them and they wouldn't have developed.

I'm sick of it.

 

[Freddie]

I can't think of a single reason not to start him for the rest of the season. I don't know what our coaches see when they watch us play at the moment.

 

[carpediem991]

Its all what is wrong with Conte, Stellini and their team. There is a zero chance for certain (mostly young) players, to get into the side. They are used in emergency only and the funny thing is, they often (like Sarr in Milan) perform better than your experienced weekly starters and yet it changes nothing in the weekly setup. Never have seen such cowards in management and then you wonder why players are scared to attack or try anything. Its horrendous squad management, something I really hope the next management is improving.

 

[Trix]

It's such a basic error that I'm staggered it hasn't been resolved. I assume most of the time the people paid a lot of money to make these decisions are pretty good at their job, but with Clarke, Rodon, Reguilon, Bryan, Sarr and Spence, all we've done is waste their time with scattergun loans and a closed shop at the top. It doesn't increase their value, it doesn't improve them as players, it doesn't help the manager; what's the point?

It's exactly this that makes the appointments of Jose and Conte even more ridiculous. It's a complete lack of coherence in thinking at the top end of the club. "Lets bring in Conte who plays one way and will require xyz and see if he'll change his whole way of thinking once he's signed the massive contract". I feel for the younger players but simple fact is either some of them should never have been bought and the money spent elsewhere, or we shouldn't have appointed who we did.

People getting angry at Conte for not playing them is pointless as they should have been aware of that at the outset. I know I was, and kept saying Spence was a waste of time and money for this exact reason.