Probably very good timing for this. Reset and go again.
Not sure about Onana from Everton....is that what we need?
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Probably very good timing for this. Reset and go again.
Not sure about Onana from Everton....is that what we need?
[QUOTE=PSRB;4274468]Probably very good timing for this. Reset and go again.
Not sure about Onana from Everton....is that what we need?[/
We convinced ourselves that Havertz was what we needed, so what could possibly go wrong ?
Probably right about the break but would rather we were playing this weekend. Need something to do.
I like Onana - would be a quality addition. I don't think the player we need is available. Very unconvinced by Toney particularly at the asking price. Not sure what forward (deadly striker) is available (and affordable)
Completely agree. I like Onana, I don't think Toney is right for us at all. And I dont really see where the money is coming from.
Saka and Odegaard badly need a break. I am still not willing to accept that our current forwards are incapable of delivering goals as they did last season. I think Arteta needs to change their mindset. Everything is too cautious and hesitant at the moment.
Havertz should never, ever, ever play up front. Shirley if we learned anything from his days at Chelsea it would be that.
Don't understand how Arteta could possibly think that would work out better than Eddie up front.
Shame because I really think he has been much better in midfield recently.
It's sad to say, however you're quite correct. And a fat lot of good it's done us!
Indeed, things are so bad that the only decent team in ANY league is always the one managed by Pep Guardiola, he seems to be the only one that accepts that certain things in football HAVE to happen, HAVE to be that way, simply because the game itself demands it.
It may not make sense, even to HIM, given his dreams of playing eleven tricky midgets every week, but enough good people around him know and understand and have convinced him that it simply doesn't work that way. Which is why he has always been sure to have at least one of the world's best goal-scoring number nines in his squad, all the while successfully gaslighting weak-minded football folk that all those victories and trophies is about tiki-taka. *******o:-(
Correct - even with his ultimate masterpiece (Barcelona with Messi/Xavi/Iniesta) I lost count of the times that they got to 70 minutes 0-0 with 90% possession. Then Messi scores a wonder goal, the opposition come out and it finishes 3 or 4 nil and we have to hear about tiki-taka blah blah blah.
So it was inevitable that Haaland ended up there :-\
The irony is that Havertz was bought with the idea of getting more goals from midfield, I think :-\
And yes, we've just gone through a bad patch in front of goal, these things happen. We have too much talent going forward to not score goals and then all of this will be forgotten.
Meanwhile, three bad results and the usual characters are losing their sh1t on here and dragging out the cliches they so desperately want to be true so that they can be proven to be 'correct'.
I'd be far more worried about losing Saliba for an extended period of time than a run of games where we created loads but didn't take our chances.
I’m still struggling to think of any world class side in history where a gangly string bean strongly featured, outside of central defence.
They’re not built for it. They lack mobility and it takes an age for their brains to trigger signals to their feet, see ?
You want lots of 5ft 10 mesomorphs. That’s just the way of things :)
Zidane 6ft1 and Steffan Effenberg 6ft 2 might disagree
Berbatov, Zlatan - also fairly useful and 6ft plus. Dennis was 6ft. Kanu 6ft 4 :bow: Were the invincible world-class? Yaya Toure 6ft 2
(I did get the irony in the original post, btw, but made me think of which players have "quick/good feet for a big man")
I was going to include him, but Sir C would point out that he was an athlete not a footballer. Look at him being an athlete here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_re9m2ATso
Pires was also 6ft 1 - the gangling neanderthal