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KangarooVillan

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  1. Still the best 1v1 defender at the club. Just doesn’t have the game awareness/nous at the moment - gets caught out defensively in terms of positioning and can’t seem to go forward or launch anything. Just seems to be playing too far within his head like he’s thinking too much about playing rather than just playing.
  2. This lad is ready. Would love to see him in a double pivot with Kamara - starting with the cups.
  3. Ollie is an excellent support cast to a striker and playmaker - the problem is he himself is neither one or the other. Would probably be excellent as a false 9 but that doesn’t really suit the way we play. Would still be curious to him trialed as a CAM and maybe there’s a role for him in a 2 behind Ings with the license to push forward and stretch a defence. Just doesn’t seem to fit into a clear role at the minute.
  4. OG not his fault. Seemed better once Buendia came on - good interplay between Digne, Buendia and Ramsey. Seems the kinda player who needs skilled and active players around him to work with.
  5. Needs to come on as a sub for a while - looks like he’s carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Lets take the pressure off a bit - our depth dictates we have this luxury with a ‘luxury’ player.
  6. - Still doubts Gerrard can coach - too many players still encroaching on each other in that 1st half when we were on top which is a concern and a direct measure of managerial organisation - Mings is still our best defender - Carlos is an upgrade on Konsa - Buendia must start over Coutinho - Ings is our best striker and needs continuity in starts
  7. Thanks, that’s about the same as what I would have thought. Pretty darn concerned that Beal was always billed as the brains behind the operation and Gerrard seems to lack any tactical nous which seems to match up with what’s shown on game day.
  8. From Australia, please excuse my ignorance. Is it normal in football for managers to not have the core theoretical expertise/tactical nous and essentially subcontract this function out to assistants/others? Was concerned about this at the beginning but figured it was normal. Although can’t think of other examples where this is the case.
  9. Just can’t help but feel that Dougie will be a really bad case of just don’t know what you have till it’s gone. I saw people on the TF thread jealous we didn’t sign Bruno Guimeraes but Dougie is younger and has more than double the caps for Brazil. Really starting to show quality consistently too.
  10. Almost no one scores 20/season without pens… Do you believe the problem is personnel based then? Why don’t you think if we bring in someone new that we won’t have exactly the same problem? Issues at the moment don’t have anything to do with the quality of Ollie or Ings and if we keep bringing in expensive new players that’s what will keep us forever mid-table a la Everton. If you look at West Ham who finished 19/20 in 16th after bringing in Haller, Soucek, Fornals and Bowen. The following year they on brought in Benrahma and Coufal and finished 6th.
  11. Gerrard confirmed the club want him to sign. Carney’s team confirmed he wanted to wait until the end of the year (not unreasonable considering his age and the changes at Villa in the past 12 months). If you can show me where the club have confirmed that he’s on the way out, I’ll accept your point, but at this stage that particular component is exactly what is been exacerbated and peddled by the tabloid press.
  12. Sure but the argument for ‘we need a new striker because the ones we have aren’t scoring enough’ inherently suggests that they aren’t scoring enough because they’re not good enough. Right now we have 2 strikers who we know are up to a very very high standard, therefore replacing them with another striker without considering any of the additional factors your elude to will ultimately doom us to make the same mistakes. We always knew this year would be a year of transition, I for one would much prefer to leverage the time we have already invested in current players learning understand each other, and make the structural tweaks required to facilitate more goal output (which I think Gerrard has already begun).
  13. Carney’s team have said he wants to wait until the end of the season - not an unreasonable request considering his age and the changes at the club this season. Gerrards words were we want him to sign - media speculation interpretation has been he’s on his way out and refuses to sign a contract. This is unverified and pure tabloid speculation. Noteworthy none of the papers are speculating that he might stay.
  14. I think this year is officially the year to accept that everyone saying we need to sign another striker at the end of the year are going to say it literally every year regardless of personnel.
  15. Rather funny how everyone claims to hate the football media but they’re the ones who have made something out of nothing on this one and some posters have been caught hook line and sinker.
  16. Where did I say I thought he was better? I said I think Konsa is the better defender… But Konsa might not be as good as we thought
  17. Have we maybe overhyped Konsa and blamed Mings?? I still think he’s the best 1V1 defender of the lot, but defensively we look much stronger with Mings and Chambers. Konsa is still young so will get there, but not be as good as we thought he is just yet.
  18. Ollie was still kicking about in League 2 at 22 with Exeter City. I don’t by any stretch think this means he’ll make it, but some take a lot longer than the Bellingham/Foden/Sancho types.
  19. VT learning it’s lesson after everyone writing off Buendia: VT after reading this thread:
  20. If we’re disregarding age may as well compare him to Watkins.
  21. I mean that plan ultimately boils down to 3 options though right? - McGinn doesn’t mind - McGinn wants to be paid more and we pay it - McGinn wants to be paid more so we sell him
  22. Are you suggesting that Buendia and Bailey were signed with no intention of both of them to be on the pitch at the same time?? Are you also suggesting that had all players been fit under Smith, that we would not have seen all 3 of Bailey Buendia and Traore lining up in the same team in the 4-2-3-1 system?
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