**** me there's some horseshit in this thread. Some ****ing nonsense about having Tielemans in over Maddison even though he looks like he's forgotten how to ay football, some bollocks about Maddison being suited to an inside winger instead of a no.10 or no.8 and now it's suddenly Maddison who's a bit shit and not the ****ing ludicrous setup we used against a weakened Manchester United side.... I mean, next some one will try telling me that we are a better side with Choudhury and Ndidi in using statistics from matches including those under a former manager and against a select group of teams to try and prove a point.
A trained gibbon can see that Maddison is completely wasted over on the left, especially given that he has little to no cover behind him in Chilwell who can't defend to save his life at present. We have players who can give us width and creativity yet we play 2 defensive midfielders and we're so narrow it's untrue. How anybody could have watched our last game and still maintain that Maddison should play on the left with Ndidi and Choudhury in the middle clearly fell asleep during the game and not only missed how hopeless we were for 60 minutes but also how much better we were with Perez on giving Maddison back his proper position.
As for trying to turn the lad into Coutinho or any other approximation of a different footballer, well, why not let him be Maddison instead? That might help matters greatly.
