Where do we go now? Dynamo Kiev 2013/2014 Season thread.

....And so it begins with transfer rumors and speculations.

 

It's great that they're focused on bringing in a forward. What they additionally need to do is retain Brown at any cost. If we had 3 forwards of Brown's caliber, we'd be sitting pretty, as we can put them in the starting line up depending on if they're hot or cold.

 

Because one Selin isn't enough

 

That would be sweet. I'll take Taiwo over Selin any day, but of course, if we had a real capable LB that would improve our situation by a lot.

As far as I'm concerned, we're set in the midfield (if you count Yarmolenko and Gusev as midfielders). If anything, there's a bit of an overload in the midfield. Krancjar will probably be offloaded while he's still worth something. Mehmedi has actually been looking pretty impressive, definitely more so than Bezus. He may not be scoring yet or giving killer passes, but you can tell that he's got what it takes to potentially compete for a first squad place. I couldn't say that about him at the start of the season.

Haruna will probably be benched once he stops his scoring spree, so Mehmedi and Dudu will have a chance to shine. The only thing, IMHO, keeping him in the starting lineup is the goals. He will play for as long as he keeps scoring, but once he goes dry for 2-3 games, that's it, rotation.

 

Looks like DK is serious about buying Mbokani. Nothing personal against the guy, this is strictly a visual thing, but damn!!!! He has a face right out of the Planet Of the Apes; extremely simian! I've never seen anything like that.


How is that going to go with Blokhin's "Зумба-Бумба" or is that just a misconstrued comment from the past?

That said, I do welcome any forward in DK who can put the ball in the net, even if they had blue skin and another set of arms.

 

Mbokani doing the ugly dance;

http://theuglydance.com/?v=sgrzntwleu

 

I'm waiting for the official confirmation about Mbokani, but it looks like it's a done deal.

Here's a goal compilation from last season;


He scores some decent goals here, my only concern he scored them against some pretty lose defending. How is he going to react to a more packed defense?

 

I doubt it. Realistically, we can't afford a deadly striker, or he would never play for Dynamo. I think the idea is to create competiton in the striker position, and rotate players as they go hot and cold. Right now we dont have anyone else who is on par with Brown. This is where this guy comes in.

 

It's interesting that they're looking to the teams from Holland for transfers right now. I think they figured that realistically they can recruit decent players from there, as its not a farm league for any major league, and the players have European experience.

 

Ooooh.
Официально: Тарас Михалик – свободный агент.

But an even bigger Ooooh is this;
Евгений ХАЧЕРИДИ: "Хочу уйти из "Динамо", потому что мне тяжело работать с Блохиным"


The first news makes sense, but he can't alienate any key players, ala Khacheridi right now.

 

It's pretty simple with Mykhalik. When he was younger and not hurt he made up for his lack of tactical and technical finesse by his extreme workrate and the desire to win. Now that he can't run as hard, his inability to read the game and think ahead of strikers is painfully obvious, so unfortunately he has to go. Had he been working on his footballing intelligence, right now he would have been an irreplaceable CB even with his reduced pace. But he didn't, so it's over.

 

Taiwo left DK. Who the fukk is going to play in the back this season?

 

We all understand that. But unfortunately, that doesn't cut it as a reason for staying in the first team, and he was probably to expensive to be kept in #2.

 

No, he was never a CB. CB in my opinion is the hardest position in soccer to play. You need some serious game intelligence and some awesome mental toughness to play well. Mykhalik was originally played as a DM under Szabo and my friend and I were dying laughing every time he got on the ball because of how clumsy he looked.