Igor the Interim

[Lost Mango]

I wouldn't want Harry anywhere near the club. He couldn't behave and be handled properly. It is beyond him.

 

[braineclipse]

I think an obvious advantage of Richie and Solanke as a two, is they'll always be a physical nuisance for the opposition defence at bare minimum. It'll never feel we've got no-one up there, it's got a double chance of sticking if we go long.
They can split donkey work. Both good targets for crosses.

And just perhaps they'll start developing a partnership

Muani and Simons are both good sub options, both are tricky and Muani pacy. Good for a tired or softened opponent OR for us to switch it up if things aren't going our way.

Agreed. And a lot easier to be a physical nuisance if all you have to do is make sure the defender doesn't win it cleanly because there are other teammates nearby so if it drops you can win the second ball. Compared to asking Richarlison to outright win the duel and control the ball and find a pass, that will only happen rarely.

As they showed against Liverpool both will put in a massive shift off the ball too making sure we're not outnumbered defensively.

Been saying all season that Simons needs to receive the ball in decent situations and he needs players to combine with, movement around him and ahead of him. With this team, the players currently available and with our issues with form that will only happen rarely. If we can't give him that he's not going to be all that creative.

But the upcoming league games will offer very different challenges to the Liverpool game so maybe something different is required, I don't know. Big calls for Tudor. But first needs to navigate the CL game...

 

[Gazza]

I wouldn't want Harry anywhere near the club. He couldn't behave and be handled properly. It is beyond him.

He’s not as bad as that but I don’t think he could do a job with what we are in at the moment considering his age and time out of the game.

Don’t let your views on him get in the way of the stellar job he done with us previously, but again that was a long time ago. But yes he does need to shut his gob at times.

He doesn’t like to come across a roosterney wideboy, but then plays the role, then gets irritated when he’s considered one

 

[Gutter Boy]

He’s not as bad as that but I don’t think he could do a job with what we are in at the moment considering his age and time out of the game.

Don’t let your views on him get in the way of the stellar job he done with us previously, but again that was a long time ago. But yes he does need to shut his gob at times.

He doesn’t like to come across a roosterney wideboy, but then plays the role, then gets irritated when he’s considered one

It would be a bit like sending John Major to the frontline in Ukraine as a government envoy