Coffee_Johnny Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 9 minutes ago, MrRaspberryJam said: Joelinton, Shelvey and Bruno was our midfield 3 last season when available IIRC. Shelvey sat deep You’re bang on. They’ve played more together than I recalled, 13 games. Two this season (Southampton away win and Palace 3rd round cup win). Interesting looking at who he’s played with and who has played with who! https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jonjo-shelvey/gemeinsamespiele/spieler/71292 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawalls Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ronaldo said: Longstaff has no business being a regular starter for a team with top 4 aspirations mind. They really need to address that. I’m sure my wife thinks he’s called fucksake longstaff as that’s all I seem to shout when we’re on Tv Edited January 22, 2023 by Gawalls Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyn davies Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Ronaldo said: Longstaff has no business being a regular starter for a team with top 4 aspirations mind. They really need to address that. Do we think if an offer came in this window we would accept ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relámpago blanco Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 41 minutes ago, wyn davies said: Do we think if an offer came in this window we would accept ? No, we don't have enough midfielders as it is. Unless you get a silly offer, 25M+ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 I’d say Longstaff is in the top 3 players most likely to still be here in three seasons time. He won’t be a starter, but he will be here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 That makes little sense. We've only just signed Bruno, Botman, Isak, Pope. That's 4 already Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cubaricho Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 3 hours ago, Jaqen said: I think because Bruno likes to push on a fair bit more than a traditional 6 you need a more defensive minded player in the three alongside him This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 2 minutes ago, cubaricho said: This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. I’d prefer another Bruno, and the fluid flexible midfield it would offer, but I’d take that Alvarez dude from Ajax in a heart beat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 1 minute ago, cubaricho said: This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. Yep, I'm OK with signing a "DM" to let Bruno play further forward but if we do that the player should be someone who is comparable to Bruno in the way they play. It's not really a defensive player in our system as a lot of what we want from that role is someone who can break the press when we're trying to play it out from the back and someone who can pick a pass in opposition territory when possession is recycled back to them. Bruno is great as he can continue to play that role as we've seen this year if we went for someone more attack minded but he could be pushed further forward if we went for a deep lying playmaker. Personally lean towards leaving him in the position he's played this year and signing someone like Maddison. Would be a great mixture of players having a Joelinton, Bruno and Maddison midfield trio. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Rather get a 10 or player capable of unlocking defence then a DM type Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Puppets Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Howe pretty much confirmed in his post game press conference yesterday that he's looking for ONE player. Personally think it'll be a versatile forward / attack minded player, someone who can play across the front or at number 10. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqen Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 34 minutes ago, cubaricho said: This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. Eh? We are clearly playing with a more defensive midfielder now though? Longstaff is essentially playing that role from RCM we've been more or less playing with a lobsided double pivot with him and Bruno for a while now and letting the two Joe's interchange in the left. We need quality on the ball more than anything in the midfield. A ball playing CM with Bruno to the side doesn't make us worse IMO. Put a Rodri or someone in there and Longstaff dropped and we are miles better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 A good egg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 The only thing I worry about with Howe is the sheer amount of football he consumes. It’s his best trait but I just desperately hope it doesn’t burn him out. That high performance podcast made me a bit scared that he doesn’t seem to enjoy things at all in the moment but maybe many great coaches are like that because they’re perfectionists and always know there are things that need to improve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 7 hours ago, PauloGeordio said: ?????????? hopefully the stats of the missed goals opportunities will be put to bed soon enough, just like his old defensive stats! ? Sorry to keep banging on about it, but this stat just makes me angry every time I see it, because the only game we lost this season was against Liverpool where we got cheated out of going 2-0 up and winning the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobS Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Jack27 said: A good egg my friends son on the right, hes still buzzing tonight lol, EH left a very good impression as you'd expect Edited January 22, 2023 by RobS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 19 minutes ago, RobS said: my friends son on the right, hes still buzzing tonight lol, EH left a very good impression as you'd expect That’s so lovely of Eddie and triggers a nice memory of my son playing (under 8’s) in front of Guardiola on his unveiling at City. Lost interest a bit in football but still has signed shirt/beaming smiley picture on his wall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampokong Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Illustrious company. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Weird that they specify this century rather than just the usual PL history. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Disco said: Knowing how he is person who always wants to improve, he's probably gutted looking at that stat and be thinking he would have loved to turn those draws into wins rather than setting records. I bet you he's already studying the art of that right now. That goals against stat though. Fuck me how well have we done in that aspect. The cunt Bruce with his 'attacking football' philosophy ffs. Edited January 23, 2023 by nufcjb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbthree3 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weezertron Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 1 hour ago, sampokong said: That list is rank, like. Hopefully he can go long enough to get on the good list with international managers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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