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2020/21 Carlo Ancelotti
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MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
Gomes has 0 pace
Siggy has 0 pace
Davies has 0 pace
Allan had 0 pace
James has 0 pace
how are you going to play fast attacking football when your midfield has no pace? Our midfield is the weakest in the league, we also have 1 RB who end product is generally terrible and is old(for a footballer)
We spent alot of the season with 4 CB at the back
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
It shows we can defend in one situation
But you said we are not very good defensively and then say we can defend
Shows how poor the squad is ,and I doubt Leicester have had 5-6 first teamers out at the same time
MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
If we win all 6 we are 5th minimum.
City away ??
Cannot see it
MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
Not saying we will but that’s the target, end the season the way we started it with 7 straight wins
It’s funny we’re still debating a man who’s signed 3 players, and has a team with as much pace as a snail, and one striker virtually being around the top 7
Ye ok
Ye ok
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
This is basically the model that Allardyce and Pulis operate under:
- 38 points probably keeps you up
- You gain two points for a win and lose one for a loss
- We can stay up losing more than we win as long as we get a point regularly
- Therefore, it is more important to keep them out than it is to net ourselves, all else equal
It's a low mean, low variance approach unlike the Leeds go-for-broke approach, which has a higher mean but higher variance.
It's almost certainly a dead rubber for them, even if they spend some of their cushion prioritizing CL.
If Pep has the trophy and can somehow see off Liverpool or Chelsea from the CL before a ball is kicked by blooding youth and gifting us the points, that looks very attractive indeed.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
Breaking multiple disgusting records. That span decades not even a full season. Doing things we haven't done since the 90s. Keep going carlo. There's still something we haven't done since the 90s. And no better man who's won it all to do so.
the sniderman
Player Valuation: £40m
u disgusting leeches sucking all joy out of grandoldteam.com for others because u hate what a failing human u are and then u fail to get arousal and hate urself even more. we will hound u. we will CRUSH u like the cockroaches u are.
It's not about a formation.
Teams play different formations all the time but still stick to the same principles.
I like Carlo's flexibility. I just don't think 2-3 new players are going to turn us into a free-flowing, possession based team or a high pressing team or something along those lines.
You can implement that model without having the exact players. I just don't think he wants to.
Again, I don't think that's a bad thing. I just think people saying it's just a case of needing new players are simplifying it a bit too much.
We played with pace through midfield v Spurs? We moved the ball quickly, we pressed high?
Davies and Allan gave a foundation and that pushed Gylfi and James on, so they were doing their work in the final third rather than the middle third.
Against Arsenal he brought Gomes in for Davies (and then Delph on???) so suddenly our midfield went back to not having that foundation and instead being pretty cramped.
I know we need better players. But it's not the only factor.
Isn't it mad that we're saying our midfield is the weakest in the league yet in the last two summer windows we've spent around £80m on it?
For their many faults, these players can be capable of attacking patterns of play and building moves. We just don't see it enough. I'm happy to say the players aren't good enough, I just also think that more could be being done in that regard too.
Atm, if James has an off day, or isn't fit, we don't really have any creativity. I don't think that's good enough from anyone involved tbh.
I saw good things v Spurs and suppose it would have been nice to see that carry on, in some regard, against Arsenal. We need to start getting Digne into dangerous positions at the byline/in the box, like we do with Coleman occassionally. We need to start playing the ball quicker through midfield. I appreciate they aren't 'quick' players but you don't need to be rapid to not take 3/4 touches when one or two will do.
But, we got the points so if we can see some nice attacking stuff v Villa but get the result to boot, then hopefully it's the start of seeing some better stuff in the run-in and something to really build on for next year.
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At the start of the season they had
Pereira
Ndidi
Maddison
Soyuncu
all out, and they'd sold Chilwell
They've had plenty of injuries and plenty of players being injured at the same time.
Not having this 'woe is Everton' line with the injuries. Let's just sort it out and start work on trying to ensure we don't get this volume of injuries again.
Part of that is going to be signing new players and those new players have to be like Godfrey - younger, powerful, able to play consistently and not drop their physical level. Also takes the strain off the likes of Doucoure if we bring in an athletic midfielder, given (since Gbamin's latest setback) he's the only one we have who is actually athletic.
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