A kane injury away from a disaster up front. No real back up striker
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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread
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4 RBs and 4 hours still to go.
I still believe
Make that hope.
Pray?
What’s worrying is some actually seem to believe this.
It's ok we can throw Aurier or Doherty up front
Not great. Buzzing round like an angry wasp looking busy but not a shadow of his former self. With him and PEH, we have 0 chance on Ch. League. We have to someone wake tanguy up.
good use of elite
Ooohh Neves to Spurs back on :nunothumbs:
Hate the "y'all" but totally agree.
lacked a creative playmaker and rw
He really thought he had the next monopoly game.He spent a whole morning compiling this post and not one person played his game. Bless him.
The Outsider , come here and have a hug
In what surreal parallel universe can "Doherty do a job up front"?
To be fair I allow myself to get wound up so I don't do myself any favours at times.
Just gonna post much less in match threads, as that's where the drama usually happens!
I am really, really tired of seeing Liverpool's incredible success despite not spending a lot of money as justification that anybody else can easily do the same. Your spending budget is really important. How you spend it is really important. The fact that one club managed to spend so incredibly well that they overcame a relatively small budget is not justification that spending doesn't matter or that anybody else who doesn't accomplish the same on the same budget is an abject failure.
I agree 100%!!
I didn't go down the XG route as the data that will have over just a 3 games spread is likely to not be great and also as you also mentioned we also played City within those three.
I posted this in the Watford match thread, basically to highlight we are significantly different to us under the dinosaur. Our tackles won are nearly double (34 to 59), interceptions my gosh (7 to 52!!!), long balls down by 50 (again this includes us playing CITY where you expect to play long over their press). These numbers are taken from our first 3 games last season (Eve, Sthmptn, New) vs Nuno's 1st 3 (I think Nuno's 3 have been far harder than Jose's last year). We are far, far more aggressive than the passive standoff shit under Jose.
I didn't have time to go through the shot locations by comparison (Newcastle game last year they didn't have a single shot on target, so everything we faced was from the other two games) but just watching where the oppo are shooting from now we are absolutely defending them, we are 20yrds further up the pitch.
I want us to be more expansive, but you can't if your defence is shite. I want us to create more chances than we are but we are only 3 games in and I can see some attacking formations (I want more) being played out, there is some structure there. I hope Nuno can spark Ndombele into life if a club isn't found for him because he possesses the ability to progress the ball from midfield, which our current three simply can't do (which is my only major concern from the games we've played).
But people are banging on that we've been "hanging on". Aside from the 1st 10-15mins of the City game our defence and our mid-block has stopped our opponents to very low % opportunities. THIS IS GOOD.
The other encouragement is the profile of new players we've brought in and also those we've been linked to and haven't brought in, they go some way to addressing the midfield concerns we still have.
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