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izzou:
Only one person get all these land?

So na my landlord be this all this while?

Leyqute:
Last season and this season, top teams struggled. With Pep’s departure and Liverpool floundering, next season might be same. Maybe 80-85 points might be enough to win the league in 2027.

Just thinking out loud.

It is possible sha but we should not bank on it.
Liverpool has the the tools to be much better with the nearly 500m they spent in one window. They will get a better manager and probably spend more.
Chelsea will always spend and be around. Man City will always spend.
Arsenal is still there as well.

We must follow this last strong summer window with another strong window.

MRTA7:
I would really want us to buy a LB in the summer. I like west ham's diouf and he has an amazing cross on him.

Fair enough. It’s all about the money available IMO.

CM should be the no 1 priority sha.

Leyqute:
You have a point. For all their ills INEOS seems to know how to buy well. They look more capable at building a squad than their predecessors. If we do well this summer, next season can be good. But it won’t be easy making back to back top 4 finishes. Or challenging for the title next season.

Yes, it is looking like most of their buys have been decent.

The summer transfer window and manager appointment will play decisive roles on how next season will go. The other top clubs that are struggling this season would likely not struggle next season.

Leyqute:
Agree re Dalot. But I suspect Carrick won’t change the starting xi next game. Maybe in the game after that.

Na God know how we go manage Europe plus league next season.

It just depends on how much money is available. SJR was talking like we had no money last summer and people were thinking of Delap only for him to spend big on 3 attacking players.

If the money is tight the focus should be CM (at least 2), a starting LW, a rotation CF. Since Cunha has refused to man the LW maybe he can be retooled to be Bruno's long-term replacement next season.


4 or 5 top quality reinforcements via transfer and hopefully a few academy players can step up to save us some money. It is about time a few of them stepped up and did a Mainoo.

We have 5 serviceable CBs, 2 serviceable senior RBs and a few potential academy RBs. Shaw, Dorgu, and if under duress, Heaven can play LB. Amass might be in the squad next season as well. We have 2 senior RWs and an academy RW.

engrelvis, you don see small team now ba?

xG of less than 1 because of haramic low block football. If we were playing a bigger team space for yapa around their 18yd box.

The skillset needed to attack teams that will open up and give you easy passing planes and space in behind is different from the one needed to attack low block.

The skillset needed to defend against a team pressing you into your box is different from the one needed to defend on the halfway line. e.g. Maguire vs Yoro

Leyqute:
It’s a long break indeed.

Hopefully we’ll work out new ways to score against low blocks during that period.

Talking about low blocks, our next match (away vs Everton) might be worse than yesterday. They successfully parked the bus at Old Trafford and won 1-0. Nwoyes will try that approach again.

If we approach that game the same way we approached the West Ham match , wahala go happen.

I think Yoro should get more game time against these low block teams. He’s faster and more offensive than Maguire. If not for him we’d have lost against West Ham. Kept us in the game with 2 wondrous blocks.

The Everton result was more due to our cluelessness than to Everton's low block. Yesterday Wet Haram limited us to 10 shots with an xG of less than 1. I agree the Everton game will be tough however but that is partly because they will be able to defend better than West Ham even without a low block.

Martinez, Mainoo, Maguire were just posing on the ball in the 1st half like don dadas. Serious wakeup call. The next game must end in a win.

Yeah, it might be a good time to play Yoro. If we are facing low block teams, he or Heaven should be the choice ahead of Maguire. It is also looking like Dalot is about to lana. The guy don focus die for 4 games, him head don dey pain am. We should rest him for Maz before he woundjure us.

Leyqute:
I mentioned my concerns about him a week ago. Several peeps here said he’ll come good.

Fingers crossed 🤞🏽

I think he is tired. That effort and acceleration was not just there. I saw glimpses of it in the Fulham game which is why i wanted him to be rested after that.

Thank God for the break over the next few days.

Hmmm

I suspected that banana will turn iron in this game.
Away game. West Ham fighting for their lives. Their manager is haramic. We had less than 1 week rest.

2 criticisms of Carrick:
1) Allowing the team complete that whole first half at walking pace thereby playing into the hands of West Haram.

2) Not making the Sesko change at half time or immediately they scored.

1 praise:

Making the Yoro for Maguire change. Prevented a couple of West Ham counterattack goals and helped us with ball progression.

Dalot will get a red card in this game if exquisite care is not taken.
Maz for Dalot and whoever for Sesko.

The cardinal sin against a haramic team: letting them score first.

Case and Mainoo have to speed up the play in midfield.

All this posing on the ball won’t move West Haram. Those ones are prepared to play at this dead pace for 40 days and 40 nights.

Dalot’s brain has misfired about 3 times in this first half.

Na 3 points me dey look for today. All this Amorin and Alaimorin talk don dey stale.

It is an away game against a team that is on a good run of form and is battling relegation, coached by one of the most haramic of bus parkers this side of Demon Bordelas.

Banana fit turn iron.

Tochex101:
Auxerre-----Liverpool------Marseille-------Sunderland-------Panathinaikos-------Lazio-------QPR-------Al Gharafa------Krasnodar------Bastia------Yverdon.

Black guy with white hair. Skoi skoi for head, POP for leg.

You see say I sabi am.

odizeey:
I laugh. Let them continue.

Four wins and we are getting carried away.

Ole won 9 of his first ten games. I'm enjoying the wins now but I'm not getting carried away.

A title contending squad should not be dependent on the first eleven. We know how many times de bryune got injured during City dominance but they still dominated.

It feels great to be winning games back-to-back-to-back and long may it continue.

We need to be careful though that we don't rest on our laurels even if we win all our remaining games. The squad still needs loads of additions and improvement next season, especially with the increase in games.

We don't have good subs at LB and CM. The LW situation too is not clear.

iamharkinwaley:
This team will be west ham hands down, I can’t believe some what some of you say here lol.

We have a lot of tough games coming up although the team can still pick the win in most of them.

We just need to be lucky with injuries and also improve on our conversion rate which is still not up to standard. That Sesko last second miss was worrying.

For those saying this team is good enough for a title race, I hope the Glazers/INEOS don’t think like you. This is what led to the alternating 1 big window and 1 small window of the Mourinho era.
This season the evidence (even under Carrick) shows us that we are a Casemiro injury or red card away from floundering.
No quality replacement for any of our 3 midfielders actually.

Even with Casemiro we needed 2 quality CMs. When he leaves that might increase to 3 unless someone from the academy has a Mainoo rise (maybe one out of Kone, T Fletcher, Devaney).

Ugarte is a zero who is blocking the progress of superior technical talents and should be sold.

Mainoo might make a late charge for the World Cup squad.

Leyqute:
Sesko na wah o

Na extremely real wa. Kasimawo.

3 points too sweet walahi.

chrisley024:
you asked and got it

Opelope anointing.

Carrick should have made the sub earlier IMO.

Why is Casemiro nutmegging in that situation and why is Bruno doing rabona. The score is 1-0 o.

Ellexy:
They're not sitting back at all.

The red card changed that.

There can be no excuses in this game.

Playing crap against 10 men. Careless passes everywhere. Shaw is a toad.

Amad is on a yellow. He is doing a good job on Udogie but Michael Oliver has main character syndrome and hates United. Take Amad off and move Mbeumo to the right. Cunha on the left and Sesko up top.

Today might be the day that Carrick’s team faces a low block for the first time.

We need to watch out for their counters and we also need to take our chances.

This was one of our easiest fixtures during SAFs time.

How times have changed.

CapitalCee:
Afrodoc2, abeg whatsup with that guy Orozsco abi na wetin be him name sef, wey we sign. they said he is the nee Caicedo. Do we have hope or abi mke we mind our business?

Because that Leon guy we bought that was crying as he was leaving Colombia, even U21 sef de hard am.

Orozco’s tape looks better than Leon’s tape before coming but then again I have only seen Orozco play under-age football.

Leon has been struggling really badly. He has been the worst player in the Under-21 side and even Under-18 players stepping up to the Under-21s are doing better than him.

Maybe it’s just a settling down issue and he will regain his groove by next season. He needs to lose some of that weight though. It takes him 7 days and 7 nights to turn and accelerate.

CapitalCee:
You are correct on all the players. Amad seems to be the only person in our team that can comfortably take on defenders. Even Bruno is good too against low block.
I think the key issue we had versus low block is the pace of our defenders If we get a proper press resistant Midfielders and Pacy defenders we will prosper against low block teams. And I hate to say this, but Arsenal strategy of using setpieces as an alternative to unlock teams like that is what we should try to use tpo
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Yes we are already doing okay in terms of utilising set pieces. Amorim’s set piece coach at least did a good job on that this season before they left. I remember I lambasted the guy last season cos we were woeful in that aspect.

You have a point about the lack of pace at the back though players like Rashy, Garnacho being primarily counterattacking players also contributed.