danjosaint

The issue is the formation coupled with the players and recruitment has been abysmal

He is, but it's not his fault the formation is fucking atrocious and any 2 cm's that arnt Kante will fail

Not related too much but Jimmy Jay Morgan has gone to Gillingham on loan

I like him but he's another who's wedded to a formation, yes we've crap players but worryingly we lose the midfield a lot due to his favoured formation, no coincidence one of our best performances was against utd who also play the same 343 formation. Despite all the hipster tactics of cb's moving into midfield it doesn't work, your asking a bunch of ltd footballing cb's to become a cm in the strongest league in the world, one where Mikel Damsgarrd looked like prime Iniesta against us, sorry but set up you best back 4 then build from there, get that right then the options of 4231/4132/4141 or 433 become so much better suited to the Epl

But this is the issue, Thb, Bednarek and Manning especially were really far forward and generally on transition so far out of position, hence Downes just flying around everywhere also your asking some of our worse ball players to engage a cm role, that may work if your Rio but for be I'd rather a 4 with a dedicated mobile cm

Just need to bin off 5atb, doesn't work and won't work, to much riding on your 2 cms , which ours arnt good enough, funny enough Amorim plays the same and look how their doing and that's with cms a damn site better than ours, may work in serie A/Portugal ie slower leagues but not epl

JWP to score couple of free kicks

Charlie Austin coming back to save is

Yes

Didn't Sheffield utd enquire about Smallbone 2 seasons back, I'm sure £6m was banded about

Yep more insane than having no one except a rugby guy and a hoover expert

Lol posting same time

Im thinking Juric may become dof with Rohl in as manager

It's about time Rashford scored

Makes sense as Dubravka gone to Saudi

Same as Archer

He'll play against Swansea

As above, it's well known you don't generally get fitter once seasons underway, preseason is massive in terms of fitness

I think he's looked noticeably worse when playing in s 3, almost unsure of where he's supposed to be, hence always out of position or hindering other defenders

We could always scout Fleming park, green Lane, Mayfield, I'm sure there would be someone willing to give it a go

It's so blatent to see 343 doesn't work unless u have 2 world class cm's ,even if you had those 2 the formation will never work in the Epl, fucking awful formation

I agree but wtf was THB doing, nearly took out Suga and probably the reason he fucked his header back, very similar to when THB clattered into Wood allowing Duran to score against us. I've defended THB in the past but that was one of the worst performances of a cb I've ever seen, maybe being in a 3 they don't know who's doing what

Rumours of Villa looking at kwp

Morgan Whittaker certainly hopes not

Man utd showing like us why 343 will never work in epl unless you've 2 kantes in the centre midfield 2