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Match OMT: Bournemouth (H), Sunday 31st December, 14:00

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110m on Richy and Johnson, lordy.
I can maybe understand paying what we did for Johnson due to the potential but Richarlison had only scored 13 goals max a season in 5 years in the Prem. Not exactly worth the fee we paid. Poor recruitment, especially when we’ve done so well in that department recently with the likes of Vicario, Porro, Udogie, Maddison, VDV, Romero, Kulusevski, Sarr etc.
 
That was truly abysmal and cannot be anywhere close to how Ange wants his team to play.

- The front 3 are toothless. Son cannot play as a winger anymore; for whatever reason, he’s completely lost the ability or desire to run at the defender with the ball. Johnson was anonymous again and Richy threw himself about but has shown again that he’s only effective in and right around the area.

- Midfield is completely disjointed, no fluidity at all. Have to cut Bentancur some slack, as he’s clearly rusty, but GLC has been really, really poor in possession. I know Skippy’s just entered but he looks like nothing more than a body.

Aside from Sarr’s fine stride and strike, the only bright spot has been Udogie. What will Ange say to the boys at halftime to try and change things?
 
Hate to say this but we need to cash in on Son at the end of the season. He’ll be 32 by then & we’ll probably still get a decent amount for him. With such a young team, he’s not going to be part of the future & we can’t keep making the mistakes of the past & hold onto players for far too long until they are are basically worthless. He’s going to need to be replaced anyway in the next year or two so we need to maximise what we can get for him & put it towards his replacement
 
This has nothing to do with injury, it's the lack of quality in midfield.

Easily being 3-1 down, thank f goodness for the whistle.

Players getting in the way, both winger of us not helping out to cover the overlapping players.

We miss soloman, for the work and goals of son he has become greedy at times, he's a lethal finisher but he's no where what we need.

Hopefully we dip into window and buy players like hwang or Pedro neto

Do you think we lack quality in midfield if Maddison and Bissouma are fit?

If so, watch a different sport.

If not, then it most definitely is down to injuries.
 
Bournemouth very good like Brighton.

Besides our makeshift midfield and CBs, the wingers are such an issue man. Brennan Johnson needs space or else it looks like he’s pretty much useless. Son not much better either, the man is strictly a CF now
 
We’ve been outplayed all half. Ange needs to do something cos this lead won’t last, and why the fuck does he think Skipp is an 8
I’m sorry but we’ve seen enough games recently where we can all see what is happening g and his done nothing about it. Just fivking stands there on the touchline. He should be giving them a rollicking and gesturing to them to buck their ideas up. This like watching bbc repeats rinse and repeat. I just don’t get what intelligence any of the players or coaching staff show when this happens. How can you be bright for 10/15 minutes then suddenly play like a pub team. Where is the mentality and fight to say we need to get our shit together by tackling, running , showing compuser, etc. to me it seems like a lot of the players are passing the buck expecting someone else to get them out of trouble. Porro has been shite! Only destiny of the defence has shown anything.
 
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