We will sell at least 2 centrebacks to bring the cost down a little.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Levy spent 40m on a player because some fans on the internet were upset?
My concerns are 2 fold... Firstly I'm simply not a fan of 4231 (our squad is probably least equipped for it).
Secondly somewhere in between managerial flexibility and experimenting there's a genuine danger of creating a load of square pegs in order to use a particular system/tactic.....
You can see it in a lot of it in people's posts already..... Kulu/LW.... People wedded to the notion of a trad. CAM yet prescribing them on one side of a 433 or calling it a 433 despite playing Maddison in front of 2 CMs (that's 4231!!!).... The sudden return to the notion of old fashioned wingers and repurposing players to play there even they don't have the pace or line-hugging, dribbling tendencies to do so.....
It's all very well being Pep... When you have 25 elite, technically proficient players and a general ethos that is already deeply ingrained into the squad over a number of years, then yes; the canvas and the palette is there.... Go paint (ditto the budget version De Zerbi inherited at Brighton)...... but very few teams do..... Even Arse were complaining about their FBs/CMs relationships by the end of the season and now they seem to be ripping their entire MF apart this trf window.
Said in another post; I actually rue the expected departure from 3CBs... 2 x quality CB purchases pending; I think it's what suits our squad best... And for me that was the appeal of Nagelsmann..... For the most part, we already had the raw bones to get him up and running.
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Fuck that May as well keep him!
Ditto Udogie...... I see mostly Danny Rose in him...... That ain't a dribbling winger or TAA/Beckhammy type.
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So he Ange needs fullbacks who double as holding CMs. Sheesh. We don’t have those.
That isn't how Postecoglu's inverted full backs play they play in the channels, sometimes more central, and they go out wide then the winger cuts in, they definitely don't hold their position like a DLP.
Also, Udogie definitely isn't a touch line wing back, he constantly dribbles inside as well as outside and spends a lot of the time in the channels and barley ever crosses the ball from out wide. He is much more suited to inverted full back than Emerson, who has done well their and Juranovic who played there for Celtic and was their best RB.
Not true though is it......
Played just as much as a CAM over the years.
Starting point out to be what attributes the player has; not simply whether they're left or right footed.
But if you stick him on the left you simply create a 1 trick pony; but without the pace nor the line-hugging tendencies of a trad. winger.
I think you just create a miserable player by chucking Kulu out on the LW.
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Let's face it we need a new #2 next season regardless when Forster leaves..........
Are you sure you're talking about Bardi...? They only yido I've ever seen on there was Flav.
Flav is usually on it, but Bardi as been on it once or twice. Flav is much better on it too, very reasoned, never gets carried away either too positive or too negative and holds his own but never antagonises.
We were effectively talking about the 4th not 3rd..... You said about getting Tap, Ven AND Lukeba.
As soon as a back four came back into view; I've said all along:
Romero + 2 new
+ Davies & Emerson and hope they're not needed.
No Europe just cements that IMO.
Not sure of others have answered this (if so ignore) but (as I understand it based on what I've heard/read) Postecoglou's FB's aren't one dimensional defenders only, he uses them as auxiliary midfielders, coming inside - bit like Guardiola does in some formats - or Arteta does with Zinchenko.
The problem with this could be that we've spent three years buying WB's who do the opposite.
I'm convinced it was a last grasp stab at convincing Conte to stay TBH.....
They way Levy is portrayed by most on here; do you honestly think he would have otherwise looked at our squad and thought Emerson, Doherty & Spence wasn't enough to be getting on with (at least until the end of the season)????
.....Yet there he was splashing €45m + add ons on what could be loosely described as Spence 2.0????
Complete and utter narrative clash.
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Equally troubling is the notion that he could play as an 8. He just doesn't have the skill set.
Pep's also using CBs for the role tho'.... Rather than inverting career FB/WBs.... Walker & Cancello notably both being phased out over the last 12 months.
Porro, Udogie, Spence are cut from a different cloth.
Fine but once again he's never played that role and that doesn't come natural to him, if he's grown up playing as a wing back how do you expect him to play in that position and learn?
I think folk are setting themselves up for disappointment with some of these teams.
He's a fucking Fraud.
Seriously, he barley gets a game for an England team built around Harry fucking Maguire.
Southgate is also a fraud.