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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
People are weird he is 100% who I'd want on Saka. There's an odd narrative building around the Italian. He was excellent last season. On way more occasions than he was poor, he ran out of steam and that's why I don't understand not getting him cover. He has the ability to be truly elite. But he's young and needs resting and pushing. Of he was being asked to play orthodox LB he'd already be head and shoulders the best at it in the EPl. Anges system asks crazy demands of him and Porro and can make them look vulnerable .
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Tbh I think Ange’s system brings the best out of him.

Getting forward and winning duels in transition, that’s him at his best. He’s a box to box midfielder who can defend. I think he’d look like half the player as a sitting FB.

But I agree on the narrative and need to rotate him. We really need not to burn him out and have him pick up chronic injuries.
 
Notabadsquad said:
What does that even mean?

t's irrelevant as there is nothung to say we wanted him, and not the kind of player we need,

I also doubt he iis being bought for his goal scoring prowess.
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You asked what it means then write a post disagreeing and demonstrating that you perfectly understood what it meant.

What a blessing you are mate.

If you don’t think Conte wants him to box crash and score goals from midfield then you weren’t paying attention to Conte when he was here. I’m willing to bet Conte even plays him as one of his #10s at least once.

What kind of player do you think McTominay is?
 
Richard Arlison said:
You asked what it means then write a post disagreeing and demonstrating that you perfectly understood what it meant.

What a blessing you are mate.

If you don’t think Conte wants him to box crash and score goals from midfield then you weren’t paying attention to Conte when he was here. I’m willing to bet Conte even plays him as one of his #10s at least once.

What kind of player do you think McTominay is?
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Different to what you think he is.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Tbh I think Ange’s system brings the best out of him.

Getting forward and winning duels in transition, that’s him at his best. He’s a box to box midfielder who can defend. I think he’d look like half the player as a sitting FB.

But I agree on the narrative and need to rotate him. We really need not to burn him out and have him pick up chronic injuries.
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I don't you know. Simply because he is an elite physical specimen. Bring asked to occasionally break forward be it under or overlapping, not continually work that whole 'highway of hell' him andPorro have been assigned would leave him so much in the tank I pity the wingers he have the capacity to simply own.

I think he'd find it easy as chips, it's not like he couldn't still work one twos with the wide midfielder, alot of modern fullback work is less slinging in crosses. In a possession side it's more football. Pep would love him, think we do need to be mindful about burn out and his last injury.
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
I don't you know. Simply because he is an elite physical specimen. Bring asked to occasionally break forward be it under or overlapping, not continually being work that whole 'highway of hell' him andPorro have been assigned would leave him so much in the tank I pity the wingers he have the capacity to simply own. I think he'd find it easy as chips, it's not like he couldn't still work one twos with the wide midfielder, alot of moder fullback work is less slinging in crosses. In a possession side it's more football. Pep would love him
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You think Peps full backs cover less distance?
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
He doesn't invertboth, so probably. He tried it for bit and seemed to bin it off.
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I don’t have the numbers but I’d bet they cover as much if not more.

Inverted FB is a horizontal positional change not a vertical one. Tbh a wide FB in a dominant possession team probably has to cover even more ground because they aren’t there to counter press much but have you get back and control the whole flank because the wide attacker inverts.

If anything inverted FBs are about being better defensively in transition because they are there controlling the middle of the park when you lose the ball.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I don’t have the numbers but I’d bet they cover as much if not more.

Inverted FB is a horizontal positional change not a vertical one. Tbh a wide FB in a dominant possession team probably has to cover even more ground because they aren’t there to counter press much but have you get back and control the whole flank because the wide attacker inverts.

If anything inverted FBs are about being better defensively in transition because they are there controlling the middle of the park when you lose the ball.
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The average starting position of all our defenders is so high that they are certainly being asked to do more high intensity sprints and recoveries of the ball on turn overs.
So the verticality or lack of isn't germane . We are asking a hell of a lot of them you only have to watch us live to see it and this is my point. It's attritional and in the end it has consequences. I'm not one of those football fans interested in Squawka or such like so you'd have to look elsewhere for one of those metric debates visa Man City.
 
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