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Feels like Lewis needs at least 2 seconds on the ball without being pressured in order to pass the ball forward. Get Duff flashbacks with all his backpasses after receiving the ball in a position where he should attempt to dribble and get forward.

Poor from Lewis, poor from Hayden, poor from Dubravka.

Can you slag off more players in the team please?

Give the ball to ASM strategy looking viable at the moment.

It requires team mates to make good runs too. If they don't have any specific instructions on where and when to make runs and just whim it every game the passes will be more difficult to make as well I would imagine.

Lejeunes passes in that clip man Him in the squad would render Shelvey completely useless.

I know this is counter productive but I hate when this thread gets bumped, which happens very often. It's almost 6.5 years since he left but this thread can't have left the front page on many occasions in that time period. He doesn't deserve so much attention.

1.5 maybe if we're being kind?

:lol: There's people here who'll never concede that the takeover has failed. We'll be sat here posting in decades time and they'll still be all "Announcement on Friday. Mark my words." Was just about to reply something similar. Haven't really paid attention to the takeover thread since PIP & Co announced they pulled out mid last year. Unless there's anything new (substantial information) that has completely went past me I fail to see why a relegation is such a bad thing for a takeover. In my mind I've already embraced relegation, and hope that we don't succeed in getting straight back up too so that the club becomes a financial burden to Ashley.

If we get relegated, even with selling the obvious players (like Dubs, Fernandez, Lejeune, ASM, Hayden, Lascelles, Schar, Wilson, Fraser, Almiron), we could field a team like this: ---------------Darlow-------------- Manq---Clarke--Dummett---Lewis --------Hendrick--Shelvey--------- Murphy----------------------Ritchie -----------Gayle--Joelinton-------- Bench: Gillespie Krafth Longstaff Shortstaff Getting in some cheap experienced cover and giving youth players some chances, that should (with a semi competent manager) easily get us up again first time trying.

Isn't it more Everton under Moyes to 4th finish vibes?

He has been dreadful. He just jogs back and forth around the mid circle and passes the ball 5 yards to the side immediately upon receiving it to a player just as poorly positioned to make something happen as himself. If it's on instruction from Klopp it's horrible tactics, if it's on his own accord he's just playing dreadful.

Wor Luke blasting it, by his standards, in the back of the net for Sevilla. Had forgot he exsisted.

Hindsight is a great thing. Luque was a well known talent at the time, and was a fantastic signing. I'd have him over Boa Morte 10/10 times before we signed him. I thought the price and wages we paid was a steal despite the stories afterwards of Shepherds negotiation skills. I'm still confident he'd be one of our best players in recent history had it not been for his early injury.

What about 4 points adrift after 24 games? If that's how the league table was then it wouldn't take much to run the data but I'm not going to run scenarios that don't (currently) exist. The data as of today is pretty conclusive though (I'm a spreadsheet geek because of my job). No worries, wasn't meant as a serious request I do think there's a good chance we're only 4 points ahead come wednesday though, and if it's one team that strives to break every negative record in book then it's us.

What about 4 points adrift after 24 games?

Harrison Reed looking like what we wish Matty was.

Is that the ex-sunderland Maja?

He didn't strike me as a very good footballer necessarily. However, unlike Hendrick, Shelvey and the Longstaffs he doesn't end up chasing shadows for 90 minutes and is able to impact the game at both ends of the pitch by simply being in the right positions at the right time.

I'd still have him over Colback.

Saw the same in first half when Manquillo was getting treatment. Almiron and ASM were by the dugout getting instructions from Jones. Bruce bumbling around in the background doing nothing.

Never noticed before that Ødegård is a pointer. I hate pointers.

CL is boring. Haven't watched a game in 3-4 years I think. They continue to water it down and I don't understand how it is so popular. Late 90's were peak CL for me.

Give Moyes a lanky central midfielder and he'll have your team competing for a CL spot. Amazing what he's managed at West Ham, saving them from relegation twice and really kicking on this season.