Arsenal vs Bayern
Well good morning my darlings, huge thanks to Mike for his list of potential Arsenal managers yesterday, some interesting insights there. Furious his number 1 did not align with mine, but rest assured, we’ll be talking about his dissent at a later date.
I thought the sexiest name on his list that I haven’t really paid attention to was Marcelo Gallardo. The Argentine has won it all with River Plate, he’s now their most successful manager of all time at the ripe old age of 43 years old. He’s interesting because his first gig was with Nacional. He retired from playing, took over the controls, won a league title in Uraguay at the first attempt.
What a boss.
‘But shouldn’t he have gone to Stoke first’
No. If you have it, you have it. Simple as that.
Arsenal appears to be working through names at a rate of knots if the press reports are to be believed.
Some jokers bursting into consideration with the same un-welcomeness of your mother opening your bedroom door in the era of copper dial-up internet.
‘NO MUM I CLICKED IT BY ACCIDENT I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT A BDSM IS’
The absolute worst name I’ve read is Roberto Martinez, his arrival on my Newsnow refresh was like opening a video in a Whatsapp group from a plasterer. I feel sick. I think I need counselling. If I was in the brainstorm for potential names and someone raised his name, they’d be removed from site and fired. What an absolute dumpster fire of a manager. Even when he was doing bits for Wigan back in the day, he would basically play his way all season, tank hard, then pull off great final ten games. He’s been relegated with Wigan, he absolutely bombed the Everton job, and he’s now an international manager where he belongs.
I would be DISGUSTED if we signed him. He’d be a shit hire if you were an Aston Villa fan. It’s giving up on the world. It’s the life equivalent of accepting stretchy jeans. Letting your girlfriend cut your hair in the bath. It’s limited edition Krocs. It’s calling your wife the ‘other half.’ It’s three quarter length khaki coloured trousers with a chain attached for your keys.
It is an absolute DISGRACE that I have to waste any amount of time even talking about this. Straight up one of the most offensive things I’ve heard mentioned in conjunction with the club. I will literally walk onto the pitch and set myself on fire if this happens.
Do NOT say that would be cool, because I know you secretly like me.
We’ve also been linked with Portuguese nobody, Vitor Perriera. Poaching a manager from Shanghai SIPG doesn’t give me any sort of sexy heat. He’s 51 years old, so uninteresting Porto made him assistant to AVB when he was a man child at 32, he’s been to all the backwaters of world football and the absolute deal sealer… His agent is Kia.
Fuck anyone that Kia is suggesting. We don’t want to be hiring in deadbeats that are the gateway to Arsenal being a fee cow for greedy people with no interest in the club. That’s not Arsenal.
Big Poch did an interview with some foreign news station, he spoke in Spanish, but basically didn’t aggressively rule out moving to Arsenal. He is a GREAT coach, one of the best in the world, we’d be mad not to talk to him, but I just have my doubts we’re going to be able to give him the sort of salary he’ll deserve, or that we’re in a good state to pay whatever his break clause is.
Arsenal’s end of year results dropped and they were predictably bad. We’re -£23m when it comes to profit. All the performance indicators you’d look to for a healthy club are heading south, even matchday receipts.
Our wage bill is £230m. Quite unbelievable. If we don’t make Champions League this year, we’re in deep shit.
However, I wouldn’t be too concerned. There are rumours that Auba is going to take a move to Real Madrid this summer, possibly sending Jovic and Ceballos our way. A few big names will be in the final year of their deals this summer (age they’ll be by July 1st next year is in brackets).
- Sokratis £90k (32)
- Luiz £200k (33)
- Ozil £350k (31)
- Mustafi £90k (28)
- Auba £200k (31)
That’s nearly a £1m a week off the wage bill, which reduces our outlay to a more manageable number. I think when older players get to their last year, it’s best to just find a club. One mega injury and you have zero security. The fact they’re in the last year of their deal makes them more appealing to other clubs because of the lower fee.
Then you have to look at the names on the list for the year after, Matteo and Cal C are on that list, but I suspect we might keep them… however, Kola and Lacazette aren’t getting new deals, and they might be shipped out.
We could potentially bring in £120m this summer and rebuild the squad under a new coach. I am just praying Edu is good with the transfers, we still have no chief scout, Raul made a has of last summer, and we’ll be down a lot of experience. We need more Matteo Guendouzi’s and Gabriel Martinelli’s versus the David Luiz types.
A lot of the press in the last day lean towards the new manager being Arteta. I don’t need to keep going over this with you, you know where I stand, but I think given the circumstances, who is available, and the mess we’re in… it couldn’t be better suited to someone like him. He’s a coach, first and foremost, he’s been very influential at City, he’ll be cheap and he knows The Arsenal.
I could not be any more hyped about the possibility, but how can anyone get excited when the taste levels are so low, Robert fucking Martinez is getting a call.
I really, really, really, hope we make a good decision here. No chancers. No hacks. No super-agent reccos. Just a coach that can give us the future football we deserve.
Let’s see where it goes. They can’t wait until the end of the season on this one, we need to maximise the next 6 months so we know what is what come transfer time.
Chop, chop.
See you in the comments. x
Claudio Yacob, Livermore, Grzegorz Krychowiak a couple of years ago. All defensive midfielders and physically strong. The result? Absolutely garbage football and they still lost games anyway.
That’s not a balanced midfield though
Tr7
Agree on Giroud too
I was saying last season before Xmas I actually prefer Giroud to Aubameyang. Aubameyang is prolific but the rest of his game is useless
With him and ozil we are effectively playing with 9 men for 85 mins of each match
I can confirm, Un – No i do not and i don’t use hair gel either.
Paulinho the issue we have now is simply a lack of quality not balance in my view.
We don’t have the quality to do much with the ball when we have it neither do we have the quality to hold onto possession effectively so teams take advantage of the expected turnover of possession to hurt us.
We use to have enough quality in possession and in attack to overwhelm the small teams especially at home. This present team is made up of players whose individual qualities have been grossly overrated.
TR7, I thought the same watching the Ox the other day, but then he is a useful squad player in a very slick and talented squad.
Had he stayed at Arsenal I’m afraid he would have stayed exactly the same deficient player as he was for years.
It’s the difference between a well coached club with a purpose and a poorly coached club with no discernible style of play, overpaid and undermotivated players and supporters that are lost in space somewhere.
Marko – Yeah it’s overkill, but then so is two of them. Point is people still think having two central midfielders staying behind the ball give you some immunity to the realities of football. The most important thing is quality with the ball, because if that is not there, you are just delaying the inevitable regardless of whether you have a ball winner sitting deep, or you don’t. People need to watch our invincible team again, and take a look at how often our players would make thirty to forty yard runs ahead of the ball. There was weird thing… Read more »
Santi wasn’t sold. TR7 you don’t replace the problems by reminiscing about previous players who let’s be frank here wouldn’t address the current problems at Arsenal because said players were flawed and playing for us at a time when we weren’t that good anyway. For me we improve things with signing better players not talking about how we should have kept this player or that.
MarkoDecember 8, 2019 13:56:18
I’d keep chambers and AMN myself. And Kolasinac.Well you are an idiot so it’s not surprising.
Hahahaha
That’s fucking rich. I know you see yourself as some sort of bohemian intellectual but you work for the man in some shitty mongo job in the arse end of the world. Hoping after years of arse licking your wanker boss may grant you a promotion. Hardly the career of Dublin’s deepest thinker.
Back in your shoe box son before I put you on the jax with a coffee again
Ox has a place at Liverpool TR7, albeit as a role player. No question of his talent and if he ever manages to stay healthy, you never know. I wouldn’t say you are getting nostalgic about players, but rather thinking about “what if”.
Currently 3 pts off the drop zone !
Aubameyang is prolific but the rest of his game is useless
Lacazette isn’t prolific and the rest of his game is useless. What’s your point?
Marko
It’s no coincidence that since losing those players we’ve got much much worse.
But yeah, not even Thierry Henry in his prime could drag emery out of the shit. You’re right there
Rambo, ‘no such thing as a balanced midfield’ – really? I always thought that the right combination of players, contributing the right balance between defence and attack was essential. At the moment our defence is not screening the CBs and is not linking well with our forward players. The players are not complimenting each other. You’re right that there needs to be a balance throughout the team and Liverpool is an example of how the balance can be created through a team and this could be replicated at Arsenal but I still believe ‘a balanced midfield’ is reasonable term to… Read more »
MarkoDecember 8, 2019 14:09:39
Aubameyang is prolific but the rest of his game is uselessLacazette isn’t prolific and the rest of his game is useless. What’s your point?
Marko
Er and you’re calling others thick? I’ve made my point dumbo. I won’t make it again. Try reading in future you little go getter you….
Wijnaldum, Henderson, Milner– Maestro os
LOL.
Put the same in Arsenal and their donkey work would get no recognition whatsoever.
As I said, no such thing as “balanced midfield”. Its bullshit peddled by football dumdums.
Unai, a balanced midfield, players complimenting each other, like Petit and Vieira would certainly make a difference!
“Put the same in Arsenal and their donkey work would get no recognition whatsoever.”
Correct, Arsenal don’t do midfields.
Rambo, self appointed football guru, congratulations on your wise words. We’re barely worthy of reading them.
Paulinho agree we don’t make enough runs beyond the ball for me though this isn’t new we had this problem for many years because for the longest time we targeted technical midgets and slow forwards instead of actual pace. Bar maybe Sanchez our other forward players in years gone by were a different kind. You take Brighton for example Maupay and Connolly bags of pace stretching the game making runs while it’s all sideways technical shite with us for years
BobN16,
Pray tell what is this balanced midfield?
Is it one Supreme creative player, one runner and one defensive phenom?
What is this midfield specific balance that people talk about?
@ernestreed
Only dicksmacks like Pierre and his buddies dream in Techni-Wenger colours as they wax poetic how things used to be, some 15 years ago at that.Ernest Reed
What a Cunt. How many houses you sold this year? Bet you go through hair gel by the gallon.”
Ernest,
, Un obviously saw himself in the group you were talking about, Pierre’s friends.
😂😂😂
All you did was make him see this. Not your fault bud.
😂😂
People need to watch our invincible team again, and take a look at how often our players would make thirty to forty yard runs ahead of the ball. There was weird thing called covering for your teammate back then and game intelligence. Paulinho Exactly. Same with our 98,99 and 02 sides Those players out in the graft Worked for each other We’re passionate about the role and the team. Committed and cared for their teams mates But the players have to have something to buy into. They are just pissing into the wind right now and the youngsters don’t have… Read more »
Paulinho
“Yeah sell him and accelerate the process to where we are now, because with our recruitment that’s what would’ve happened.”
Or get a decent fee for him and buy a replacement player to do what we need – it’s what well run clubs do.
One of the reasons we are where we are is because of historical fuck ups that go back years.
MarkoDecember 8, 2019 14:08:27
Santi wasn’t sold. TR7
😂 yeah, he’s still at the club slicing the oranges looool
All good, Mark.
One thing is for sure is Ramsey wouldn’t have downed tools or stopped giving 100% for the cause as we’ve seen with the other experienced heads in this squad
One of his best attributes was being willing to run through walls for the team
Is it one Supreme creative player, one runner and one defensive phenom?
I mean that could be one yes.
Typic move of a bully.
Cutter puts him in his place, Nada! Nothing said. You make a comment, not mentioning him directly, and get torn into.
Typical move…
“””As I said, no such thing as “balanced midfield”. Its bullshit peddled by football dumdums.”””
Well said RR
Add these to the BS pile:
Diamonds
the Pressing Game
transitions
the Carve Through Press
The Deep Block
The Pockets
All absolute cobblers
Pass the bloody ball to a team mate and run about a bit. And score.
Thats all you have to do.
yeah, he’s still at the club slicing the oranges looool
He was released you fucking moron. As in not given a new contract as in different to being sold because we got no money for him AND THEY’RE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS.
Don – Remember that lucky goal we scored against United back on 03. Ashley Cole swung his right foot at the ball and it deflected into United’s net. 2-2 it finished with Campbell getting sent off.
Cole made his luck though by making a thirty yard run ahead of the ball into the box when he saw Pires pick it up on the left.
That’s what Ljungberg was taking about the other night when he said everyone was standing still and it ‘not being Arsenal’. Everyone is static and no one makes any runs at all.
I like Ricardo Pereira from Leicester City.
A balanced midfield is one where the system, the players, their attributes and the tactics all compliment each other well to support all aspects of the team.
Are we really having to explain what balance means in football in 2019? People surely aren’t serious here
Marko Even an average midfielder goes for 40M plus in the current market. I do not think we have the resources to plug the gap in our midfield. £100M of cash balance as on May 31, 2019 and we are going to register a loss of at least £30M again next year. Besides, we have to make payments for the signings made in the summer. If you look at our midfield, at the very least we are talking about two quality central midfielders who will cost 80M minimum and that is just midfield. We need a couple of centre back… Read more »
Paulinho
The Invincibles never pressed in one game.
But my golly they played soccer.
We have conceded tons of silly goals from individual mistakes..and at the other end we missed sitters that could have gained us points and momentum
We have collected terrible and average players over the years
The latest horror ones are David luiz and fans favourite Toreira
Hindsight and all that , if Wenger went for kante and van dijke who were both available ,we would have been in a much better place, instead we got xhaka and mustafi!!
A good coach would help, but them players are not taking us anywhere!
The Vardy show now!
Just a small point on the balanced midfield argument and talk of the Invincible’s.
The Invincible’s had a certain Gilberto Silva playing as DM a player nicknamed the Invisible Wall.
It makes a huge difference if you have the right players and play them in the right positions.
“Pass the bloody ball to a team mate and run about a bit. And score.
Thats all you have to do”
CG – 2019
You’d make a legendary manager!
Everyone is static and no one makes any runs at all.
That’s the thing these players don’t do that and that’s the problem with some of them. To be fair though how Freddie complains about players being static and then starts Ozil and Xhaka and doesn’t start Martinelli or Pepe in attack is pretty dumb to me.
CG
“But my golly they played soccer.”
Please don’t denigrate the Invincible’s by calling it Soccer it’s FOOTBALL!
Vieira was also defensively brilliant and knew when to be disciplined
China
He’d also have jumpers for goalposts!
As for Freddie, two poor team selections in a row. I don’t know why can’t some managers see certain things which are obvious to the entire world.
Yes CG
And the invincibles also never played 3 at the back with wing backs – it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist…
You see how bottom feeder teams even playing at The Emirates now pass through the Arsenal midfield so easily and they start doing this from deep positions. This is because the team as a whole are not pushing up as one and trying to squeeze the opposition denying them space to operate. And it starts from the backline. The whole team have to push up. What we are seeing atm is the disjoint of midfield from defence. Teams are passing through the solitary midfielder that is pressing high up that being Torreira who is running around like a blue arse… Read more »
“The Invincible’s had a certain Gilberto Silva playing as DM a player nicknamed the Invisible Wall.”
He was on Soccer AM the other week where they showed highlight after highlight of him making runs forward, and he explained when he ran Vieira would sit back and vice-versa.
I remember him scoring a goal after thirty seconds against PSV by making a fifty yard run. If someone did that now it would be seen as ‘undisciplined’ and playing for himself.
TR7
I asked this the other day and didn’t get an answer “What does Xhaka do in training to make 3 managers think he’s irreplaceable in the team?”.
It’s crazy.
Paulinho
He wouldn’t have made the runs if he didn’t have players who would cover for him.
That’s the idea scenario but it’s something we’re a long way off of.
I do not think we have the resources to plug the gap in our midfield. Might as well give up so because the only way we fix things is through signings and not internally. That is why I think we should have held on to some of the players we let go of. Again I’ll be perfectly honest with you and as respectful as I can but this is beyond stupid to me and I’ll tell you why. For one thing the players you mentioned Koscielny, Giroud and Cazorla aren’t really that good anymore so I don’t see them contributing… Read more »
I think Freddie has tried to be cute about his selection rather than be ruthless If it had worked for him he’d have got a lot of credit and would have the whole dressing room on side but it hasn’t worked and he’s instead come out of two games looking like a lame duck I don’t think it’s because he’s not aware of the risks from a footballing perspective, I think he’s just trying to play the politics of managing the squad. But it has backfired and he now lacks credibility if he can’t find a couple of results and… Read more »
Jackie Stewart was a fantastic F1 driver – should one of the current teams sign him for next season?
Wouldn’t it be great to see the midfield press as one instead of watching Torreira get continually bypassed trying to do all of this on his own.
And of course we know why the midfield doesn’t press as one.
We have a player like Xhaka who is not physically suitable to press hiding deep along with David Luiz and Sokratis.
“Well I did say the usual suspects, Pierre is definitely one of them. I’m sure you know the rest of them. No need to name names CC CG Don Victorious etc tec“
Exactly what I said yesterday. Some folk need to put posters in a nice little box for them to follow along with things.
Ignorant as it comes, surprising nobody.
“He wouldn’t have made the runs if he didn’t have players who would cover for him.”
At some point though, you have to make runs even if there is no one covering. Even back then we would get caught and it wasn’t all perfect. At the moment too many players think the intelligent thing to do is play like Guendouzi. Can’t blame them, fans lap it up because it looks good on the whoscored stats.
You can’t go 49 games unbeaten with an undisciplined midfield Paulinho… The whole reason he was able to sometimes go for runs was because vieira would easily cover him and be disciplined and vice versa As well, for every case of Gilberto making runs you can find 100 where he was sitting deeper. A compilation video of his runs is hardly the same as watching his 90 minutes week in week out… We also had a brilliant team capable of outscoring anyone and top class defensive players around him, many of whom were lightning quick for recoveries It’s apples and… Read more »
The question isn’t should we have kept Cazorla it’s why we didn’t replace him properly.
Gilberto bar one season scored fuck all goals so I don’t imagine that he made 50 yard runs forward alot
Don
Imagine if you got upset every time someone called you a cunt haha.
You’d be catatonic.
China
“”Wing Backs “”- what are these things?
Full Backs, yes- I get.
With our central defenders- our full backs should not be winging anywhere.
they should be sitting tight and close to the central defenders – in a line of 4!
China
I’d love to know the stats of Gilberto making forward runs for Brazil.
Lol Martinez….
This rumour sums up perfectly the club that we have become.
Watching the Aston villa/Leicester city match, both their midfields better than ours their defences better than ours, players like praet, tielmans sonyocu, mginn ,Madison ndidi, none of them costing a lot of money but better players than our drivel .
To be fair Paulinho in our current plight I would just want a competent DM sitting in front of the back 4 right now and not be concerned with him making runs off the ball. Right now giving the lack of clean sheets and the chances we give up I think one thing is more important than the other
And here is another beauty- its one of PedRo’s :
“”The High Octane Press”””!
Whats this one- when is at home??
“A balanced midfield is one where the system, the players, their attributes and the tactics all compliment each other well to support all aspects of the team.”
That’s a lot of words ultimately pointing towards the balance at a team level that I talked about.
No one seriously expects every defensive player to sit for 90 minutes with zero forward movement But Ramsey was very much an attack over defense CM. If you have a kante behind him or you’re playing against offensively poor opposition then that’s one thing, but arsenal were mostly poor defensively during most of the seasons when Ramsey was there If you’re playing alongside an absolute tool like xhaka then bombing forwards means we basically have no cover defensively at all because xhaka only knows how to foul if he’s lucky enough to even be near the opposition on a counter… Read more »
Paulinho
“Can’t blame them, fans lap it up because it looks good on the whoscored stats.”
yeah the fans are fucking ecstatic with the stats at the moment – conceding record number of attempts in goal, dropping points left right and centre, not won in the PL in 7 matches.
Do you even think about what you write on here?
TR7 is saying in a magazine he’s intentionally putting the rebuild on the senior players as we’re a mess.
“As well, for every case of Gilberto making runs you can find 100 where he was sitting deeper.” I can say similar with Ramsey when he has played CM. How many goals have we actually conceded due to him being in the opposition’s box? There should be ten minutes compilation on youtube going by Arsenla fans say. It all comes down the bogus interpretation of what disciplined means. Discipline is not good if the opposition are vulnerable too off the ball runs from midfield and you’re midfielder just stays deep and passes it square, yet players get lauded by fans… Read more »
Sissoko made a great run against Burnley on Saturday to score Spurs’ 4th goal. Here is a player who is not very polished on the ball and yet ran through the entire midfield of Burnley to score a very good goal. Some of our midfielders need to show more conviction and play with courage. Most of them are too passive and risk averse in the way they play.
At the moment we need to practice the basics.
A solid flat back 4 and a disciplined DM.
Once we start looking more defensively solid and more confident we can start tweaking our game.
Baby steps.
“Freddie Ljungberg has refused to give up hope of a top-four finish and has called on Arsenal’s senior players to stand up and be counted.”
Lol.
CG
“And here is another beauty- its one of PedRo’s :
“”The High Octane Press”””!
Whats this one- when is at home??”
I think you put apples in it and Cider comes out!
Danny S
Spot on.
Is this the same Freddie that insists Ozil is a left winger and willock is first team ready?
Marc – I could say the same about you.
“yeah the fans are fucking ecstatic with the stats at the moment – conceding record number of attempts in goal, dropping points left right and centre, not won in the PL in 7 matches.”
When Arsenal have lost games in large part due to crap movement and midfield play, I’ve seen our central midfielders get lauded on forums because they’ve got a high pass percentage, so it can’t possibly be their fault. Complete inability to look at the bigger picture.
For any manager that takes this on, it will be like getting a new class of year 3 kids, trying to teach them grammar and realising you need to teach them all the alphabet first.
At some point though, you have to make runs even if there is no one covering. Even back then we would get caught and it wasn’t all perfect
Hmmm I have a feeling that you’re failing to acknowledge that we have bad defenders at the club. I personally don’t see how vacating positions even more so to make runs stops us conceding chances and goals
No it’s not even a little bit Rambo We’re talking about the midfield players complimenting each other If you have xhaka at DM and put Ramsey alongside him then when Ramsey bombs forwards you basically don’t have any defensive protection whatsoever If you have xhaka at DM and Torreira at DM alongside him then xhaka becomes slightly less dismal simply by virtue of having a defensively reasonable player alongside him filling in useful spaces and not getting forwards Our only run of good form last season was when torreira partnered xhaka The moment torreira was out, what little balance there… Read more »
Paulinho
“When Arsenal have lost games in large part due to crap movement and midfield play, I’ve seen our central midfielders get lauded on forums because they’ve got a high pass percentage”
Well I’d suggest ignoring the fucking retards who are lauding current performances if I were you.
MarkDecember 8, 2019 14:19:42 Typic move of a bully. Cutter puts him in his place, Nada! Nothing said. You make a comment, not mentioning him directly, and get torn into. Mark Don’t be a pansie. It was a bit of stick. You dont see me cowering when marko or you for that matter give it to me. And don’t think for one second I saw cutter’s response without a relaying my thoughts. I’m off to find that now though so thanks for the heads up. And yeah Ernest makes cuntish comments. Stupid is as stupid does as ol Forrest used… Read more »
I also still want to know who the opposition were for those 5 clean sheets in a row last season when Ramsey played
As well iirc Ramsey spent most of his games playing in more advanced positions with two DMs behind him
China
You also need to instruct torr to play behind xhaka as against Brighton for some reason torr was playing b2b and xhaka was last man.
Again something emery seems to have introduced and Freddie is going with.
“I personally don’t see how vacating positions even more so to make runs stops us conceding chances and goals”
Because you and others are fixated by the negatives off the ball runs, and never look at the bigger picture and net positive.
You’re always assuming that vacating of position leads to chances conceded when it can lead to chances created and penning the opposition back, and dominating the game.
And we’re not buds. While I appreciate you asking about my health, I still think that you are a racist piece of shit that somehow convinced/blackmailed/paid the local cum-bucket to let you knock her up. Same goes with GoH. The fact that you will be passing your poison DNA to another generation makes me grateful to have an ocean between us.
Wooooo
Cutter.
And with poison in you like that its no wonder your vile little body started producing cancerous cells.
Keep safe though bestie.
“Well I’d suggest ignoring the fucking retards who are lauding current performances if I were you.”
Our problems go back years, and no one is lauding the current performances.
I’m referring to dissection of our problems and people not identifying lack of midfield quality because on paper Xhaka has got a high pass %, Guendouzi etc. So they think it’s only down to bad defence only, and lack of ball-winner sitting in front of the back four.
Could anyone imagine cutter even attempting to say something like that to a man’s face? No amount of chemo would save him.
Anyway all this balanced footballer, balanced midfield nonsense is more suited in a virtual Fifa, PES world is what I’m saying.
In the real world, you build with what you have. You have a great asset? You add another that alleviates the first one’s weakness. That’s how you do it.
You don’t sit and wait to buy this perfect “monster DM”, “dribbly B2B”, “maestro AM” etc.
You don’t go – “Oh Ramsey? He’s indisciplined and not the textbook perfect balanced CM. I’ll buy this type instead”
If you do, you’re a dumdum
Danny yeah I’ve still no idea what the b2b/am torreira thing is supposed to be other than absolutely wank
Paulinho
Xhaka could have 100% pass rest every game, it wouldn’t take away the mistake he has in him. The potential red card and his snail pace and ability to go to sleep.
It’s like Ozil. Yes he makes certain contributions very very well but his over all contribution is poor.
You can’t judge players by stats.
If you did then mustafi is a 100m defender.
Klopp’s Liverpool are blowing away a lot of myths and I’ll have to love him for that.
Don you are a kid
“I also still want to know who the opposition were for those 5 clean sheets in a row last season when Ramsey played”
Same ones we are conceding goals to now.
Paulinho “I’m referring to dissection of our problems and people not identifying lack of midfield quality because on paper Xhaka has got a high pass %, Guendouzi etc. So they think it’s only down to bad defence only, and lack of ball-winner sitting in front of the back four.” No one is saying our midfield is full of quality or that we don’t need to improve it. The reason people are talking about “So they think it’s only down to bad defence only, and lack of ball-winner sitting in front of the back four.” is because we scored 21 goals… Read more »
“Xhaka could have 100% pass rest every game, it wouldn’t take away the mistake he has in him”
Yep, and it doesn’t take away the fact he can only play behind the ball, when top level players can play both sides of it.
Are we playing tomorrow?
Predictions anyone?
WHU must be chomping at the bit.
Paulinho
Please name who on here as described Xhaka as a top level player?
Hairline
You really don’t think I’m going to allow anyone to insult my wife and children like that and let them get away with it? It’s out and out fighting talk. Say what you want about me but insult my family and I’ll hit him so hard It will kill his dad
Because you and others are fixated by the negatives off the ball runs, and never look at the bigger picture and net positives. I’m really not. You want to target players who make those runs to replace the likes of Ozil (who is incapable of making runs anywhere) then by all means do it. What I’m saying now as I have been saying for years is our problem in midfield is we don’t have a competent ball winning DM at the base of the midfield. That’s it. And that guy I could care less about him making 50 yard runs… Read more »