07 Mar 2022 13:09:17
who do you guys think is our strongest free kick taker when shooting directly at goal? Has to be TAA but he hasn't scored many recently. Salah has skewed a few wide but apart from TAA we don't really have a specialist free kick taker. Would love if we bring in a midfield player this summer who is clinical with free-kicks.

07 Mar 2022 13:30:31
Before he joined, I had read somewhere that Fabinho was quite good with freekicks (and penalties) . But for some reason he hasn't been used yet. We've seen a few times that he has quite a foot on him and can whack them in (like Ox) .

07 Mar 2022 13:32:45
Has to be TAA since I don't think anyone else at the club currently has scored from a direct free kick for us. Unless Henderson did ages ago.

07 Mar 2022 13:32:58
I'm not sure we'd ever bring in a special teams FK taker. he'd also need to be good enough to be in the starting 11!

Other than JWP at Southampton I'm not sure if there are many specialists out there these days anyway, maybe bring old juninho from Lyon back out from retirement?

07 Mar 2022 13:33:24
I think with Trent, Salah, Hendo, Big Virg, and I think Thiago takes one or 2, we're pretty well covered.

Unless you're Ward-Prowse, generally it's more important to be better at other things than your free-kick taking ability!

07 Mar 2022 13:51:28
Do you Remember that Payet for West Ham he could seriously hit a free kick!
You’ve got to remember Trent is 23 😂 if he keeps improving like this, his free kicks will also improve gradually.

07 Mar 2022 16:25:47
Pretty sure VVD would fancy a go!

07 Mar 2022 16:33:15
There’s definitely merit in bringing in a free kick specialist, imagine the elation as he’s brought on in the 93rd minute following a foul on the edge of the D, as he steps up, blazing a rocket of a shot…. oh, wait, maybe not such a great idea.

{Ed025's Note - its not american football DS.. :)

07 Mar 2022 16:36:48
You'd like to think that all players who are paid and have ample time to practice striking a dead ball you'd expect every pro to be able to take one. The same as corners. After all there's probably thousands of good free kicks scored every week at all levels of grass roots by random lads who work all hours and sink a few pints the night before.

07 Mar 2022 17:55:19
Coutinho is back in the PL Maxx.

07 Mar 2022 19:24:10
I don’t know where I was watching it but there was a thing on free kick takers David Beckham when I looked was 3rd highest of all time and he scored about 64.
Everybody goes on about the one he s ores for England against Greece think he had about 20 that game so god knows how many he had so to score 64 over about 15 years and be the 3rd highest of all time shows that most of them are a waste of time.

07 Mar 2022 23:03:46
Unless my memory is starting to fail but I seem to remember teams were scared to tackle or do a tactical foul on players around the edge of the box when facing United with Beckham in it, meaning United had more good chances to pass the ball about leading to more decent chances on goal. So having someone who is known as a dead ball specialist isn’t just about scoring from free kicks but it also means teams can be scared to defend properly.

07 Mar 2022 23:29:07
We could always bring Charlie Adam back.
TAA for me. Salah's are not that good.

07 Mar 2022 23:31:14
Very good point Mikey, I hadn't thought about that.