[Albion] Montoya to Betis - deal complete

[SeagullDubai]

he's owned by villareal, he was only on loan at betis

#freepedraza


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[The Wizard]

Calderon was a better defender than Montoya

 

[vagabond]

All the best Monty

 

[albionalex]

Makes sense. Won't get much game time and although a dependable pro, didn't offer much last season.

I wonder if Romaric Yapi will be moved up from the U23's.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Montoya is a really smooth passer and is normally good with his positioning. However, in either box, his goals, assists & saving tackle stats were not great. He does not affect the result of the game as much as Lamptey.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Calderon was a better defender than Montoya

Nonsense, He’d probably tell you that himself.

Look at their careers

 

[SeagullinExile]

Calderon was a better defender than Montoya

Think you may have your Caldi tinted glasses on here!

 

[The Wizard]

Nonsense, He’d probably tell you that himself.

Look at their careers

Couldn’t care less about their careers, Montoya is absolutely shocking defensively, his positioning is dreadful.

People always said he’s good going forward, never saw that either. Tell me what Montoya does well? Genuine question.

 

[Beanstalk]

Hugely underrated player for us, but with the change in system, a year left on his contract, and a glut of interesting RB options it's probably the right time to part ways.

 

[Stat Brother]

Montoya is a really smooth passer and is normally good with his positioning. However, in either box, his goals, assists & saving tackle stats were not great. He does not affect the result of the game as much as Lamptey.

In fairness to Monty it's likely to be a good few years before the Albion have another full back who can affect the result of a Premier League game as much as Lamptey.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Couldn’t care less about their careers, Montoya is absolutely shocking defensively, his positioning is dreadful.

People always said he’s good going forward, never saw that either. Tell me what Montoya does well? Genuine question.

Maybe relative to the Divisions they played in for us. Caldi never played top flight, with exception of stints in Cyprus and India. Montoya has only ever played top flight, except for Barca B at the start of his career.

 

[Beanstalk]

Couldn’t care less about their careers, Montoya is absolutely shocking defensively, his positioning is dreadful.

People always said he’s good going forward, never saw that either. Tell me what Montoya does well? Genuine question.

The Athletic did a great comparison between Lamptey and Montoya. The conclusion is essentially that Montoya is a pretty good traditional right-back. His positioning is good, he releases the ball to wingers quickly and makes a lot of tackles and wins over half of them (in comparison to Lamptey's 30%). Montoya is safer in possession but far less ambitious.

Ultimately, Montoya is good at his job he's just not a very ambitious RB. Lamptey drags the team forward by beating players (playing like a RWB) and attempting a huge amount of dribbles. He also gets fouled all the time, almost 4 times as much as Montoya, which obviously allows the whole team to shift forward.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

I believe Clarke can play RB as well. We are well covered in that position so it makes sense all round.

 

[GloryDays]

Why are people even talking realistically about Lamptey going this summer? I thought he was nailed on to stay for at least one more window.

Cheers Montoya. I liked you, and it shows how far we’ve come that we aren’t more devo’d you’re (probably) off. No fuss, technically sound. Great squad player. Assume he wants first team.

 

[B52]

Can we please forget the Alzate at right back idea even as I fill in occasionally. It's not natural for him and wastes the passing ability and composure that we've seen snippets of so far.

Absolutely, we need to get away from this thing about playing people out of position.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Montoya to Betis

el galgo

Thankfully left weeks ago.

Edit - apologies, just seen someone else responded

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[One Teddy Maybank]

Think you may have your Caldi tinted glasses on here!

This. Calderon was okay, but barely good enough for the championship IMO


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[Swansman]

Why are people even talking realistically about Lamptey going this summer? I thought he was nailed on to stay for at least one more window.

Cheers Montoya. I liked you, and it shows how far we’ve come that we aren’t more devo’d you’re (probably) off. No fuss, technically sound. Great squad player. Assume he wants first team.

Who are you referring to? I've seen absolutely no-one suggest he is going somewhere this summer.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Why are people even talking realistically about Lamptey going this summer? I thought he was nailed on to stay for at least one more window.

Depends whether Leeds want him, I'd have thought.

 

[Seaber]

Montoya is a good RB, but was never the cult/legend figure that Calderon and Bruno were. Lamptey might reach those levels.

Solid player though. When did we start calling him Monty though?