Maltese Falcon
Niko Kranjcar
I thought Song would be too but looking at how poor he looks now I'd beg to differ
No disagreement there. But we need a deep playmaker desperately and neither Bentaleb nor Mason can do that...
I thought Song would be too but looking at how poor he looks now I'd beg to differ
Where you genuinely impressed with anyone in the. Villa side yesterday?
No secret I am a massive Benteke fan. Also think that Delp and Mason play a similar game but Delph shades it for me - I cannot see Mason getting into the position Delph was when Vorm pulled off that wonder save.
Again it is obvious to me that out CM of Bentalab and Mason is a area we need to uprate, Bentalab is one who may go on and be a very good player but the more I see of Mason the more I see hype and not much else. He is a decent player but for me he will end up being a Livermore or Caulker, two players who came through the set up and got a load of hype talked about how good they are/were but moved on to teams in the lower reaches of the Prem.
they looked fine when we had dembele infront of them linking midfield and attack. But I agree. We need to upgrade central midfield, most definitely Mason. Like you say, Bentaleb may come good, but he needs some competition.
I think Prichard and Dele Ali will both be in our squad next season, and not just warming the bench either...
Whenever we play a team we look down on and end up not having a decent shot on goal - whereas the opposition score, have a shot hit the post and miss another glorious opportunity thanks to a wonder save from our keeper and run riot every time they attack.
Winks and Onomah possibly too
----Mason----Bentlaeb
-(Winks)--(Alli)--(Stambouli)
------------Eriksen
----(Pritchard)--(Onomah)
For the 3 CM positions gives us a lot better options than having Paulinho, Dembele and Capoue providing the back-up
Winks and Onomah possibly too
----Mason----Bentlaeb
-(Winks)--(Alli)--(Stambouli)
------------Eriksen
----(Pritchard)--(Onomah)
For the 3 CM positions gives us a lot better options than having Paulinho, Dembele and Capoue providing the back-up
Our AM three need to be more effective to help out Masaleb.
Vs Saudi Sportswashing Machine I would like to see Rose at LW, Dembele AM, Yedlin RW so we can see how effective it is when the CM get the ball forward and we actually get the opposition on the back foot rather than just playing it in front of them, letting them take shape, before our attack breaks down (usually on the oppositions terms)
Now i am all for youth but that is simply ridiculous. Play a team of under 21s? You must be joking! I think we have too many youngsters already as it is and for a team to be successful it needs at least 6 - 7 seasoned quality pros.
That is just embarrassing. If that was what we played with next year we'd struggle for mid table. Luckily,, however inept Poch can seem to be, I don't think even he is that utterly bonkers.
I don't want us to buy a team to win the 3rd losers cup next season. I want us to build a side to compete to win the league and the CL in 3-5 seasons time. But to do this when we're only the 6th richest club in the country, we have to do it the Ajax/Dortmund way, which is to bring through wave upon wave of young hungry technical players
To me what's embarrassing is all the entitlement fans throwing tantrums like toddlers, demanding £30m signings because they only know instant gratification.
Building something of our own is not only the smart thing to do, but it will be so much rewarding.
To want to buy a couple of experienced players to balance out the squad is not representative of some petulant need for instant gratification, it is footballing common sense.
IMO we've already got enough with Lloris, Verts and Fazio. That's a good core of experienced pros.
I just don't want us signing more high-wage deadwood like we usually do when we dip into the mature market - Pienaar, Saha, Nelsen etc.