João Mário

[IRR26]

JM is definately not a bad player we all just want him to be better. At the moment Inter is lacking treaqurtista ala Sneijner who scores and passes decisive goals.

 

[Jane The Virgin]

He is our most complete midfielder. He can play a possesion oriented game, can pass, runs alot, the only thing he lacks is scoring goals from distance aka shooting. One shit game is not a tragedy. A tragedy is to bench him now and dont give him time to recover his form and gain confidence and freedom in his game. He clearly is not a leader, he is quiet type of fella, a text book team player, but he was a diasaster our last game.

I dont mind that at all. Candreva has been shit 2 seasons. Nagashit all his life, santon 90% of his career, rano 93%.

Again, he is the most complete midfielder we have, he has quality. An Inter legend said it best, him and brozo are the perfect mix. He lacks balls and scoring goals the only two things brozo has over Mario.

Ill gladly start him over valero everyday, but thats just me.

The biggest mistake Inter will make is if the bench him in a "a la punishment" type of fashion for his poor performance last game. Thats how you destroy players.

 

[firmino]

He is our most complete midfielder. He can play a possesion oriented game, can pass, runs alot, the only thing he lacks is scoring goals from distance aka shooting. One shit game is not a tragedy. A tragedy is to bench him now and dont give him time to recover his form and gain confidence and freedom in his game. He clearly is not a leader, he is quiet type of fella, a text book team player, but he was a diasaster our last game.

I dont mind that at all. Candreva has been shit 2 seasons. Nagashit all his life, santon 90% of his career, rano 93%.

Again, he is the most complete midfielder we have, he has quality. An Inter legend said it best, him and brozo are the perfect mix. He lacks balls and scoring goals the only two things brozo has over Mario.

Ill gladly start him over valero everyday, but thats just me.

The biggest mistake Inter will make is if the bench him in a "a la punishment" type of fashion for his poor performance last game. Thats how you destroy players.

what do you mean by "distance", 30 centimeters? both his most recent mistakes were from around 11-12 meters.

 

[Dogen]

He should play deeper and under the right circumstances to express his own Seedorfness (minus the shot), but I guess that 4-2-3-1 is no country for mezzali (inside right and left) without the proper adaptation. I will be "footballistically" (Wenger dixit) sad if he doesn't live up to his potential at Inter.

Also, Candreva and his post-modernist crosses permitting, "Joao Mario as RW" is royalty-free and could be worth a try.
Unless Jorge Jesus comes and claims the copyright for each game played: all Inter coaches looked cautious about it so far.

 

[Javier'sSon]

The guy has quality but until he starts performing regularly when playing as a starter I won't be impressed. It's easier to stand out when you're already a good player and everyone else on the pitch is exhausted.

 

[ChillBro]

i'll say it again - I view him as a great CM - nothing more. Lets see if we ever see him at the RM or RW. I think it is fair to say that him as CAM or most advanced MF doesn't work.

 

[Bluenine]

He should play deeper and under the right circumstances to express his own Seedorfness (minus the shot), but I guess that 4-2-3-1 is no country for mezzali (inside right and left) without the proper adaptation. I will be "footballistically" (Wenger dixit) sad if he doesn't live up to his potential at Inter.

Also, Candreva and his post-modernist crosses permitting, "Joao Mario as RW" is royalty-free and could be worth a try.
Unless Jorge Jesus comes and claims the copyright for each game played: all Inter coaches looked cautious about it so far.

I read this twice, I still don't understand what you are saying.

 

[Sqnalkel]

Icardi and Mario are 24. I think its time we stop calling 24 year old players as "prospects" or having "great potential for the future". By 24, most players are on their peak apart from a rare few late bloomers. Maybe they will improve a little more, but I doubt there will be a dramatic transformation now. We need to work on the assumption that this is how good they will ever be.

And yesterday, Mario was shite. Below Guarin level shite. Mario was the worst player on the pitch, even on a day when Nagatomo was playing and Candreva & Vecino possibly had their worst game in an Inter shirt.

That's not the peak though, the peak is when a player is at the best performance of his career, that's usually around 27, however at 24 you can pretty much already know how good a player will be, there usually won't be any massive improvements in any areas, he'll just get better and more complete.

For example J. Mario's at best will go from atrocious finishing to mediocre finishing so he won't able be able to play as AM, and he doesn't really have the tools to succeed anywhere honestly. Some people say he's a CM, I don't agree at all his tackling, positioning and awareness aren't good enough to play there.

It's sad actually, he actually has all the skills to be a great the AM, except he's fucking atrocious inside the opponents goal area, it's not even just his finishing (though his shooting does suck in general), he almost never makes good decisions when he's inside it.

 

[K.I.]

He is definitely not a CM, he is an AM who needs to do better in the final third, if i were him i would try and improve my shooting and passing in the final third along with being more aggressive as well, work on that everyday forever.

The guy has quality but until he starts performing regularly when playing as a starter I won't be impressed. It's easier to stand out when you're already a good player and everyone else on the pitch is exhausted.

Thing is if he doesnt improve as a starter then he will have to settle at being kind of a super sub here or a starter for a another team who would accept him as is, thing is a lot of players tend to do better at other teams when they leave Inter so you never know.

 

[Quantum]

45 million for a supersub?

No way, it's freaking imperative that he steps up his game. Somewhere someone somehow saw some talent in him and Inter believed in him, so let's call this person and ask him where would Mário thrive.

It was probably Kia, though. Hopes he knows his tactics.

 

[M.Adnan]

so let's call this person and ask him where would Mário thrive.

That same person has to first explain to us what the fuck is Gabigol.

 

[K.I.]

Well its better if he is a starter who plays well but if he is someone who does well off the bench and actually changes the game then that may be the best option for him.

 

[ilbecca]

45 million for a supersub?

No way, it's freaking imperative that he steps up his game. Somewhere someone somehow saw some talent in him and Inter believed in him, so let's call this person and ask him where would Mário thrive.

It was probably Kia, though. Hopes he knows his tactics.

that evaluation is just wrong.
he is not that good, and unless he dramatically improves his finishing and shot, i doubt he ever will.
but that doesn't mean that he can't be a very good and useful player as is

his best performances seem to have come with the national team, so maybe spalletti should take a page from there

 

[Irequis]

To put Joao Mario as AM is as wasteful as putting Michael Carrick or Xavi as AM. His strongest point is almost similar to them (and similar to Valero as well) i.e. to retain possession and maintaning the tempo of the game. He is versatile player which means he can be played anywhere else including right wing, but it is in the middle of the park when he shines the most like he did in Sporting and the national team. As long as we deploy him in the wrong position, we will consider him as 45 million flop.

 

[K.I.]

Putting him in a Pirlo / Xabi Alonso kind role is definitely a good option for him, you are right in the sense its similar to Valero so playing one of the other may be a choice that has to be made.

Thing is he is not as slow as those players though, so technically if he improves in the final third he can be a great AM.

 

[CoolMan44]

I think one former Inter player put it well - take Brozovic's shooting technique and long-shot ability and give it to J. Mario, and you'll have a good AM.

 

[magnesium]

I think one former Inter player put it well - take Brozovic's shooting technique and long-shot ability and give it to J. Mario, and you'll have a good AM.

Inter already had player like this long time ago, his name is Sneijder...

and poor version of him is Banega.

 

[Palacio]

Mario's two corner kicks against Genoa were really good and so was his header to Eder in the 90th minute of the second half.

 

[CoolMan44]

Yup I liked his eagerness to get that header. He's probably our best corner kick taker at this point.

 

[JJM]

Some BS rumors of an Ozil-Joao Mario swap in the winter mercato...sure it's a BS English tabloid...

However what you guys think anyway...
I wouldn't...I like Mario a lot