player of the year

Originally Posted by Tiberian

Evans will always be targeted by physical forwards. It has been an obvious weakness in his game over the years, think of the strikers to have troubled him the most and it Carlton Cole, Zamora, Andy Carroll, Fellani in forward areas. He is a classy defender but when he starts getting knocked around it causes issues with the rest of his game.

He could put on muscle to combat this issue, the worry there is that he would lose pace and flexibility . He has decent pace, but not enough to risk losing what he has.

Theres no reason at all why putting on a few pounds of muscle should affect his pace or flexibility....unless the coaching and training is poor....oh.

It's £#%&! all to do with "bulking up" it's more to do with simply not standing there like a lemon and allowing people like, i don't know, to choose a random example...fellani, to just casually turn and do whatever he wants in our 18 yard box. You don't have to be muscle man to get tight to people and deny them space.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

It's £#%&! all to do with "bulking up" it's more to do with simply not standing there like a lemon and allowing people like, i don't know, to choose a random example...fellani, to just casually turn and do whatever he wants in our 18 yard box. You don't have to be muscle man to get tight to people and deny them space.

Yep. It's more about his attitude. He doesnt look particularly light weight from a purely physical point of view. Look at players like Terry and Vidic, they're not the tallest or biggest, hut theyre naturally aggressive and physically imposing.