James McCarthy

Edited by valo88 - 11 Jan 2020 at 2:47pm

valo88 wrote: Het-field wrote: Personally, I take him at his word. Between March 2017 and April 2019 he played extremely limited amounts of football, and almost got something of a second chance by signing for Palace. If he’s starting weekly or regularly MM will want him in midfield and I’d expect JM would like that too. I'm not having it and I dont think Mick will either. Hes been fit and available to play for pretty much 12 months (13/1/19) since his injury. Granted he didnt play much football for Everton in that period leading up to his summer transfer to Palace but he would have been training and playing games behind closed doors with the reserves. Id have absoutely no problem with him omitting himself right up until the September games given his lack of playing time and match sharpness. But to exclude himself for the October and November games doesn't sit with me. He had a full pre season under his belt and was getting minutes Palace. In fact, at that point he was getting more minutes than Hourihane and Hendrick, who turned up and played ...along with Whelan who didnt even have a pre season and was still getting up to speed at Hearts. Id rather Cullen than McCarthy, with Molumby and Knight next in line.

He's been so "fit and available", he only played fifteen minutes of football from 13/1/2019 until the end of the 2018/19 season.
He's been so "fit and available" that today is his sixth time completing 90 minutes since 13/1/2019
He's been so "fit and available" that today is only his seventh time starting a game since 13/1/2019

valo88 wrote: Het-field wrote: Personally, I take him at his word. Between March 2017 and April 2019 he played extremely limited amounts of football, and almost got something of a second chance by signing for Palace. If he’s starting weekly or regularly MM will want him in midfield and I’d expect JM would like that too. I'm not having it and I dont think Mick will either. Hes been fit and available to play for pretty much 12 months (13/1/19) since his injury. Granted he didnt play much football for Everton in that period leading up to his summer transfer to Palace but he would have been training and playing games behind closed doors with the reserves. Id have absoutely no problem with him omitting himself right up until the September games given his lack of playing time and match sharpness. But to exclude himself for the October and November games doesn't sit with me. He had a full pre season under his belt and was getting minutes Palace. In fact, at that point he was getting more minutes than Hourihane and Hendrick, who turned up and played ...along with Whelan who didnt even have a pre season and was still getting up to speed at Hearts. Id rather Cullen than McCarthy, with Molumby and Knight next in line.

Looking forward to see Glen Whelan on the team sheet

Legs have grown back.

Should be coming back in to top form come March, just in time to pull out of the squad.

Mick hinted that James may not be committed and basically said if he picks him for the playoffs and he doesn't join up there's your answer.

d13dave wrote: We need him in the short term more than the long term (molumby, cullen etc coming through both of whom will play in the Premiership in the next few years for me)

Hed be better off trying to get his best players on the fcuking pitch rather than playing billy big balls