Corran
Part of the furniture
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2003
- Messages
- 6,180
Keane = Defensive midfielder... Carrick = Creative midfielder.
Keane had to keep it simple, and his focus was breaking up play as was Makelele, Viera etc. That day and age is kinda gone now though. You need more to your game then just breaking up the play as the game has moved on.
Carrick was a bit better at them stuff, but he is still lazy. If he was Scholes age, and had Scholes passing then he could be forgiven a bit for the lazyness but both Scholes and Giggs seem to do more than Carrick bothers doing.
Keeping things simple is all well and good, if it is done with purpose. Carrick is keeping it simple for the sake of keeping it simple. At times it actually seems like he just trying to get some decent completion stats to cover over the rest of his poor play. Somthing to give him the ability to argue "but look, i must be doing something right. Look at these statistics".
Currently he completely lacks in every way. If we werent so short in midfield due to injuries then he would never get a game on current showings. He should be using this time to get a contract offer, not showing it right that he hasnt been given one.
Hell, at this point in time an Injuried Hargreaves looks better than Carrick
Keane had to keep it simple, and his focus was breaking up play as was Makelele, Viera etc. That day and age is kinda gone now though. You need more to your game then just breaking up the play as the game has moved on.
Carrick was a bit better at them stuff, but he is still lazy. If he was Scholes age, and had Scholes passing then he could be forgiven a bit for the lazyness but both Scholes and Giggs seem to do more than Carrick bothers doing.
Keeping things simple is all well and good, if it is done with purpose. Carrick is keeping it simple for the sake of keeping it simple. At times it actually seems like he just trying to get some decent completion stats to cover over the rest of his poor play. Somthing to give him the ability to argue "but look, i must be doing something right. Look at these statistics".
Currently he completely lacks in every way. If we werent so short in midfield due to injuries then he would never get a game on current showings. He should be using this time to get a contract offer, not showing it right that he hasnt been given one.
Hell, at this point in time an Injuried Hargreaves looks better than Carrick
