WHO Poll
Q: 2023/24 Hopes & aspirations for this season
a. As Champions of Europe there's no reason we shouldn't be pushing for a top 7 spot & a run in the Cups
24%
  
b. Last season was a trophy winning one and there's only one way to go after that, I expect a dull mid table bore fest of a season
17%
  
c. Buy some f***ing players or we're in a battle to stay up & that's as good as it gets
18%
  
d. Moyes out
38%
  
e. New season you say, woohoo time to get the new kit and wear it it to the pub for all the big games, the wags down there call me Mr West Ham
3%
  



Chigwell 8:06 Tue Mar 9
Issa Diop
Who thinks he's good enough to be part of our future plans? I must admit that I haven't been able to watch recent games - just the highlights - but frequently I see him not apparently giving everything to compete for the ball, and very slow to cover the ground or react to threatening situations. I'd be quite happy to be contradicted but from what I've seen I think we'd be better off getting a tigerish tackler into our defence.

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Kaiser Zoso 8:16 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
I think he’s shit, Chigs

Started off the shizzle so not sure what occurred but he’s a liability now. Get rid.

Fortunes Hiding 8:20 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
I think he’s been great. Even yesterday running out with the ball. But we can’t please everyone

LeroysBoots 8:34 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
Ogbonna walks straight back in

ChesterRd 8:43 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
Good player, plenty of potential and the right age. You need players with different skillsets because guess what, they are up against strikers with different skill sets. People who think he's rubbish and should be sold frankly can't tell a player when they see one.

Kaiser Zoso 8:46 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
You wanna tell Moyes that because he picks a freebie from relegated Watford before Diop.

Sven Roeder 8:48 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
As said you need a range of centre halves esp if we are going to play a back 3 at times.
Was reading some social media 'story' saying they are impressed with the boy ALVES and that he could also feature next season

Vexed 8:49 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
Been mostly decent since getting back into the side. Ogbonna will be back in the side when fit and rightly so bit he's prone to a mistake when he's been out of the side too. Dawson is the surprise, been brilliant. Poor old Balbuena not done much wrong and way down the pecking order.

The old c wing 8:58 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
Can anyone let me know his strengths?

It’s certainly not passing, positioning or tackling.

Kidders 9:01 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
His reading of the game and positioning is poor. Not saying he’s shit, but I’d rather Balbuena start%

angryprumphs 9:01 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
My first advice is, if you can only see highlights, then dont make up you mind about players. You dont know enough. Diop has actually been excellent the last couple of games, he is an excellent athlete who looked a lot better defensively BUT he is still limited, he looks very poor with the ball at his feet and still prone to a laps of judgement.

Has all the attributes to become a decent player but time will tell.

Pedro 9:05 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
Think have made it known many times am not his biggest fan.

His biggest weakness is his lack of strength. He gets pushed off the ball and struggles with defending corners against physical strikers.

If Bamford could shoot ; Diop would have cost us two goals.

He has pace but anything else?

The old c wing 9:05 Tue Mar 9
Re: Issa Diop
If ha was excellent last night then we are in real shit if he reverts back to average. How many times did he lose Bamford?

Luckily no one asked your advice.

Darby_ 8:02 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
The thing for me is that he's only 24 and is likely 5-10 years away from his peak as a central defender. He's probably got huge potential, especially if he starts playing the way he did when he first arrived when people were calling him a beast and worrying that a bigger club would come in for him.

Like a lot of players, though, he lost his way under Pellers. But all our defenders beside Coufal have been written off as not good enough in the past. They've all improved under Moyes and I don't see why Diop wouldn't too.

blueeyed.handsomeman 8:29 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
he fis our squad just fine

cholo 9:21 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
Since he's been back in the first team he's shown a vast improvement from the dark days of Pellegrini. He seems to have rediscovered his mojo. Still not the finished article by any means but the signs are encouraging imo.

Haz 9:24 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
I like Diop. Not as a first choice obviously but as a squad player, then perfectly fine.

Rossal 9:40 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
I like him, there is alot of talent in there

He is big, strong and alot of pace.....his biggest weakpoint is concentration and switches off and loses his marker at times

But if we get europe id play him in that, or let him compete with Oggy and Dawson.......in a few years he could develop into one of the best CB's outside the big clubs

master 9:41 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
I wish he'd add some aggression to his game.
Contrast his movement and forcefulness to Dawson and Soucek at our corners.

JayeMPee 11:14 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
Like him, great squad player and certainly one or two of the so called 'top six' have shown interest so must have something.

MrSnoogans 11:17 Wed Mar 10
Re: Issa Diop
Like him, but still guaranteed one brain fart per game, usually during crosses.

hopefully, by playing more this can be addressed.

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