Stuart Holden - The new Paul Scholes and better!!!
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Stuart Holden - The new Paul Scholes and better!!!
The displays Stuart Holden has put in this season have been immense.
I have to compare him to Paul Scholes - tough tackling,fantastic engine,capacity to read the game so well, simple football etc etc.
I can see the Reds persuing him in the close season as a replacement for Scholes.
There is no way Holden will not want to go there. At least we will receive a good price for someone we got for zilch.
Do you agree?
I have to compare him to Paul Scholes - tough tackling,fantastic engine,capacity to read the game so well, simple football etc etc.
I can see the Reds persuing him in the close season as a replacement for Scholes.
There is no way Holden will not want to go there. At least we will receive a good price for someone we got for zilch.
Do you agree?
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Re: Stuart Holden - The new Paul Scholes and better!!!
You couldn't have picked two more different players.Barr Hill wrote:The displays Stuart Holden has put in this season have been immense.
I have to compare him to Paul Scholes - tough tackling,fantastic engine,capacity to read the game so well, simple football etc etc.
I can see the Reds persuing him in the close season as a replacement for Scholes.
There is no way Holden will not want to go there. At least we will receive a good price for someone we got for zilch.
Do you agree?
Re: Stuart Holden - The new Paul Scholes and better!!!
no. Scholes - tough tackling???Barr Hill wrote:The displays Stuart Holden has put in this season have been immense.
I have to compare him to Paul Scholes - tough tackling
Do you agree?
maybe if you replaced "tough tackling" with "cynical, dirty, late and knowingly mis-timed tackling that he somehow gets away with because commentators smile and say - ah well - poor old paul never could tackle - whereas if it were Kevin Davies - they'd accuse him of being the mad axe-murderer of belgravia"....
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I thinks SOT means improving them to Scholes' level. The two cannot be compared. As much as I love Holden, Scholes is WORLD CLASS and always has been. The guy's passing accuracy must surely be above 90% in every game he plays!East Lower wrote:What??!?! He's the best passer of the ball in our sideSonsOfThunder wrote:They seem more like polar opposites? Holden is immense in the tackle but could improve his ball-playing abilities. Scholes can't tackle to save his mother's life but can produce some spectacular balls.
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Whilst being in some agreement with the point - he can obvously tackle sometimes - the "he can't tackle" notion seemed to become more prevalent when Roy Keane retired, so perhaps it wasn't so much of a focus before then and he had to do less of it, as Keane did a lot of the rough stuff.Dr Hotdog wrote:The notion that Paul Scholes can't tackle is as obvious and misinformed as the one of us being "big bruisers from whom you'll know what you'll get" which irks us so.
If he couldn't tackle he'd have had no career in professional football.
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No chance! While I'm really impressed with Stu, he is not good enough for Champions League football at the moment and 1 good season in the Premier League won't mean he is tracked by FergusonBarr Hill wrote:Reading the papers - more and more talk about Holden's performances,how well he is playing. I guarantee he won't be with us start of next season. Tenner says Old Trafford
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Playing well at present, tackles better than Scholes BUT can't be positively compared until he has scored a significant number of screamers from outside the penalty area, over 10 seasons or so!
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Yep. Holden may be the best passer in the team (not sure I agree) but to compare him to Scholes at this point seems OTT.MJH-12 wrote:I thinks SOT means improving them to Scholes' level. The two cannot be compared. As much as I love Holden, Scholes is WORLD CLASS and always has been. The guy's passing accuracy must surely be above 90% in every game he plays!East Lower wrote:What??!?! He's the best passer of the ball in our sideSonsOfThunder wrote:They seem more like polar opposites? Holden is immense in the tackle but could improve his ball-playing abilities. Scholes can't tackle to save his mother's life but can produce some spectacular balls.
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