Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.
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Our football is very easy on the eye. But the intricacy of some of our interplay inevitably leads to the increased risk of losing the ball. This is absolutely fine as it indicates we are trying to make things happen. The problem is, when we we do lose it we are then cut to shreds - sometimes literally in seconds. I don’t see how this can be tenable through the course of an entire season.
I can see Pellegrini is adopting a Liverpool / City style attack. Technical players with pace and an eye for goal. The only difference is instead of a Firmino work horse or a Aguero all rounder he has gone with a taller Hold up Haller which I think is understandable considering we don't have the luxury of the best technical players in the world to always have 70+% possession of the ball so he offers an outlet when we get stuck.
The problem is unlike Liverpool or City we do not have the quality fullbacks to build upon the attacks.
If he comes i can see Diop going for the cash to fill in the DM and striker positions
Next week will be exciting, I love the Pellegrini (West Ham Way) attacking style but the back is way too porous
Trust him far more than ogbonna
What a load of dross they've signed (Heaton excluded).
Burnley selling Heaton is a ridiculous decision. They went from relegation certainties to form rivalling the top 7 just from him returning in goal in place of Hart around Xmas. Strange.
Other than that, odd business. Not sure why they have made so many signings either.
We've been linked with just under 100 players...
Just because a newspaper has filled some inches with something doesn’t mean we were actually interested. As grey says, I don’t think we’ve tried to sign 100 players this summer.
Our radar would need to be the size of Jodrell Bank if all the rumours were to be taken seriously.
Going by our signings this year and last, I'd say our scouting system was pretty good.
The other obvious position he seems to never address is a good DM, I know a few will say what for, but god forbid Rice gets injured we are lightweights, Noble & Wilshire, this is not where they are good at & Sanchez, let me not get started. I understand that not all games we would need to play 2 DM's, there are many that we should IMO...
It's all lovely scoring a few, but Pelle needs to sometimes really remember we also need to keep a few goals out.....Should be an interesting season IMO and if no improvement on last season, position wise and a half decent effort in the FA cup, then I'd seriously think that Pelle has not done what he should be , with the money he would have spent, again all IMO of course!
Clicking on links and then reading all the words really helps...
As i see it now this season is a Pellegrini squad and this season he has to show his managerial skills to get past the deficiencies of the squad and really push us on through his management skills.
We are weaker overall when it comes to keepers (on early impressions)
We are arguably no better in defence - ogbonna is regressing (possibly Cresswell too), cannot rely on Reid or Ryan to be fit. And Zab is getting slower and slower
And in DM we are weaker - if you view it as Pedro out, Sanchez in
And all of this is when last season showed our defensive unit to be our main weakness
And the big worry for me is that with a few days left we seemingly have very limited funds to be able to do anything about it.
Cressers is clearly off his feed, but Johnson coming through improves us, imo. Zab obviously didn't get the memo he is getting slower, since he shows no sign of it.
We're down a cover MF with Obiang gone. I'd have said Nobes and Wilshere were ahead of him anyway.
We have significantly improved our front line.
Not so much to worry about, mo
Most defenders are going to get done for pure speed from the faster players.
As cover for Fredericks/Johnson, I don't think we are worse off.
Maripan is apparently too expensive, and Aaron Long (MLS) is affordable but will struggle to get a work permit. Strill no mention of a defensive midfielder, so I think we're looking at a seaosn of Sanchez providing cover/support to Rice.
He also said any transfer business is likely to happen on deadline day ( :wahoo: ), presumbaly to try to force through a few cheaper last-minute deals.
If I were a betting man, I'd say Cahill and Welbeck are looking more likely than anything else.