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Summer transfer thread, AvB window wrap up pg 1527

Which player would you like to see take over from Luka Modric?

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not giving Ade no 9 suggest that there is another on the way, most likely bigger than Ade, we will see though if they pull it off
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
Can we only buy someone currently wearing #9 to fill the gap?! ;)
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There was ITK that said Bale was told he couldn't have the 9 shirt he wore all pre season because there was a player in talks who insisted on having it.

Obviously thats probably gonads but I have the right to hold onto that as gospel damn it!
 
Leeds Spur said:
Exactly....we have been saying for years we seem to lack legs after christmas! Maybe there is truth in it though.......maybe they were overtrained and so became tired?
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Look at the games we lost it was hardly because we ran out of steam. I mean the second to last game of the season we battered Villa right to the end with 10 men, so it can't be for lack legs, as it this level of sport, you can't do that without supreme fitness! We didn't look out of steam when losing to Everton, whilst utterly dominating them. Late goals against Swansea, Bolton, Blackburn and Stoke don't exactly suggest we lacked legs. Our fitness was fine, in fact it was good. We scored too many late goals and our stats in terms of shots, passes and tackles etc were simply way too high for there to have been fitness issue's. The only area where we had a fitness issue, was with Leds and this did show up a few times, most notably the Norwich game. But generally speaking fitness isn't an area where there is really room for improvement.

If we need to improve our fitness levels then so do Arsenals, which I find hard to believe. They crawled over the line and only got third as West Brom literally gave them 2 goals, otherwise they wouldn't have won in their last 5 fixtures. The season before that they only won 1 of their last 7! If you look at our results I can see why one could see a correlation and thus think there are fitness issues, but if you look at the actual performances, there is simply no way we could be so dominant in games at this level and be unfit. If you look t out last 10 games, which is over 1/4 of the season, we took 19 points, which is actually third place form! So it wasn't a fitness issue. We had a bad third quarter of the season, but a simple look at the fixture list suggests this was always going to be the case. For all the reason put forward by our fans for what happened, the most obvious is by far the most plausible. We lost points when we had our toughest run of fixtures! It's as simple as that. The fixture list distorts things at times and it made us look better than we were. We then had a run of 7 games in which we played Emirates Marketing Project away, Liverpool away, Arsenal away, Man Utd and Everton away!
 
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