Glover_elbow
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Grest summary fundamentally he lacks footballing intelligence ie he will do the same thing time after time and wont adjust to different scenarios on the pitch. To me he is individual with good skills but not a team player. Finally and most significantly hes a young player carrick hasn't improved or even seem to have an impact on. For all those reasons i would look elsewhereI've been critical of him from very early on. Even when he was supposedly playing well I wasn't seeing it. He has had some great moments but no great games.
I really think he is one of the worst decision makers I've ever seen in a Boro shirt. He clearly has technical ability but he just never uses it correctly. He holds the ball and runs into blind alleys constantly. He shoots from anywhere and it's rarely the best option. He's created next to nothing because he invariably loses the ball (by shooting from miles out or failing to dribble through a crowd). Defensively he's a liability.
I think a lot of his failings are because he's really a striker and not an attacking midfielder or winger. That's where he's played all his youth football. Getting the ball and working into a position to shoot us what a striker would do but it doesn't make sense 40 yards from goal. He's not fast enough or strong to play as a striker at this level so if he wants to play at this level he's going to have to learn how to be a midfielder. I don't think he's going to succeed in that and I don't want to pay the asking price and see him struggle for several seasons without improving until we release him on a free because nobody else will buy him off us and pay his high wages.