Quote Originally Posted by fugsyphil View Post
Turnbull has had mixed reviews at best since coming to the city from the best team in Scotland. So how the hell would Eli King who's improving but hardly tearing up trees in the same league possibly be an improvement on Turnbull?
It's a fair point about Turnbull. The counter argument is that Turnbull hardly had a kick for Celtic in his last 2 years with them (he fell out of favour mid way through the 2021-22 season). You make it sound like he was a top rated player.

After watching Turnbull since Christmas I'm pretty confident any number of midfielders would be an improvement, young or old.

The assertion that King was 'hardly tearing up trees' is not really accurate. He had excellent reviews and won his clubs young player of the year award despite being with them only 6 months. But fair enough if you don't rate him, however I think he has something. He is a really good dap; a Declan Rice build and physique, has the best engine at the club, and is a pretty good set piece taker. The one criticism I have of him, is that he plays within himself. With his size and stamina he should look to impose himself more on the game and dominate. I think Morison said something similar after those couple of starts in Feb '22 against Liverpool and Coventry - that was that he had to take more chances, to be more positive with his passing rather than just take the safe option. Morison was a conundrum, he talked a lot of sense, but said it in a really, annoying and irritating way.