That would be a very wise move as we will strenght and weak our rival in relegation battle.
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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread
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Bit on the ugly side, though?
He would fit in with our showcase signing ,Declan Rice then...
They're never selling Rice to us tbh.
We should be all in for Zakaria.
We should be all in for Zakaria.
When he came in for Lloris back in October, I was quite happy with how he was doing, but I think he is making more and more mistakes. Might as well have a fucking mannequin in goal half the time.
According to Olmo, Barcelona are interested in taking him back.
I think he is one of those players that is ok when they have something to prove.He feels safe at the moment,hence drop in form.
I really have no idea on this. Maybe he is just shite and had me fooled for a couple of months.
He wasn't showing any greatness back then either, but it's true he made fewer mistakes. Some of his limitations weren't that easy to spot in the short run, but now that he has been starting for quite a while, they are there for us to see.
People keep saying a defensive midfielder should be top of the list, but I am not convinced that is our biggest issue. Do you not see the trouble we have playing out from the back in the face of aggressive pressing? Ings and Redmond frightened the piss out of our CBs yesterday. People will say Vertonghen gave the ball away 33 times and we kept going from front to back too quickly, but nobody was showing for it. I think we need more players who want the ball.
who does Verts have to pass to?
A DM who can receive the ball under pressure, pass well and cover the space correctly completely changes the balance. Our midfield without Ndombele looks non-existent and even with him it’s obvious we would function so much better.
I mentioned up thread, but Sander Berge would be good for that. Very comfortable in possession, not easily dispossessed. Happy to drop deep and then glide up the pitch. With him, we could kick Sissoko onto the bench (to be used as a rw when needed). Berge isn't the most exciting, but I think he could be the sort of calming influence that the side needs; at least to get the ball down and starting off attacks.
In our price range.
My wife is Colombian. I follow the national team and its players closely.
Sue me.
Too slow too immobile. Zakaria or lad playing DM for Benfica is it Fernando Luiz? Or just a cuntoff serial hacker like Barrios.
There is that concern, yes. But he looked fine against Liverpool in the CL. He doesn't need to be the quickest if people can't get the ball off him - he will draw fouls instead.
I'd look at him as being a replacement for Dier.
As for Barrios, he would be amusing for a while, but I just see him flying into anything and everything and being a bit of a liability. Any time I've seen him play, he acts like he's about to turn into a werewolf.
Lo Celso is bettwr player than Olmo, no doubt in my mind about that. But Olmo has higher ceiling.
That's my point. We split the CBs really wide yesterday, pushed Sessegnon and Aurier up, and had all sorts of a trouble trying to play out from the back with Ndombele and Eriksen as the double pivot. When Ndombele went off and Sissoko took his place in the double pivot, it became even harder, because his first instinct was to pass it back to a CB. Sessegnon looked really scared out there, and did not want to receive the ball under pressure. Eriksen's head is clearly not right, and playing him in a double pivot was never his best use anyway. Then we've got a #10 whose entire MO is to ghost into space in the opposition's box, and a winger (Moura) who, for some reason, would do well to trap a bag of cement and whose pass completion rate yesterday was 59%.
If you look at the first goal we conceded yesterday, Eriksen and Ndombele were in bother with Southampton's aggressive pressing. Sessegnon was not comfortable in possession, and knocked it long. And this is where it started to get especially cuntish. Alli's effort to press Southampton's CB (this is the defensive process Mourinho was speaking about) was a fucking disgrace. Then you have Alderweireld making a fool of himself, and a goalkeeper who is so fucking high that he does not even bother to dive.
I know you did, and I was very disappointed. I thought I had already talked you out of that piece of madness.
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