DDA 9,941 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 ‘The Project’ is a fucking joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 601 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On Garnacho, Chelsea will be in touch this week to discuss “opportunities.” (@FabrizioRomano) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,944 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 “Setting up a move for the summer” in regards to a #9 does us a whole lot of good when we’re desperate for one now. 🤦♂️ No club is going to sanction their elite striker being sold in the last couple of days of the window. So we can completely forget about any of those at this point. If we do bring in a #9 this week it’ll be some insane panic signing like Evan Ferguson on loan. The club have fucked it up terribly. mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Scatter gun transfer outlook, it's like pin the tail on the donkey again A winger or a 9....it should simply be a 9, end of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin123 534 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 I'd take mateta right now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 601 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Lazio and Chelsea had a positive meeting today concerning the transfer of Cesare Casadei. The Biancocelesti have raised their offer by €1 million - the new proposal is €13 million + 25% sell-on fee. He will join on a free loan with an obligation to buy. (Alfredo Pedullà) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,944 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 minute ago, Marvin123 said: I'd take mateta right now.... Palace wouldn’t sell him surely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 2 minutes ago, mkh said: Lazio and Chelsea had a positive meeting today concerning the transfer of Cesare Casadei. The Biancocelesti have raised their offer by €1 million - the new proposal is €13 million + 25% sell-on fee. He will join on a free loan with an obligation to buy. (Alfredo Pedullà) That's been going on since the first part of Jan, our skills to get things done a re just terrible mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,944 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Already braced for us to sign some attacker who most of us ask “who the fuck is that?” in the final days of the window. Then when we buy yet another player who isn’t Chelsea quality we’ll be flogging them in 6 months time. That’s if we sign anyone at all. mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,280 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 this all casadei situation is so awful. so why we spend 15M for him and now we will receive the almost same money that we spend on him? We buy him only because his potential and nothing more. We throw away money with any kind of logic. We buy younger players without a propose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,215 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Building our new Archetype ft. Florian Wirtz ...and a wild centre-forward watchlist appears on Monday Night SCOUTED. https://www.scoutednotebook.com/p/number-10-modern-football-archetype-florian-wirtz As we pour more resource into building our new website, we want to refine our newsletter offering. Newsletters are great; being spammed with five notifications a week and feeling buried alive beneath an avalanche of reading you’ll never get to, is not. So, our new focus is to publish two regular newsletters a week, packed with a diverse assortment of thoughts, ideas, stories and analyses. Monday Night SCOUTED is essentially an export of my brain. SCOUT Notes will be your window into the hallowed halls of Llew Davies’ mind, if you dare enter. Tom Curren, (hi, that’s me - ed) will be adding a third when our new site launches, but more on that when the time comes. All this means concepts like the Watchlist, SCOUTED Squads, SCOUTED Stats, Shortlists, post-game ramblings and metric mythbusting will all feature in MNS moving forward. For now, all of it will remain free to read - but if you appreciate the enormous amount of work that goes into everything we do, please remember this newsletter is free of ads and sponsorship, and exists solely on the support of our paid subscribers. So become one. If you can. Please. This week’s edition includes: My favourite position right now…on the football pitch (sorry, what? - ed) …and consolidating that position into a new SCOUTED Archetype The most fascinating strikers in UEFA competition Fermin López joins an exclusive club in SCOUTED Stats How to define the new-age No.10 You’ve all seen the quotes. Pep Guardiola said football is changing. “Today the modern football is the way Bournemouth play, the way Newcastle play, like Brighton play. You know, Liverpool have always been like that. Today, modern football is not positional and being there. You have to rise to the unbelievable rhythm.” In an exclusive interview with Miguel Delaney for The Independent, Andoni Iraola provided insight into what this style looks like: “I sometimes value much more a player carrying the ball and forcing things to happen. I think when you play too positional – one, two touches to find a free man – you sometimes lose the initiative from the players to just take their man on and attack the spaces.” Iraola also highlights the impact of the increasing physical demands: “Probably, technically and tactically we were as good as the players we see nowadays but there is a physical side we would struggle with.” We can see this shift through this graphic from Opta Analyst. Look at Eintracht Frankfurt there and consider what it means for City to have signed the best-performing player from a club that is successfully implementing this ‘modern’ playstyle. Arsenal’s long-standing interest in Benjamin Šeško shows Mikel Arteta’s awareness is aware of this tactical shift, too. The best thing about the soon-to-be mainstream adoption of organised chaos is not the increased pace of the game, but the re-birth of the Front Two. Front Twos had already returned via more defined out-of-possession shapes; the most popular variant is a 4-4-2. In possession, however, it splits into a centre-forward and an attacking midfielder. I have written extensively about the Power Forward and I think this striker profile will dominate the new meta: lots of sprints, lots of shots, lots of really nice kicking of the ball. But I have started to notice that sitting just behind the very best Power Forwards, to complete these new-fangled Front Twos, a new archetype is emerging. I call it the…well, I’m not sure yet. Let’s work through it. We caught a glimpse of this relationship forming between Erling Haaland and the aforementioned Egyptian, Omar Marmoush, against Chelsea. Pep Guardiola’s praise for Marmoush helps further explain the key parts of this role: “He made incredible runs, as a movement, but we could not see him. He is a calm guy and he has pace, he can shoot, he’s intelligent at defending. I am really pleased with what I have seen so far.” The duality of threat on the ball and off the ball is key, as well as providing value in possession and out of possession. For now, the Egyptian will continue from his starting position on the left. However, I don’t think it will be long until he is deployed behind Haaland, allowing for a winger profile to be included in the starting XI as well. Haaland-Sávio-Marmoush-Foden sounds very good to me. Perhaps we need to wait until Rodri is back. The reason I think this is a specialised position is due to how much more effective and comfortable Morgan Rogers looks when deployed centrally. As a winger, he operates at a decent level. In this currently undefined attacking midfield role, he becomes one of the most destructive players on the pitch. Meanwhile, the loudest example of this new role in recent weeks has been Justin Kluivert. Although outside the SCOUTED age criteria, I couldn’t avoid a mention of his four G/A haul followed by another goal and assist against Nottingham Forest. The interchange and link play with Dango Ouattara - who can play absolutely anywhere and look good - was a prime example of this new duo at work. Kluivert still play-makes as would be expected, but not in a traditional, stand-and-deliver style. He is poetry in perpetual motion with a sprinkle of chaos: lots of fouls, lots of pressing, lots of running at the opposition. However, after silencing the noise of my Premier League bias and considering another rich vein of form, I was able to pinpoint the best exemplary of my new role; he plays in Germany, and is 21 years old. Everything Florian Wirtz does oozes technique. In addition to the silkiness forever synonymous with the No.10 he wears on his back, he adds intense runs ahead of the ball, relentless pressing and an equal, plentiful helping of shots for himself and for others. That is why I’ve found it so difficult to name my new role. Shadow Striker does not quite work. False Nine cannot work because this role works best in tandem with a Nine. 9.5, then? No-one likes descriptions by halves. Petar Petrov suggested Second Striker when I asked for help on BlueSky and I liked that most; especially when I looked at the Average Positions from Leverkusen’s most recent match. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that moniker didn’t communicate everything I’ve detailed, either. So I went further and started dipping into animated series for inspiration again (we had Teenage Mutant Centre Backs last week). I landed on Omni-Man: Florian Wirtz is a Viltrumite. For those who’ve not watched Invincible, the Viltrumites are an highly advanced alien race of extremely powerful humanoids. Omni-Man is Earth’s Viltrumite ‘hero’ and as the Omni suggests, he can do it all: he has superhuman strength, speed, senses and stamina, he can fly and has rapid healing. Everything you would want from a player in the final third, Wirtz has it all. I am of course searching for a better term that is more natural fit for football rhetoric but that is where I am right now. I then realised I wrote about Do-It-All dynamos last week, without positional prejudice. So in order to demonstrate the differences, I distilled the Omni-10 into a Stathead search. 2+ passes into final third 2+ carries into final third 2+ passes into penalty area 2+ carries into penalty area 2+ shots 2+ key passes 2+ take-ons completed Rather than averaging at least one of a broad spectrum of metrics - from shots to tackles, take-ons to aerial duels - this search focusses on key actions that either get the ball into the final third or make a difference inside it. It only returned five players. Wirtz is there. Good. The other name I want to highlight specifically is Désiré Doué. The arrival of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia will either push Doué down the winger pecking order - surely Barcola x Kvara will be first-choice? - or it will see him adopt this Omni-10 role. He may even become a False Nine understudy for Ousmane Dembélé, who also appears in this list. Re-reading Steve’s SCOUTED50 profile, written on Doué before the move to PSG, through the lens of this tactical shift makes him sound perfect for the new role I have discussed: "Firstly, he is a damaging player and he takes risks. Sometimes, I think he probably leans towards being over-aggressive in some of those risks, especially as a passer. But he has insane confidence in his technical ability, and for good reason. “He can ping ridiculous passes to spark transitions, and is constantly looking for the direct ball between the lines whenever he can face forward and run at the midfield line. At 19, that is why you put Doué in your team: because he is an über-talented wildcard who will attempt things nobody else can." If that is not an Omni-10, I don’t know what is. Désiré Doué: before the big move Stephen Ganavas · July 2, 2024 Read full story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,280 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 2 minutes ago, Vesper said: Building our new Archetype ft. Florian Wirtz ...and a wild centre-forward watchlist appears on Monday Night SCOUTED. https://www.scoutednotebook.com/p/number-10-modern-football-archetype-florian-wirtz As we pour more resource into building our new website, we want to refine our newsletter offering. Newsletters are great; being spammed with five notifications a week and feeling buried alive beneath an avalanche of reading you’ll never get to, is not. So, our new focus is to publish two regular newsletters a week, packed with a diverse assortment of thoughts, ideas, stories and analyses. Monday Night SCOUTED is essentially an export of my brain. SCOUT Notes will be your window into the hallowed halls of Llew Davies’ mind, if you dare enter. Tom Curren, (hi, that’s me - ed) will be adding a third when our new site launches, but more on that when the time comes. All this means concepts like the Watchlist, SCOUTED Squads, SCOUTED Stats, Shortlists, post-game ramblings and metric mythbusting will all feature in MNS moving forward. For now, all of it will remain free to read - but if you appreciate the enormous amount of work that goes into everything we do, please remember this newsletter is free of ads and sponsorship, and exists solely on the support of our paid subscribers. So become one. If you can. Please. This week’s edition includes: My favourite position right now…on the football pitch (sorry, what? - ed) …and consolidating that position into a new SCOUTED Archetype The most fascinating strikers in UEFA competition Fermin López joins an exclusive club in SCOUTED Stats How to define the new-age No.10 You’ve all seen the quotes. Pep Guardiola said football is changing. “Today the modern football is the way Bournemouth play, the way Newcastle play, like Brighton play. You know, Liverpool have always been like that. Today, modern football is not positional and being there. You have to rise to the unbelievable rhythm.” In an exclusive interview with Miguel Delaney for The Independent, Andoni Iraola provided insight into what this style looks like: “I sometimes value much more a player carrying the ball and forcing things to happen. I think when you play too positional – one, two touches to find a free man – you sometimes lose the initiative from the players to just take their man on and attack the spaces.” Iraola also highlights the impact of the increasing physical demands: “Probably, technically and tactically we were as good as the players we see nowadays but there is a physical side we would struggle with.” We can see this shift through this graphic from Opta Analyst. Look at Eintracht Frankfurt there and consider what it means for City to have signed the best-performing player from a club that is successfully implementing this ‘modern’ playstyle. Arsenal’s long-standing interest in Benjamin Šeško shows Mikel Arteta’s awareness is aware of this tactical shift, too. The best thing about the soon-to-be mainstream adoption of organised chaos is not the increased pace of the game, but the re-birth of the Front Two. Front Twos had already returned via more defined out-of-possession shapes; the most popular variant is a 4-4-2. In possession, however, it splits into a centre-forward and an attacking midfielder. I have written extensively about the Power Forward and I think this striker profile will dominate the new meta: lots of sprints, lots of shots, lots of really nice kicking of the ball. But I have started to notice that sitting just behind the very best Power Forwards, to complete these new-fangled Front Twos, a new archetype is emerging. I call it the…well, I’m not sure yet. Let’s work through it. We caught a glimpse of this relationship forming between Erling Haaland and the aforementioned Egyptian, Omar Marmoush, against Chelsea. Pep Guardiola’s praise for Marmoush helps further explain the key parts of this role: “He made incredible runs, as a movement, but we could not see him. He is a calm guy and he has pace, he can shoot, he’s intelligent at defending. I am really pleased with what I have seen so far.” The duality of threat on the ball and off the ball is key, as well as providing value in possession and out of possession. For now, the Egyptian will continue from his starting position on the left. However, I don’t think it will be long until he is deployed behind Haaland, allowing for a winger profile to be included in the starting XI as well. Haaland-Sávio-Marmoush-Foden sounds very good to me. Perhaps we need to wait until Rodri is back. The reason I think this is a specialised position is due to how much more effective and comfortable Morgan Rogers looks when deployed centrally. As a winger, he operates at a decent level. In this currently undefined attacking midfield role, he becomes one of the most destructive players on the pitch. Meanwhile, the loudest example of this new role in recent weeks has been Justin Kluivert. Although outside the SCOUTED age criteria, I couldn’t avoid a mention of his four G/A haul followed by another goal and assist against Nottingham Forest. The interchange and link play with Dango Ouattara - who can play absolutely anywhere and look good - was a prime example of this new duo at work. Kluivert still play-makes as would be expected, but not in a traditional, stand-and-deliver style. He is poetry in perpetual motion with a sprinkle of chaos: lots of fouls, lots of pressing, lots of running at the opposition. However, after silencing the noise of my Premier League bias and considering another rich vein of form, I was able to pinpoint the best exemplary of my new role; he plays in Germany, and is 21 years old. Everything Florian Wirtz does oozes technique. In addition to the silkiness forever synonymous with the No.10 he wears on his back, he adds intense runs ahead of the ball, relentless pressing and an equal, plentiful helping of shots for himself and for others. That is why I’ve found it so difficult to name my new role. Shadow Striker does not quite work. False Nine cannot work because this role works best in tandem with a Nine. 9.5, then? No-one likes descriptions by halves. Petar Petrov suggested Second Striker when I asked for help on BlueSky and I liked that most; especially when I looked at the Average Positions from Leverkusen’s most recent match. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that moniker didn’t communicate everything I’ve detailed, either. So I went further and started dipping into animated series for inspiration again (we had Teenage Mutant Centre Backs last week). I landed on Omni-Man: Florian Wirtz is a Viltrumite. For those who’ve not watched Invincible, the Viltrumites are an highly advanced alien race of extremely powerful humanoids. Omni-Man is Earth’s Viltrumite ‘hero’ and as the Omni suggests, he can do it all: he has superhuman strength, speed, senses and stamina, he can fly and has rapid healing. Everything you would want from a player in the final third, Wirtz has it all. I am of course searching for a better term that is more natural fit for football rhetoric but that is where I am right now. I then realised I wrote about Do-It-All dynamos last week, without positional prejudice. So in order to demonstrate the differences, I distilled the Omni-10 into a Stathead search. 2+ passes into final third 2+ carries into final third 2+ passes into penalty area 2+ carries into penalty area 2+ shots 2+ key passes 2+ take-ons completed Rather than averaging at least one of a broad spectrum of metrics - from shots to tackles, take-ons to aerial duels - this search focusses on key actions that either get the ball into the final third or make a difference inside it. It only returned five players. Wirtz is there. Good. The other name I want to highlight specifically is Désiré Doué. The arrival of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia will either push Doué down the winger pecking order - surely Barcola x Kvara will be first-choice? - or it will see him adopt this Omni-10 role. He may even become a False Nine understudy for Ousmane Dembélé, who also appears in this list. Re-reading Steve’s SCOUTED50 profile, written on Doué before the move to PSG, through the lens of this tactical shift makes him sound perfect for the new role I have discussed: "Firstly, he is a damaging player and he takes risks. Sometimes, I think he probably leans towards being over-aggressive in some of those risks, especially as a passer. But he has insane confidence in his technical ability, and for good reason. “He can ping ridiculous passes to spark transitions, and is constantly looking for the direct ball between the lines whenever he can face forward and run at the midfield line. At 19, that is why you put Doué in your team: because he is an über-talented wildcard who will attempt things nobody else can." If that is not an Omni-10, I don’t know what is. Désiré Doué: before the big move Stephen Ganavas · July 2, 2024 Read full story and why you put this in this topic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DH1988 1,348 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Felix would do great at Villa under Emery, sad to see it but he looks miserable here, hardly gets meaningful minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,478 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 8 minutes ago, DH1988 said: Felix would do great at Villa under Emery, sad to see it but he looks miserable here, hardly gets meaningful minutes. We can thank Maresca for this, playing injured Palmer over him. mkh and bigbluewillie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireBlue 3,279 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 23 minutes ago, TheHulk said: We can thank Maresca for this, playing injured Palmer over him. Injured palmer is still better than felix though robsblubot and mkh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, YorkshireBlue said: Every move this club does is strange atm, I live in reality when I know the club won’t get a WC striker in January, but even I find it strange we haven’t gone deep for a CB or at the very fucking least tried Renato there before loaning him out, and I won’t even mention the fact we are not bringing santos back from loan which personally I find fucking stupid as lavia is brilliant but made of cracked glass, fuck bring ugo back at this point. I like maresca and when we play well we are a joy to watch, but all the board are doing atm is tying his hands and putting a gun to his head! Agreed. It's as if they are operating with different goals? 😉 Has Ugo learned to play footy yet tho? because last I saw him was pretty dire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,478 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 7 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said: Injured palmer is still better than felix though Saw last few matches where Palmer has looked like gash. bigbluewillie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireBlue 3,279 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Just now, TheHulk said: Saw last few matches where Palmer has looked like gash. I e also watched all the matches felix has come on and shown nothing! Your a sub… he’s your moment some effort please a bit of magic anything….. anything….. nothing robsblubot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,478 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) 9 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said: I e also watched all the matches felix has come on and shown nothing! Your a sub… he’s your moment some effort please a bit of magic anything….. anything….. nothing No wonder we deserve to be where we are and the owners can get away with it, with fans like you living in a parallel universe. Guy is getting 15-20 min a match to do something while others dumping shit on field for 90 minutes but Felix and Nkunku must make the limited minutes they get to count! Edited January 27 by TheHulk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,334 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Neymar and Al Hilal it's over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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