Silver lining.
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Match AS Monaco vs Tottenham Hotspur. Wednesday the 22nd of October 2025 UCL
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Silver lining.
Think from the small bits we saw today it's clear Muani is a much better possession player than Richy. I feel for Richy, but we've been waiting a long time- he really needs to get it together.
Only thing I can say is if we HAVE to rotate, it might be a good idea to play Johnson a bit more at RW and Kudus at LW if you have to, just so we aren't short in attack. Otherwise agree- not missing Johnson much.
Palhinha needs a partner in there alongside him
who can set the tempo and retain the ball and with 180 vision,i have yet to see or very rarely seen any of our midfield ala Scholesy and Odegaard have “Looksey” when in heavy traffic
Should be 2nd nature……
When you see PSG with Vitinha doing the conducting and Neves working his arse off to win possession back and progress the ball and know each other's game back to front.
Bents and Sarr are too unpredictable from game to game,Also Madders has creativity in spades but can go missing also.
Until the engine room and up top sorted it will be a week to week battle.
On another note,If we dont get it sorted and no Champs League ,expect Big Mickey to be on everyones radar.(Top Man)
who can set the tempo and retain the ball and with 180 vision,i have yet to see or very rarely seen any of our midfield ala Scholesy and Odegaard have “Looksey” when in heavy traffic
Should be 2nd nature……
When you see PSG with Vitinha doing the conducting and Neves working his arse off to win possession back and progress the ball and know each other's game back to front.
Bents and Sarr are too unpredictable from game to game,Also Madders has creativity in spades but can go missing also.
Until the engine room and up top sorted it will be a week to week battle.
On another note,If we dont get it sorted and no Champs League ,expect Big Mickey to be on everyones radar.(Top Man)
Agree- Vitinha is the cream of the crop CM right now, and we have no one like him at his level presently. I think Bergvall is our best chance at developing an all action CM 8 out of the current crop, but I certainly hope we get to see Bergvall-Sarr double pivot at some point- I think they'd be great in that role together. If Iraola can start Scott and Adams in double pivot for Bmouth, there's absolutely no reason it couldn't be done with Sarr/Bergvall.
Everyone knows we don't quite have enough talent right now. Well, given the squad we have right now, I reckon the best thing we can do is endure some growing pains while we get these young players the games they need to develop. It's going to be annoying and maybe even painful for a little while until that happens...
And both of them now are just disappointments.
But things can get done, it just as easy as the summer window when the real stuff gets done, and really begin to iron the issue out.
You can't really compare those two midfields. Pal will never, ever be able to offer what Neves does. He's class on the ball, Pal is a destroyer and a very basic footballer.
He shouldn't be playing every game. We lose so much dynamism when we play him, which is fine if we're the underdogs, playing for a result, but against teams we should be steamrolling we really don't need him on the pitch.
Bayern certainly can go far this season as long as they avoid Spurs in the draw.
How is it, that no matter what players we buy, they always look inferior.
Whoever we play seems to have a lot more quality and skill on the ball despite on paper them having 'lesser quality players'
Monaco aren't world beaters and despite that fluke draw with City, aren't expected to get out the group......but they looked more fluid than we did for a lot of the match whereas we need three or four seconds on the ball before we can get it under control and away.
Whoever we play seems to have a lot more quality and skill on the ball despite on paper them having 'lesser quality players'
Monaco aren't world beaters and despite that fluke draw with City, aren't expected to get out the group......but they looked more fluid than we did for a lot of the match whereas we need three or four seconds on the ball before we can get it under control and away.
We looked worse when Sarr and Gray were in midfield, they had a couple of chances in the first half through us giving the ball away. The last 15-20 minutes was chaos. So much space in midfield and in and around our box. Players completely free. I don’t think it’s going to improve with them two coming in. Gray was alright at lb was terrible the 15 minutes
Tbh we should have got spanked just that Monaco didn’t put away any of their great chances. I think this crap about last season blah blah blah is BS. It’s not as if we were any better in defence than last season was it. The 0-0 hides a multitude of issues and people hang onto the score rather than look at the over picture. We can’t create anything and we actually just as bad in defence.
I think we all have to realise we are an average side with an average manager.
It'll take a long time to rid ourselves of the footballing damage Levy did.
Positives- a point away is OK providing we can win at home...which seems to be the problem.
It'll take a long time to rid ourselves of the footballing damage Levy did.
Positives- a point away is OK providing we can win at home...which seems to be the problem.
He had a good game but a good game doesn’t make a keeper - he’s cost us how many points already so far this season ?
Did you go into the season seriously thinking we could win the CL?
With a centre forward line up of Solanke and Richarlison as back up.
There’s optimism and there’s bat shit crazy!!
Many of these so-called "Farm league" teams aren't so bad after all... 
