Exactly. I want Bissouma integrated as soon as possible I watched Brighton a fair bit last term and few teams ran over the top of their midfield when he was fit. People talking like Southampton is a gimme have short memories.
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No chance. This has shades of the 2019/2020 match. Early season, shite Southampton side, go 1-0 up early, go down to 10 men early, they equalise and we immediately make it 2-1 and never looked like conceding another. Considering how shit we were then (CL Final hangover), you could just imagine how shit Southampton were that day.
It's bad luck...
Unless your complaint is we should have bought 2 more CMs in this trf window just in case...?
So does everybody else (presumably including the manager).......
hopefully lenglet starts as we wll need more on the ball quality.
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doherty--------PEH----bent--------------perisic
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get the job done quick and make full use of the subs to keep things fresh and share the match fitness about.
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-------------romero---dier---lenglet---------------
doherty--------PEH----bent--------------perisic
---------kulu--------kane------------son-----
get the job done quick and make full use of the subs to keep things fresh and share the match fitness about.
I broke out in a sweat when I saw Bent in our line-up.. Suffered some serious flashbacks
That's the team I would like to see,
Yep..... No way in hell I can bring myself to start calling Bentancur by that name.....
I'll gladly type the extra few letters thanks.
Of course, we’d all prefer to have Bissouma in the midfield for this game. But, due to a bit of bad luck and circumstances out of our control (Covid and injury) he can’t be. Thankfully we have more depth than what we had last year, so we’re not relying on players we don’t want or academy kids
Doherty really is the sore thumb sticking out.
not if he can hit that form he did before he got injured. if he hits that form hes a key player
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Well, you're jumping the gun a bit. I didn't say that, I'm just saying this is not the way we would have wanted to start the season. The likely starting 11 is nothing to get excited about cos it's basically what we had last season.
Rather than a truck full of CMs, if we'd managed to buy a top RWB, a top LCB and a quality attack minded CM (e.g. Barella), Bissouma wouldn't look like such a big miss. There are valid excuses not getting those players, but the bissouma injury does expose that our transfer business wasn't really THAT amazing.
I say this for Winks - he's a survivor
He's made it through Poch, Mourhino, Mason, Nuno and now Conte without being booted out.
Probably helps that he's home grown but still - for someone with a very low ceiling of footballing talent and progression, he's outlasted them all.
Quite incredible!
He's made it through Poch, Mourhino, Mason, Nuno and now Conte without being booted out.
Probably helps that he's home grown but still - for someone with a very low ceiling of footballing talent and progression, he's outlasted them all.
Quite incredible!
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Just saying that it exposes our window as a being a lot less exciting than we'd hoped. With just one injury we're back to fielding almost the same starting 11 as the one that ended last season.
Yep. Its why its a decent but unspectacular window so far for me. 10/10 for the early deals, 8/10 for improving the squad but we just havent improved the first team enough to go too overboard as yet. Hopefully that will change in the next 4 weeks.
It's a question..... No 'gun' has been 'jumped'.
(There is no 3rd scenario to this predicament, mind.)
Of course not, but short of legislating against it with more signings in a position we don't need them; we've little choice but to suck it up.
Thankfully, PEH & Bentancur are a better combo than some are prepared to concede.
Perhaps; but mourning other positions due to 2 injuries at CM is a red-herring.
(See above.)
Luckily for the purposes of this exchange, you're not conversing with someone that has used such extreme superlatives as "amazing" to describe this window.
We've done some good business and done it early, but you know what they say about 'best laid plans' (*).......
(*I mean, looking at another recent window, we bought GLC, TN & Sess all assumed to be starters and yet to this day I don't think they've ever started a game together.... Let alone Day 1 of the season.)
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A key player due to the position he plays in a Conte system, rather than the player himself.
He's definitely the weakest player in that XI based on talent alone.
Not from a few posts in this thread. Some folk seem to think our midfield was fine. I think its functional with room still to improve
Hmmmmmm........ I don't see a single person in this thread saying they wouldn't want Bissouma to start.
Just cos Biss & Skipp aren't available; it doesn't mean the other 2 lads are shit.... We had a lot of good performances and results with that duo last season.
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No it's not. Teams that have greater quality and depth across all 11 positions can afford to lose key players to injuries more than teams that have lesser overall quality.
The fact that with just one injury we're back to practically the same starting 11 as last season is a reason to be disappointed with the state of the squad.
And I wouldn't say "this is not an exciting start to the season" superlatives either, so I don't understand the point of your original reply.
Errrr.... Hence we have decent players able to cover the 2 absences (+ Sarr for emergencies).
Besides..... Your talk of new starting players has magically morphed into a complaint about a lack of depth..... Seemingly you are prepared to complain that we didn't by more CMs afterall?
Virtually no-one has a bench that's a good as their best XI.
I'm not prepared to bicker with you about quality of depth..... It's ridiculous.
In 6 months we've gone from:
PEH, Skipp, Winks, Dele + Panic.
to
Bissoumsa, Bentancur, PEH, Skipp + Sarr.
It's even more ridiculous considering you assured me that your point was that we hadn't bought enough new starters....... and in other positions, no less!
Errrrr...... You literally started off complaining that (i quote) "Despite all the optimism that's not very exiting tbh."
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