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romavillan

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  1. Yeah from what he actually said he's got a good grip of his situation at the moment. He has also made key contributions to our season already, played out of position he held up our left side at the start of the season and did ok without being amazing. He's also scored a few important goals too. Compare with Bailey's first season, who was pretty much always played in his best position. Lots of people thought he would never make it with us. It's clearly not a walk in the park playing Emery's football, you have to understand and absorb a lot of details on where to be off the ball and patterns of play when you have it. He's got the talent, if Emery thinks he can flourish like Bailey has then we should keep being patient with him.
  2. Konsa and Stones as 2 of a back 3 would be really good. Who's the left footer to complete the 3 though?
  3. How **** embarrassing, the shape and tactics stifling some amazing players who despite that managed to save a draw. Chillwell and Madison not good enough for me. We do not play a shape to get the best out of Bellingham, Foden, Saka, Kane, Bowen, Grealish etc etc We should be building a team around Bellingham. We've got the players for a 3-2-4-1 not a 4-2-3-1.
  4. Next appointment is huge though, it needs to a Bruce to Smith, or a Gerrard to Emery type moment...
  5. Having read the offending article quickly with a cappachoochoo this morning and seeing on here the stuff they left out then it's a criminal bit of non journalism...
  6. I'll find a bar and read it...
  7. Totally, where I differ is I really think it does matter. This is the first group of English players whereby it's not just hype to say a few are world class. We've never ever in my (now long) lifetime had genuine world class players. We've had plenty of bullshit about how good our players have been in the past but this is the first time I can remember when someone in Italy, Spain or Germany would pick out some of our players as being the best in the position in the world or at least in Europe. We're not talking up Lampard and Gerrard when there's Xavi and Iniesta, or Beckham and Scholes when there's Zidane and Figo. This lot are the real thing and there's a reason Kane is at Bayern and Bellingham is a **** Real legend already. Foden gets into a side that contains some of the world's best talent, it isn't just hubris, most of the worlds top talent want the PL money and not only that. If they want to play against the best every week they have to play in England. You're totally right about where we lack, central defenders and a goalkeeper. Which is why it's even more absurd that we have a coach that looks to defend against the better teams. It's suicide.
  8. Give this generation of attacking talent to ANY decent manager (imagine Ancelotti, Guardiola, Emery, Klopp etc. etc.) and we would not be lining up 4-2-3-1 and struggling to make chances. It's such a **** waste.
  9. He's had something in Southgate for sure
  10. Ollie is going from a situation where he knows his role in the team inside out, he also knows where the other players around him are going to be in any given situation. He has had every detail meticulously worked through with him and his team mates by a world class coach. Then he finds himself in a situation where a tactically dated coach not at the same level as Emery chucks him into a system that was created for Kane, with other players new to this system playing too, and is expected to instantly score or be called a flop. Not easy. Needs games and time with the squad before he gets judged but the Great British Press aren't interested in any kind of nuance. They have to sell papers to people who believed the big red bus and all the bullshit about straight bananas
  11. Spalletti Is still trying to find a way to play and who to play it with, yesterday you could see they'd worked on getting started from the back but then they looked disjointed trying to get the ball through midfield and make chances. Looks like Zaniolo will feature though, if he has a good Euros he'll be worth a lot more than the fee we've agreed with Galatasaray.
  12. In the end the yellow was soft, but he could have been booked earlier. Had an alright game to be fair, Italy not exactly firing on all cylinders at all but he was alright.
  13. He's been ok, made a bad decision after some.good work which was a shame. Italy much better down the right and that's largely to do with Zaniolo being there. Drifts inside and links things up nice enough but not done anything spectacular. Could have got into some bother just before half time rowing with a few defenders, could have got that yellow already
  14. Just missed a sitter Daje Nico...
  15. His tactics are starting to look very old school, insisting on 4-2-3-1 and the way he sets it up is going to be very easy for any decent side we meet at the Euros to pull to pieces. I think he should have gone after the France defeat but he really can't be allowed another crack at a major after the Euros. Unless he wins it of course but that's looking unlikely at the mo.
  16. Not sure, don't think we'd go with two left footers in central defence as our best pair. Shame Konsa will move out wide, I really like Konsa and Pau as the CB pair.
  17. Always though we should put all the regular away fans together at home games somehow, give them free beer...
  18. Totally, 2ppg has been Emery's average give or take a fraction and if we can keep it up we'll be 4th.
  19. There's been some articles written saying he's a flop, fans don't like him, he's failed. On here and I'd imagine on the Musk fake news machine there's been people calling him shite every time he's played. If he's even seen/heard like a fraction of it I'd imagine it would piss you off. For me it's nothing to get upset about unless you've been calling him names on X. Or you write for the Birmingham Mail.
  20. Diaby needs that too, lucky the ball got to him but after that very well played
  21. Bro bey has made an awful lot of mistakes these two games. Looks to have talent but he's not been great.
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