Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
It's amazing the way he's improved the defence while also keeping that gorgeous, creative football the SFC was renowned for.
Thank God he got us a CH and a goalie who would get into any CL side, and the right back cover we needed who's challenging Hector for a place.
Speaking of which, it's great that he's seen how well Hector plays when he actually has a wide right player in front of him for the 1-2s down to the by-line for his cut backs.
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We don't need wing backs as we have a good enough defence meaning we don't need the extra body back there, so we're not getting over-run in MF nowadays as used to happen under AW. AW's football was possession based but we used to needlessly give the ball away in the middle of the park meaning they just ran straight down the middle and scored.
Lovely that he's getting the best out of Ozil and Rambo - Torreira's what they needed, now we have two wide forwards that will work defensively and have learned when to help the full-backs both in attack and defence, and when to drop into spaces between the lines.
Glad we're not giving away a player of Rambo's quality to a team like Juve or PSG and that £350k a week on a creative genius on his last contract hasn't ended up a waste.
In short, thank God for the AFTV banners attacking AW, not the Septic owner. It's not like PHW (RIP) and David Dein would have spent big when we needed investment after falling behind Sperz at the end of GG or when we almost did in Jan 2006.
They wouldn't have realised that while Torreira was exactly what this squad with Rambo, Ozil and two decent strikers, Mustafi was a waste who'd have to be written off, and with Kos at the end of his career, we actually needed to spend big on a youngish top drawer CH straight away (as well as another squad player to challenge, though maybe keeping Chambers for 6 months to see if he's as good a prospect as Holding) as well then making sure the new goalie would give us 5-10 years at top 4 level.
After all those games under AW in his latter years where our woeful defence saw us lose heavily in big away games, what a pity PHW didn't live to see today.
Never in fücking doubt.