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He's already ours mate
Would it be that bad to add a player with more mental strength than a Pringle to our dressing room though? Khedira definitely would add some leadership
Bob Elstone
Player Valuation: £35m
Trust Carlo 100%
blueboy1664
Player Valuation: £1m
I am just happy Khedira has heard of EFC... can safely say the profile of the club is raising, the short term goal is improving and the rest will fall in place...
Bluebonic
Player Valuation: £35m
You poor mother in law would end up carrying the big lump around on her back, bless her! :/
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I think Delph is actually an ok number 6. If you ask him to do much else he struggles but he's ok there. The big issue is his fitness. Unlike a James, who is class when he plays, he's only ok when he plays, so we can't afford him to miss games as he does. I'd be delighted with any fee, as I wiuld be for Bernard too and indeed Tosun.
As for Khedira, I think the question becomes, have you got a manager who knows how to manage older players, and one who is tactically adept enough to "cover" those players and make the system work. For me it's an overwhelming yes. I've seen great Italy and Spain teams, filled with 4 or 5 lads who can't run outplay England teams with far more mobility.
You really don't need enormous mobility to play in a 6 position. It's about positioning and reading of the game. We are seeing that with Davies, who has decent legs, but his weakness is his reading of the game. To a degree Doucoure to.
I would personally avoid binary conclusions such as we can't win with Khedira and James in the same 11. It's not to say it's ideal or without challenges but I think it wouldlift the level of the squad. If we got a James clone to play, he would play and we would be better. Godfrey, Holgate, Doucoure, Richarlinson, DCL etc are all good athletes. So is DIgne.
As for United, they are the in form team in the league. We didn't just get run over, we got outplayed. Had we have had a calmer head in the team, who could use the ball better from the 6 position it would have helped us. It's unlikely we would outrun a Liverpool, or a United. We would need a different way to defeat them.
Is Khedira potentially a big upgrade on what we have? Yes. Will it present problems having 2 slower lads? Yes. Have we got a tactically flexible manager who can find solutions? Again yes. Is it a relativdly low risk, short termoption to allow us to get Gbamin and to a degree Allan fit? Yes.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Yes agree with all of that. I think the plan ws for Richarlinson to play centrally more and give Dom a break. Iwobi has become a good option for us that should allow this more. I'd like to see Isco coming in who could play off the left.
You are right though, we need to fire a bit more offensively.
diggerdestroyer
Player Valuation: £40m
Another slow midfielder. Nope for me.
Again though mate, there's no pace with Isco off the left, and his best games have come as a midfielder - which is his position.
You need pace and power in this league. Physicality. We don't have enough of it at the moment outside of a select few players.
Look at the league's three best playmakers - Grealish, Fernandes and De Bruyne (that's in order of chances created this season and then also in 2020 as a whole, it's KDB, Grealish, Fernandes).
All of them get about the pitch. Grealish had the most yards for ball carries in the league in 2020. De Bruyne and Fernandes more about passing/crossing, though both have that power to move quickly off the ball. We severely lack that from midfield, so rely on Richarlison to do it for us.
If he has an off day, which he has been doing lately, then we're relying on James (when he's been fit) to unlock the defence or just one moment of quality.
If we want to push on we need a player with more dynamism.
Grealish, Fernandes, KDB - those players aren't ten-a-penny. Szoboszlai who has just gone to Leipzig is definitely in that Grealish mould.
The likes of Bailey, Zaha - those pacy, powerful forwards - would at least relieve the pressure on Richarlison and Dom and give us another option to carry the ball, which is what we severely lack at the moment. Bailey often drops deep for Leverkusen off either flank, picks up the ball and runs with it. He seems to have beefed up a bit this season and that's helped him become more of a powerful runner - whereas before he played a lot like Sterling, looking to play off the shoulder.
Not her, she'd wack his arse all around the garden with her walking stick,
Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
Unless i am going mad, it looks like he has only played about 30 odd mins in about 14months
Your not going mad and I think its 29 minutes or someone mentioned that a couple of days ago.
What could possibly go wrong lol
Isn't that 28 minutes more than Delph.
AussieToffee11
Player Valuation: £8m
I think Khedira coming in pushes Allan up the pitch to become more box to box, which I really like.
In a few games, Allan showed he can carry the ball and drive forward with his good dribbling.
Khedira
Doucoure Allan
James
That shape has a good balance to it of experience, creativity, power and passing.
Plus we have depth of
Gbamin/Delph
Davies Gomes
Siggurdsson
Just need a pacey RW to balance with Richie on the left.
In a few games, Allan showed he can carry the ball and drive forward with his good dribbling.
Khedira
Doucoure Allan
James
That shape has a good balance to it of experience, creativity, power and passing.
Plus we have depth of
Gbamin/Delph
Davies Gomes
Siggurdsson
Just need a pacey RW to balance with Richie on the left.
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