Leeds United Chat • Re: Tyler Adams

You should have a listen to the recently posted Tim Ream interview with Weston McKennie. In it he talks about when he moved to Italy he learnt a lot more about positioning and how to read the game rather than just chasing around. For me Tyler Adams needs to improve that side of his game as unfortunately he is too used to the RB way of playing which is why he runs around chasing everything whilst leaving a big hole in the centre of the pitch. I did numerous articles about this earlie rin the season about how Adams would get back into position but not track his man and inevitably a central midfielder would have acres of space to score for the opposition.

That is why I don't see Adams being out as a huge problem especially now we have a lot more structure about us. If you compare Kalvin Phillips to Tyler Adams then KP did far less chasing around but occupied the centre of the pitch making it harder for teams to come through us, notice how much easier it was for teams when KP was absent for us.

Adams could be a cracking DM if he improves his positional sense and reading of the game, when to leave his position and chase a player down and when not to as the danger will not come from the guy running down the wing but the midfielder who would get on the end of the cross.