Based on his performance tonight he looks like a dud. But I have seen him defend a lot better - Don't get me wrong I think he was the worst player on the park but I don't think he was helped by Sanchez who after being praised by Conte pre-match had a fucking stinker, Lucas who just never supported or a central midfield pairing that were just meh.
Thoughts now?
I'm a little worried yeah.
I think Aurier would have stayed, and flourished had Conte come in. Massively underrated full back. Shame really but he was always going to leave with a year left. Still, paying him off seems really dumb now considering we could have just kept him around when he would have left for free anyway.
We seem addicted to the myth of deep-lying slow possession as a means of control. It's going to take longer, and more changes to the team, to drill this out of us from the dinosaur years of the "low block"
Well hopefully they come regardless of what position we finish because it’s clear we are nowhere near the required level. Not that it’s any surprise tbf.
Fingers crossed Paratici isn't involved, any **** that paid money for Emerson needs a brain fucking transplant.
Have to say I don’t entirely blame FP on Royal as he came in under whatever the Nuno experiment was, if anything I blame DL for not getting Conte in the first place because we’d have saved ourselves a shed load of cash and actually had players on board who fit conte’s plans as opposed to not hiring who we should have in the first instance then appointing him six months later.
Our worst signing since the previous right back we bought! I bet Barcelona couldn’t believe their luck that we offered actual real money for him.
If you read what I said, I said I’m not saying he’s a bad player but that was not a great performance and simply comparing his performance to Royal, Sanchez and Davies efforts as a benchmark does not mean he was particularly good.
Bungling a potential transfer and only doing business on deadline day every year for the past decade, now thats lame.
agree, especially when we are so bad at it - we can't get near teams, we just get dominated and concede. We need to play on the front foot more because teams have figured us out and simply press us. Also we go backwards far too much, its almost like it is the first option which needs to change.
Just so we're absolutely clear about this, how long do you think you have left?
