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I agree that he will likely not influence games in attack too much — he’s another 20yo after all. i don’t expect Estevao to do that either. I think Garnacho could help us concede fewer goals, which for me is the main problem with the team right now. Neto does a bit of that too, but has been inconsistent of late. its really hard to win matches, esp away from home, when you concede goals. And as much as people like to talk about the CBs or the DM, I suspect the problem is more of teamwork rather than in specific areas.

Highly rated and 13m don’t go along well together 😄 unless he is 13yo.

We need to defend a lot better than we've been defending to get anything out of this game.

No fan of Noni here. Think he lacks skill -- the selfishness bit only makes it worse as it is on display when we have to defend. Still it's a team balance thing: if we had Sancho on the left, Felix on the right, and Cole in the center, we would lose a lot more than win. Just not enough people doing the defensive tasks.

I don't hate him, but I also don't rate him--never did. It's not strange at all. We know him. He has played for the club before. He was employed as a false 9 because he can't play anywhere else in modern football, and he's not good enough as a false 9 for a club like Chelsea. He's not a new player waiting to show his stuff; we all know his game from his performances at Chelsea, in Spain, and for Portugal. 🤷‍♂️ Is it really a surprise that Maresca does not seem to rate him either?

Likely returning to Brazil. Wasn't good enough to leave yet anyway.

I know, that's what the "post-mortem" I referred to. 😆 It did not take long to notice Disasi was a poor footballer -- surprised there were people defending that signing. Sometimes a dud is just a dud, like Bakayoko was before him.

Hard to say assuming the reports aren't just agents making noise. I'm not a fan of Madueke's game; think he's a player for a smaller team to be honest: too reliant on pace and power, which only gets you so far. Disagree on whether Madueke is better. They are incredibly different players. Garnacho is that short high work-rate winger who will do a good job blocking that side even when he's not firing in all cylinders; Madueke isn't very useful unless he's scoring or assisting, which unfortunately does not happen often enough. Agreed that it's not one of the glaring weaknesses esp with the younger SA players coming soon. On the other hand, watching us play suggests whoever is there atm isn't cutting and we lost(?) Mudryk. Perhaps it's just a player the club rates (he's young too) and the opportunity presented itself.

We need a striker to complete/rotate with Jackson and the new striker needs to be of a different type too. On the other hand, our level of play including against weaker opposition at the SB suggests we need a lot more than that. Like I stated before, I like Garnacho at the right price, but he's also very raw at 21yo. His ceiling is a hell lot higher than Mudryk's and he can press high with intensity, so a huge upgrade.

Post-mortem agreement.

Sure, it was a must win, so they did the deed. I'd not suggest that Wolves plat remotely good football, nor that they are comparable with Fulham and Bournemouth; I call it the way I see it. Point being that we need to do better against better opposition. (most teams in the PL are better)

Good to see that KDH can play football at least—not very well tho. good save by Sanchez.

Jackson totally offside.

True. Gotta beat the lousy sides.

This wasn’t great tbh. Difference is the lousy opposition.

That should be enough now lol

There you go! Goal! noni!

What a play by Jackson — some skill in that corner.

Would have kept Neto (wasn’t great) after the goal. Now we need to score a third.

Cucu!!!

It’s hard to win games if 1x0 is not a possible final score when you play. 😕

Yes, this was known. You are singling out a player for his characteristics and at the same time showing that all was well-known before we signed him. There was no birthday season or whatnot... what you see is what you get with him. My point being that this is about balancing the squad, so you need a Neto just as you need goal scorers too. I personally don't think scoring goals has been our main problem. We concede too many goals and the issue starts with the attacking players who don't do a good job pressing the opposition. Reckon we would also score more goals if our attackers could steal the football closer to the opposition goal. I value a lot these type of players and I usually see them in winning sides more so than the "lazy" skillful prima donnas.

Which implies he was not signed for that.

Are you fucking kidding me? 😆

If Felix does not play now (with Cole out/tired), WTF did we sign him for? They will run the CK on match day, so still some ways to go.