I was kidding to a certain extent mate but against teams that sit in and don’t really try come out especially at home then we need more of this creative type of player rather than looking for Sarr,Bentancur or Biss to open a team up. They can’t do it and that was a problem at times last season.
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I’d swap Johnson for Nunez yesterday. Not only did he have more goal involvements, he works his nuts off for the team and can genuinely play three positions. I’d swap him for Richarlison too.
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Why can’t these two play together ? Our midfield was bad not because they couldn’t defend. We didn’t have anyone who was good on the ball.
We need more ball playing midfielders
French paper Nice-Matin has us fielding a bit for Jean-Claire Todibo.
I’d take Nunez every day of the week over Johnson and Richarlison. I bet if you asked defenders whe they’d dislike playing against them most it would be Nunez. He’s not clinical but has real moments of brilliance,uses his pace because he wants to run in behind and works like fuck. I don’t see real quality in any part of Johnson’s or Richy’s games.
If Forest have to sell to meet FFP and we want a homegrown winger from there. Why not target Elanga instead of CHO? Both are homegrown dribbly wingers with pace. But Elanga is outperforming CHO in the G/A department by a decent margin.
Elanga is torture. He’s fast but really poor. Don’t want any of them.
Sorry I’m usually agreeing with a load of your posts but I’ve never seen a moment of brilliant anything from Darwin.
The best compliment you can give him is that he’s chaotic. He pulls off Ronny Rosenthals career miss catalogue every game.
Maybe that’s why any links to this type of player have dried up?
Not to say we won’t revisit it at some point but I suspect it isn’t a priority right now over a winger, striker and midfielder.
I read a similar theory as to why the Chelsea bods and Poch did don’t see eye to eye stylistically, but it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Poch is a “possession” guy. They average 59%, only 3% less than us in second to ManC 65%. Potter was a possession guy grumbled even less than Poch. They sacked him even quicker.
The other issue suggested in the Athletic piece was that whilst they often dominated against lesser teams, they couldn’t always control games, and against better teams they couldn’t always dominate the ball. Against us for example they only had 30 odd percent of the ball etc. Their run in was pretty easy, last top team they played they were spanked 5-0 by Woolwich.
Also comparing Enzo v Liverpool in a cup final to Gallagher in a home game v Bournemouth is a bit shonky. Over the last year v Midfielders, Enzo’s in the top 97 percentile for progressive passes
The problem is more likely to be - as also stated in the Athletic article, the board feeling Poch was not making best use of the players he had. Gallagher as a 10 nearly all season, instead of say Palmer, whilst Enzo in the DP cm. Colwell as a LB constantly,
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Yeah I know and do agree. We need to break down teams better.
I genuinely think Eze and Maddison should fight for the same place that's how you build a winning team.Eze has better end product than MGW. It has to be an actual contest for your place that'sEze. I'd take ONLY Danilo from NF he's a big lad natural left footed, can covet LCB in a crisis. But a left footed sitting center mid would work really well considering Udogie wandering from that side. It's not sexy but it's a clever buy.
That’s the issue with Hojberg sticking around for a season. It just delayed a job that needed to get done and now we have a backlog.
Lo Celso was actually useful for the odd game and I get why Ange had a look but that’s also a job that needs doing now.
If he was our player there would be loads of posts saying “I can’t believe we spend £80 mill on this guy”.
Yeah I agree with this too, we definitely need more technical players, but we can’t give up defensive security at the same time.
Pretty sure he's talking Eze and Maddison as #8s.
And he's right - they can't play together in the midfield if we want to concede less than 100 goals next season. Neither are interested in defending.
Wide 10 in a 3-4-3 is not the same as a touchline winger. As anyone who watched Son under Conte last season should be able to tell you.
As for Eze, he's simply not a wide winger. Ask any Palace fan - he's useless out there. Always cutting inside, never going down the line. He'd be like Grealish on steroids.
