Could be worse. We could have to play half a season's worth of games at Wembley while charging fans new stadium prices.
Flipping assets outside the investment profile of the median wealth groups hasn't penetrated football yet? What is the point of all this income if we can't take risks on 4 AMNs at a time?
I feel like this tweet overestimates our attacking system under these last seasons of Wenger. It wasn't bad, but it also wasn't all that organized.
Ospina to Napoli. Loan with an option to buy. Campbell to Frosinone on a permanent. Bielik to Charlton on loan.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at. Organization is a priority on defense, but to much organization in attack and you become predictable. Predictable is easy to defend. Bearing in mind that Arsenal scored just as many league goals as the much praised Tottenham offense did last season, what organizational defects did you see in Arsenal's attack? Playing triangles in the offensive third, i.e. third man off yhe ball runs, is one of the mainstays of Pep's attack. Arsenal just don't do it as well as City.
I feel like thats probably for the best when you have excellent attacking players in Sanchez and Ozil. Give them the ball and let them make things happen. They are world class players, you only need to be super organized when you are a lower placed team that doesn't have a good caliber player.
I don't agree at all. A good system maximizes their talents by setting up predictable options and mismatches that good players can exploit.
#ASRoma are offering €40m for Leon Bailey, but #B04 are demanding €50m https://t.co/AYioDR7iD4 #Jamaica pic.twitter.com/NIoWSZPULy— Football Italia (@footballitalia) August 16, 2018 If that's the fee for Bailey, we need to get on this.
We can’t register him now, but we could do what Liverpool did with Naby Keita. Pay for him now but leave him at Leverkusen with an option to register him in January or next summer.
Prices are down because PL clubs can't swoop in with higher bids. Nobody outside of England has been doing much business because they were waiting for the cheaper market
Fair point. But the odds of us committing 50 million to this strategy, at this particular time? Let's just say, I'd be pleasantly gobsmacked if we did.
I might elaborate on my comment a bit. You certainly need systems because that lets players know where everyone will be, but I feel too many teams in the Prem get their movement down to the exact inch meaning that opposition managers who watch the tapes can exploit teams defenses. You need the right balance of system and predictability, but you also need players that can produce some magic and surprise the opposition. Tons of matches last year where our attack was far far too predictable and someone doing something unexpected might have helped instead of us passing it back and forth around the box.
Ok, maybe Sid Lowe was on to something: Mustafi hails Emery: "He told me the positives in my game and what to work on. I’m happy because it’s difficult when you never know what to work on because no one tells you." #afc— Sash ~ (@ltarsenal) August 17, 2018
Reading Pep Confidential opened my eyes to the likelihood that many top clubs are way shitter at stuff than we think despite the crazy pay rates Especially the revelation that Boateng lacked basic knowledge of zonal marking systems Essentially he was a very instinctive player who had winged it on his way to the top
Or take Moyes Somehow he was allowed to fire Rene M and his team who had implemented ultra modern attacking systems for RvP and replaced it with his own 10 years out of date "crossing" approach Now of course Moyes was a perfectly good manager for a cannon fodder side, but how on earth did this man get promoted to Manager at Man Utd and how on earth was he allowed to sack a high performing team and replace them with clowns? So am i shocked that the enormous staff at Wenger's disposal can't manage to teach people how to play football properly? no We saw if in about a dozen players
I remember reading that too. Mind blowing really. I feel like AW didn’t focus on defending a lot. Can we name defenders who actually improved under Wenger? Nacho, maybe Kos but he was good just seemed to mature. Who am I missing?