Spending 270 minutes a week on a hobby or interest is not the big deal you are making it out to be. If I were to hazard guess, I reckon you probably spend more time than that watching the mindless crap they dish up on TV every night?
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I watch a bit of YouTube on the tv. Not a lot as the clickbait is annoying..
I've watched Yellowstone on TV an hour a week and not the entire year round.
I click on and off here through the day.
I'm busy.
So it's only Johnson and Ampadu you watch weekly then? So in the future when you claim to have seen X amount of X youngster we can come back to this post and call your bullshit?
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Because we shouldn't be so insecure that we feel we need to immediately cap anyone half decent, they either want to play for Wales or they don't. It also takes 4 competitive caps now so it's more than just chucking them on in a friendly. The Welsh setup are pretty confident in themselves by letting dual qualified youngsters go and experience other nations' setups. Biancheri is a dual qualified prospect, should we call him up?
Sure if they played regularly at any senior level but they hadn't, Williams at least was still playing regularly so is higher up the food chain on merit. Even if we were to replace Williams we have Bradshaw, Cooper and Aaron Collins who should come in for that forward spot or even the likes of Lowery, Sheehan, MJ Williams, Terry Taylor in midfield when fit. Gunter shouldn't be in any squads going forward but his place shouldn't be taken by another attacker when you have Tom Lockyer and Regan Poole not making squads. We have plenty of young players in our squad already, half of the World Cup squad were 25 or younger, there is no need to add more youth
It looks like this thread is full of people who feel the need to criticize other peoples opinions while expressing none of their own. It's a pity really as Johnson is an exciting prospect and it will be interesting to see how his career pans out.
I remember Ampadu having an immense game against Spurs when he played for Leipzig.
I really thought that he had something about him judging on that performance.
It's strange how he hasn't seemed to push on from there considering it was a few years ago.
Ampadu's a good player who's been messed around a little bit by Chelsea. I'm pretty confident he'll still end up a top 6 PL player, but it will probably take him leaving Chelsea
You need good movement off the ball from the other players to do that, people who can see 3 or 4 moves ahead, otherwise a move invariably breaks down and you are back under pressure. The Leipzig v Spurs game is a good example of that. Nobody will ever look elite playing with a bunch of journeymen.
So, in short, it's everyone else then, 'It's not me boss' Without being disrespectful, that is complete nonsense. I'm sure we could all list players who have gone on to compete at the highest level who started out playing with players who weren't very good,but those players showed enough for a bigger team to take a chance on them, something Ampadu hasn't been able to do, at the four or five clubs he's been at. Ability is ability, intelligence is intelligence, it shows through at whatever level a player is at, and more importantly, good football people at the highest level can spot it a mile off.
You can look competent, but you will never look like a world beater. I blame the Chelsea loan system where they harvest and hoard young talent. Ampadu should have left Chelsea after the Sheffield United loan. I understand he is a lifelong Chelsea fan, so he may be in denial and that's why he has never tried to leave.
I recall that game, because WB was on here telling us all about Ampadu doing Harry Kane that evening, 'The Welsh Beckenbauer' as i recall, so i had a look. Ampadu was more 'Spare' than a spare tyre that had disconnected from a Ford Cortina on a journey along a country lane which had ended up in a hedge row. Ampadu struggles when he has to pick up runners, his focus is poor at times and his eyes follow the ball, bot the player, he gets sucked out and involved in situations where he has no business. I like the idea of everyone else being crap though, affecting my performance, i'm going to use that one today.... :hehe:
To be fair on Ampadu he's often been in limbo between Chelsea's firsts and being loaned out again which leads to rushed late moves. He went to Venezia late in the window because they'd stopped an earlier move to Newcastle as they wanted to play him only to decide they didn't. As far as I know he's performed well in Italy too
He's 22 with 40 caps for one of Wales' most successful sides and been a regular in the PL and Serie A. That's not bad going and I'd be surprised if he doesn't end up at a high level
He seems like a useful player to me, got a decent engine, good on the ball and a solid passer but doesn't really feel like he has the physical abilities to be a top Prem player as a defensive midfielder and he isn't skillful enough with the ball at his feet to play further forward either. Definitely a decent player but not sure he's kicked on fully from such a promising start.
He might end up finding his best position in the Ben Davies role as the mobile/ball playing defender in a back three but if what's being said about his defensive awareness and positioning is right that's going to be a stretch too... Davies has to be one of the most underrated players around at reading the game defensively and it's really that attribute that has kept him at the top level for so long IMO.
He may well play premier league football for a sustained period, but in a side that makes him important, because the qualities that Ampadu possesses are quite specialist. He's composed on the ball, but needs that little bit of time and space, he isn't a 'quick' player, although may well have a quick brain. He's no defender in the truest sense of the word, I don't even think he's that physical, and with plenty of players who are good with the the game in front of them, as Ampadu is, they struggle like hell when they're on the Backfoot. Ampadu, although improved, can be all over the shop when defending facing his own goal, it's like he is disoriented. I can't see any top 6 premier league club taking a chance on him, because they would have to play through him, that's his greatest asset, and I don't think it's enough to see him at the highest level .
I like Amps, a very good player, I prefer him in the CDM rolel and we cant forget he Is still only 22, still has another 10 Years in the game at a decent level, I guess when his contract is up at Chelsea he will be out of the door ( which I believe is the end of this season )
He's 23 this year, so needs to get a wriggle on. I don't know if his time abroad would have helped in his development or that he should have been playing at championship level in order to speed up his development and keep himself on the radar so to speak. Actually, it's odd why he didn't go to a championship side, it would be interesting to know whether there were offers, which I am sure there were, or whether Ampadu, Chelsea or both thought that it wouldn't be the right place for him.