Ainsley Maitland-Niles

[Jamokachi]

He'll be revolutionary for us, such has been our complete lack of anyone remotely natural in that position for so long.

Underwhelming, sure.

[AjaxAndy]

Surely you can see where they’ve gone massively wrong here?

Money has been spent, yet the priority position was neglected. You can defend this?

Well yes I fully agree with that, I don't understand how we can go 2 seasons and end up here.

My point is more that now we are here we need to do something and at least we have a right back now... He may well be shite but I'll reserve judgement until he's played before deciding on that part.

[Bumble]

Lots of players wil have to muck in and play a variety of positions it looks like.

Can sometimes galvanise a squad.

[sam of the south]

Good job we bought a data company too.

I would imagine the data company and our analytics department have short circuited due to providing so many rb options that Moyes turned down for not being prem ready

[777Kidnappings]

Is he any worse than Patterson?

Three years playing right back at Lyon, Champions League every season, more experienced.

Got to be better than Rohl there as well.

Your almost certainly right but what a low bar and absolutely not what we were promised

[chang]

If we were ever to get a penalty kick ......

[Bumble]

Some of the comments from Lyon fans don't exactly give him a glowing reference.

[Granite]

I’ll support him and hope he comes in and the change of scenery is the catalyst for him to find a new level of consistency.

But he’s fucking bobbins, like.

[Kerryblueboy]

You would hope he is good on the ball considering he was a midfielder but the poor defender stuff is worrying

[NickNack]

You would hope he is good on the ball considering he was a midfielder but the poor defender stuff is worrying

Didn’t we get shut of someone like that? Craig or something?

[Cozzie]

He's a bag of shite.

Let's be honest.

I'm OK with it though because he's an actual right back and in fairness can't argue with £4M.

Just ridiculously underwhelming when you see some of the business the other clubs done.

Clubs that didn't even need a RB recruited better.

Just a shambles all round.

[Cereal Killer]

Better than Cafu

[kramer]

He looked supremely comfortable hitting that.

I think he’ll struggle defensively at times but he’s got the technique of midfielder. Potentially revolutionary to us with the ball.

[Indiantoffee75]

£4 million fee paid back instantly with that strike.

[Goaljira]

Tony Hibbert: 329 Games / 0 Goals
Ainsley Maitland-Niles: 0.2 Games / 1 Goal

What a way to get that monkey off your back.