Dybala and tah are on last year of contracts didn't realise at all
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 24/25
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Lack of guile, clever movement is another reason. Also midfield need to chip in with more goals.
Drag, not good enough.
Davies, on his last legs.
We should definitely be targeting a CB that is an upgrade on those two. That's before we even mention perma crocks Romero and VDV.
There is plenty of room here and we need to finally show a ruthless streak.
Kolo-Muani’s always confused me as a player so I can’t really decide if he’s a good idea. At the moment we desperately need more physicality in the side, but do feel uneasy about the amount of people saying his technique and finishing is patchy but he can run hard and compete. Sounds a bit like a forward version of Sissoko that we’d all be bitching about before long.
Cool but we're currently starting Johnson and Werner so yeah, let's get him.
(Not that I think there's an ounce of truth in this rumour).
Yeah the bar is so low now it would hard NOT to upgrade.
VDV and Romero is an issue. Maybe Ange’s style does put extra pressure on the hamstrings but VDV had a big hamstring injury at his prior club and Romero is always on and off injured. Even if Ange leaves I can’t trust them two to be fit for any length of time. As a club we need to be prepared for it. Romero will probably be gone in the summer as well so it’s.
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This window I think one LCB should be enough then get a left back in the summer.
Why? Ange has brought Reggy back in from the cold.
He’s much much less frustrating than Sissoko
United/Woolwich/Liverpool would all be having a sniff.
Back up to who?
Who knows? He’s probably just talking sht
Would they?
United need to sell before they can buy and have 2 strikers
Woolwich are all in on Cunha by the looks
Liverpool don’t need a Forward do they?
Well Ange to Mourinho is night and day. One thinks you have to score 5 goals to win a match, the other thinks 1 is good enough.
We conceded 63 goals the season before Ange arrived, 61 last season, and 60 this season.
It definitely has to do with how we play, but it's got much more to do with our weak midfield (the common link between pre-Ange and Ange) than it does our attack.
Posted this yesterday in the "who replaces Ange" thread:
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Why the pundits are wrong about Ange Postecoglou: the high line
Stop the presses! Spurs like to get high.cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com
For my 2 cents, this is some of the strongest evidence supporting hiring Iraola. Formationally and defensively they do many of the same things we do, but they do them better and more structured. He also knows how to get the best out of Solanke.
Our line isn't even as high as people assume it is. But we've very slow to recover. This is because there's basically zero organization to our defence behind our attack. Our midfield is all pushed up, and seemingly with no communication. When Porro or Spence go forward, no one is covering them.
Yes Johnson needs to do a better job tracking back. But when your wing forward isn't tracking back into the defensive 1/3rd, it's less of an individual error/effort issue than a tactical issue. Any system that requires that much defending from your attackers is just completely broken.
Ange has created a system that literally anyone with eyes can tell requires a very talented DM. And he's deployed this despite not having a DM in the squad and without making any visible effort to get a DM.
TL;DR: The issue isn't the attack. It's the imbalanced midfield and the lack of cohesive strategy and communication in the back line.
Paul chuckle is our no 1 target
