Ludwig

I like the bit where he says: "Last year there were a lot of things that*went against me surrounding that massive contractual clause. People will always deny that is the reason, the FA couldn't say that and I won't say, but it didn't help me" So he says he "won't say it" despite actually saying it, in the sentence before. What a plonker.

Not really sure that transfer committee's attention being temporarily focused upon sorting out a transfer contingent upon staying up will affect the team's preparations for upcoming matches in any way. As such, you wouldn't want to miss out on good-value talent. I see no problem with going for this now. For me, we're a top centre-back, full-back cover and possibly two versatile attackers away from a complete squad.

Wide players have been swapping positions under MP, which will skew the results seen above.

Quite possibly specific to countries like Spain, whereby every player is required to have a buyout clause (which they personally pay). In practice, their future club buys this out and there's a gentleman's agreement between clubs to accept offers above this threshold, as the clubs could refuse the bid and force the players to physically buyout their own contracts incurring bigger expense for the buying club as when routing the payment through the player additional taxes must be paid.

Interview with a fan at St Mary's, exclusive stuff nowadays.

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There were too many ways to exploit the old training system to make ridiculous gains. It's been made simpler and with less options to reflect this and to give a decision interface to reflect what a manager would do on a day-to-day basis - micro-managing individual sliders every week for each player isn't something managers would really be expected to do.

If you want to play with a real DoF, you can set your staff responsibilities up as to allow for this. To make an argument that it should be enforced, for absolute realism, is ridiculous - given that it can be self-imposed.

This is pretty unrepresentative, I think. Firstly, most Twitter users do not 'geotag' their tweets, we'd probably be left with a small and unrepresentative sample of tweeters let alone football fans having this restriction in place. Secondly, not all football tweeters hashtag their tweets, it doesn't mention which hashtags it takes into account for each club, nor does it take into account the fact that people who aren't supporters of the club would use the hashtag of other clubs (for example, Saints fans tweeting about Harry Redknapp moving to QPR may use both the Saints and QPR hashtags in their tweets), so it doesn't really represent fan distribution in any real way. It also doesn't state whether it ranks the total number of mentions, or the total number of unique tweeters who mention the hashtag, I'd guess there'd be a reasonable difference between the results of the two different methods. I wouldn't put much stock into this at all, quite interesting though, but it has severe limitations.

You have 30 posts in this thread, this is my second. Gain a greater sense of the context to which your post applies before posting, your contributions will likely be far more useful.

Can you read? It was only valid within a year of his leaving AC Milan for Cagliari. He's been at Cagliari since 2008.

Good indication of what a simpleton you are.

This year's been pretty good for music. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan Killer Mike - RAP MUSIC Joey Bada$$ - 1999 How To Dress Well - Total Loss Death Grips - The Money Store Chromatics - Kill For Love Swans - The Seer Beach House - Bloom TNGHT - TNGHT EP Then there's loads more records that I like but I haven't given enough time to yet that will inevitably become favourites over time. Very strong year indeed.

Self-aware, too.

Nope.

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complete rework, not the same at all

I agree with you, but only to an extent. I'd say that this isn't Lallana's fault, the same happens with Jason Puncheon and we seem to be set up with wide attackers pushing forward as part of a front three, so to claim they ought to be responsible for consistently protecting the full-back is absurd. However, it is the case that our full-backs aren't getting enough protection and that we're generally set up wrong, nothing to do with Lallana or anything. In fact, here's a short (long) exposition of where I think we've gone wrong tactically so far this season: Let's start off where you (sort of) did: our wingers have been too high up the pitch, playing more like a 4-3-3 than a 4-5-1, even when we don't have the ball. This puts additional stress on the full-backs who've been isolated and targetted far too often this season. Danny Fox has been poorly positioned too often and leaving him exposed has accentuated this fact, leaving us very weak. Similarly, being exposed has not been great when Yoshida has played at left-back, because he doesn't look positionally comfortable there either. Clyne did very well there against Villa, swapping flank as a full-back isn't 'too' difficult so this demonstrates that having a competent left-back (replacing Fox) would help us, even if they're currently left exposed too often. Not having the wingers apply pressure appropriately puts greater stress on the centre of midfield, which highlights our next weakness. Our midfield is not 'defensive' enough. Not 'defensive' does NOT require tackles, however, it does require energy, pressing and intelligence to make interceptions. In Morgan Schneiderlin, when taking into account his passing ability, we have an excellent one of these already. However, if we're playing with a midfield provided insufficient support from the attackers, we need another one in order to prevent teams from waltzing through our midfield and provide our defence more cover. We are really missing Jack Cork. James Ward-Prowse is a player who's shown he's capable of playing this role, and although he's performed well when called upon, lacks consistency and can't yet be relied upon. We need a little more experience and Cork would have provided this, we haven't found an adequate way to play a balanced midfield trio consistently without him. I would say we need to sign another such midfielder as back-up (or even demoting Cork to squad/back-up). Maybe we were a little premature to loan out Dean Hammond, I could see him having played a role in some matches this season given how we've performed. Our defence panics too often and appears to lacks confidence. We have made too many clumsy errors, silly mistakes etc. and have capitulated under pressure or conceded quickly in succession. This is a manifestation of a lack of confidence and experience. We should have signed a centre-back with PL experience over Summer. I didn't think this at the time, but I think this would have been the best way to ensure we sign a player with the correct mentality and temperament to step up. However, even now, I cannot think of any suitable candidates, which is quite problematic. Alternately, another solution would have been a consistent goalkeeping choice who inspires confidence in the defence. We should've signed a first-choice keeper (Boruc, perhaps) who inspired confidence and calmness from the back, capable of exerting authority and organising his defence. Should've been signed early in pre-season, in order to bed and settle him in. The lack of this kind of figure, with the defence having lost confidence in Davis early, has proved very problematic for us. I don't think our defenders are particularly worse than those Swansea or Norwich started last season with - both of them provided better support for their defences and both had very good goalkeepers, which is probably a more important factor than the specific personnel occupying the defensive roles. So, defending has been our problem. I think we could have improved on this by having: 1) Wingers playing deeper and offering more comprehensive protection to their full-backs 2) A left-back whose positioning is more competent than Danny Fox's 3) Two midfielders whose purpose is keeping play simple whilst providing great energy and purpose to win and retain possession (we currently only play with Schneiderlin fulfilling such a role - the return of Cork will be vital) 4) Greater confidence and authority shown by our defensive unit, which could have been solved by either/or 4i) Signing a defender who is calm and assured under pressure, preferably with Premier League experience 4ii) Signing a goalkeeper (early in pre-season) who inspires confidence and organizes his defence There are also problems with our attacking philosophy displayed thus far, what are the problems when attempting to go forward? We are clearly trying to continue in a similar vein to our successful style from last season, one of the key aspects was overlapping full-backs and getting in crosses, which we're not managing to effectively do, but our full-backs are still getting high up the pitch more often than not, which means they're caught out of position. We can't have wingers not tracking back well enough in addition to full-backs attempting to overlap. One or the other please - I think our wingers should be tracking back better and playing deeper. We're playing with inverted wingers, which means we fire in fewer crosses from our wingers than previously. This is endemic of our trying to play pretty football and is stylistically admirable but not pragmatic considering some of the strengths we possess. We've been very good at scoring from crosses, with strong headers in the side (SRL, J-Rod, Gaston can all head a ball). Yet in open play our style with inverted wingers is not conducive to putting enough balls into the box. We're not getting goals or too much effectiveness (against poorer sides who we should be competing with) from wingers cutting in, so should keep it simpler and play to our strengths. Or, ideally, have our wingers swap flanks - something I haven't noticed happening often enough this season. I think that would be pretty effective. We need to play a little deeper, bring our wingers back a bit and whip in more crosses. Our players aren't of the individual quality to pull of our current style to maximum efficiency, nor does it bring out the results potential of our players. Personally, I would line up like this (in an ideal world): -----------------------Boruc---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- --Clyne-------Fonte----------Yoshida-------NEW-- -------------------------------------------------- ------------Schneiderlin------Cork----------------- --Puncheon-----------------------------Lallana--- ----------------------Ramirez--------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------Lambert--------------------- Against sides we expect to struggle against, I'd start with Mayuka/J-Rod and bring on Lambert as an impact sub. Though SRL is talismanic at present, he doesn't offer enough as a pressing outlet. Mayuka and Rodriguez are both far more mobile and are both capable of holding up the ball. Similarly, against better sides, I'd drop Puncheon for Steven Davis, play Ramirez on the wing and drop Davis into midfield, with Ramirez/Lallana interchangeably playing as more advanced wide players. At home, we'd be more fluid, with full-backs encouraged to overlap, Ramirez given a free role and Puncheon/Lallana swapping flanks and being encourage to put more balls onto the heads of our strikers.

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If you want it to be very realistic, you can choose not to take on that responsibility. Some people wouldn't play if they couldn't control transfers, or whatever.

We missed Guly on Saturday.

Schneiderlin like Pires? Ramirez coming in having an impact on Ward-Prowse's role? Do you know that there are different types of 'midfielder'?

Yeah, his physique is a natural consequence of patience and patience alone.

The announcement has been delayed, they haven't set a release date.

Sorry, didn't mention Ramirez's PA - 174. Pretty outstanding, really.