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    Igor the Interim

    Its crazy how we have forgotten this. Great midfields win championships, good ones finish high up the table and the shambles we have might just get us relegated. I said it on here the other day, I used to fudging cry at the thought of the Winks and Sissoko pairing, but my word that was more...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    Unless you believe that there is something specific about Ange or Frank's systems that caused the injuries then no I don't think that's the case. What I don't understand is considering we suffered said injuries in the first year and again in the 2nd year and even with a different coach who...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    I haven't said it's certainty at all, but I'm following the fairly clear trend. Lots of injuries in his 1st and 2nd seasons. You say law of average but factually you can see that yes we did actually suffer umpteen injuries once again this season. There nothing to suggest the injuries we've had...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    We would have fewer injuries because @SissokoWasGood (BoL) simply believes we would even despite a good portion of the starting 11 already being long term injured going into this season. There's no reasoning behind it, just belief.
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    'Round pegs in square holes'

    Johnson couldn't play Gallagher's role anyway. We gambled on playing Odobert there (to some good effect) but didn't think about squad and the possibility for injuries.
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    'Round pegs in square holes'

    I'm like you, I think our midfield is utterly unabalanced without a range of attributes that are needed, the most key being a fudging passer. I remember in the squad thread before the season started I said I wanted a CM and I allowed myself to be gas lot into accepting that Palhina was that...
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    This is why Ange played the system he did. Or maybe not why, but I do think it's part of why he couldn't or wouldn't adjust it because he knew how fudging abject out players are and the lack of final 3rd quality we have. Even under Ange's suicide attack we didn't really create much of quality...
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    Igor the Interim

    It looked a lot like a 3 for the majority of the game but if it was a 4 the Gray at LB thing needs to die. He's awful there and can not provide anything that a LB actually needs to do.
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    Squad

    They just aren't that good and are also a mish mash and an unbalanced group. You can get away with one of those things but not both. If you lack quality but are well balanced, a system can plan around your weaknesses and maximize your strengths. If you have no balance but extreme quality you...
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    Mathys Tel

    He's not very good. He does run around and is direct and in this time we need that, but the lacks quality when he does start games it's kind of obvious why he's never really been given the chance. I personally would have played him off the left over playing Simons there but I do get why that...
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    'Round pegs in square holes'

    I remember telling @Raziel this at the time. We aren't United, not only do they have better attackers than us, they were already on a largely positive run despite the previous manager not even being that popular. They have real attacking quality that was already performing in Mbuemo and Cunha...
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    Xavi Simons

    He's another example of our poor transfer business because despite me personally liking him as a player, he was not our first choice. He wasn't even our 2nd choice. So we have a player we didn't even really want and subsequently didn't really have a plan for and that shows in how Frank used...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    No other final have we played a team as abject as United were last season. We beat them FIVE times last year, FIVE! They were a dog brick opposition, why you are not taking that into account is confusing me. You can only beat what's in front of your and what was in front of us was horse brick...
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    OMT - Fulham vs Tottenham Hotspur

    If he could go back in time he wouldn't take the job again. He's now realized how bad we are, no balance, little quality and no real fight.
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    OMT - Fulham vs Tottenham Hotspur

    Maybe Solanke for Richy, but you're probably scraping the bottom of the barrel at that point. Neither are anything special and both flawed just in different ways. You could also possibly argue Udogie who was replacing I don't even remember whom. 😅
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    OMT - Fulham vs Tottenham Hotspur

    I'm glad you posts things like this. It brings a dose of reality to our situation. We've been bad for some time, a long time.
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    Conor Gallagher

    If we sign a ball playing 8 where is Gallagher going to play? He's not quite a DM either, so a strange signing imo considering our more obvious weaknesses. He comes across like a Levy (but no Levy) special ie. A deal to be had but no thoughts as to how he actually fixes a gap. I don't dislike...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    He would have started this season with no Maddison, no Kulu and no Solanke. How well do you really think his brand football would have gone over with 0 passers of the ball? Probably just about as well as the end of the season and even the final itself went (horrible performance, but a win...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    It's a bit of a weird non comparison. Poch faced far better teams in his finals. Are seriously comparing Manchester United of last season to those teams? 🤣 Winning a trophy has a little to it than a managers belief that they will do it. Competition quality does play a part as well. 🤣
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    OMT - Fulham vs Tottenham Hotspur

    Danso is arguably our best pure defender. I don't know if I think hes better than Romero but hes less likely to do something hairbrained from what we've seen. Hes a level above Dragusin and VDV. If we are to play a 3 Danso should 100% be on the pitch. In a 4 maybe a Romero/Danso isn't as...
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