Nuri Sahin

[Shaggy]

Nuri Sahin can be bought for £11million by Liverpool FC should his loan spell go well - Jonathan Northcroft reports for Sunday Times.

[doogle]

Us as fans need to make him feel hes found home

[Kenneth]

Yey, some potentially good news.

[Fosterbloke]

His first YNWA as a player will convince him to stay.

[Fredo]

His first YNWA as a player will convince him to stay.

Whether he stays or not does not depend on him.

[Neil Young]

It's Şahin, not Sahin. So it's pronounced 'sha-heen' or 'cha-heen', depending on which Wiki page you choose to believe.

All those puns, and they're all wrong.

[Kenneth]

Ah right, thanks for the clarification.

<<switches to Amazon to buy a new keyboard>>

[lickedlollipop]

It's Şahin, not Sahin. So it's pronounced 'sha-heen' or 'cha-heen', depending on which Wiki page you choose to believe.

All those puns, and they're all wrong.

i wondered that too. many of turkish names with letter "S (Ş) are pronounced as "Sh"

[baronvonskidmark]

Showed some nice touches and could be a good addition. Far from match fit though and needs to be a bit more physical if he's gonna play midfield in the PL.

[Gibbo]

He's good enough, will be a big player for us.

[Pablo]

Thought the game passed him by a bit today. Clearly has talent though and will need games to work his way into English football. I'd be tempted to start Shelvey ahead of him for the moment though as he just seems the more likely to score and we badly need goals.

Oh and that moment when he had a chance to shoot with his right foot on the edge of the box but bottled it. Very one footed, I thought that was poor, have some confidence in your right foot and slot it home.

[Gibbo]

Thought the game passed him by a bit today. Clearly has talent though and will need games to work his way into English football. I'd be tempted to start Shelvey ahead of him for the moment though as he just seems the more likely to score and we badly need goals.

Oh and that moment when he had a chance to shoot with his right foot on the edge of the box but bottled it. Very one footed, I thought that was poor, have some confidence in your right foot and slot it home.

I think he best thing we can do is keep playing him, he will improve every game.

Agree about that shot though, proper bottled it, think the occasion got to him.

[Gibbo]

24 today.

HBNS

[Slinky Skills]

Thought the game passed him by a bit today. Clearly has talent though and will need games to work his way into English football. I'd be tempted to start Shelvey ahead of him for the moment though as he just seems the more likely to score and we badly need goals.

Oh and that moment when he had a chance to shoot with his right foot on the edge of the box but bottled it. Very one footed, I thought that was poor, have some confidence in your right foot and slot it home.

I was talking to a guy in work about this the other day.

Players need to learn how to play both footed, considering they are professionals it is the least they can do.

Even watching Gerrard now he is still predominantly right footed, one of the greatest players of our generation and he can barely use his left foot. Pretty much all of the Barca team are as comfortable on one foot as the other.

I'm nowhere near as good as these guys are but I took the time to learn how to use my left foot, I'm as good on my left now as I am on my right if not better and that's not me being arrogant.

I can run, pass and shoot as good on my left as with my right - that's come through years of learning and practice. All footballers should take the time to learn to use their other foot as it makes you a better player.

Tackling too, that's another one. It's a dying art, tackling from the modern footballer is piss poor. I acknowledge the game has moved on and is much quicker now than it's ever been but players don't seem to learn or get taught how to tackle properly, it's not ****ing difficult to make a clean decent tackle ffs.

How many poor miss timed tackles do we see week in week out that could be avoided?

Is this down to poor coaching perhaps?

Are there are lads or girls on here taking any FIFA coaching badges that can advise on training methods for the above. I'd be interested to know whether they are incorporated into modern day training methods.

[McDermotX]

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Players need to learn how to play both footed, considering they are professionals it is the least they can do.

Even watching Gerrard now he is still predominantly right footed, one of the greatest players of our generation and he can barely use his left foot. Pretty much all of the Barca team are as comfortable on one foot as the other.

I'm nowhere near as good as these guys are but I took the time to learn how to use my left foot, I'm as good on my left now as I am on my right if not better and that's not me being arrogant.

I can run, pass and shoot as good on my left as with my right - that's come through years of learning and practice. All footballers should take the time to learn to use their other foot as it makes you a better player.

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Yes, **** these professionals.......we should be telling them what to be doing, how crap they are at certain things, where they need to improve etc etc



Actually I sort of agree with you Slinky, at least to an amateur level anyway. I remember, back in my schoolboy years, that I wanted to develop my left foot to such a level that I would be comfortable using either foot to the best of my ability...................and how I managed it was committing myself to only using my left one summer for all the local kickabouts, matches, time-wasting against a wall with a ball etc, that a young fella would be getting up to for 3 months of the summer (schoolboy level football wasn't played during the summer at this point in Dublin). Left only........completely ignored my right side, except for the obvious basics,.....any shooting chances were pushed to my left, any traps were done on my left, any volleys etc etc

After 3 months of that, I honestly can say my game improved dramatically in almost all aspects from initial touch, set-pieces, shooting, passing and opened up the pitch far more to me than had previously. Turning back onto your left became a normal part of your play rather than something you'd try to avoid doing.
Now that was just some snot nosed young fella using his own initiative one summer, but it certainly helped me right up to when I had to stop playing.

I would be astonished if the up-to-date coaching doesn't incorporate such methods into training from schoolboy, amateur etc right up to professional. If young footballers want to develop technique on the ball, which is what we see in continental academies, then they should be taught to embrace their weaker sides.