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Saying injures are an excuse, Good Lord there's been some howlers in this thread but this one takes the biscuit.
Not even convinced it'll be limited to just the better teams as time goes by.
Yep, we’re going to ship a fair few with the way we set up and also had the only 2 cb’s who can play in the system injured/suspended for a chunk of the season. With a top CF and more attacking additions the goals for should increase again next season.
He can do a job there when we’re playing weaker teams camped outside of their box the whole game. Much more suited to a central role/10 hope we improve in the summer to the extent in the summer that we don’t see him out wide again.
I also get what you mean... but point is that all this will decrease our chances of losing.
It might not be that these two players win us the game. It might not even be significant impact from these players.
But it is about feel around the club and belief into better future. And THIS will have huge impact on our mentality.
Everyone in the squad will see that the squad is stronger than it was one week ago. We have many SO IMPORTANT players returning from injuries, and now we got reinforcements from the market as well.
It will motivate some players but also forces some others to up their game. I mean before Werner joining, we had 3 senior and "tested" attacking players in Richie, Johnson and Kulusevski. They essentially knew that whatever happens, until Son returns from international duty and Madders from injury - they are guaranteed to start. But now there is German international team attacker breathing down their necks which should push them to up their game.
To quote classics -
I was trying to point that out with actual numbers from 2021-to today, but before we had one officially announced and other "here we go", people still did not take that seriously.
Despite if you'd focus on numbers OR actual transfer-market success, it is absolutely visible that there has been massive shift from 2021 onwards.
First half of the season we were held back by many injuries and suspensions of our key players. We are JUST GETTING STARTED now
And yet he scored both goals by...
Every word Postecoglou said on Kulusevski, message to the squad and Australia
Here is every word Ange Postecoglou had to say in his post-match press conference following Tottenham's 3-0 win over Sheffield United at Bramall Lanewww.football.london
Thought this was an odd thing to say, talking about Kulusevski as F9
We thought playing him through middle today would help us with his mobility and ability to run in behind. He did well.
I’m not knocking Kulusevski's performance in this game here, it was ok, but they are not attributes you would associate for him, and we didn’t really play to them in this game. I would have said his physicality and ability to drop in and hold onto the ball a bit better than Son were more appropriate.
I mean he's not going out pace a wardrobe in behind, let alone a CB.
And he'll need quality depth. With more games to play next season that's critical.
We conceded a lot from corners and free kicks , Kane was like Drogba a fantastic defender at set pieces . I think some of those goals don’t happen with Harry
It is a matter of evolving the squad lots has already been done but loads need to be done - hojbjerg and royal imo decent prem players but don’t fit ange ball and need replacing - Gil going by his Chelsea cameo (and we don’t have much else) is not good enough needs replacing - lo celso and Richie too injury prone and unreliable and probably need replacing - then the whole army of loanee/ injured players need offloading and replacing
Welcome to hell....!!Have been a lurker for a bit but was my first day posting. Have laughed at some of your interactions with other posters and thought I’d give it a go. Looking back it was a poor & below-par effort
I’ll endeavour to improve the quality of my posts in future and look forward to calling you out again.
So in what situation does it imply to you that the system is the issue?
They are absolutely reliant upon pace, in particular acceleration. Richie hasn’t got it either which is why he’s always offside.
