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Have to admit that when we were looking to sign a left back in the summer, I really wanted us to sign gael clichy form Arsenal but he chose Man City (and was right to).

When we signed Jose Enrique I was not sure about him and over a whole season, I still remain very unconvinced.

He is very suspect defensively and slows down attacks by always turning inside or passing backwards

I really hope Jack Robinson can make the break through next season and really push Jose Enrique to improve his performances.

Or barring this, we sign, Maynor figueora from Wigan who is a class left back.

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His form has dropped since around Jan/Feb but whose hasn't,he was very consistent for the first half of the season,just needs to pick it up a bit,he couls use his right foot more,sometimes he just needs to get rid of it.

In general Enrique has been a good signing, but towards the end of the season his defensive play has been no better than average, and going forward he provides very little other than pace (which we lack pretty much everywhere). That may be largely due to fatigue, because he's played the vast majority of our games and spends most of those games sprinting the touchline.

Decent player for a good fee, and I think he mainly needs a rest. Obviously there are better players out there, but I think he just needs to work on his cross delivery as he and Downing have a decent enough understanding (assuming Downing will be allowed to play on the left to supply ball to Carroll as we were supposed to have done this entire season).

personally I think he has been poor from Jan onwards

but I would like to see him rested now and robinson given a go.

nothing to lose by playing him

Another sad case of 'Lucasism'.

your opinion, like mine is of Enrique.

grrrrrrrrr

Actually Heggy see a similar pattern with a lot of players this season. Started well, showed promise and instead of kicking on and fulfilling potential late season they have done a complete U-turn and fell away alarmingly; as with the team.

I think a lot of that comes down to poor tactics and other teams figuring out our one-dimensional play.

I've always felt Enrique was an average/good lb and was the weakest part of our defense, offensively he's not very good and defensively he's not good mentally at one on one situations or any play from the opposition down his flank, usually he uses his strength and pace to rectify any mistakes but yesturday he couldn't.

Here's a post I made in October:

In addition it seems a large amount of the goals we've conceded have been due to Enrique not being used to playing with the left sided cb and lm, or being a bit tired from attacking all match as quite a lot of the goals conceded are created or taken on the left flank.

e.g Larsson goal -cross from left sunderland,
carra peno- played in behind the left flank -stoke,
Wolves goal from cross from the left flank -wolves,
Lastly Hernandez's goal from the original corner smalling broke in behind Enrique and Gerrard had to go awol to concede the origin corner which resulted in another corner leading to the goal-man utd