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I just don't rate him. If you want to win things, that's where you start. Gazza is championship level at best.
Think I've said it many many times before, but we've just given a £150k per week contract to a defender whose main strength is backing off towards his goal.
Inexplicable.
He introduced the right players (shouldn't have started Dele), but gave them the worst possible work 'environment' with a shape they've never played together in before.
Foyth, Ndobee, Lo Celso, Sess.
Gvie them 4231 and all would have been well.
Think Jose's a little too much in awe of how Santos has got wolves playing.
No idea. It's easy to turn him these days.
And how about Gazza? That fucker ain't half-slow to shift his feet at times.
An entirely new fucking defence is a must in January.
I’m wondering if he would’ve stopped backing off before or after the guy dribbled it into the net while he was sitting in row Z...
He was doing nothing. Gazzaniga should save it too. Four players had a chance to stop that goal.
A lobotomy might help
As the senior player Toby should be organizing our back 4, but I swear that after we went to a 4 there was never less than 20 yards between him and Sanchez. If we had been facing Aguero instead of Pukki we would have conceded 5.
Time for a new keeper. Hopefully Ajax's. Gazza is a good number 2 though.
He was torn between covering Centre and pass to LF. (Definitely should have moved across).
I think Toby is having to pick up the mess that others make by not tracking / covering and - as the last man standing- looks to blame. Poor sausage.
He does seem to have very slippery hands.
Park him in front of our centre backs and we would definitely concede less.
Since the attacks have gotten more vitriolic, I have to reiterate what I said earlier in defence of Dele (and Kane): they both killed themselves getting the win against Brighton and because of outrageous PL scheduling, they had to do it again 48 hours later. It's difficult to gauge them fairly based on that performance when it would be entirely unreasonable to expect them to be match-fit in the first place.
Kane did well under the circumstances though: won the penalty and the free kick despite a frustrating lack of passes to him. IDK whether Moura et al. somehow think they're better at shooting than Kane or if they just don't want to pass or whatever, but Kane was clearly annoyed at one or two points and I completely sympathised.
Kane did well under the circumstances though: won the penalty and the free kick despite a frustrating lack of passes to him. IDK whether Moura et al. somehow think they're better at shooting than Kane or if they just don't want to pass or whatever, but Kane was clearly annoyed at one or two points and I completely sympathised.
Sorry, how was that? Sessegnon was a passenger throughout.
Positives:
Moura's desire
Ndombele's inner Dembele
Eriksen's reaction upon scoring
Negatives:
Aurier's errors
Lo Celso's anonymity
Dele's wastefulness
Sessegnon's diffidence
Wonder if Jose will do much in the January window. I'm saying it now, but it won't surprise me if Jose walks in the January window and sues Levy for constructive dismissal after failing to stomach his first Levy transfer window.
Moura's desire
Ndombele's inner Dembele
Eriksen's reaction upon scoring
Negatives:
Aurier's errors
Lo Celso's anonymity
Dele's wastefulness
Sessegnon's diffidence
Wonder if Jose will do much in the January window. I'm saying it now, but it won't surprise me if Jose walks in the January window and sues Levy for constructive dismissal after failing to stomach his first Levy transfer window.
Its not a question of desire, its plan quality and thats lacking at the moment. I wont use exhaustion as an excuse since thats the same for all teams. We lack that true top drawer quality that the bin dippers have somehow managed to conjure finally. Dele, Moura, Son everyone lacks that litle bit extra which we need to consistently win. So results like these should be the norm for now not the exception. I wont even get started with players like Dier, Winks, Aurier and even Sissoko to an extent - they just dont belong to a top top team. So no surprise with result, given where our team stands at the moment in terms of overall quality. Granted jose's formation in the first half didnt help - he better start learning fast i hope.