He did a couple of smart passes in the game which were something none of our other players do. I think he was good in general.

5 minutes ago, foxedup said:

He's already made the step up, when he returned from Luton to Leicester and played well in the premier league in his first season. The question isn't whether he's a premier league player; it's whether he's good enough for where Chelsea wants to be, which I don't believe he is... unless you want to be midtable. 

Yeah, my bad. You're right, i was looking at it from a Chelsea perspective. He would/could be a good player for teams in mid table and lower. 

2 hours ago, evissy said:

He did a couple of smart passes in the game which were something none of our other players do.

Yeah, he plays with his head up so that’s a positive, even Nkunku blew a chance or 2 to slide the ball into others.

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I'll be honest i think he was bang average. All fart, no poo. Did a lot of running but lacked any real edge in attack. 

He screams Championship player. 

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Emilie Smith Rowe would have been a better prospect than Dewsbury Hall.

Both as a player and in terms of financial return. Im actually surprised our Sporting directors didnt buy them both

One if the worse players again today, just doesn't seem a good fit. 

Shouldve kept Ugochukwu or Santos, and saved the money. 

Has a Drinkwater/Barkley feel to it already, homegrown England B team player, brought in but with no real fit in the squad.

I just don’t see what he brings to the team “ 

 

Championship player. Could have not spent £35m on him, not sold Gallagher for £35m, and been no worse off, with a better player.

Actually I think he will be alright for us, early days just now.

His movement on Sunday created the opening for one of our goals.

I said it before we signed him total waste of money . Not his fault it was the idiots who’s signed him he’s just not good enough for a top team 

Got a good goal.. but boy he looks average.

I thought after his goal he turned it up a notch. Hopefully he will push on from here. But yeah he has been very average to this point.

4 hours ago, Scott said:

I thought after his goal he turned it up a notch. Hopefully he will push on from here. But yeah he has been very average to this point.

He has not played that much, so quite harsh to make a judgement. This was also our B/C team.

8 hours ago, Scott said:

I thought after his goal he turned it up a notch. Hopefully he will push on from here. But yeah he has been very average to this point.

He also put Mudryk through for the first goal and battled well. After an early misplaced pass to Neto, he did well to build confidence and I'm glad he got his goal.

This signed made and continues to make very little sense. What a colossal waste of money. 

We cut ties with Danny Drinkwater then signed a younger copy. 

16 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

This signed made and continues to make very little sense. What a colossal waste of money. 

We cut ties with Danny Drinkwater then signed a younger copy. 

You have to wonder whether he was part of a Maresca package: sign me, sign him too.

He's barely even using him though. I assume we just signed him so he could help get the tactics across to his teammates. Total waste when we could have just kept Gallagher and been no worse off.

16 minutes ago, dermott said:

You have to wonder whether he was part of a Maresca package: sign me, sign him too.

We should have learned from that mistake by getting stuck with J5 when we signed Sarri. 

I don't think that there are grounds to compare him with Drinkwater. Dewsbury-Hall has not shown the problems off the pitch that Drinkwater had. We can say that it was a pointless signing, yes, that he's not shown anything to impress, yes, but he gives his all on he pitch and you don't hear anything wrong about his off the pitch behaviour.

3 hours ago, RMH said:

I don't think that there are grounds to compare him with Drinkwater

True, Drinkwater won the Premier League and was a key part of a team which made it to a Champions' League quarter-final the season before we signed him.

I'm guessing from Dewsbury-Hall's first name that he might be in line for an Ireland cap at some point? At which point I will presumably have to refer to it as a Christian name.

I think the primary thing that Dewesbury-Hall brings to the team fans will never see. What Maresca wants from the team can be difficult to pick up, and he expects the players to know all the possible actions 4 movements away at any given point in a match … sometimes for multiple positions. 
 

A player that can show players how to adapt and learn, from a players perspective, is always valuable. Maresca didn’t bring him in because he thought he was going to beat our starters in the squad. But would the squad have adapted as quickly as they have without “the teachers pet” willing to work and teach and give so much in practice?

 

Now, playing him at RW … seems like Maresca trying to either prove a point that he is an injury option in multiple places… or a last attempt to find somewhere he can contribute. The team is now at a place where they don’t need KDH to translate 
ares as instruction as much, and if he can’t find a contribution niche … then maybe he moves on.

On 01/11/2024 at 20:29, PloKoon13 said:

True, Drinkwater won the Premier League and was a key part of a team which made it to a Champions' League quarter-final the season before we signed him.

I'm guessing from Dewsbury-Hall's first name that he might be in line for an Ireland cap at some point? At which point I will presumably have to refer to it as a Christian name.

I still remember Drinkwater first goal, was pretty good.

Looks a bang average footballer to me.

On 01/11/2024 at 15:37, RMH said:

I don't think that there are grounds to compare him with Drinkwater. Dewsbury-Hall has not shown the problems off the pitch that Drinkwater had. We can say that it was a pointless signing, yes, that he's not shown anything to impress, yes, but he gives his all on he pitch and you don't hear anything wrong about his off the pitch behaviour.

There's grounds to compare him to Drinkwater because they both came from Leicester with everyone knowing they weren't good enough and shock horror they both turned out to be sh*te. 

At least Drinkwater had won things before. 

On 02/11/2024 at 14:37, Bluelion7 said:

I think the primary thing that Dewesbury-Hall brings to the team fans will never see. What Maresca wants from the team can be difficult to pick up, and he expects the players to know all the possible actions 4 movements away at any given point in a match … sometimes for multiple positions. 
 

A player that can show players how to adapt and learn, from a players perspective, is always valuable. Maresca didn’t bring him in because he thought he was going to beat our starters in the squad. But would the squad have adapted as quickly as they have without “the teachers pet” willing to work and teach and give so much in practice?

 

Now, playing him at RW … seems like Maresca trying to either prove a point that he is an injury option in multiple places… or a last attempt to find somewhere he can contribute. The team is now at a place where they don’t need KDH to translate 
ares as instruction as much, and if he can’t find a contribution niche … then maybe he moves on.

I mean this is all guess work, for all we know Maresca wasn;t bothered about bringing him and the board did it to sweeten things with Leicester and replace Conor with another homegrown lad in one swoop. 

If a manager needs a £35m player to come and do their job for them and teach then there are fundamental issues from the start.