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There has to be minute or app restrictions for young player of the year. It make 0 sense to give it to trent.

Aguero used to barely get involved with the build up. It is one of the reason pep preferred Jesus in the beginning. But he has improved in that area. Scoring goal as center forward is not enough anymore. I think that is clear as more and more goal scoring come from wide forward this days. But you can certainly ask your cf to play as poacher but you put more burden on your teammate to bring the ball forward. I don't think chance conversion is our biggest problem. We scored 3rd most goals last season. We can certainly improve in that area but If we want to reach pool or city level in term of goalscoring, we need our player to reach wc level. That include chance creation and conversion. The bigger concern is preventing other team from scoring. That is not just defending btw.

You are right technique is just one component of footballer. I only watched two of Werner games so maybe I am not the best person to judge. But in both games he barely touch the ball and get involved in build up. He did look average on the ball but the sample size is very2 small. If he turn out to be just a speedster for now, no problem, we can use him against high line and pressure heavy team. One of the problem with our team is our lack of deep passer ala cesc that can spot runner from deep.

But that is not true,some player are just stronger. Take puli for example. Puli can't handle any physical battle, he will lose 90% of physical battle. That is one of the reason he struggle big time early. Once he is moved to the left, he play quite high and he does not have to face many physical battle, he flourish.

You are right but it is very difficult to fight if he doesn't have the physical attributes though.

Vardy is maybe a better comparison, costa was completely different animal. Costa was a physical animal, he love to "fight" sometime literally fight opp CB

He will help us against Bayern though.

Are you comparing cesc to jorgi? There is a reason why cesc Fabregas who is very2 unathletic can play in double pivot for two of the most defensive manager in the world.

Opps @Rapkun is revealing nagelsman secret. I hate team who do tactical fouling too often and Leipzig defense depend heavily on tactical fouling. If you get "bad" referee, it is golden but if you get good referee, you are pretty much red card waiting to happen.

Not sure that is true.

Not really surprised with the results, Barca is such a bad team. They are a porous and old team plastered with messi bandage.

Not sure you can judge that psg team, no veratti, no di maria and no mbappe. Neymar pretty much have to do everything.

Willian will probably play as no 10 fo them.

I certainly can see it, Giroud is 33/34 though.

Some of them look very2 tired.

Yea, you can tell mbappe and him are at different level. Sometimes it was a foul but man he dived a lot

They played well but very2 venerable in transition. Once mbappe is on, it is just a matter of whether 30 min is enough

Neymar spend too much time on the ground

This Atlanta team is so fun to watch, very2 fluid football. Vulnerable in transition though.

We shall see I guess. It is imperative for lamp to turn us into a good pressing team otherwise It will be even harder season.

It's difficult to see though. Other than maybe better squad management and wiser tactical choice if this is our transfer window I can't see major improvement.

I am a bit skeptical about that but we'll see.

Upgrade is difficult. Let's say cb. I will never say you can't get good player cheaply, but we don't need good cb we need leading cb. GK is feasible, but you need to handle kepa situation first. Lb, what do you want your lb to do. Let say we play Puli - Werner - Ziyech Mount Kova - Kante Lb - zouma - rudiger - james You better want a lb that has aerial ability otherwise good luck on set pieces.

Terry left we need Rudiger, costa left we need morata, matic left we we need bakayoko. Those three are must signing. Drinkwater and Zappacosta are stupid forced signing. Willian and Pedro gone but we have puli, cho and ziyech ready and werner. I don't understand making signing for the sake of signing. That lead to drinkwater, Zappacosta, and also to some degree emerson. Other than ball winner we don't have depth problem whatsoever. I'll take a ballwinner if we can but that's it.

I really want to know why we are not a good pressing team. This has bothered me. Is it personel? Is it system? I still don't understand. In term of control it is pretty clear. I think I posted it somewhere. We are not a good pressing team, we don't have enough ball winner, we don't have player who can dominate game, we don't have player that can keep the ball except Willian,we want to play fast. You sum all of that = basketball game.