Calvin Bassey

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Really interesting to hear Calvin Bassey almost immediately respond to Pien's question there when he was asked, do you think we should have got more? And he was very punchy when he was like, yeah, we absolutely should have got more from that than a point.

I like that.

I like him.

I mean, there's probably someone else I would bench in the team.

I feel like usually when we get these questions and then I eventually see the team, it's like, don't start Calvin Bassey.

Don't start Leif Davis.

Why is Joplin? Nightmare pick.

The ball gets cleared downfield to Dario Osorio, who is running down the right-hand side.

And he's in a one-on-one battle with Calvin Bassey.

Bassey effectively strong-arms him.

And the ref, I thought, let a lot go.

at the weekend got a nice ovation when he came on the pitch.

yeah yeah yeah so and again i'm thinking about in more recent times about calvin bassey for example you know like in terms of i remember when his name got read out in the amsterdam arena and he came over to the rangers fans and he got a big cheer and everything else that goes with it so we cars rangers fans i think we probably struggle to be in that environment where we um where we kind of go well what's it like somebody who's left us to take that next step up and then come back to us We don't really feel that.

Do you know what I mean? I don't think we probably ever will.

I've seen it probably at close quarters.

He comes through non-league football.

So a lot of the stuff he's learning on the job.

and I know Rangers is a club where you do learn on the job but there will be times where you'll reap the rewards of that Nico Raskin very much hadn't played I don't think a ton of senior football Calvin Bassey obviously came and learnt his trade obviously with us and has obviously gone on and there's a handful of others, Minsu is another one who's not played a lot of top tier football but is learning on the job So, yeah, I think we've just got to bear with the big fella and just hope that the more performances that he puts in, positive performance, get him back to that kind of form we've seen tail end the last season.

Because he does do, I think he does 90% of his things right.

But Manchester United at home this weekend and looking to bounce back from a London defeat to Spurs, you would back Chelsea to get a result in that one unless something dramatic happens at Old Trafford over the next few days.

Fulham's Calvin Bassey has impressed.

He's got back-to-back DEFCON returns and clean sheet returns for the Cottagers.

He's averaging 4.1 points per match and Fulham's fixtures over the next three, not great.

Okay, my 27 is the guy you mentioned in your honorable mentions.

I got Calvin Bassey from Fulham in Nigeria.

I think, honestly, dude, I cannot get the last AFCON out of my head.

Because he was so good.

And I know for Fulham, he's not like this undeniably great defender or...

You know, you probably wouldn't put him in your top five center backs in the prem.

I think that's way too audacious for Calvin Bassey.

But it's kind of a little bit of the Aaron Wambasaka too.

When I've seen them, or even just in highlights, they seem fine, and then it's just one massive error, and it just kind of spirals from there.

I mean, Calvin Bassey is kind of that type of player, isn't he? But yeah, it's a bit of a weird one with them.

But I think they'll be fine.

It's weird.