Nuno Tavares (Loan: Lazio)

So now we can sell him for 6m instead of 5?

Winger

A wing back.

You could always see a lot of qualities in his game while he was here. He’s an immense athlete, great pace, acceleration, stamina on a guy who has good size and strength… A very good dribbler too, he can drive with the ball really good, turn etc.

The best way to use him is as a wing back where you can use his athleticism in the best way as he can cover the whole length of the pitch.
Not skilled enough for a winger imo, not enough end product, link up, not creative enough, a shit finisher too (can hit if from distance at times).

Not surprised in he’s doing well atm. He was maybe even better at Marseille, one of their best players for a while, but they didn’t know how to use him at Nottinghtam.

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If he wasn’t such a dummy defensively, I am sure managers who like to play with wingbacks would love to have him in their squad.

You don’t have to be a great defender to be a decent wing back…
Chelsea won the title with Moses as a wing back, the guy was a winger for all of his career before that. Can’t remember him being a great defender, unless I’m wrong.

Tavares is an out and out natural prototype wingback, although he could still improve and is pretty raw in both directions. Obviously he won’t mantain this level of production on a constitent basis.

on OA you do buddy :sweat_smile:

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https://x.com/eurofootcom/status/1851548848541388926

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https://x.com/centregoals/status/1851555499675701703?s=46

Good for him, I believe we already have the fee for the obligation set though so it doesn’t mean very much for us.

Brilliant run from Tavares but does make laugh he gets credited for the assist there when the goalscorer had so much to do after, lol

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Why stats are so misleading lol

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Guy literally lost the ball and it just pinged off to the scorer lol

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Yeah, there was no pass from Tavares in the end but he did do a lot od work there, I’m not even against giving him the credit for the assist there.

Seen much worse ā€œassistsā€ when someone makes a basic, harmless sideway pass and then the player goes on an insane run or scores a worldie from distance… Still counts but that’s an absolute nothing assist, unlike what Tavares did above.

Also did well to get out the way in the end. Nothing worth discrediting him over.

Shame we can’t get a higher fee off his form but Marseille also loved him at first then didn’t want to pay up. Better we get something.

I personally enjoyed his attempt to join the Ministry of Silly Walks :slight_smile:

Anyone been watching this fella? I heard he was doing pretty well. 8 assists.

Yes, we’re a bit rubbish this morning. I’m bored, bumping this thread, thinking about that stagnant left side.

Maybe should bring him back in Jan to solve the left wing crisis

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Wouldn’t do worse than Martinelli for sure.

https://x.com/sr_collings/status/1922239254656106581?t=myYw4OTGRM0Zkgdfv0oQHg&s=19

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