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Saw your earlier post, i think Tonali is best suited to drop into central and rotate as needed throughout the match with Bruno as he's got the experience playingh deeper in either a 2-man double pivot, a lone DM (though that's not his best position of course) and a right and left sided 8 >>> versus any of our other midfielders. But ya, he's actually very strong and very quick, and technically swtiched on more than all of them outside of Bruno. I think if fully fit you'd see Joelinton or Willock on the left and often times seeing Bruno/Tonali do their rotation thing and sometimes even both drop in as a double pivot and allow the LCM to be more of a 10/winger/attacker to overload.

those swooshes are rank. can they just make sure those match the color of the kit so it just looks like same color panels and not an accent?

His death still hurts me deeply, particularly hurting for his wife and kids.

Over $4.0 billion raised through taxpayer funding. Issue is there is no protection in American sports; if a stadium deal is coming due (usually always owned by a local public/private entity that leases to the sports team) and there isn't an expansion or new one funded via the taxpayer route; a team will just up and leave to a different area or city. See: Browns -> Baltimore. See: Chicago Bears wanting to leave Soldier Field for Arlington Park. Some of it is sadly eerily similar to the UK stadiums too in terms of what clubs/teams want vs the fans. I think fan views have more clout over in England than they do over here tho, tbh

He should not be the highest earner at the club. if that's what he's holding out for, then that's not really something the club should do.

Depends on the stadium, but they generally host other sports or concerts or events. Using Tampa as an example, the Bucs stadium also is the home stadium for the USF Bulls (NCAA college football, division 1), it hosts college football bowl games a year, and is within the selection process for the college football national championship game. So thats 6 home games for USF and maybe 2-3 college bowl games additional happening concurrently with NFL season. the stadium is also the biggest in Tampa so it will be home to major music concerts, ie: Billy Joel and Sting are playing there end of February. They do Monster Truck shows there, WrestleMania has been there....you get my drift.

NFL has time outs that coaches/players call, TV time outs for broadcasting sponsors, time outs for significant injuries, quarter changes and half time. It's a start-stop match. In a 3 hour game from start to finish, on avg an entire NFL game is defined in ~11 minutes of actual play. American sports are defined by both the on-field experience, and the off-field stuff. In general you have people who park their cars and tailgate (look it up) before a game, which the fanatical who get there as soon as the parking lots open and they set up elaborate food and drink, invite friends and etc. It's a tradition, akin to Football fans going to the pubs before the matches. My family have been season ticket holders to the Bucs since the early 90s and we parked in the same lot (via our pass we purchased), we tailgated with the same 5-6 families who we only met through the parking lot proximity and it was something we did 8x a season for like 15+ years and the group grew and shrunk as people moved away or came back. American staidums were always built in city centers and then they were moved out of town for cost of land and parking and then again theres this push to bring them back into city centers, but thats easier for arenas which are way smaller. In football theres really not much time to "maximize" eat/drink in the ground and that's because there's just loads of traditional smashing places in and around the cities (if you have a city center stadium) that need and deserve that business IMO.

In love the thought process with this. the compact straight line works with JL and Tonali, and when Bruno isn’t getting a head of steam. we need to play tino LB and play a similar style at Villa. Which is press and do our thing there but also sit back and counter. Bruno needs ultimate discipline. Do that and we’ll be beat these. It’s when we go balls against the wall and lose control that the gap forms.

have to go to a funeral. :-/

Twitter saying he’s ok?

try a laxative for the deuce

where is the fair market value test????

We're far too chaotic and lose control. Fab and Dan Burn on their bike far too often and when they do we have absolutely nobody covering for them and boom, they are on the break. Keep saying this, but our summer window - we need a few more experienced senior heads. I said it last season, I said it this past summer and I'll keep saying it. The matches we lost/draw in the CL were avoidable if we could have kept our calm and saw things out, or kept our calm and worked out a way to win.

Again, Burn's inclusion whilst Livramento is fit rests soley on the manager for putting him in that position. It's a match-up issue - you don't match-up Steph Curry with Bol Bol; you don't place a linebacker on Tyreek Hill.

want to see him just smack a shot at goal and force the keep to make a save or at best push it out for someone else to pounce in.

7-8-9 for me this season. Hopefully it’s more like 5-7.

I’d say Barnes is as much of a wide forward as you can define in football. He’s a 10 goal guy at least and probably would have that easily given the number of chances our wingers get in our systems. His ball striking and placement are really high level.

yes. A ball over the top late that their winger volleyed low and was saved by Dubz

We all talk about having a squad and having different types of players, to use tactically and situationally. Sure he doesn’t get into the team when everyone is fit but everyone is rarely ever fit at once, and tactical game plans call for something else. Sure hindsight is easy to view from, Barkley has done well for Luton playing every day and not a single team got near him but Luton after some shite spells elsewhere…but, there have been many of us who’ve been saying for ages that we thought the club would try and take advantage of some talented players on a free who are in need of new opportunities, clean slates and proper coaching. Barkley as a sub or rotation option for us here even when everyone is fit would have made a ton of sense and if he didn’t pan out at his cheap wages you boot him. feel like ando right now and want to yell “just put it in the net!” - our fans on here are allergic to suggestions that we could have possibly taken a chance on someone else and that our recruitment team are human and can make mistakes.

I would play a fully fit, end of last season willock over a fully fit Joelinton because we’ll get a driving attacking midfielder who can carry the ball up field and make attacking runs. Think him and Gordon could be fucking deadly.

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I’ve no issue with Burn and the slating of Burn is fucking stupid. The issue is our manager continues to place him up against extremely rapid right wingers and we don’t have the armor of Willock, Joelinton, Tonali or a rested/rotated Gordon to help him with pacy wingers. If the other team is playing a less direct pacy winger then that is fine. Tino has literally marked top world class wingers out of the game for the most part with very good 1 v 1 defending and has excellent recovery pace.

nah but Barkley properly did Murphy and Longstaff for his goal

given I think we’d have done well to take a flyer on him for free (other thread) I don’t think he’d start if everyone was available. Bruno, Tonali, Willock, JL then Barkley for me. Miley, Longstaff Anderson after. Thing is, Barkley offers the technical aspect we don’t really have outside of a Bruno and Tonali.

That Bruno cross that Murphy chopped over was absolutely absurd.