27 Oct 2023 19:06:26
Good evening eds and fellow Reds I hope I find you all well.

Just a quick question if anyone actually knows, what is the situation with Thiago its a mystery to me, I did try the search engine but nothing concrete or conclusive that I could find. Great player but always injured and on extremely high wages, is there a possibility that he might go in January if he finally gets fit and then we can look to get a decent No 6 in.

Cheers in advance.

Notsozippy

JFT97 YNWA.

{Ed002's Note - Thiago Alcantara (CM) His representatives have spoken to Barcelona about the player finishing his career back at the club but he would need to be very cheap and to have reduced wages. Seems unlikely.}

1.) 28 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 12:33:25
Great player at the right club but has never been a great fit for this club and how we play IMO. His injury record didn't seem overly troublesome when we bought him but it's gotten massively worse since. I don't see how he gets back into the team even when fully fit - time for him to go TBH.

2.) 28 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 19:16:34
I have to put my hands up and admit, the fans were right. Thiago is a much better influence behind the scenes than on the pitch, and his 200k a week, is in service to that. The fact he was injured in April, and is still missing, has allowed him to hone his craft as the mentor he was always supposed to be.

You can just see the influence he has had on Stefan Bajcetic. The youngster has learned the ways of the injury prone. Always good to seasoned veterans passing on what they have learned :P.

3.) 28 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 20:08:38
How is Bajetic injury prone?

4.) 28 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 20:53:21
I don’t like criticising players for being injured as I’m sure they’d rather play than be in the treatment room.

The one thing I’d say about Thiago though is as good a player as he is he makes us a worse team when he plays. People try to tell me he’s our best midfielder and on talent alone he may well be. The problem is he’s too slow and wants too much time on the ball so he puts us under pressure.

He’s an experiment that just hasn’t worked.

5.) 28 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 21:46:25
And yet we play MacAllister who may well be even slower, can’t tackle as well, certainly not as technically good and loses possession more often than not.

6.) 29 Oct 2023
29 Oct 2023 03:31:54
Thiago was part of the team that nearly took us to the quadruple. I wouldn't be so quick to criticise his overall tenure, but it is fair to say that there are others who will start before him now.

7.) 29 Oct 2023
29 Oct 2023 07:47:35
Pearl jam, you may want to check how many of the games he played in that season. He missed 24 of the 63 we played.