Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
My entire argument is that he had these players, international standard players, last year and got them playing with a style and purpose.
All of a sudden its stopped, these aren't championship players and old crocks what Moyes inherited, these are players of a standard. My issue with this season is that teams know how to play us, its has as clear as daylight, press, press and press. If we do get into the final third sit deep and press the wings...hey prestop the ball goes back and we start again.
All people are banging on about is bringing 2 new players but the entire system is now flawed. Yes i agree that he does need to bring in a couple of new faces, we knew this in the summer (the manager didn't) but if teams know how to set-up against us what is going to change? My entire argument (since the Palace game this season) is that teams can kill us dead, and not that hard. They've stopped us moving the ball by pressing Barry and McCarthy and force us into mistakes.
All i want him to fdo his look at his system and try and change it up; possession at the back can work, but certain times the emphasis needs to be more direct, defence into attack in the blink of an eye and put the opposition on the back foot. He just seems to set in his philosophy to change, thats the annoying and frustrating part
Arguably in RM's last season with Wigan, they were in the same boat, the other teams knew how to deal with Wigan and look what happened. I think you are right a couple of new faces will not change the poor play it has to come from a revision of our play by the manager.