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Yeah, said for a while that Miley could end up being the third piece. Would love to see it tried.

We absolutely don’t need a DM with Tonali in there. If anything we need a technical left-leaning CM for when we don’t need to play Joelinton.

Think he’s never going to be tidy enough to play CM for a top club. Not to mention being quite fragile physically. Sadly don’t think he’ll be a future first-team player for us. Maybe a decent option of the bench to take workload off others.

Decent

The fact it’s fluid is important as well IMO. It’s not Tonali just standing in front of the back four and Bruno staying in the RCM role ahead. They’re both taking up all sorts of excellent positions throughout the game. The fact Tonali doesn’t give the ball away every five seconds also helps a lot.

Said a few weeks ago I think the midfield will end up being Miley, Bruno, Tonali soonish. In games we expect to dominate. Medium term we should probably be looking for a left footed technical midfielder for that role.

His reading of the game is amazing. Noticed him cover Hall and then Trippier in about 5 minutes of play towards the end.

His attitude is brilliant. Even if he makes a mistake or misses a chance, he swings his boot properly at the next one.

Nonsense I’m afraid.

Yep.

While Man City have won the league nearly every season.

Good post @HawK, I'll read it all eventually. FWIW I never said I didn't understand people who want the selling model, or who think we have to go down that route. Not that I remember anyway.

I can’t see any successful strategy that involves selling all your elite players, surely. What would be the point? Just so you can continue to buy lesser players and finish in the same position? Like I’ve said before, I can’t see the Brighton strategy working for us on its own. That can only work if you’re happy to finish in a mediocre league position. If you have ambitions to be higher than that you need to have elite quality in your team. This may be wishful thinking, I admit. But I feel there has to be something more than just selling good players to buy potential all the time. I don’t think any top club does that.

Absolutely cannot sell this lad.

Fair play to Manchester for fitting 5 defenders and a DM into the lineup.