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Smirking_Saint

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  1. Almost double Broja’s output but apparently he is the answer Thankfully none of these posters are on the recruitment team
  2. Ahh yes… we’ll no doubt spend it well like we did on Carillo, Osvaldo, Armstrong and oh… Adams
  3. The problem is I look at Damsgaard and Guedes with jealousy… then get sort of excited about a potential move for CHO… then realise they’ll need to play wingback anyway 😂
  4. You all know I rate Che higher then our other strikers so I can’t be arsed to go through it again, other than pointing out that AA offered nothing, no physicality at all Saturday and behind him we played an AM not blessed with pace Regardless of that it just feels odd, it leaves us with one under firing senior striker and I just, even if we sell Che, cannot see us spending the required amount to bring in the then 2 strikers we need
  5. I’m fairly confident this is one of the worst posts Ive ever read on here and I survived the Alpine Saint years
  6. You knew what I meant though
  7. Ive slept on it… overall Im not dissapointed we lost, I was expecting it, Spurs are a good outfit.. but the manner of the loss ? Ive never been Ralph out, but there is just too many issues that we can disect; Djenepo… ok, he looked offensively good in pre season but even then we saw he struggles to defend with any ability at all, fails to read the play, mark a man or tackle with any strength.. so what is he doing at LWB against a team that plays high attacking WBs and Kulu/Son ? Especially with a recognised LB on the bench A Armstrong… ok he needs minutes, but he is almost certainly not a lone striker, we have that on thr bench in Che Adams and AA showed he wasn’t up to the task, effectively went missing for 60 minutes. And then to bring Stu Armstrong on upfront ? S Armstrong - Arguably one of our better attacking players, fans like him, ralph likes him.. doesn’t mean you need to press gang him into a side as a striker, either play a tactic that accommodates him or accept he doesn’t fit Valery - I thought he had a decent pre season tbf, but lets be frank, we have 6 other senior CBs in the club, there’s no reason to be starting 352 - It just doesn’t work, its a formation that needs significant tactical training to be familiar with and CBs really need to trust each other, because otherwise you get a lack of anyone taking responsibility at the right times, and we saw that yesterday. We also play it SO aggressively, often camped on the edge of the opposing box, and push both wide CBs forward too.. its asking for breakaway goals and we saw that Mental fragility - A theme Ive seen with us for years, maybe an issue with youth, maybe a lack of real leaders… I just don’t know anymore but we capitulate when the game goes against us, there is zero fight in this squad, zero.. Im not even sure how you begin to address that effectively Im still optimistic we’ll be ok, we should have more incoming, we should have more than those below us, but yesterday was worrying to say the least, we don’t seem to have learned anything since last year On the plus side Lavia was very good, but yeah.. thats it really
  8. Ahh lovely… still fucking useless at the back then
  9. Lovely… nearly an own goal… not sure where Bazunu thought he was going or why Bednarek played it without looking
  10. It’ll be 352/541 yes because thats how the transition works, Aribo will drop in on Hojbjerg out of possession I imagine in order to try to stop him passing the ball (although having seen him play it may be better to just let him) I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Bednarek isn’t as horrible a defender as people say, I certainly prefer him overall to Stephens/Lyanco though ABK will end up in his place I imagine Generally speaking we looked so bad towards the end of last season because we insisted on carrying on this gung ho full press approach despite a lack of stamina and generally it was half arsed… hence we had no cover infront of our CBs and only some FF wizardry kept our heads above water
  11. Stephens is more versatile then Lyanco… snd how exactly is it depressing? We were always going to play 352 and we know we look light at LB/up top
  12. That looks a 352 to me with Aribo alongside Armstrong… not sure what Adams has done to be benched, but Im assuming Ralph is looking to play a more solid system and try to win on the break Im not holding HUGE hope today but hopefully we can steal a draw… I just want us to be as committed as we were at the start of the season and not as lost as we were towards the end MOST importantly I want us, if we go 1-0 to hold our heads and not capitulate ————-Bazunu————- — Valery —Bednarek—-Salisu KWP—————————-Djenepo ——Romeu - Lavia- —JWP—— ————Aribo—————— —————-Armstrong————
  13. Yeah Im not getting upset about it, we’ve signed kids so far and our end of season form was terrible Its a pretty comfortable take to say we’d be relegated
  14. Undav is in the same calibre as Pelle, thats my point.. Haller was the Eiredivisie top scorer before and after the WHU move and still looked awful in the prem..anyway we’re going round in circles so Im not going to carry on this argument but my point is/was the only proven strikers at our level are Ings/Austin (with injury issues potentially) and like you say.. Lambert in our high spending League 1 days. Obviously Id rather Pellè than Carillo… anybody could see that was a car crash from about 20 mins into his debut
  15. Ralph has until November, if it’s not looking good we have a couple of replacements in mind and will strengthen in January if necessary SR don’t want a relegation as it effectively nukes their club model plans
  16. Undav has 47 goal contributions in his last 63 games, would you be happy starting the season with him ? Also Ricky was a different animal, we were a league 1 team and signed a very good league 1 striker… that’s entirely different to a prem team taking a punt on a Eiredivisie striker (who turned out to be excellent)
  17. We’ve been over this, he hadn’t done anything anywhere except for one good season in the Eiredivisie who, in general, are only performing against defenders comparative to League1/2 outside of about 2/3 teams… he wasn’t in European competition to judge either He was hardly proven and thats a hill Ill die on… again, the only ‘proven’ strikers we’ve signed in recent memory was Ings/Austin… both with significant injury worries As per our potential signings. We don’t really know how seriously we persued Delap or Broja but clearly we feel there’s potentially more value elsewhere.. im comfortable with that as long as a striker is incoming before September
  18. He is more one that turned out great rather than one that came in as a top player
  19. Fulham, Bournemouth, Forest all pretty much odds on to drop I have no faith in Brentford, Leeds, Everton and even Brighton/Leicester could be sucked in… Brighton as they’ve been weakened and Leicester genuinely look in disarray when you delve into their off field issues
  20. I can go along with that… I think we might have ‘enough’ at CB at a push now, Valery looked very good at RCB and I don’t think Bednarek will be ‘as bad’ as he was last year… more importantly I think our issues were exaggerated by our late season tactics within which we were still gung ho despite playing a half arsed press which effectively meant when the ball ‘broke’ our back 2/3 were up against it with the rest of the team engaged at the top of the pitch… I hope we’ve learnt from that We do definitely need another striker though, and Im a little dissapointed he isn’t here yet But I’m optimistic enough to look at this squad and realise we have more, imo, then the bottom 3/4
  21. This is exactly what I was told btw
  22. He looked very good in Belgium to be fair to him, but it’ll remain to be seen if he can replicate that same form in the premier league really Id say their squad is steady, but nothing spectacular. Its well stewarded by Potter but after losing Bissouma and Cucu Id say they are significantly weaker. Its worth noting too that they did well off the back of Maupay/Trossard early/mid season form and from memory (purely memory so apologies if this is wrong) but it feels like last was maupays/trossards best seasonal return and Im not sure they have the consistency to do it again Of course with 100m ready to go they could look very different in a couple of weeks but they have a lot to do in the market
  23. Without Adams we’d of got relegated Without JWP we’d of got relegated If we only played the second half of the season we’d of been relegated All pointless statements really Point is…. Che statistically had a better season than Broja and factually what you said was bollocks
  24. Their squad is looking very very thin though to be honest, I don’t ‘think’ they’ll be relegated but Im not convinced they’ll do much Maupay and Undav are meh… their midfield has a huge Bissouma shaped hole, Trossards form tailed off last year.. defensively they’re ok I suppose and yeah Colwill should do well but as a club… unless they make signings quickly, they look like they’re going backwards
  25. I mean… he didn’t but don’t let the facts get in the way of hyperbole
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