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Ace Ventura wrote:Josemi started pretty well last season and i thought he looked like he would fit in with his style of tackiling.
Since then he has gone so far backwards he should never be even close to pulling on a first team shirt again.
Like a few others have said his decision making is shocking, his tackling OTT and in stupid areas.
He has no pace which gets constantly exposed and for a full back although he tries to go forward, he never looks like he actually helps cause a threat.
I had no time for Nunez and constantly argued with the lads about his being not good enough, the same goes for Josemi.
The sooner he is back in Spain the better.

thats why he is a right back.............right back in the changing rooms    droll i know

Judge wrote:There is much discussion about garcia, kewell and alike about some of their performances, but i think our worst buy apart from Nunez, and the occassional Traore.

It is Josemi who is totally out of sorts with the team. Some of his clearances fail to go forward, in fact they go sideways at times, usually to a on-rushing opponent.

Finnan has done well, but when Josemi plays i cringe.

what are your thoughts folk??

JBG wrote:Steve Finnan is a very good full back.

Lets look at Josemi: good ability on the ball, can pass it short, likes to get up the lines, has a decent touch, is tough and fearless, is strong in the tackle and is reasonably good in the air.

Wow, if I just finished my assessment there, Josemi would be some player!

However, there is more.

Josemi is too rash in the tackle, has a penchant for conceding silly free kicks, has a bad habit of tugging players' shirts under the eye of the referee, has failed to master English and so has poor communication with his team mates........................mmmm, after that, it doesn't appear all too rosy.

However, there's even more.

Josemi has some of the worst decision making I've ever seen from a senior player. Gets marooned in midfield when he tries to tackle an opposition player when nothing is really happening, allowing the opposition to break down the space behind him if he misses the tackle. He has an awful tendency to ball watch, and his timing is atrocious. A long ball down his end of the field will see Josemi in 4 or 5 minds about what to do: in one single phase of play he can wait, move to attack the ball and then decide to track back, all while the ball is still in flight. How many times has an opposition left sided player got in behind him from a simple ball over the top? Josemi's reading of the game is absolutely disasterous.

Its a pity, as I think Josemi has all the physical characteristics to be a very good full back. He definitely has ability on the ball, his failings are mostly mental failings. I suspect that in Spain his dreadful decision making and awful inability to read games were not as exposed as much, so Josemi may have appeared a reasonable player. Maybe that is why Rafa bought him. However, in England his weaknesses have been cruelly exposed.

I'll put my money on Josemi being back in La Liga next summer. I can see Rafa using Raven and Barragan more in the future, although I suspect that Rafa will sign a new full back sometime over the next 10 months or so.

Judge wrote:sell josemi

Judge wrote:sell josemi

PepeMomo wrote:

Judge wrote:sell josemi

isn't a la liga team tracking Josemi? Let him go in January!!!

if it was Osasuna, then they'll be plumetting from top spot to mid table mediocrity