Diego Rico

RobTrent said:
Rico?
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The rumours and press reports doing the rounds last summer?

http://sportwitness.co.uk/real-sociedad-keen-bournemouth-player-hes-interested-move-la-liga/

Rico himself is said to want a return to Spanish football.

I wonder if things have moved on in that regard. We know he's struggled here, language / homesickness and now Covid

That said I personally thought he'd almost cemented his place so there must be an 'Eddie' reason behind just dropping him like a stone?
 
NWCherries98 said:
https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/first-team/rico-wins-september-player-of-the-month
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Thank you.

‘The left-back, who signed for the club from Leganes in the summer of 2018, played every minute of the Cherries’ three Premier League fixtures last month.
During those matches, he bagged two assists, the first coming for Nathan Ake’s header against Southampton in what was the side’s first ever win at St Mary’s, while the second was in the 3-1 win over Everton at Vitality Stadium, as Callum Wilson latched onto his through ball.’

@CherryBare there you go.
 
NWCherries98 said:
Rico: Has a good cross on him, excellent taker of set pieces, always gets the ball in early.

Kelly: Has never played in the premier league. Has no experience playing in the current back 4. Has been injured for nearly a year.

Who do you go for in the closing stages of the match you desperately need to win?
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There isn't player in the present selection that I would go to. Surridge is the only one that may score a goal, but he can't even get on the subs bench. He must be thinking what am I doing here.
 
blandford_cherry said:
Thank you.

‘The left-back, who signed for the club from Leganes in the summer of 2018, played every minute of the Cherries’ three Premier League fixtures last month.
During those matches, he bagged two assists, the first coming for Nathan Ake’s header against Southampton in what was the side’s first ever win at St Mary’s, while the second was in the 3-1 win over Everton at Vitality Stadium, as Callum Wilson latched onto his through ball.’

@CherryBare there you go.
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Firstly everyone was playing better then. He's always got a major blunder up his sleeve, and he's not close to Charlie daniels.
Why does Eddie not play him then?
 
CherryBare said:
Firstly everyone was playing better then. He's always got a major blunder up his sleeve, and he's not close to Charlie daniels.
Why does Eddie not play him then?
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I’m intrigued by these major blunders. I don’t know why Eddie isn’t playing him I’m just merely stating that he was very good at the start of the season for which you disagreed.
 
NWCherries98 said:
Rico: Has a good cross on him, excellent taker of set pieces, always gets the ball in early.

Kelly: Has never played in the premier league. Has no experience playing in the current back 4. Has been injured for nearly a year.

Who do you go for in the closing stages of the match you desperately need to win?
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Solanke
 
In terms of pure numbers, Rico’s defensive stats were excellent. Prior to being dropped, he had the highest number of tackles and interceptions in all European leagues. There might be particularly reasons as to how this has occurred but you certainly don’t get those stats by being a bad defender.

Now Eddie obviously wants his full backs to contribute going forward. It’s why Stacey is getting in the team despite being out of his depth defensively. Despite a good cross, Rico just doesn’t have the passing ability or speed of thought in tight spaces higher up the pitch. I’m also not convinced he understands the movement Eddie wants but that applies to others too.

So that’s the reason he’s not getting a game. If we were getting attacking output from elsewhere, then I’m sure he’d be picked on defensive merit alone. I really hope he wasn’t recruited as an attacking full back because in that case our scouting team have massively misjudged his attributes
 
Tinpot Club said:
In terms of pure numbers, Rico’s defensive stats were excellent. Prior to being dropped, he had the highest number of tackles and interceptions in all European leagues. There might be particularly reasons as to how this has occurred but you certainly don’t get those stats by being a bad defender.

Now Eddie obviously wants his full backs to contribute going forward. It’s why Stacey is getting in the team despite being out of his depth defensively. Despite a good cross, Rico just doesn’t have the passing ability or speed of thought in tight spaces higher up the pitch. I’m also not convinced he understands the movement Eddie wants but that applies to others too.

So that’s the reason he’s not getting a game. If we were getting attacking output from elsewhere, then I’m sure he’d be picked on defensive merit alone. I really hope he wasn’t recruited as an attacking full back because in that case our scouting team have massively misjudged his attributes
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But if you compare the attacking stats of all of our players, Rico is at least on par with everyone else. The only difference is that Rico is also one of the best tacklers and interceptors in the squad. It’s absolutely insane to me that EH would rather play Smith on his weaker side than just play the best LB we have available.
 
NWCherries98 said:
But if you compare the attacking stats of all of our players, Rico is at least on par with everyone else. The only difference is that Rico is also one of the best tacklers and interceptors in the squad. It’s absolutely insane to me that EH would rather play Smith on his weaker side than just play the best LB we have available.
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It’s why I put a slight caveat on the stats because from what I see in his attacking play he looks a little lost. I don’t agree with Eddie’s choice but I’m trying to explain what I think he is basing his choice on
 
It's become "the definition of insanity". For the love of JC, please try something different. It is stupifyingly boring and obviously doesn't work.
 
Tinpot Club said:
It’s why I put a slight caveat on the stats because from what I see in his attacking play he looks a little lost. I don’t agree with Eddie’s choice but I’m trying to explain what I think he is basing his choice on
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I know where you are coming from .....I think he'd be a great signing for a team who wanted a full back who defended and whipped in early balls .......hes not a Charlie Daniels and Adam Smith type who where basically converted wingers who will drive into the opposition's penalty area.
I'm always amazed that people on here who bemoan our recent lack of overlapping full backs can't grasp why Rico isn't starting...

I've no idea why we bought him tbh
 
Topfarrier said:
I've no idea why we bought him tbh
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excellent post by Tinman further up, exactly the reason why he’s not playing IMO.

And singled out Topfarrier’s post because this is also baffling to me - he’s clearly not in the mould of an EH fullback, so which scout endorsed shelling out 10+million for him
 
Ball retention, that's why doesn't get in the team to sum up!
 
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