Our club has to get out of this mentality. We sign players for a lot of money, and our fans assume that they have to play, and will be in the starting line up every week.
Why do we lack ambition so much? To be a big club, you have to think like a big club, and we haven't moved with the times. The top 4 have £15 million players on the bench every week, why cant we?
What I am really getting at is.....we should still sign try to sign Arshavin, and with him we CAN still have a balanced team on the pitch every week.
Last night our midfield four were run ragged by a midfield 5. Not just because Bentley was cack, but because Lennon was playing very wide and we were cut through like butter.
What if we could have switched to a 4-5-1 with attacking flair? Imagine Modric, Arshavin and Lennon in it, with Zokora and a 100% Appiah doing the donkey work? They wouldn't have cut us open then.
If we bought him we could resonably have two great lineups for all kinds of scenarios, and without the shambolic bench we had last night.
Gomes
Corluka Woody King BAE
Zokora Appiah
Modric
Lennon Pav Arshavin
Gomes
Corluka Hutton King BAE
Lennon Appiah Modric O'Hara
Defoe Pav
And then you still have Bent, jenas, Dawson, Hutton, Bale, Bentley, Hudd, Dos Santos, Campbell
i.e endless possibilities, and depth.
You have to be able to adapt, and we are one trick ponies.
When are we going to make our claim as a top club by really acting like one?
Why do we lack ambition so much? To be a big club, you have to think like a big club, and we haven't moved with the times. The top 4 have £15 million players on the bench every week, why cant we?
What I am really getting at is.....we should still sign try to sign Arshavin, and with him we CAN still have a balanced team on the pitch every week.
Last night our midfield four were run ragged by a midfield 5. Not just because Bentley was cack, but because Lennon was playing very wide and we were cut through like butter.
What if we could have switched to a 4-5-1 with attacking flair? Imagine Modric, Arshavin and Lennon in it, with Zokora and a 100% Appiah doing the donkey work? They wouldn't have cut us open then.
If we bought him we could resonably have two great lineups for all kinds of scenarios, and without the shambolic bench we had last night.
Gomes
Corluka Woody King BAE
Zokora Appiah
Modric
Lennon Pav Arshavin
Gomes
Corluka Hutton King BAE
Lennon Appiah Modric O'Hara
Defoe Pav
And then you still have Bent, jenas, Dawson, Hutton, Bale, Bentley, Hudd, Dos Santos, Campbell
i.e endless possibilities, and depth.
You have to be able to adapt, and we are one trick ponies.
When are we going to make our claim as a top club by really acting like one?