Sangare has vision, can pick and play a killer penetrating pass, and has an ability to anticipate opponents moves. His playing style is languid, and he looks to lack pace.
I'm struggling to imagine that in the Premier League, where every team now seems to want to play the pressing game and will be right in his face before he has time to play that sort of pass.
And people are allowed to point out when those opinions appear to be unfair or based on preconceptions rather than the reality.
As was pointed out above though, we have seen him play these passes in PL in his limited appearances, with less time on the ball.
Not consistently, yet.
Same. I think he's too slow to be a really elite PL midfielder. I'm trying to establish a middle ground where he's seen as a good player, a worthy squad member pushing for a starting spot, that doesn't get crucified for any minor mistake. It says a lot about his standing with fans for example that many here blamed him for Wolves' goal back in August, despite there being other players clearly more at fault (and also that it was pretty much a screamer out of nowhere).
Would never suggest otherwise.
He does have that ability. I'd like a slightly larger sample size before I decide whether he can use it in a positive manner that fits and benefits the way we play however. That applies to all of his attributes though.
Well he looked better than both midfielders he played with the other day & also did at the start of the season
In fairness - I'd suggest we've seen enough of both of those players to have discussed their positives and negatives to death already. We know what they are, we know their limitations - as the length of their threads would attest.
Come on Congo, everytime he plays people put an asterisk next to anything good he does with a huge but justifying a reason why. Case in point “it’s only Exeter, Southampton, Wolves”. That right is only reserved for Sangare because of the start he had & injury problems. If he was signed in the summer he wouldn’t be under the same level of scrutiny.
On Tuesday after one of the couple of times he gave the ball away allowing Exeter to break down their right he did a great job of sprinting back to cover Toffolo. Toffolo put the ball out for a corner, so he wasn't needed in the end, but the speed and effort to get back and cover was there.
I don't completely disagree - and I'm aware that there are some fans/posters who will make their mind up on a player, one way or another and look for every possible excuse or reason to criticize them. Maybe the stop-start nature of his time here is the reason for that, maybe it's because he's competing for time with players who have built up more good-will with their performances, who knows.
I do love the binary assessment we seem to have as a fanbase, regarding players. (and also often others opinions of players)
Amen, this is exactly what I'm trying to say. He's clearly not the second coming, or even our best midfielder. He is, however, a very decent member of the squad, one that Nuno clearly rates as he's pretty much always picked him when he's fit.
You get forced into it unfortunately.