Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
Bentaleb was one of our players of the year last season. His passing is good and he played further forward in the youth set up. I think that he has shown enough to suggest that he will be at least good enough to be first choice cover for Mason alongside Dier and could potentially become first choice.
Fair enough. I haven't seen enough of him to make a proper judgement. I wasn't one of those going overboard on his performances last season. He did well but is still a long way from the finished product IMO. His propensity to give balls and free kicks way in dangerous positions as well as losing his man when tracking back are worrying signs which I hope he can get rid of. For me, he isn't as attack minded as Mason, who looks to play the incisive forward pass into dangerous areas as well as run beyond our strikers to get into the box and score. I am not negative about Bentaleb, but IMO he is behind Dier as a DM and behind Mason as an attacking CM at this moment in time , that is all.