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Summer transfer window 2023

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120 points equates to 120 years based upon sorting out 1 point per year although i am not sure he has even managed the one point in a year year since he came out with it so could be even longer.
 
Dwight K Schrute said:
It's so embarrassing that he's so proud of this. Like a Daily Mail reading old man. It's like the checking shinpads nonesense.

There are lots of teams who have players far fitter than ours and they wouldn't dedicate whole days to not using the ball. And the funny thing is, their players are actually already capable of passing the ball 5 yards. We need more ball work, not less!!
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There’s a reason the likes of Roy Hodgson, Sean Dyche, Neil Warnock etc are able to come in to clubs who are struggling and are able to get good results.

Football these days have been made to seem a lot more complicated and technical than it needs to be, partly because the people consuming and running the game has changed massively. It used to be a much more working class, simple game. Nowadays there’s loads of middle class, rich, highly educated people who are applying their depth of knowledge to the game and making it so much more complex. There are obvious benefits to this - especially in terms of sports science and player welfare etc. but there’s also a hell of a lot of fluff and nonsense - overly technical and trendy terms for making it sound like the game has evolved hugely when in fact people have just relabelled something that was always done in the game with a more modern and trendy word.

Eg -
“pressing” = closing down
“turnovers”/“breakdowns” = giving the chuffing ball away
“Aerial Duels” = headers
“Progressive passing” = playing it forwards

The likes of Dyche get stick partly because they just keep it simple and use the older terminology for stuff that everyone still does under rebadged and trendier names.

Lampard was very much “new school” - constantly talking about “the idea” and using all this modern terminology. Dyche came in and kept things very much more simple and got us out of trouble.

If he thinks this style of pre season works best for this absolutely useless bunch of modern millionaire footballers, he has my blessing.
 
There will be signings, what we don’t want is a yet another repeat of going into the opening games of the season with doubts and discussions dominating the lack of incomings as each game passes. Last year in particular was a disgrace and gross negligence.
 
Exeter_Gently said:
Mate I don't think he's ever mentioned it until ex Burnley players started talking about it to the press....also god forbid we should start the season with a fit football team.
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He mentions it a lot, in interviews etc. always with that smug look on his face.

And I have no problem with working players to the bone to get them fit, but it should always be with ballwork involved too - we're not a rugby team, as much as he might want us to be.
 

lurky said:
There’s a reason the likes of Roy Hodgson, Sean Dyche, Neil Warnock etc are able to come in to clubs who are struggling and are able to get good results.

Football these days have been made to seem a lot more complicated and technical than it needs to be, partly because the people consuming and running the game has changed massively. It used to be a much more working class, simple game. Nowadays there’s loads of middle class, rich, highly educated people who are applying their depth of knowledge to the game and making it so much more complex. There are obvious benefits to this - especially in terms of sports science and player welfare etc. but there’s also a hell of a lot of fluff and nonsense - overly technical and trendy terms for making it sound like the game has evolved hugely when in fact people have just relabelled something that was always done in the game with a more modern and trendy word.

Eg -
“pressing” = closing down
“turnovers”/“breakdowns” = giving the chuffing ball away
“Aerial Duels” = headers
“Progressive passing” = playing it forwards

The likes of Dyche get stick partly because they just keep it simple and use the older terminology for stuff that everyone still does under rebadged and trendier names.

Lampard was very much “new school” - constantly talking about “the idea” and using all this modern terminology. Dyche came in and kept things very much more simple and got us out of trouble.

If he thinks this style of pre season works best for this absolutely useless bunch of modern millionaire footballers, he has my blessing.
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Again, it's an oversimplification. I agree that phrases like turnovers are just a semantics change. But closing down was often disorganised. There is so much game analysis now that good clubs study for pressing triggers - e.g. when to close down, otherwise you are all over the place.

People like to make out that football isn't more technical now, but it is. That's not to say that the basic elements aren't the same.

And I still get royally annoyed by missing basics like stopping the cross etc.
 
Dwight K Schrute said:
He mentions it a lot, in interviews etc. always with that smug look on his face.

And I have no problem with working players to the bone to get them fit, but it should always be with ballwork involved too - we're not a rugby team, as much as he might want us to be.
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Dwight I like your posts but i think this time you're making something out of absolutely nothing here mate...only time I've personally seen him mention it is when asked about it.
 

GoldenToffee said:
Opening game of the season:

Pickford
Coleman-Keane-Tarkowski-Mykolenko
Gray-Garner-Iwobi-Gueye-McNeil
DCL​

Games 2-15:
Pickford
Patterson-Keane-Tarkowski-Godfrey
Iwobi-Garner-Onana-Gueye-McNeil
Maupay​
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Think you got the right full back the wrong way round and Young will be left back for ever
 
Effectively we have between now and 4th August to get players in. The week preceding kickoff does not tend to see much business done.

Excluding today, and weekends, that's 13 working days until it comes down to a manic but in the end, typically much over-hyped deadline day.

We really do need to see some business being done now but as time passes, the greater amount of it will be left to the very end.

It's deeply concerning, but not at all surprising.
 
Noisy noise annoys said:
It is obvious we will get someone in, mate.
We already have tbh and there will be more
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Yes, it is likely we will sign a couple more free agents but it's also "obvious" that we'll see more departures. Are you confident that our squad will be better than last year's at
1. The Fulham game
2. The end of the window

Neither are "obvious" to anyone else. You've been horribly wrong for two of the last four windows so just saying things are "obvious" with no other explanation other than your blind optimism is redundant.
 

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