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Postby sniffer » Tue Sep 02, 2025 11:02 am

Thankfully all that transfer bollocks is done and dusted. Lets get back to some meaningful chat. Having watched Bobb as a starter this season could he not play in the old David Silve role. Great control, passing in tight spots, a few goals. Not a winger in my eyes and not particularly quick reminds me of Silve in so many ways.
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Re: Bobb

Postby Scatman » Tue Sep 02, 2025 11:17 am

sniffer wrote:Thankfully all that transfer bollocks is done and dusted. Lets get back to some meaningful chat. Having watched Bobb as a starter this season could he not play in the old David Silve role. Great control, passing in tight spots, a few goals. Not a winger in my eyes and not particularly quick reminds me of Silve in so many ways.


He could but he's the type of winger that Pep likes. Namely an inability to take the ball past the full-back and put in a decent cross for our striker to get on the end of.

Question marks for me about his stature at the moment. I have seen him knocked off the ball too many times to put him in the Silva position just yet.
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Re: Bobb

Postby john@staustell » Tue Sep 02, 2025 12:44 pm

I've seen some brilliance, but at the moment Pep likes him more than I do!

Nothing like David Silva - he had wing mirrors
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Re: Bobb

Postby sniffer » Tue Sep 02, 2025 12:46 pm

Ok agree regarding wing capability. Just feel he is so good in tight spaces would be better in and around the box.
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Re: Bobb

Postby city72 » Tue Sep 02, 2025 1:24 pm

Bobb and silva shouldn’t be compared he will never be in the same league as silva arguably our best ever player
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Re: Bobb

Postby nottsblue » Tue Sep 02, 2025 1:31 pm

Whilst Bobb is a good talent I rather suspect he won't be good enough to nail down one position as his own.

I don't think he has the pace to be a top class winger and though his close ball is excellent I don't think he has the strength to play as Silva did.

And he appears to be from the same mould as Stones. Made of glass
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Re: Bobb

Postby PeterParker » Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:05 pm

I would have loaned him out and kept Echeverri.
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Re: Bobb

Postby mr_nool » Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:30 pm

I believe his future is in a more central role, but he's not ready for it yet. Don't forget that both Silva and Nasri played a lot out on the wing in their first seasons as well.
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Re: Bobb

Postby salford city » Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:37 pm

mr_nool wrote:I believe his future is in a more central role, but he's not ready for it yet. Don't forget that both Silva and Nasri played a lot out on the wing in their first seasons as well.


Agree he will nove inside. Great feet in tight spaces wasted out wide
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Re: Bobb

Postby Sparklehorse » Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:39 pm

salford city wrote:
mr_nool wrote:I believe his future is in a more central role, but he's not ready for it yet. Don't forget that both Silva and Nasri played a lot out on the wing in their first seasons as well.


Agree he will nove inside. Great feet in tight spaces wasted out wide

Pep seems to have a habit of wasting people out wide.
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Re: Bobb

Postby mr_nool » Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:40 pm

salford city wrote:
mr_nool wrote:I believe his future is in a more central role, but he's not ready for it yet. Don't forget that both Silva and Nasri played a lot out on the wing in their first seasons as well.


Agree he will nove inside. Great feet in tight spaces wasted out wide


Would be great with an overlapping Micah or Zabaleta. That was such a lethal weapon with Silva stepping inside and threading the ball through to the right back.
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Re: Bobb

Postby Indianablue » Tue Sep 02, 2025 8:14 pm

PeterParker wrote:I would have loaned him out and kept Echeverri.


Certainly kept Echeverri. Bobb still trying to get match fitness back . But i read he's got another knock ?
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Re: Bobb

Postby Indianablue » Tue Sep 02, 2025 8:15 pm

Sparklehorse wrote:
salford city wrote:
mr_nool wrote:I believe his future is in a more central role, but he's not ready for it yet. Don't forget that both Silva and Nasri played a lot out on the wing in their first seasons as well.


Agree he will nove inside. Great feet in tight spaces wasted out wide

Pep seems to have a habit of wasting people out wide.

Just wasting people would have sufficed
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Re: Bobb

Postby Wooders » Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:15 am

Reminded more of sterling against Brighton
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