It was in the second half that we battered them and they were lucky to hold on. In the first half, while Krul admittedly made 2 or 3 excellent saves after sporadic attacks that we had we played far too slowly and didn't really threaten consistently. In that first half Saudi Sportswashing Machine exposed us by getting in behind us a number of times and Remy was instrumental in that.
Disagree. Just because we had two quick wingers we didn't play as a counter attacking team. A counter attacking team looks to draw a team onto them and then get forward quickly when the opposition over commit. A counter attacking team will generally have much less possession than their opponents as a result of this (look at the way Chelsea often play in Europe for example). In most games under Redknapp we had a lions share of possession and that wasn't the kind of slow, passing it around, creating nothing, possession for possessions sake type football that we employed under AVB, but was good attacking possession. Yes we had two fast players out wide - but they both played as bog standard wide midfielders in a 4-4-2. I also disagree that Modric orchestrated from deep, he would be on the ball all over the pitch but was often on the ball close to the opposition's penalty area (usually in central and left sided positions) and even used to find himself on the ball in the oppositions penalty area. This happened towards the end of Redknapp's tenure but also early on as well (I remember for example the fantastic passing triangles that Modric, Krankjar and Corluka would often play around the opposition's box - it was brilliant to watch and would pull their defence all over the place and often lead to an opportunity to get the ball into Defoe for a shooting chance)
Do you perhaps decide that a team has a specific tactical approach merely because the team's wide midfielders happen to be pacy? Perhaps you also confuse Remy for being a "head down" player with "no awareness" just because he is quite explosive and happened to play for a Saudi Sportswashing Machine team that sometimes played on the break?
Can I therefore assume by this that you don't think France are a possession side? Do they just play on the counter attack? (I have no real idea either way here as I can't say that I have really watched them in recent years, but I would be surprised if France played purely as a counter attacking team, it just doesn't seem to fit their football philosophy).
Turning it back to Pochettino's THFC - do you not think that Remy's pace and directness could be used as a potent weapon when we turn the ball over high up the pitch (as I believe is his coaching philosophy?).
Bringing in Remy would also allow us to sell Soldado, probably netting us money to allow us to also strengthen in your priority positions of LB, CB and CM as well as directly contributing to one of the problem positions that you have identified (LWF).
