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Impressive Facu. Impressive

Not lol if true. Where did you hear this?

We are witnessing real improvement. Loads of potential from a player who has only just turned 19. Another important performance today. Should keep his place.

Facu is really coming along nicely

Agree. And it's also notable, that when Adingra went off, it was Pedro that went on the right and Facu retained his place in the middle until he made way for Lallana

Well no. They don't have to be that good do they? They have to be good enough to improve a squad who are between 6th and 10th in the PL. If they are any better, great, we'll sell them for a profit probably. I just think we need to stop going on about Messi. Facu is Facu, not anyone else.

Not sure this is a helpful comparison. They are totally different players. Even at that age Messi was universally recognised as a prodigy likely to become an all time great. Facu is a promising young player who happens to come from the same country and happens to have a similar build and...

The thing is, Facu might go on to be an elite international level player, or he might not. At that age, (unless the player has the glaring qualities of a Messi or Mbappe) it's just not possible to know. This is the lens through which we have to judge any performance. He's playing because he...

Inconsistency is absolutely to be expected from a player this young. He had a very decent game at the weekend and to be honest, a poor game last night. No conclusions to draw other than this is the widely predicted hazard of fielding such young players

Well done to Facu today. For the first time he didn't look a boy in a man's game. It was a lovely goal, but Colwill showing Facu on his left was horrific defending, given he knows the bloke. I think he'll start again one one of our next two

He just won't be this sort of player. In this trajectory he could get to the style and level of MacAllister in 5 or 6 years. Lack of pace hasn't done him too much harm

We're getting from Facu exactly what we should be expecting to get. We should be expecting, from a highly promising, but very young and inexperienced player, flashes of what he can do. He can't take control of a game, he can't win physical battles, he can't adapt his game to be dispossessed...

I don't think Leeds was the right move either, but he should have been loaned. I think the club and RDZ have handled this situation badly. But we are where we are. When we need to rotate Adingra out, my preference would be to push Pedro out at right wing and have Gross in behind a lone striker

Clearly better in the middle. But clearly still a year or more off being able to contribute regularly at this level

Yeh, I think the only chance Facu has of playing out wide in the longer term, is if he can find Beckham levels of quality and consistency of delivery. Otherwise, there simply is no point continuing to put him out there.

Well yes. It's that he doesn't have any of the attributes a top winger has Pace = Nope Dribbling / beats defenders = Nope Crossing = No evidence, so far, this is where his talent is. I'm not writing Facu off as a prospect at all. I am writing him off as a winger. He will never have a top...

We'll have to see where we are in January now. All of us think a loan, but RDZ clearly wanted him around and likely promised him some first team football. In Jan, we can work out.... Has Facu settled? Is Enciso fit? Do we have other injuries? Are we in Europe still? How is Sarmiento's loan...

The thing I wonder about Facu. OK, we're near enough unanimous I think that he shouldn't be on the wing .... but is there an argument he won't spent his career in the forward line? He looks to have the attributes of a Gilmour type player. He can obviously knock it about nicely. He looks like...

Shame we couldn't get the lad his loan. He looks a couple of years away from being able to contribute at this level, which is what you'd expect from someone that age

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