Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I came across that clip of Ancelotti the other day basically saying he didn’t have the defenders to play through the lines so why do it?
At the time he had a back 4 of Digne/Godfrey Mina Keane Coleman/Holgate
He instead said that if he can utilise Pickford’s kicking to go long to Calvert Lewin and build from there why wouldn’t he if it worked better?
We’ve now got a much worse back 4 technically in possession with Mykolenko and Tarkowski worse on the ball than Mina Digne. We’ve probably got a worse midfield as well as Allan Gomes James could handle a ball better than Gueye Mangala or wherever else we play in there.
So if one of the greatest managers of all time is saying he doesn’t have the players to play progressive football through the lines, why are we battering Sean Dyche to do it with even worse players?