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Athletico Easthamico 12:47 Wed Nov 7
The rise of the Small Player?
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Saw an interesting analysis on MOTD where more of the top teams were playing the smaller, more skilful players rather than the 6 foot plus units.
Man U were the only team full of 6 footers.
Players like Silva, Sterling, Mane, Salah, Pedro, Hazard, Kante and Ozil.
We have Lanzini and hopefully Grady can continue his good start.
Do you think the game will continue to develop like this?
And name a decent short, skilful player from years ago.
David Platt for starters.
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BRANDED
12:50 Wed Nov 7
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Big or small. Skill and intelligence will tell.
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Takashi Miike
12:51 Wed Nov 7
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not new is it? giresse & tigana were small and brilliant, xavi & iniesta + the growth good hormone kid were the modern example
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zebthecat
12:52 Wed Nov 7
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Alfredo Di Stefano
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bruuuno
1:28 Wed Nov 7
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Danny WALLACE
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theaxeman
1:46 Wed Nov 7
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Deigo Maradonna
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Alfs
1:49 Wed Nov 7
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Allan Ball, Diego Maradonna, Tony Cottee, Steve Potts - I could be typing names all night...
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Claret Badger
2:11 Wed Nov 7
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i've got a nice minidisc player
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Westham67
2:30 Wed Nov 7
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I tought this was dwarf and midget football thread
Funny to to watch their little legs and feet trying to control a ball
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geoffpikey
2:43 Wed Nov 7
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Paul Insole?
Small gets taller.
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Northern Sold
3:20 Wed Nov 7
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Little un's are not allowed now to be booted by big un's ... so little un's will now flourish in the game... imagine what Diego would now do not having hatch it men trying to decapitate him every game...
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Soylent Green
8:59 Wed Nov 7
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The wee man Gordon Strachan.
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lab
9:35 Wed Nov 7
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Mike Small , scored the winner at Highbury ,91 I think , maybe on Youtube.
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Manip
9:46 Wed Nov 7
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Micky GINN
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Nagel
10:04 Wed Nov 7
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This is probably the result of most teams these days playing with inside forwards. Shortarse = lower centre of gravity = better balance = more effective at changing direction quickly.
Kante is the only odd one out there as traditionally his role is taken up by a big unit.
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cholo
10:22 Wed Nov 7
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If you're good enough you're big enough
Oh and Mark Ward.
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LeroysBoots
10:47 Wed Nov 7
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What was the old saying ?...." A good biggun wil always beat a good small one"
There was a phase in the 90s when teams were obsessed by 6ft plus outhouses in midfield
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Westham67
11:09 Wed Nov 7
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Shaqiri 5'7" tiny little man
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isca hammer
11:19 Wed Nov 7
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N`golo KANTE
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Tomshardware
11:21 Wed Nov 7
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Lee Hodges.
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Fifth Column
11:23 Wed Nov 7
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I've been coaching kids football for 15 years including doing some sessional work for pro clubs (not WHU).
They still have a "profile" they look at in terms of height, strength, growth potential. The best kids team I coached from the age of 6 onwards more than half the team went to academies. The best kid was a small (relatively, compared to other academy kids) Spanish kid who controlled every match, brilliant attitude, tough as old boots. We'd have loads of scouts at every match, I'd regularly have scouts talking about how good he was all match. At the end of the match, they'd say "I want the big African one to come for a trial". Eventually after all the other best kids had left, this kid got signed by Charlton.
This summer turning 16 he had offers from various Premier League clubs but instead went on trial at Bayern Munich, Benfica and somewhere in Spain, I can't remember which, maybe Valencia. His parents concluded Benfica offered him the best opportunity to develop at a high level so he rejected more money from Premier League to go to Portugal.
Point being, he was with me for 5 years, long after most of the other players had been signed by Academies. Only one of the others stayed with Academies, every other one was released because ultimately they were strong and fast but not quite technically good enough.
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