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Liverpool’s midfield needs #IntelligentEngines. The question is what kind of metal survives the machine. Ayyoub Bouaddi is raw ore. Alex Scott is the tempered blade. Ore is seductive because it lets you dream. Before the furnace, before the hammer, before the edge is drawn, you can imagine anything. But ore is still only potential. The blade is less romantic, but it has already been through fire. It has taken its shape. It has met resistance. Ore carries possibility. The blade carries consequence. The fight is now. Bouaddi, 18, has the sort of base that makes scouts lean forward: clean feet, surprising duel strength, and real progression upside. He matches Scott closely on total progression (45th vs 44th), edges him on progression via passes (25th vs 21st) and pass accuracy (38th vs 15th), and leads in defensive ground duels (85th vs 70th) and aerial duels (75th vs 68th). There is real metal here. But Scott has the edge. Defensive impact (84th vs 39th), defensive actions (89th vs 82nd), final product (65th vs 40th), and Total VAEP (57th vs 12th) all point the same way. Bouaddi gives you the material. Scott is already cutting. The defensive maps tell the same story. Bouaddi does not hide: 59 tackles, 62 interceptions or blocked passes, 151 recoveries across 25.9 90s, spread through central zones. That is encouraging. Yet Scott is doing the dirtier work in dirtier places: 60 tackles, 67 interceptions, 195 recoveries, 85 clearances, stronger box protection, and 31.8 Premier League 90s of contact. This is where the blade has already taken blows. On the ball, the gap is not in broad volume. Both sit at 1.5 progressive carries per 90; Bouaddi has 2.2 progressive passes per 90, Scott 2.1. Bouaddi is clean, vertical, and secure. Scott, though, gets into more places where the next action hurts. More final-third threat. More end product. More value. That is the difference between metal and weapon. Scott already delivers the full sequence: #RegainCarryCreate. Bouaddi is close on regain and carry, but the create and total value sides still lag. Bouaddi is tomorrow’s metal. Scott is today’s weapon. For the next two seasons, Scott is the sharper fit: Premier League-ready and battle-tested, able to strengthen the engine room immediately while Bouaddi is still being tempered.

@MulindwaYusuf6 Sorry dude. Totally forgot. Weekend.

@Doc_A_I I'll be waiting

Interesting sign of where LFC is at in the transfer window. Yan Diomande is no longer is not just a Salah replacement exercise. It is scarcity economics. Diomande isn’t Salah. Salah was a complete unicorn. But Diomande now looks like one of the few plausible right-sided intelligent engines available on the market. Regain. Carry. Create. That means repeating those actions at intensity. Not once. Not in flashes. Repeatedly. Once you strip out the untouchables, the wrong profiles, the wrong ages, and the casino options? The list becomes Yan Diomande.

@MulindwaYusuf6 Still not a guarantee. That’s all.

@Doc_A_I Time will tell

@GooalMouth He was not very good. A lot of the same mistakes he makes in the League were not punished. Playing silly balls into high risk zones, releasing the ball too late. That’s not legs. That’s purely poor decision making. Even worse.

MacAllister continues to prove my theory correct. Legs saved for the big stage. Fairs.

@MulindwaYusuf6 There is no guarantee of that.

@Doc_A_I Mbappe's ratio will reduce with more games

Funny thing is it’s not a totally crazy shout. At Dortmund, he posted top carry numbers with 97th percentile dribbling, progression, and creation via carries, plus 96th in creation via passes and 78 total VAEP. Shooting volume was low at 14th and active defending only 62nd. Limited minutes at only 954. At Chelsea in 24/25, he got more minutes with 1,764 mins. He improved with 70th in active defending, 23rd shooting volume, 28th own shot generation, 96th pass accuracy, and maintained strong creation. However, total VAEP dipped to 66. The season at Aston Villa - again limited minutes at 873 mins - creation via passes stays elite at 95th but everything else declined sharply: active defending 23rd, shooting volume 4th, finishing quality 31st, dribbling 72nd, and total VAEP at 68. But Emery didn’t use him much nor did he get asked to press a lot in Emery’s system. He can do it though. He’s got the technical ceiling to thrive as an Iraola winger, especially in his Chelsea form. If they can crater his wages to a decent level? He can easily be the versatile HG attacker needed.

@Doc_A_I Excellent gif choice

ScoutLab has a metric called "Productive Dribbles" They're successful dribbles where the ensuing action was a shot, chance created, progressive pass, or progressive carry... so dribbles that actually led to something. Yan Diomande had 42 last season. Crysencio Summerville has 20 of them in his entire Premier League career.

@fc_mossman I’d take Sancho on a free.

But but but Bundesliga tax If you halved Diomande’s productive dribbles p90 this season he’d still be 8th among PL wingers for this metric and 30% better than Summerville this season. But but but “Sancho” and “no good wingers come from this league to the Premier League” Keep making decisions on small samples, idk how you live your life. Hope you never said anything nice about Hugo Ekitike, Benjamin Sesko, Dom Szoboszlai, Erling Haaland, etc etc etc

@josh234a Who ever said anything about benching either player? You’re arguing with yourself.

@Doc_A_I Okay then fine, all I said in the start was even if we get both they would have to proof they can bench 38 and 8

Liverpool’s midfield needs #IntelligentEngines. The question is what kind of metal survives the machine. Ayyoub Bouaddi is raw ore. Alex Scott is the tempered blade. Ore is seductive because it lets you dream. Before the furnace, before the hammer, before the edge is drawn, you can imagine anything. But ore is still only potential. The blade is less romantic, but it has already been through fire. It has taken its shape. It has met resistance. Ore carries possibility. The blade carries consequence. The fight is now. Bouaddi, 18, has the sort of base that makes scouts lean forward: clean feet, surprising duel strength, and real progression upside. He matches Scott closely on total progression (45th vs 44th), edges him on progression via passes (25th vs 21st) and pass accuracy (38th vs 15th), and leads in defensive ground duels (85th vs 70th) and aerial duels (75th vs 68th). There is real metal here. But Scott has the edge. Defensive impact (84th vs 39th), defensive actions (89th vs 82nd), final product (65th vs 40th), and Total VAEP (57th vs 12th) all point the same way. Bouaddi gives you the material. Scott is already cutting. The defensive maps tell the same story. Bouaddi does not hide: 59 tackles, 62 interceptions or blocked passes, 151 recoveries across 25.9 90s, spread through central zones. That is encouraging. Yet Scott is doing the dirtier work in dirtier places: 60 tackles, 67 interceptions, 195 recoveries, 85 clearances, stronger box protection, and 31.8 Premier League 90s of contact. This is where the blade has already taken blows. On the ball, the gap is not in broad volume. Both sit at 1.5 progressive carries per 90; Bouaddi has 2.2 progressive passes per 90, Scott 2.1. Bouaddi is clean, vertical, and secure. Scott, though, gets into more places where the next action hurts. More final-third threat. More end product. More value. That is the difference between metal and weapon. Scott already delivers the full sequence: #RegainCarryCreate. Bouaddi is close on regain and carry, but the create and total value sides still lag. Bouaddi is tomorrow’s metal. Scott is today’s weapon. For the next two seasons, Scott is the sharper fit: Premier League-ready and battle-tested, able to strengthen the engine room immediately while Bouaddi is still being tempered.

@josh234a I haven’t mentioned Camara even once. I haven’t even mentioned Bouaddi as a starter. I haven’t even mentioned dropping Szoboszlai. You are literally arguing with yourself.

@Doc_A_I Yeah, they were never a starter, so why make a mediocre player a starter, Szoboszlai is arguably one of the best players in our team last season, but now you want to ship him out for Camara or Bouaddi, are you even listening to yourself

@josh234a Why not give it a try with a new system and see how they are? Because if Arne Slot was still here, no matter the players, they'll still be shit. Right?

@Doc_A_I Ramsay , Elliott and chiesa are shit players, so what you are saying is Szoboszlai and Gravenbern are the same as chiesa and Elliott. Szoboszlai and Gravenbern was in conversation of being the best in their position in the title winning campaign, so what are you talking about.

@redbhoyburn @JeremyUsbourne1 Courtois, Trent, Konate, Huijsen, Cucurella, Tchouameni, Bernardo, Valverde, Jude, Endrick, Mbappe. Pure Mourinho ball.

@JeremyUsbourne1 Needs a side set up to get the best out of him.

Kylian Mbappe is not a striker. Maybe he’d get away with it in 1998 but in today’s game he’s a wide forward. Which is also a bit of a shame for him because he’s lazy as fuck. #WorldCup

@redbhoyburn Ex player is a good pundit. What a Clichy.

Think I've said this before, but Clichy is a very good pundit.

@fc_mossman Productive Bundesliga Tax?

On topic of "Productive Dribbles" 🇧🇷 Kevin 🔎➡️💎

@josh234a Okay. So new signings. And if it all goes badly? Sack the coach. Bring a new one in. Because it’s the coach that was the issue. Cool. I’m good with it. Give Ramsay, Chiesa and Elliott the starting slots. New system. New coach.

@Doc_A_I We know how good our player is, why not give it a try with a new system and see how they are, because if Arne Slot was still here, no matter the players they'll still be shit.

@josh234a Oh. That’ll be funny.

@Doc_A_I Szoboszlai

@michaelevansuk The Aquatimer Chronograph is an ugly AF watch. Hope his Missus gets him a new piece for his birthday.

No words. Herzlichen Glueckwunsch Chef!

@josh234a Okay. So who is going to play next to Gravenberch?

@Doc_A_I Compare them both to Gravenbern in Liverpool title season. Gravenbern have shown he is better than both combined, even if we sign them they're going straight to the bench

@PaulSenior1 This sounds like LFC in…2038?

Think he’ll do well at a club that isn’t permanently looking over its shoulder at what a manager who left 14 years ago would have done.

@KenrickMiller10 @LFC_Resolute @Kaleb_80 Gakpo blud.

@Doc_A_I @LFC_Resolute @Kaleb_80 He’s correct in that thinking

@v10lexuslfa @Doc_A_I @KenrickMiller10 but but but Slot 🤡

@LFC_Resolute @KenrickMiller10 @Kaleb_80 He even said Gakpo was world class. 🤷

@LFC_Resolute @KenrickMiller10 @Kaleb_80 Kaleb has clearly told me that a coach has to work with what he has, and if the coach fails? It’s on the coach. Irrespective of squad issues. I don’t prescribe to this view because I’m not a massive bozo, but that’s what Kaleb thinks.