The College Dropout

Im annoyed Frenkie won’t get his money. That wouldn’t have happened in England due to the PFA union putting in clauses to prevent clubs from doing that and then going out and splashing on new players. I’m happy that’s the case. Labour over bosses everyday for me.

Feels like Lampard is finding his zone as a PFM. Not so much this transfer. But others and his approach tactically recently is somehow.

He’s not playing as a 10 either. And as you may have learnt. I do not rate Almiron’s attacking highly at all.

A number 10 that can't spot a pass, create or shoot. Great aye.

Are there not a minimum of 6 Europa league games? He should look to play 2x as much at Man U than he would here. And no doubt he would be proud to play for them at this point in his career trajectory too.

Happy for the lad.

That higher bar for fouls contributed to that ACL imo. Such a rough game. Nobody will care until someone in the top 6 gets a serious injury.

Isak didn’t become available. We played well, Wilson got injured. The Chairman and the leadership team decided to increase what we were willing to pay for our actual top target and sent a delegation to Sociedad the next day to get a deal done. In reality it was a fairly big pivot.

Chris Waugh said the same in The Athletic. Plans changed decisively after the City game. Seeing how good we could be and the massive gulf after Wilson was injured. With the Chairman there they pivoted decisively. You can link all the articles from established journalists or quotes from Howe. People don’t care they want to stick to their opinion. The evidence suggests the plans changed after City. Some won’t accept that.

Someone posted his touches and runs against Barca. Almost exclusively on the right inside channel. The actual positions don’t vary much from the positions Almiron takes up. Think Henry at Arsenal. A lot of time in the channel. it’s not the same as RW In a 433 but you can see how it would work.

But for the fee? It’s a good deal.

I don’t like his lack of athleticism and I assume it’s going to get worse.

Bakayoko is Longstaff with better athleticism.

Gallagher? He started the Leeds game and he was terrible. He looked totally lost in that 2 man pivot. He then starts the next game and gets sent off after 2 poor fouls in about 30 minutes. You’re right in that might be just 100 minutes of football. But he’s looked totally off pace so far.

Good timing. He’s been diabolical for Chelsea. Although Eze’s taken his place and really kicked on after his injury.

Bailey started and looked dangerous against Palace and got an assist I think. Was on the bench in the league cup came off the bench and scored a nice goal. Benched for West Ham. Gerrard has to reward performances ffs.

Almiron also lacks confidence. Even on his left he hesitates and takes unnecessary touches in dangerous areas.

Watching MOTD - the commentator is awful. "Best ever start... since 2011".

Gerrard is not getting enough pressure for my liking. He's forcing this Coutinho thing. Buendia and Bailey are better at this point.

The lack of a right foot is crazy. pass, cross, shot. He won’t do it. The left is hardly a wand either.

He has something of the VVD about him minus the pace. When he’s good he makes it look easy. When he’s not so good he looks too passive.

Aye. Don’t play to his strengths at all. I wonder if we could get £10m for him and use that money for a player more suited like a Joao Pedro.

Good today. Great in the air. Lovely range of passing. think the continental approach of Wolves suit him. He’s good at trading movement and such.

Aye. He’s usually pretty good off the ball. With him and Joe a lot of teams can’t cope comfortably with our physicality. But both struggle to really play.

I like that Edson is a tall lad whose good in the air.