Josh McEachran

[DDA 9,570]

WTF .. did you make that hahaha.. that is fucking quality!

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Wilshere is massively overrated and has been living off an overhyped performance nearly 3 seasons ago. What exactly has he done in his career so far?

His vision is average, he can't dictate play like Gundogan or Thiago, his passing technique is painfully mediocre, he lacks trickery and he doesn't score goals at all.

Not sure what the fuss is about. I'd take Ramsey over him, he does everything Wilshere better apart from the burst of pace past players.

You'd take Ramsey over him? Then you're insane. Wilshire is a tremendous talent. He doesn't score because he plays central midfield and takes one shot every two games which is almost always from a distance out. If his finishing were better, maybe he'd score 2 or 3 goals a year. His job is not to score. If he'd be at Chelsea, he'd be our #1 central midfielder in a second. What's he done? He was on the PFA team of the year when he was a teenager. He's still younger than say Oscar or Hazard and is only 6 months older than De Bruyne. Since then he hasn't done that much because he's been injured and recovering for 90% of that time. Yeah, he's overhyped by some people but take a look at this thread or any number of threads and you'll see that every single Chelsea youngster is overhyped by our fans as well. I hate having to defend Wilshire because he's a prick as a person, but he is a very good player. It's really annoying to see every Premier League player mentioned, even obviously class ones, on other clubs dismissed as crap. (Which is in stark contrast to young players who come from other leagues who are all going to be world class players.)

[Gilvorak 3,734]

He's a one trick pony,

Good player but the way people talk about him you'd think he was Iniesta or Zidane MK2 or something. He couldn't even get into Arsenal's team, he was dropped for their best run of the season but he'd 'walk' into ours? Bore off lad.

It may seem like I'm hating but I'm just wondering out loud why an attacking midfielder who can't score nor create gets as much hype as he does to the point where its almost blasphemous to mention a similar type player with him. Like Pep said a couple of years ago, there are dozens of players like Wilshere in Spanish academies.

Eriksen, De Bruyne, Oscar, Thiago, Gotze, Kroos, Muller, Gundogan, Illaramendi, Isco, Verratti etc so many talented young midfielders out there that are better than Jack.

[Peace. 4,352]

It may seem like I'm hating but I'm just wondering out loud why an attacking midfielder who can't score nor create gets as much hype as he does to the point where its almost blasphemous to mention a similar type player with him. Like Pep said a couple of years ago, there are dozens of players like Wilshere in Spanish academies.

Because, as TorontoChelsea has already mentioned in his post.... Wilshere is NOT an attacking midfielder. He is a central midfielder. Arsene Wenger said himself "He's a box-to-box player, more than just an holding midfielder". Scoring goals is not his job — that why he is being rated highly despite not scoring goals...

[herpthederp 122]

When you watch his contribution to an entire game, you see how he controls the tempo, and more importantly the way he can commit two or three players with a bursting run and then release the ball to players in the space he's created for them. There's certainly hype in England that goes over the top, but when he's got people like Schweinsteiger saying that he's one of the best players in his position in the world, or Alves saying he wants him at Barca, you have to admit the praise isn't just English people with rose tinted glasses on.

[zolayes 14,489]

We ALL want Josh to be our starting playmaker ....but we must accept it may not happen.

[wj818 25]

Out of all the midfielders that have played this pre season, only him seems to dictate the tempo comfortably. Mou should give him a start in the next game, just to see what he does.

[wj818 25]

Out of all the midfielders that have played this pre season, only him seems to dictate the tempo comfortably. Mou should give him a start in the next game, just to see what he does.

[didierforever 7,349]

Out of all the midfielders that have played this pre season, only him seems to dictate the tempo comfortably. Mou should give him a start in the next game, just to see what he does.

as much as i would love for this to happen, i think mou is more concerned about giving time to people he knows are gonna be in the squad, for eg- mvg, rambo, essien. also inter milan would be a good test to see how our current midfield fairs against good opposition.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Out of all the midfielders that have played this pre season, only him seems to dictate the tempo comfortably. Mou should give him a start in the next game, just to see what he does.

Josh and the other 5 youngsters will fly back to England and will NOT join the team in the US tour and will be replaced by the returning players from the Confederation cup. So Mou definitely won't be giving Josh a chance next match.

[wj818 25]

Josh and the other 5 youngsters will fly back to England and will NOT join the team in the US tour and will be replaced by the returning players from the Confederation cup. So Mou definitely won't be giving Josh a chance next match.

Well that sux, next season then

[herpthederp 122]

Josh isn't going to make it at Chelsea. I think we just need to accept that. I watched him today and he was too lethargic off the ball and too sloppy on it. He may be able to cut the mistakes out of his game with time, but time isn't something that Chelsea are going to give him.

[ja1 1,166]

Ten mins of 2012-13 Josh McEachran highlights at Middlesborough(YouTube link): http://goo.gl/L4uK8h

There are more videos of highlights of him with the England U21s and of his appearances against Indonesia XI on the channel.

If you can't be bothered to watch all 10 minutes make sure you see 0:50.

[kellzfresh 7,226]

I wish he was more hardworking off the ball, he seems so lethargic and casual off the ball which will make me too scared to place him in my pivot. He can only play in a role where he is protected by other DM's like pirlo in juventus.

He has massive talent and vision, but he has terrible work rate. If he plays as the attacking midfielder, his vision for passes from deep will be wasted. But if he plays deep, offers no defensive cover..... its confusing. He needs to buff up and develop his defensive side to finally step up into the team.

[5354 204]

Hopefully Jose can tell him on where he needs to work on and he really goes ahead to work on it. or simply he can just go on loan get a good manager who can guide him.

[herpthederp 122]

Spanish media reporting that Real Sociedad are in for McEachran.

[Slam Dunk 1,442]

Interesting. Nowhere near enough young english (or even full professionals) play abroad.

[Jype 6,398]

Spanish media reporting that Real Sociedad are in for McEachran.

A loan deal? I've always thought the La Liga would be the best fit for McEachran because there he could focus on improving his playmaking abilities instead of having to worry about the physical side of his game too much as that can be done later when he's more ready in other aspects. Real Sociedad have just lost their key midfielder Asier Illarramendi to Real Madrid and there could be an opening in the starting lineup but I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert on their team because I really haven't watched them that much and I don't know for sure how good their other midfielders and and what kind of football their new manager prefers. No point sending Josh on another Swansea-like loan where he's stuck on the bench but if they promised him regular first team football it could be a perfect opportunity for him to take the next step in his career because they really are a quality team and there is even the possibility of playing in the Champions League too if they can get through the qualifiers.