The "DM" thread

[Mosquito_Coasting]

Honestly can't see there ever being another Kante, the top top players are unique. I've seen nothing like Viera for instance.

 

[Yiddo]

Honestly can't see there ever being another Kante, the top top players are unique. I've seen nothing like Viera for instance.

Viera, Makélélé, Essien, Kante All top notch DM

 

[Mosquito_Coasting]

Viera, Makélélé, Essien, Kante All top notch DM

Different in styles though.

 

[Raziel]

I still would have liked us to have kept Paulinio for another season.

Strange decision all round, think he would have been happy to be in a rotational role, ended up going for something like 14M.

I thought it was ok when the plan was Gray as backup at 6 (even then, wasn't sure of the using Gray to close out a game), but with hindsight of we obviously knew Spence was going and Gray's playing time will be RB, think it's a miss.

 

[Muttley]

Interesting that Dembele always used to get the better of Kante

 

[Muttley]

Strange decision all round, think he would have been happy to be in a rotational role, ended up going for something like 14M.

I thought it was ok when the plan was Gray as backup at 6 (even then, wasn't sure of the using Gray to close out a game), but with hindsight of we obviously knew Spence was going and Gray's playing time will be RB, think it's a miss.

RDZ would have preferred to have Tonali, Fernandez, Palhinha and Bentancur as his main 4 in my opinion. I think he'd swap Sarr and Bergval for Palhinha in a heartbeat. RDZ would then make his 5th CM Gray knowing Archie has RB coverage as well.

What we need to now happen is for Archie to show is runway as a CM. He is still the unknown quantity to me as we don't know how far he can go in the game. Obviously, in a good way.

 

[parklane1]

Strange decision all round, think he would have been happy to be in a rotational role, ended up going for something like 14M.

I thought it was ok when the plan was Gray as backup at 6 (even then, wasn't sure of the using Gray to close out a game), but with hindsight of we obviously knew Spence was going and Gray's playing time will be RB, think it's a miss.

Yep, for me he was my player of the season last year and apart from trying to put fires out in our CB managed to score a few goals as well

 

[Bullet]

RDZ would have preferred to have Tonali, Fernandez, Palhinha and Bentancur as his main 4 in my opinion. I think he'd swap Sarr and Bergval for Palhinha in a heartbeat. RDZ would then make his 5th CM Gray knowing Archie has RB coverage as well.

What we need to now happen is for Archie to show is runway as a CM. He is still the unknown quantity to me as we don't know how far he can go in the game. Obviously, in a good way.

The stereotype is that all Italian managers prefer the older, more experienced players, rather than kids with potential.
I can see why.
And I can sense that too in DeZerbi because his first comments after the game were that he had players born in 2006, 2007 etc i.e. Moore, Bergvall, Gray etc