Tiresias

I dunno people sometimes think a centre mid could play a false 9 easily but I don't think it's quite so easy to suddenly get used to it. Willock's game is those runs from deep into the box, part of that being successful is having a striker or another player already in teh box pulling defenders, and equally someone up front to lay the ball off to him arriving. In false 9 we wouldnt have anyone to hold up play and defenders could mark him like a striker as there's no-one else there. The reason false 9s are rare is cos it's hard to do!

Oh god, awful

Would explain it in fairness

I suspect the kind of runs willock makes from the centre does benefit him as will draft defenders away from him. He needs to be more patient receiving the ball deeper to try and vary up what he is going to do.

I just mean in general not this game, he says it often when he loses. I am not being super critical, it is perfectly legitimate if he thinks his team responds better to that praise but it is quite funny at times

Seems there is a bunch of fans of all teams now who will boo anyone and anything for any reason. He was a good servant for a long time deserves no emnity. Wonder if it is the same people who booed him a lot when he was here, sometimes he was poor but his contribution was often underrated

Rodgers is king of the 'we were outstanding' after his team gets hammered

What was it they spent on pepe haha

I, one of the more miserable pessimistic twats am ready to call this 0 (rounded down from 0.3) would have to be freak circumstances like a point deduction at this point

What on earth were arsenal doing stalling on this guy

Leicester have arguably had a pretty poor season in the league i remain a little unsure on Rodgers but it's not like chop and changing is guaranteed to do anything manager wise. With poch wanting to return to the league end of season he may be looking over his shoulder a bit

Think I have seen it before oddly can remember involving Samuel Etoo but can't remember which team hah. Having said that haven't they conceded loads of corner goals so maybe it's not a good idea

Get in!

I think you're missing the point, you buy a club with the clubs own money and put them into debt doing so, you take as much money out of the club as possible, the club implodes and then you pull out leave them in administration and through complex legal fuckery you depart enriched some point. You keep them in premier league for more money to rake in thats great but it's not like they give a shit about it.

Yep basically same way Man U was bought, they have huge money making ability though Burnley do not. Basically classic vulture capitalism, come in buy something now it's going to go down and they will leave it with profits sucked out in a pile of debt. Fit and proper is a joke always has been

Mad way too late and feel he's probably owed chance to take them straight back up too

Would love Philips

We will spend our way to the top, but I don't think it is going to be splurged. To get there you need top of the class backroom staff. You need facilities to attract players which we are a long way behind on and if we start giving out the mega wages now it will destroy the dressing room. Equally to appease financial fair play as feeble as it is we need to massively improve our commercial revenue. Until we are challenging for titles etc it will most likely (if we are sensible) be young prospects who are not yet finished product that the likes of real madrid etc wouldn't be after yet and really solid experienced players like Trippier and we will build up over several windows. If we went and bought Pogba nad a bunch of super high wages mercenaries in summer, not only would it stop us signing lots of more reasonable players, the squad would be unbalanced shit.

I am not sure any manager could fix them, they need to fundamentally shift how they buy players, shift a load of players who they can't because of wages and stop signing players based on marketability. They will make all the right notes initially maybe even have a good first season and then they will be unable to resist signing a arthritic Messi for the shirt sales at the expense of 4 or 5 other players Hag wanted and they will be no better.

Did he get on with Trippier from his Spurs days? Maybe someones had a word. Regardless transfer rumours at this point are very very unreliable and a lot can change even if that is true

I think 1 quality centre back who may well displace either Schar and Burn and if we get another it will be a promising young inexpensive one who will mainly be used in cups.

My expectation/hope would be 2022/23 - Solid midtable, maybe 9th with fun cup run 2023/24 - Pushing for top half 6th or 7th and a semi final at least in a cup 2024/25 - First genuine push to get top 4 maybe even expense of a cup, just get 4th 2025/26 - Would expect a very good squad with depth by now so now 3rd and cup final 2026/27 - Now basically in league or champions league contender, not that it won't take time to actually win something still but this is where probably any excuses for not being in the mix due to still building stop Looking back think may well take another season before we get to the top 4 push, but who knows.

Only a couple of years ago Fulham spent a huge amount of money on coming up from championship replacing a large amount of the squad and they flopped hard. It's really not simple just buying new players every position and expecting it to work out. We have a good team spirit, it needs to be carefully managed not binned for sake of spending a lot of money. I suspect we will be looking at signing 3 or 4 first teamers max and the rest of the signings will be young prospect squad players. It will also depend on how many we can ship out and we may struggle to get rid of some

I agree with signing competition and I agree he lacks pace but whole sale changes to the squad the club have made clear aren't going to happen, they are planning to evolve the squad. Considering how often even the most well run club sign a centre back who turns out to be rubbish there's no way we should let a player who is performing well leave. Contract extention should be a priority. A centre back to provide high standard competition should be signed

Watford are a weird one, I think their recruitment is generally pretty excellent, what's holding them back is the turnover of managers, none have the chance to build anything and the squad aren't going to listen as they know they will be gone after a bit.