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Mohammed Kudus

mjc23 said:
It's a real drop off. When he first joined his work rate was phenomenal and he looked quick.

Now he just looks slow and lazy. I'm hoping it's a physical thing and he's nursing an injury and it's not a complacency thing
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He is a strange one for me, strong as an ox and keeps the ball well, but he keeps hold too long even with bodies near for the pass.
 
He’s knackered. The only other regular right winger we have has just been sold so don’t see it changing much.

Muani isn’t great on the left but he’s played right winger for Frankfurt before and that’s where he had his best spell. Try him there and let Kudus play centrally while we’re short on numbers. He plays there for Ghana so not unfamiliar territory, and we need someone strong there who can keep the ball.

Or you know, just keep lumping it up and hoping he can take on his chest and beat 3 players
 
Robbo said:
What's up with Kudus? He was so poor yesterday, and TBF has mostly been for a while.

Seems unable to keep hold of the ball, tries taking on too many players and barely tracks back. His work rate was shocking - just completely stopped running when he lost the ball.

Compare that to Brentford's players who I thought were excellent in tracking back and pressing. They were sprinting, while we were running - and Kudus was strolling.
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All attacking players will look poor if your only tactic is to defend heavily and lump the ball forward.
 
billyiddo said:
Why didn't Frank's attacking players look poor at Brentford? He went through 2 or 3 cycles of attackers there and had them performing
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His team looked like well drilled, hard working underdogs.

I'm fairly sure that if we give him a couple more seasons of this, he'll have us playing as the underdogs in most matches too.
 
billyiddo said:
Why didn't Frank's attacking players look poor at Brentford? He went through 2 or 3 cycles of attackers there and had them performing
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A team with a clear identity that suited the club. Being able to recruit for and develop players within that clear identity.

Is our identity here under him to be similar to the identity of his Brentford side? Seems like it so far...
 
scaramanga said:
His team looked like well drilled, hard working underdogs.

I'm fairly sure that if we give him a couple more seasons of this, he'll have us playing as the underdogs in most matches too.
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Given we've been running at a 9th average over 5 years and a 15th average over the last 2, under dogs in most games are what we are...
 
braineclipse said:
A team with a clear identity that suited the club. Being able to recruit for and develop players within that clear identity.

Is our identity here under him to be similar to the identity of his Brentford side? Seems like it so far...
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We haven't had a defined identity to build towards in the last 10 years..............
 
billyiddo said:
Given we've been running at a 9th average over 5 years and a 15th average over the last 2, under dogs in most games are what we are...
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Our opponents don't seem to think so.

We regularly face a low block against teams with no spaces for Frank's "lump it up top" tactics to work into.

This is why taking managers from little clubs rarely works. It's an entirely different proposition with an entirely different set of tactics and skillset required to manage at a club that wants to be at the top end of the league.
 
scaramanga said:
Our opponents don't seem to think so.

We regularly face a low block against teams with no spaces for Frank's "lump it up top" tactics to work into.

This is why taking managers from little clubs rarely works. It's an entirely different proposition with an entirely different set of tactics and skillset required to manage at a club that wants to be at the top end of the league.
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I don't think we play a lump it up top style of football, we play out wide with a focus on crosses sure but it's rarely route one, mostly on the deck and short mid range passes to get there - we are way down the table in terms of long passes for instance. Nor do I think teams set up as the underdog v us. Plenty of teams setup with a low block, especially away from home but that's just their natural game and the way that football is trending in the league atm vs a particular game plan to negate us.
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
He is a strange one for me, strong as an ox and keeps the ball well, but he keeps hold too long even with bodies near for the pass.
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It’s genuinely because he can’t pass. He has to have like 3 steps and shape his body, so always dribbles until he has enough space (or tries a pass regardless but usually goes wrong)

This kind of sounds stupid, but watch him closely and he always has to prepare to pass.
 
scaramanga said:
Our opponents don't seem to think so.

We regularly face a low block against teams with no spaces for Frank's "lump it up top" tactics to work into.

This is why taking managers from little clubs rarely works. It's an entirely different proposition with an entirely different set of tactics and skillset required to manage at a club that wants to be at the top end of the league.
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Poch and redknapp both came from "little clubs".
Conte and mourinho had more lump it tactics than either of those.
 
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