Matchday discussion

Think we are inthe minority unfortunately

 

Are you sure? Coach who plays a high line and like players that are quick and can run non stop wanted someone with very little pace, zero composure and no ability to read the game?

 

Yes I am sure so do you trust him with transfer kitty in januarys

 

Which players would you keep next year if wehad the money to replace them.Me Kulu Solanke Van der ven Bergval maybe Romero gray Maddison thats it

 

preed, all due respect, but I’m glad we have levy running the club and not you cause we’d be f**k*d with that attitude. Gotta keep Porro, Bentancour, Biss, Vic, Sarr, Udogie, Davies, Odobert, BJ plus many others.

BJ is not looking like he was worth 50 mil, could’ve been invested elsewhere. But he’s a solid option. We need a world class 6 and could keep Bissouma for cover if so. We need alternatives to Porro and Destiny who can also challenge for starting spot. Every other top side has plenty of rotation options. Think about pool’s midfield options. They have Bradley and the Greek as backups for TAA and Robertson. We need players to push and cover for Porro and Udogie. Both haven’t been great this year. Porro bless him has been run to the ground. Destiny has had his injury problems and made silly mistakes. Both are young and quality players. Neither are perfect, but both are worth keeping around.

what bugs me about the negative folx on this forum is criticizing quality players who are young and going through rough patches. Sarr, Udogie, Gray, Porro, this is the future mate.

 

We are currently f***ked or have you not noticed.I am talking about first team not back up

 

Seriously though after much thought I don’t think that the tactics used by Ange at Celtic can work in the premiership
because his squad was way the strongest and could sustain this against much weaker teams,The premiership is way stronger even at the bottom and no team could sustain this type of intensity without sustaining injuries.Some of our players look done and we are only half way through the season.To play this way would need the strongest squad assembled and with Levy that. Won’t happen.Youcan play attacking football and still be tight at the back see Newcastle and Forest

 

I’m not so sure based on the use of the word ‘we’ when discussing his signing, especially when Ange specifically calls out Lange and Mackenzie and “when we got down to the real detail he was the best option for us”. Sounds like he was given very few options to me:

"We’ve been working on the centre-back position pretty much since the summer window closed and there's been a whole list of players we worked through methodically," Postecoglou said.

"A lot of that work has been done by the scouting department and Johan [Lange, technical director] came in and [chief scout] Rob Mackenzie and the team started working into further detail.

"They presented it to me probably six weeks ago. From that onwards, Radu was always on the radar as one of the players we thought would be a good option for us. Then it was about getting as much information on him as a player and a person.

We spoke to as many people about him as possible and had him scouted again and I’ve been following him since we highlighted him. In my mind once we got down to the real detail, I thought he was the best option for us.

"Before the window opened we made the decision that Radu would be our number one priority. I like his defensive attributes, his

physical attributes, I there's still a lot of growth in him.


"A lot of improvement in him. He's only 21, only had one year in Serie A, not even a full year and he fits the profile of the kind of players we want here."