The season before last we finished 10th with a large majority of these players playing 4 at the back, defensively good aswell....
Probably not because Everton that. It's all down to the final week again sell Tony Gords and bring our players in Kenwright loves it
I just don't think there's any way this deal would have happened given the teams that were tracking him
And we had James, Digne and Doucoure and Allan were two years younger
I hate 4-2-3-1 as well but every manager did it wrong bar Martinez season 1. The 2 have to be absolute units who break up everything and then, in theory, you can overload their defence on the break. McCarthy and Barry were perfect in that spot. Then McCarthy was crocked and Barry lost what little legs he had and we never really fixed it.
City play a 4-1-4-1 which becomes a 4-3-3 which worked perfectly well for us in the Moyes days... The holding midfield player is important and doesn`t press, imagine the scenario for Villa goal on Saturday had that been a natural 6 instead of Doucoure he doesn`t press and shields the back line.
I didn’t put it in the roundup as it was just a ridiculous read. Well, I hope it’s ridiculous
Well it certainly does seem as if we need to sell him to finance any further spending as everything bar this seems to have stalled.
But nobody did until January. I mean, you can have as many teams as you want 'tracking' a lad but if nobody is willing to stump up the money asked for then they would have taken the offer on the table. Never know what can happen by holding out.
