ZAPHOD2319 4,819 Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, DDA said: Gilmour* I thought so, the announcer’s droning voice and lack of quality play was putting me out! DDA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,952 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Encouraging in parts, concerning in others. Most concerning for me now is that there aren’t really visible patterns or “mechanisms” as one of our former managers said to open up teams. We just kind of pass it around and pass it around side to side when we get into the final third. And then if we lose it our midfield (and J5 in particular) are caught so high up and have so little pace that we get burned on the counter. If we can add just another 2-3 players before the season starts I’ll be more comfortable. A CB and an attacker at minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Sicarius 610 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Havertz again cant finish? And he will be our 9? Lol Vesper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,062 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 I'll take away the positive: we won. There are still the same glaring issues, especially in front of goal. Broja really should have been in tonight's squad, as we certainly can't be reliant on those that started upfront. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,062 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Pizy said: Saw a tweet earlier today that it’s close to done for him to go to Everton. Only getting about £70k per week. If we were interested I think would could quite easily hijack it. Are Everton just picking the scraps up from Burnley? He would be the third player to switch sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,952 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 When you sit there and really think about it, it’s absolutely mad that for so long we’ve needed a prolific forward or two. Every single “Big 6” side finds these players except for us. And now we’re going to enter yet another season without anyone who you can say with 100% confidence will score 15 PL goals or more. I expect Mount, Sterling, Havertz, and perhaps Pulisic will each score 8-9 but I don’t think that’ll be nearly enough. Fulham Broadway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,393 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 (edited) Good win but we need more signings. Without real Striker we cant compete for more than top 4 . Edited July 29, 2022 by milka Laylabelle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,062 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Pizy said: When you sit there and really think about it, it’s absolutely mad that for so long we’ve needed a prolific forward or two. Every single “Big 6” side finds these players except for us. And now we’re going to enter yet another season without anyone who you can say with 100% confidence will score 15 PL goals or more. I expect Mount, Sterling, Havertz, and perhaps Pulisic will each score 8-9 but I don’t think that’ll be nearly enough. For starters, Morata, Werner, and Lukaku come to mind. They were effective in their own right, but were never good choices to come here, and most people watching from afar knew that. Secondly, when did Arsenal & United find this magical number 9? Are you referring to Lacazette and Cavani? Finally, 8-9 goals from our highest paid player? All things considered, Sterling has to be hitting double figures with ease. Edited July 30, 2022 by LAM09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork 1,794 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 feels more of the same issues, 3rd place is probably the ceiling. i don’t understand the point of Alonso, why not try RLC or Gallagher at that position? We saw a lot of Alonso he is awful. I am so bored of Tuchel, he is neither great at identifying players or finding creative solutions to the team. The Rising Sun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,952 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 7 minutes ago, LAM09 said: For starters, Morata, Werner, and Lukaku come to mind. They were effective in their own right, but were never good choices to come here, and most people watching from afar knew that. Secondly, when did Arsenal & United find this magical number 9? Are you referring to Lacazette and Cavani? Finally, 8-9 goals from our highest paid player? All things considered, Sterling has to be hitting double figures with ease. Why did you name the 3 flops we’ve signed? That’s part of my point. Our rivals seem to always strike gold with strikers and forwards whereas we sign flop after flop after flop. In recent years Arse have had Auba who was prolific. Spuds have Kane and Son. United with Ronaldo. Liverpool with you know who. City with several players who score for fun. But then there’s us who 2 years ago had our highest scorer as Jorginho with all pens and this past year a midfielder with a mighty 11? goals. All I’m saying is it’s incredible that we’ve never gotten lucky and struck gold on ANY of these forwards in recent years. You would think that by sheer brute force of buying so many we’d hit the jackpot at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,062 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 15 minutes ago, Pizy said: Why did you name the 3 flops we’ve signed? That’s part of my point. Our rivals seem to always strike gold with strikers and forwards whereas we sign flop after flop after flop. In recent years Arse have had Auba who was prolific. Spuds have Kane and Son. United with Ronaldo. Liverpool with you know who. City with several players who score for fun. But then there’s us who 2 years ago had our highest scorer as Jorginho with all pens and this past year a midfielder with a mighty 11? goals. All I’m saying is it’s incredible that we’ve never gotten lucky and struck gold on ANY of these forwards in recent years. You would think that by sheer brute force of buying so many we’d hit the jackpot at some point. As I clearly stated, two of the three forwards were "prolific" before joining us & Morata had decent numbers too. Whether they flopped or not has nothing to do with us not signing players. United have been without an actual top-quality CF for years, and using one of the best players of this generation to justify them striking gold is hilarious. To add to that, CR7 has all but left, so who's their quality CF you alluded to, Martial? With regards to Arsenal, Aubameyang's goal return over the last two seasons was 14 in 43 league games. He started off well, but went downhill & Arsenal only had Lacazette to rely on. Now, going back to your original post, who's the quality CF in their ranks now, Jesus, whose goal return is 17 in 57 EPL games? I don't think I need to say anything to debunk your "Big 6" statement. Conte got rid of the gold we found. The lack of decent scouts is why we've failed to sign another Drogba, Costa or even an Anelka. If we sign a CF that is stylistically a good fit for how we play, chances are he'll thrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,448 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Can we keep Gilmour with us this season? Like McEachran, I feel he thrives when playing among quality players. I called it last year that his loan with Norwich could be a disaster, but back then people suggested Daniel Farke knew Tuchel and would handle Gilmour well. Farke fucked off and the loan became a waste. Fulham Broadway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 9,941 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, Clockwork said: feels more of the same issues, 3rd place is probably the ceiling. i don’t understand the point of Alonso, why not try RLC or Gallagher at that position? We saw a lot of Alonso he is awful. I am so bored of Tuchel, he is neither great at identifying players or finding creative solutions to the team. He did try RLC in the wingback position... he played Odoii there too. He is actually the opposite to which you just stated... he puts players in positions that really don't suit them.... and thankfully, I think he realises it..because is a top manager. Edited July 30, 2022 by DDA OhForAGreavsie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DDA 9,941 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Broja missing sitters lol oh dear Last Sicarius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Sicarius 610 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 4 minutes ago, DDA said: Broja missing sitters lol oh dear he is not helping himself to make squad. shame his header was cleared from line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 9,941 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 32 minutes ago, Last Sicarius said: he is not helping himself to make squad. shame his header was cleared from line He'll be sold by next week. Then go on to score everything in a Madrid side lol. Last Sicarius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,819 Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 The two goals from today’s closed door match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimmas 131 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 So ziyech actually scored from penalty. I tried to watch for the first 25 minutes. But ziyech looked weak and not exciting to watch at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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