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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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