Super Frank Thread

[Tomo 21,751]

1 minute ago, Supermonkey92 said:

https://understat.com/league/EPL

3rd highest expected goals in the league.

Man city well ahead of everyone lol.

Liverpool comfortably in front of us.

Man United close behind us.

9th in the league in terms of expected goals conceded. Sounds about right. Arsenal are a joke lol.

Questions still. I wonder how they translate set pieces into expected goals conceded.

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The philosophy Lampard has is the type that is more effective the more quality is in the team. He's not one for underdog football so in that sense it's probably a good thing he's got the job so early.

Its a very complex system he likes to play, it could also be another reason he's going towards the youth movement as they will follow the instructions to the letter (and have the physical and technical capabilities to do so) whereas the older lot not so much.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

On 27/09/2019 at 0:15 PM, milka said:

 

Dont get this. Our academys been successful for about 7 years now. Regardless of players making the first team or not. Why do it now and not years ago? Maybe playing the kids now is helping but everyone's known how good our academy is for ages. Just seems very weird. Like an add on to the womans tv thing. 

[Jase 43,479]

2 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Dont get this. Our academys been successful for about 7 years now. Regardless of players making the first team or not. Why do it now and not years ago? Maybe playing the kids now is helping but everyone's known how good our academy is for ages. Just seems very weird. Like an add on to the womans tv thing. 

The endgame for the academy is getting players into the first team. We haven't done that in the past, not this many. We are just doing it now. Plus, it's the latest trend it seems. 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

15 minutes ago, Mana said:

While it’s great we are seeing youth, we still desperately need class players to buy in the summer. 

If we can get a world class striker, cb and at least a very good left back and left footed right winger we will be in contention for everything again.

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

33 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

If we can get a world class striker, cb and at least a very good left back and left footed right winger we will be in contention for everything again.

Need a proper DM in place of Barkley 

 

[killer1257 3,282]

46 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

If we can get a world class striker, cb and at least a very good left back and left footed right winger we will be in contention for everything again.

In my opinion, the most important buys are a  world class CB and a world class winger. Then I would go for a left back, so Emerson has a better back up.I would spend very big on CB and a winger

[Jase 43,479]

32 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

In my opinion, the most important buys are a  world class CB and a world class winger. Then I would go for a left back, so Emerson has a better back up.I would spend very big on CB and a winger

Think those positions will depend on how this season plays out.

CB - If Rudiger, Christensen and Tomori improve and play well all season, then we already have a strong core there. Not convinced about Zouma at all but I guess if he does improve etc, then he might well stay. Plus, we also have Ampadu out loan and he might be an option for the position.

Wingers - If Pulisic comes good, he'll be the 2 main choices with CHO. Then it'll come down to whether we retain Willian or Pedro or even both as their contracts expire in 2020. Hopefully, we'll do neither but think we'll retain at least one of them.

[killer1257 3,282]

Think those positions will depend on how this season plays out.
CB - If Rudiger, Christensen and Tomori improve and play well all season, then we already have a strong core there. Not convinced about Zouma at all but I guess if he does improve etc, then he might well stay. Plus, we also have Ampadu out loan and he might be an option for the position.
Wingers - If Pulisic comes good, he'll be the 2 main choices with CHO. Then it'll come down to whether we retain Willian or Pedro or even both as their contracts expire in 2020. Hopefully, we'll do neither but think we'll retain at least one of them.

The question would be if Pulisic becomes World class. Even if he becomes World class, I would go for another Winger, so er would have CHO,Pulisic and the World class winger.

Same goes for CB. Rüdiger is most of the times injured. AC for me struggles sometimes and right now, Tomori is better. I would see Tomori, Rüdiger and Mr. X as our main CBs. Maybe Guehi as no. 4 or AC if he stays.

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[Jase 43,479]

9 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

The question would be if Pulisic becomes World class. Even if he becomes World class, I would go for another Winger, so er would have CHO,Pulisic and the World class winger.

Like Magic Lamps said in another thread, never mind world class, if Pulisic can become effective for us in the manner Duff - for example - did in the past for us, then that's great. But yeah, we obviously need to buy a winger if we let Willian/Pedro go.

12 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

Same goes for CB. Rüdiger is most of the times injured. AC for me struggles sometimes and right now, Tomori is better. I would see Tomori, Rüdiger and Mr. X as our main CBs. Maybe Guehi as no. 4 or AC if he stays.

Still early to say Rudiger has become injury prone. It's only lately we've had all these stupid injuries. If we can sort that out, then we'll be fine. 

[Tomo 21,751]

30 minutes ago, Jason said:

Think those positions will depend on how this season plays out.

CB - If Rudiger, Christensen and Tomori improve and play well all season, then we already have a strong core there. Not convinced about Zouma at all but I guess if he does improve etc, then he might well stay. Plus, we also have Ampadu out loan and he might be an option for the position.

Wingers - If Pulisic comes good, he'll be the 2 main choices with CHO. Then it'll come down to whether we retain Willian or Pedro or even both as their contracts expire in 2020. Hopefully, we'll do neither but think we'll retain at least one of them.

I think we should keep Pedro as a 4th choice purely because he's been in the position these lads are in (breaking through at a massive club with such big expectations on your shoulder).

I think we should go all out for Sancho next summer (surely we'll be able to convince him to pick us over United given the comparative directions both clubs look to be going in alongside the fact he's a Chelsea fan and best mates with Callum) which will give us a strong group of wingers.

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

I think we should keep Pedro as a 4th choice purely because he's been in the position these lads are in (breaking through at a massive club with such big expectations on your shoulder).

I think we should go all out for Sancho next summer (surely we'll be able to convince him to pick us over United given the comparative directions both clubs look to be going in alongside the fact he's a Chelsea fan and best mates with Callum) which will give us a strong group of wingers.

Dortmund will ask for more than 100 million for Sancho and do we really want to spend that much on one player? Can we afford to? We still got other areas that we need to improve - e.g. strikers, left back, defensive midfielder. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

That winger from Sociedad looks the bollocks