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  1. VillanousOne
    Tim and JR in the training photos, wonder if they will be on the bench? Couldn't see Donk
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    frail?
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    The options off the bench now are pretty dire
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    Best manager - check Good starting eleven - check Good squad - not even close - 50% of our fringe players have tanked and 50% are injured Chambers, Lenglet, Olsen, Tielemans, Dendoncker (but mainly ring rust/lack of fitness), are dreadful stand ins. Bailey, Torres & Duran need the A Team round them to help them look decent. Missing Moreno, Mings, Carlos, J Ramsey, Buendia is really hurting us. Not sure we need Phil, but letting A Ramsey go was dumb and possibly Archer also. The other issue is Emery for all his genius does not know how to get the best out of the squad presently, although it is more that they are letting him down and him showing too much faith.
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    It's aggravating as hell, even with a class manager and European qualification we are still treated as 'the other club who unfortunately turned up on match day' in 80% of all coverage home and abroad. I don't fancy us against Brighton at all, we have to come out of the blocks firing. Buendia, Moreno and Ramsey missing does take away a lot of team intensity, need captain ass to step up.
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    replace is one thing, in the future but the insatiable expectation that there is an attainable player just lurking in the shadows, ready, wating to come in and be better than Ollie now. Not saying there aren't players out there, it just seems to be the hardest position to recruit. Probably why a lot of teams are moving away from traditional strikers and to hybrid attacking players, like we have with Zaniolo and Diaby.
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    Any striker that isn't streaky aside from Haaaaaaland (and even he had some patches without goals last season), Son maybe? Just not sure who we think we could sign to replace Ollie who would be better? What 'consistent' strikers there are that would sign for us. Would love a list of all that current league strikers who score weekly and their attainability
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    Quality performance showing what we know he is capable of definitely the best midfielder we have ever had and better than Doug? ZING! (kidding)
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    I feel it was just two many wrong decisions combined with players playing poorly Swap Lenget for Pau and Kamara for Dendoncker and maybe we'd have had a better balance. Chambers rarely ever does well at right back, in midfield he is passable.
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    he can't play the role of defensive sweeper/play maker at all
  11. VillanousOne
    thank you for agreeing with me
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    It reminds me of where we were 2nd season with Deano, either an attacking force or utterly all at sea and nothing in between. I crave the occasional draw, I don't want a season of playing like Barcelona one week and a pub team the next.
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    wondering if the rumours about Liverpool trying to sign him were true and he's now sulking as he wanted that move. never seen a player look so slow and disinterested
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    Except when he and Digne marked the same player for one of their goals
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    How many bad day's at the office can one team have, we've barely started the season yet produced more abjectly awful performances than the entire of last season under Emery.
  16. VillanousOne
    No, utter madness bringing in a player for his debut and bringing in another journeyman, we aren't playing Hibernian, this is the real thing
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    for god sake Unai get some of this clowns off the pitch
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    pathetic
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    not sure how we are still in this, our defensive line up is utter suicide
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    won a penalty? wouldn't say he was decent, still involved, still contributing, not to the level he can, he's definitely suffering from a loss of confidence and has another level in him. I just don't think 'he needs to be sold/not good enough for where we want to go style horsepoop' that gets bandied about (IMO). Not aimed at you, but just be nice if it wasn't always extremes of opinion on here, there can be levels/nuance/grey areas, a striker can still be playing well even if not scoring for example. People use past players as examples, past players who in some cases have somehow become better since they played for us.
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    He's a striker so there will always be frustration and anxiety when he doesn't score and on that front he definitely isn't delivering and i'd hope he improves soon. BUT he is still causing defenders problems, creating space for others and setting up goals/winning penalties, he is by no means a passenger and I don't think any other player we have can hold the ball up the way he can, Diaby and Bailey are too slight and lack physicality. Zanilo might when he beds in and Duran is a work in progress. Can he do better yes, is he playing poorly, not even close.
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    You think going to West London will give him extreme flatulence?
  23. VillanousOne
    can we hear the music pumpin' hard like i wish you would? Then surely we can... push it good
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    I did watch Deano and am delighted to confirm he was pretty streaky, thanks for stopping by.
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    The issue is the level of trust we have in Carlos or Torres to replace Mings, at the moment neither look capable but it's early days. Moreno will help on the left but will need some time to recover match fitness. We need Ramsey back, because without Buendia we have no one to carry the ball from midfield. I feel like we are 4-6 games from really seeing where we are this season and we will drop a lot of points while Unai figures out how to get everyone back fit and firing while bedding in the new boys. Top 4 no chance, Top 6 maybe, Top 8 definitely. Will settle for a good run in Europe and the cups at this stage and not getting utterly wiped out by the teams at the top.
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