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Tanguy Ndombele

Diamond Lights said:
Crazy question but can Jan not play as a DM? Didn't he run a few games there in his younger days? Appreciate the legs are gone but at least may be a half decent option given limited options in that spot?
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That's the sort of out of the box thinking we need and I agree with on a Friday night having had some wine.
 
milo said:
Mourinho was meant to have used lock down to get him fit. Wasn't that what the park training sessions were meant to be about? He looks in worse condition than ever.
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He appeared to be making an effort but now I see why he didn't before.

He was blowing by the 80th minute and he'd only been on since half time.
 
Finney Is Back said:
I’d do similar but instead of Skipp play Sissoko as a pure holding midfielder and instruct him not to go beyond the centre circle. Break up play and then give it 10 yards to Lo Celso, Ndombele, Aurier or Davies.

I would also drop Kane and play Son through the middle (but that won’t happen) with Moura and Bergwijn as the two wide players.
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Found the flaw in your plan.
 
scaramanga said:
He appeared to be making an effort but now I see why he didn't before.

He was blowing by the 80th minute and he'd only been on since half time.
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milo said:
For about 15 minutes
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His passing is inventive (ie forward:))..and can be deadly accurate so to counter the 'having to run' thing perhaps we can utilise him like one of those automatic tennis ball firing machines.?

(Feed it in his mouth...comes out his foot)
 
milo said:
For about 15 minutes
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Well in all honesty I'd take 15 minutes of that guile and creative intent over 90 of hare-like running with no brains and one foot from Lamela (even though I'd start him tomm because he is a brickhouse)...
 
thfcsteff said:
Well in all honesty I'd take 15 minutes of that guile and creative intent over 90 of hare-like running with no brains and one foot from Lamela (even though I'd start him tomm because he is a brickhouse)...
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I want him to get minutes, I'm just pointing out how far he is away from being a player that we can rely on.
 
milo said:
I want him to get minutes, I'm just pointing out how far he is away from being a player that we can rely on.
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This is how I feel. Talent is unquestionable, fitness is quite clearly shocking and the reason both Poch and Jose have left him out. Needs to grow up.
 
I remember someone saying that he is used to being the best player in the league he has played in, but I the EPL he has made I do the physical as well as the skill
 
NoLimits01 said:
I remember someone saying that he is used to being the best player in the league he has played in, but I the EPL he has made I do the physical as well as the skill
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that’s pretty amazing if this is true as he’s never been the best player in a league


Rorschach said:
How is he not fit? Seriously I can't understand how in one of the best training facilities in the UK, with specialist coaches, dieticians, etc we can't get this guy humming.
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If he can’t be bothered to get fit why should Jose bother to even give him the time of day.

I don’t think I’ve seen players in pre season games look as unfit and overweight as he did against Bournemouth
 
Surely we have someone better than Aurier ?

Even just to "do a job"?
Apart from a running style that looks attacking (it's not really), what does Aurier actually provide?
 
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