Once an ever present 'sparky' adopted 'Cockerney' who lit up the pitch while wearing the Claret & Blue, Pablo Fornals has descended into a shadow of the player he once was. His performace today against Sheffield Utd was truly woeful and followed on from his previous awful performances against Bristol City and Brighton.
Gone are his bursting runs and Duracell bunny running from box to box, his eye for a goal has completely left his repertoire, instead being replaced with a sideways or backwards pass that invariably puts a team mate in trouble.
He even makes Aaron Cresswell look competent! It is such a shame that things have allowed to become so entrenched. He is obviously unhappy at the club and wants a move to Spain desperately, but that doesn't excuse the incredibly lame performances he has exhibited when given the chance to feature for the first team, which have admittedly been very limited, but the man is a professional footballer who is paid handsomely to go out and perform to the best of his ability, something he clearly has not been doing of late.
It is possibly the fault of the management team that they have not been able to sufficiently motivate the player, but he SHOULDN'T need motivating! Has 'Chicken' Kev not given him a rocket or arm round his shoulder to get a reaction?
Unfortunately Pablo Fornals is playing like a man who is totally out of love with the club and just wants out as SOON as possible! It is a pity, one would have thought he would have grabbed the opportunity of the extra playing time made available to him because of the Africa Cup of Nations, if only from a pride point of view.
Pablo, we thought you were made of sterner stuff, alas we seem as if we were wrong! - LN
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Moyes
That's what happened
Bad man management
Sorry, but you won't find me on Pablo's case. If you're treated like s**t then it affects your performances and I don't care how much money you're on. He's been a loyal player, always given 110% and worn Claret and Blue on his sleeve. We buy Alvarez and boom....he gets dumped but oh hang on, We have no players right now so he gets picked.
Yeah, he's really motivated.
Have to agree, I witnessed it
Have to agree, I witnessed it first hand in the crowd on Sunday. Once a fans favourite, he is now getting the treatment reserved for certain players. I've witnessed this since the late 70's at games. Once we turn on a player it only means one thing.
Only a couple of times have I seen targeted players turn it around, Parris and Morley spring to mind. But Fornals has run his race it would seem?
Watching that statement he
Watching that statement he made on camera to the fans would bring a tear to your eye, also Thursday night taking a keen interest from the line ,the guy bleeds C & B .