Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
The best defense usually win the league every season
Kevsleftpeg
Player Valuation: £6m
City might have
City in 2013/14 Aguero scored 17, Yaya 20.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
Yeah but what does he know, in comparison to the football visionary that is
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
United scored 68 in their 2008/2009 League winning season.
Ronaldo scored 18 (obvs he wasn't a forward though)
Rooney scored 12.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Football is about putting the ball in the net more than the opposition. It’s not either or between defence and attack. Everton have stayed in the league with decent defences and poor strikers whilst other teams have gone down with good attacks and bad defences. It doesn’t really make a difference, both teams are near the bottom as they’re unbalanced. Martinez had us heading that way with a top striker but wide open at the back.
That’s why the manager who throws everything forward with overlapping CBs fullbacks, 3 strikers is as bad as the manager who won’t let a player leave their penalty area if both are equally ineffective at winning games. The game is about balance, City and Arsenal have piled millions in transfers into getting multiple CBs along their backline. There’s not an attacking fullback to be seen anymore in those two teams and they play the ‘best’ football in the league. Real Madrid won a load of CLs recently playing on the counter attack and defending deep.
There’s no right way to play football, it’s whichever method wins the most. Man City don’t play the same football today they did in 17/18 when they first won the league it’s completely unrecognisable form it.
We need to keep our defensive solidity from last season and increase the attacking output. It doesn’t have to be either or.
That’s why the manager who throws everything forward with overlapping CBs fullbacks, 3 strikers is as bad as the manager who won’t let a player leave their penalty area if both are equally ineffective at winning games. The game is about balance, City and Arsenal have piled millions in transfers into getting multiple CBs along their backline. There’s not an attacking fullback to be seen anymore in those two teams and they play the ‘best’ football in the league. Real Madrid won a load of CLs recently playing on the counter attack and defending deep.
There’s no right way to play football, it’s whichever method wins the most. Man City don’t play the same football today they did in 17/18 when they first won the league it’s completely unrecognisable form it.
We need to keep our defensive solidity from last season and increase the attacking output. It doesn’t have to be either or.
Matelot
Player Valuation: £6m
Any chance you could explain what exactly is incorrect about my post? It’s factually correct, is it not?
Paul Rideout
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So you think that direct quote from the best manager in the modern era in the English domestic league is wrong.
I'll go with Ferguson's opinion over yours.
but to be pedantic...
you could win 1-0 every game, with an own goal from the opposition. This scenario is as likely as your 6-5 scenario
Matelot
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I’ll go with simple mathematics, if it’s all the same to you.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
pfim
Player Valuation: £40m
Not if the midfielders and defenders score the goals...
This is mad. City just won the league two years ago without even playing a striker.
Strikers aren't the only ones who score goals.
Defenders aren't the only ones who defend.
Well that's true but City have genuine creativity in their team
pfim
Player Valuation: £40m
No, strikers win you everything.
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £20m
Nobody in our team scores goals
pfim
Player Valuation: £40m
That's not the discussion.