because stats dont tell you everything. He spends most of his time in the oppo half, usually giving out 1-2's to Buendia who is playing on the right at the moment, who then creates the chance.
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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread
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Olise at Reading is better than ASM
Were you one of the ‘ones’ that used to say Modric and Dembele didn’t get enough goals or assists?
Eriksen -We did sign replacements. We signed Ndombele and Lo Celso at a cost of over 100m. Neither of whom are any good playing as a creative mid.
Vertonghen - We paid 40m for Sanchez; who should be our main CB now. After a fantastic first season, It seems that poor coaching has resulted in him going backwards.
So yes, Levy did make players available at significant cost; however it seems the players we got haven't really worked out. Is this a failure of our scouts (poor player, bad culture fit) or our coach (inability to get best out of player)
Nope, because the job of midfielders in the position of Modric and Dembele is to control the game, rather than get goals or assists.
However, in the modern game full backs are expected to send in crosses and get assists.
Some of those goals are penalties, and standard in SPL is not that high. Regardless, at 29 he is too old for us to invest in.
That’s a fair point.
I would just note it’s slightly easier as the RB to pass to the RW than it is to actually create the chance with a through ball/ cross.
Nyambe for Blackburn is a better right back, faster, stronger, better on the ball & will have a year left on his contract this summer
Loan - pay 50% of his wages. We need to be pragmatic and ruthless with zombies like him, Aurier, Sanchez and Sissoko... we won’t get a fee, no-one will pay their wage and we need them well away from the squad
winks is the same bracket but might get a small fee, ditto Davies
Signings like this give me wood. We have so many match winners, we just need consistency, enthusiasm and energy to replace the current ‘squad’ cripples
I really want us to sign the Newcastle lad,Allan Saint Maximin. Might not be high up our list of priorities but wonderful to watch and would be a massive help to our often pedestrian build up play.
I doubt we’ll get more than two of those this summer.
Oh I forgot to add we also need to replace Llorente well basically the backup ST.
Yeah I agree it worries me , We need to sign 4 players for next season. I don't trust our board of doing that.
They'll say there's no money even if we can just sell a lot of deadwood. We need to do good in this window.
How about having Bale as back up CF/RW, and then buying Buendia. Solves the creativity concern from replacing Eriksen you mentioned earlier.
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Or how about buying Gravenberch to play alongside Skipp meaning Ndombele could play further forward with less defensive involvement and we'd have a powerful, youthful all round midfield base.
Hojbjerg can't be dropped from the team completely
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Why not?
It's not like he's the be all end all. If you have two better players then it's easy enough to drop him.
Why waste money on buying another CM to put Hojbjerg on the bench when we have other positions we need to urgently improve?
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For a start the lack of negativity and forcing the defence into playing hoofball.
Iceberg is reaching mythical proportions already despite never really doing much other than "Yeah he wins the ball back"
By the logic you're using, why did we buy him when we had Winks?
Can't buy Gravenberch. Would cost 50m plus, won't join us, is a Raiola client, and will join Juve, Bayern, Barca or Madrid in a few years.
Bissouma a more realistic option.
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