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I bet you've just won the league and Champions League on Football Manager 2013 haven't you?
Tactical genius.
Tactical genius.
Today it could have been:
Lloris
Walker Gallas Dawson Vert
Lennon Sandro Dempsey Bale
Ade Defoe
I bet you've just won the league and Champions League on Football Manager 2013 haven't you?
Tactical genius.[/quote
I think the article is fair and created healthy debate. Not sure why you have derided it?
I bet you've just won the league and Champions League on Football Manager 2013 haven't you?
Tactical genius.
Not out yet.... But I will be giving it a bash!
On a serious note, that is if there is one to your comment? Are you happy with our tactics? If so where do you think it is going wrong?
AVB has done some good stuff this season but he's also being very stubborn with some of the players he continues to persist with even though we have others waiting in the wing who would clearly improve the team.
Where exactly in our team do you see a good hold up striker and a quality right winger?
Dempsey, Sigy and Defoe are at most a mid table club players.........
You really think dropping defoe is the answer?? Where are the goals going to come from?
You really think dropping defoe is the answer?? Where are the goals going to come from?
Lets not forget the countless times he is offside. So frustrating.The goals will come from a number of areas. It is a myth that Defoe is a prolific goal scorer. He misses far more than he scores and to top this all off he has no footballing intelligence at all. In the first few games I counted at least 20 opportunities where a simple pass would have produced a clear cut goal-scoring opportunity, yet Defoe choose to shoot. Of those opportunities he only scored a single goal, thats not exactly conclusive, but it makes my point. By playing Defoe you are taking intelligence out of your side, you are asking a player to play a role he cannot. By dropping Defoe and playing Ade you are making us a more cohesive unit, as his movement and ability to hold up the ball allows players to get into goal scoring positions by creating space and flicking balls on. Also Ade was hardly a slouch in the goal scoring department last season, he got 14 goals and similar number of assists.
Let's put something to bed right now, Dempsey is not a bad player, you do not score that many goals for a mid table team in the PL and be a bad player. However Dempsey is not a midfielder in the classical sense. He isn't going to pick the ball up and spray it around, what he is going to do is make intelligent runs and cause defences a nightmare by being unpredictable with his runs. Playing Ade provides players like Dempsey, Bale, Siggy and Lennon all to make a greater impact as they will not be trying to get into a game without a platform.
Defoe has a vital role to play for us, that role is of an impact sub. He can be very dangerous in the last 20 mins and that is how we should be using him.
This is the crux of it for me, despite all the injuries we have had, one of the biggest problems this season is that we have had better players sitting on the bench continually because AVB is being loyal to a certain few.
yeah, because the one thing that game lacked was Dawson whacking the ball 60 yards to their CB's to complete the set of shitness.
Tbf he sees them in training and don't think it some sore of loyalty. I am not sure who is on the bench who is definitely better than the ones fielded. Problems is that thre are too few on a whole who are performing and quite a serious injury situation currently.