MoroccanBlue

Brentford are the type of opposition where we can't experiment. Congest the middle and have a high pressing forward line.

Literally no one said that.

I'd save Ruben for United at RWB personally.

So people are now pretending Zouma wasn't an absolute calamity when he was pressed.

Doesn't Bellingham have actual creative metrics? Something neither Kova or Ruben have in their locker? Also if you are talking about a #6, that isn't Rice.

The issue is that we have an abundance of midfielders that offer the same thing in Kante, Kovacic, Ruben, and Zakaria. All of which are ball carriers that offer nothing in the final third in terms of creativity or goal threat. I'd keep Kova and Ruben as squad players next season, but we genuinely need two massive upgrades in the summer, arguably three. A profile that offers creativity and one that offers defensive cover is a must.

Daily Mirror.

They can't do that or they will have to pay us even more. They are skint as it is.

But we've already seen with Potter that we move the ball more directly and aren't afraid to have more bodies in the box. Tuchel's issue was his inability to improve our attacking play and attacking players, hence why we relied almost everything on our wingbacks. His possession play hindered our attacking players. We should not be over relying on James as we had done with Tuchel.

I suspect if there is a game to rest him, its this one. 4 matches in 12 days is brutal for him.

Sorry but if Potter is like Tuchel and only has our attacking threat come from the wingbacks then what is the point? James being out shouldn't be an excuse, no matter how important he is.

Yeah would love to see something like that. (Although I think Broja could do some real harm against Brentford's line) Then this against United on Saturday. Kepa Chalobah Silva Koulibaly RLC Jorginho Kovacic Chilwell Mount Aubameyang Sterling

Play Silva 4 matches in 12 days?

I’d switch Cucu and Chilwell then take Chilwell off for Koulibaly. Jorginho for Havertz.

Ruben

Misses Villa. Could be available midweek for CL.

James injury not serious thankfully. Should be back in a week.

Please no Alvarez. Saw his performance against Napoli and Liverpool. Horrific.

Is the San Siro turf? Ball was gliding and bouncing like crazy.

Some of the decision making from Chilwell, Kovacic, Ruben and Gallagher was comical.

That second half was very much Tuchel ball. Slow possession with zero ideas up front. Hopefully it was just us in a coasting mood.

Yeah since the best option atm is that bloke from Bayer we are better off waiting until Edwards is available. Especially now we are on the verge of appointing that one bloke as technical director.

Yeah I remember @Vesper and I a couple years back that predicted this. So far its come to fruition. The main point was that the basis of Liverpool's success under Klopp was the sale of Coutinho, which funded them VVD, Salah, Fabinho, Allison, etc. It was evident they would need this kind of funding to replace them and FSG are too skint with the Red Sox to care.

Carvalho, Ballack, Joe Cole, Makelele etc were never replaced properly.

Bloke speaks to the media more times he plays for us.