Liam Scales

He went through a run of a few months where he was really poor about 2 seasons ago. His distribution was really letting him down and he was slowing the play terribly. Teams would just sit off him and let him dawdle on it.

His distribution still isn’t great but he fixed that issue. Other than that he’s been quality. His defending of our box is incredible really. So so reliable. And he’s our biggest goal threat at corners and set pieces.

 

Last season when he got dropped. Season previous he was outstanding with about 8 different players coming in to play the other CB role. Held us together at the back.

Last season he had a mare against Rangers, and struggled a bit after whenever he came back in and Trusty won his place. Whenever he came back in he struggled a bit, but had limited games to change it as well.

In that time Trusty was having a * mare and got the chances to play through it before Scales eventually came back in, that annoyed me that, Scales got dropped soon as the level dropped, Trusty didn’t and that’s down to transfer fee. Everyone in the team should be treated equally regardless of fee or wages, but universally in football, its not the case. Not specifically they two that. Was similar Bernardo and Engels as well

 

Excellent again tonight, was pretty surreal seeing him and Trusty having almost identical games....winning headers and a couple of great tackles. Think they can be a great partnership.

 

Delighted he got the armband tonight, becoming a real leader.