Semenyo maybe? Bournemouth are leaking his release clause and our new owners looking to make a splash - looks like a potential go-er in Jan.
Could see end up him here if Pool decide to pass or can't afford him.
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Could see end up him here if Pool decide to pass or can't afford him.
65M paid upfront in the first ten days of the window?
Now the bastard above has been sacked, what I really want is average players moved on quickly and decisively, and upgraded. Richy, Johnson, Bentacur, Vicario etc, just shit really - churn them out for fair fees
Not sure here. Recent purple patch and had another last season. But the patches don’t seem to last long.
Unfortunately I'd suggest that wingers who can reliably beat a man, have pace, have a good delivery and score regularly are the absolute elite and gold standard putting them in the top price tier. Not many in the top leagues worldwide would tick all those boxes at the highest level.
£65m is just a thrown around number these days. Seems to be standard for a good prem player though. Just want to see him doing well for longer before I’d cough up.
Doubt we’d get the Richie thing done. Exchanges never really happen. And why would they want him?
I’d play 532 to be honest and not need wingers. Almost all are “luxury” players who have gaping holes in their skill set. There’s wide forwards like Salah that tick every box, but he’s one in a hundred.
Yeah I get what you mean. In a way I think a team who is ready to commit to a solid 352 setup could be very strong in the modern game with packed defences and tight midfield battles as it's a very compact formation which allows for crossing from deep positions into two centre forwards. It doesn't seem to be popular at the minute but the game is always evolving and I think there's for sure a gap in the market so to speak for a team that can do it well. You would just have to have a squad very well suited to the formation to pull it off (which actually we are not too far from with our current squad! A striker and a crossing LB would see us very well suited)
Semenyo is the new Eze.
Our squad seems closer to 532 than it does for the 4321 we are doing now. But yes, with the addition of a LWB, a player we need anyway, no matter what formation we play.
Better to say that the idiots type the hardest than shout the loudest.
This prejudice surrounding the back 5 belongs to a time where a fullback meant nothing more than a wide defender, someone who virtually never pushed forward in possession. So the reason a back 5 was considered more defensive than a back 4 is that in the former there was an additional defender staying back at all times. That's it.
It's hardly relevant to today's experience where fullbacks are full-blown attackers in possession. All formations these days turn into a back 3 in possession anyway, either via a holding midfielder dropping in between CBs or one of the fullbacks tucking in. We've already taken both routes in different games this season.
It's hardly relevant to today's experience where fullbacks are full-blown attackers in possession. All formations these days turn into a back 3 in possession anyway, either via a holding midfielder dropping in between CBs or one of the fullbacks tucking in. We've already taken both routes in different games this season.
You can but hope but I hope he goes in January
It's very difficult to play attractive football with 5 3 2. You only play with three attacking players. That was the problem with Conte.
And Mourinho who only played with 3.
City play with 5 , Woolwich 4. Having Spence and even Porro as our wide attacking threat will make it very difficult.
It can work for specific matches - but it's not what we should be going back to
If a manager wanted to we could be a creative team quite easily.
Especially when Kulu and hopefully Maddison come back.
Leverkusen played with 5 and were one of the best teams in Europe.
Conte made it work in the Premier League as well.
Yes - that's why we got Conte.
And that's why we were dirge to watch.
It can be effective ( in the short term ) but it's not entertaining.
We tried it - and we got the worst of both worlds.
Under Conte in his first season we were great, especially the last few months of 21/22 when we finished top 4?
There are exceptions, quoted above. But yes, a traditional 5 at the back isn’t ideal for flowing football, but our football is hardly attractive just now.
Everyone took the piss out of Amorim for continuing with his system last season without the players to play it. But we are watching the same thing happen here with hardly a murmur.
Our “best” winger is Kudus, who thinks he’s a 10, wants to be a 10 and played most of his career as a 10. BJ isn’t a winger. Tel? Fuck knows. Odobert? Hardly proven.
We don’t have a squad that can play 4231, so we should stop doing it. Maybe after a couple of windows, we would have, so can revert then. Meantime, go with what we have.
Everyone wanted him gone because he was mouthy and the football was horrible.
We would have a back five of :
Vic
Porro Vdv Romero Danso Spence/Udogie.
Bentancur Pal
Simmons Richarlison Kudu
How many goals from open play would they score?