Harry Winks

[Will1981]

needs dropping nowhere near good enough defensively his passing has gone downhill fast and he gets a nose bleed whenever he crosses the halfway line.

[eblair]

Thought had very good 2nd half; struggled with no one to pass to. Bar Faes and Hernansen; none of our defensive 7 players wanted to touch the ball

[iancognito]

Worst game in a City shirt by far. Couldn't find a pass, couldn't retain possession, doesn't look comfortable in this set up

[martyn]

Awful first half, much better 2nd when he decided to impose himself on the game. Just a shame his last 2 contributions were terrible balls into the box.

[JimJams]

What happened with him at Spurs will happen with him here.  Almost exactly.  He was good for Spurs when they played a style that suited him, but with a change of manager and the emergence of Skipp he lost his place.  The whole thing is repeating almost to the letter.  With the exception being we won't replace Skipp as well, but Cooper is not playing to get the best out of Winks and his system, if you can call it that, will be better with Skipp in instead in the long run.

[cropstonfox]

20 minutes ago, JimJams said:

What happened with him at Spurs will happen with him here.  Almost exactly.  He was good for Spurs when they played a style that suited him, but with a change of manager and the emergence of Skipp he lost his place.  The whole thing is repeating almost to the letter.  With the exception being we won't replace Skipp as well, but Cooper is not playing to get the best out of Winks and his system, if you can call it that, will be better with Skipp in instead in the long run.

Spot on.Winks is Top end championship. 

[honeybradger]

He did so well for us in the Championship because he always had 2-3 options to pass to because of Maresca's system. Under Cooper every player is isolated and it's impacting Winks more than anyone.

[FoxTimmy2]

1 minute ago, honeybradger said:

He did so well for us in the Championship because he always had 2-3 options to pass to because of Maresca's system. Under Cooper every player is isolated and it's impacting Winks more than anyone.

Under Cooper it's every man for himself .

[Corky]

15 hours ago, honeybradger said:

He did so well for us in the Championship because he always had 2-3 options to pass to because of Maresca's system. Under Cooper every player is isolated and it's impacting Winks more than anyone.

Exactly. He had Ricardo next to him, Dewsbury-Hall and Ndidi just ahead, Mavididi and Fatawu out wide, Vestergaard playing into him. Three of those options have seemingly gone and the wingers are one in, one out at present.

[Grebfromgrebland]

This is why we need winks and Skipp sat at the base of the midfield. They both need an outlet.