- Oct 19, 2004
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In all fairness I had overlooked dembele so I can absolutely see your point in starting him.
Regarding the youngsters I do believe it's a case of unless they play we'll never know. Look at all the young players given a chance last year and seized it, shaw, prowse, stones, sterling, Barkley, flanagan, Bentelab, janazai (sp?), berahino, Wickham even Coutinho. If rather give our youngsters a chance rather than bringing others in and dropping them down the pecking order.
It's just my opinion and I could well be wrong but I've seen what some of thse lads are capable of.
Remy/Soldado, I'd pick bobby every day of the week
Sorry - I agree with Mattspur on this insofar as that lineup isn't good enough. I wouldn't agree it's not good enough for EL qualifier but it's certainly not good enough for the Premier League - too many passengers.
Soldado, Capoue, Lamela, Townsend & Chiriches have all shown flashes but not done it consistently as yet, whilst Fryers is an unproven kid. You could accomodate one, perhaps two, of them in a stronger lineup, but not five. Someone like Verts will start losing interest again.
It'd be OK for the EL, but for the PL we should be looking at:
--------------Lloris------------
Walker---NewDF---Verts-Davies
--------Capoue--Dembele------
--Lennon---Holtby---Eriksen----
--------------Remy------------
I have assumed Sandro is off and Ade missinng start of season due to illness. I have also assumed we sign Davies (looking close), Loic Remy (if Arsenal sign Ballotelli in addition to Sanchez they won't want him and he'll join us) and a new centre half (would still like Lovren).
Had thought about Chadli in the middle and unconvinced by Lennon on RW in long-term but his rivals (Lamela, Townsend), whilst bright prospects, still haven't done enough to claim his place quite yet - he does link up well with Walker and his crossing is better these days. As this is a lineup for the start of the season I left him in.
In all fairness I had overlooked dembele so I can absolutely see your point in starting him.
Regarding the youngsters I do believe it's a case of unless they play we'll never know. Look at all the young players given a chance last year and seized it, shaw, prowse, stones, sterling, Barkley, flanagan, Bentelab, janazai (sp?), berahino, Wickham even Coutinho. If rather give our youngsters a chance rather than bringing others in and dropping them down the pecking order.
It's just my opinion and I could well be wrong but I've seen what some of thse lads are capable of.
Remy/Soldado, I'd pick bobby every day of the week