Not taking the piss but top quality back up.Originally Posted by mandela8
Not taking the piss but top quality back up.
Absafuckinlutely
Hence my comment that we need to look at fullbacks rather than mediocre crap from Everton
We have problems either side. Tommy, Cedric, Braveheart and Lord Flashheart. Bollocks (other than a fit Tierney). We’ll get fucked again if we don’t recruit there before singing average shit
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
I am still pissed off that we let them get fourth. This is why they are attracting good players and have funds available.
God forbid if they won the Champions League.
3/4s of our fullback options are decent - the problem we had last season was we built a system that needed one defensive FB to balance a more offence FB on the other side, and we only had one defensive option. So all good as long as Tomi was fit - even Nuno looked like a monster in the making before Christmas - but as soon as we lost him we had nothing but attacking FBs to choose from. For a while we slid White across to play there - not ideal, but it provided a balance, and even Cedric didn’t look awful (for Cedric) when we told Tierney to stay back - it had an effect in Tierney’s game, but again it provided a kind of balance. But when we lost Tierney, and then Partey as the shield in front of them, and then White, the defence finally crumbled.
Let’s not forget, though, when had our best back 5/6 available we were breaking records for clean sheets, so there’s nothing too much wrong with those starting options. I don’t even have a problem with Nuno - he’s a bit raw, but at least he has a high ceiling. I’d take him over Cedric any day, who is as good now as he’ll ever be and will never get any better. What we need is depth, especially for our defensive FB options.
Saliba actually goes some way to addressing that - he’s played RB himself a fair bit or he allows us to slide white across to cover. And Martinez sounds like he would be a really smart buy too - he’d give us that defensive option on the left allowing us to play a more offensive RB (and if he can also provide better depth for Partey then that really would be a good move). Also, the additions of Saliba and Martinez would increase the chances of playing a back 3 when needed - in that situation we can get away with two all-out attacking FBs.
Last edited by I am invisible; 01-07-2022 at 07:37 AM.
Need to stop pissing around with these incremental Martinez bids now if he’s the guy we want. I don’t mind haggling when the talks are secret and we’re the only bidder, but if United are sniffing around then we need to just pony up the extra 6m, or whatever it is, and get it done.
Also I have an alarmingly short attention span because of the internet and I’m starting to get bored.
Spot on!!!
If we need him, just spend the money ffs.
We don't want to go down the "£40m and a penny" road
It was £40m and a pound. We're not cheapWe don't want to go down the "£40m and a penny" road
When Arsenal knock on a player's door it's a different knock than other clubs.
It's a silent knock.
It's no knock.
All of those cozy little 'arm around the shoulder' chats Edu has with players suddenly look very different.
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