Park Life 70 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 real and barca's forward lines are ridiculous like Rainy Wed night at Leeds etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Rainy Wed night at Leeds etc... It'll be raining bullets on a Wednesday night in Leeds cos theys got a real g lined up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2785 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Think I am smitten with a certain manager. Klopp about Hummels to Manchester United: “If that’s not a bullshit story, I’ll eat a broom stick” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2785 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Ashley will be telling Charnley to monitor this situation I am sure. Shakhtar’s Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu has blamed British-based agent Kia Joorabchian for persuading the players not to return to Ukraine.“It is necessary to explain what happened,” he said on Shakhtar’s website. “It is not the players’ desire, it’s their agents’ work. A few hours before the kickoff of the match against Lyonnais, Kia showed up. And after the game, at two in the morning, he took our players away. The very talented ones: Teixeira, Douglas, Fred. The rest are not so important.“He wanted to do the same to Adriano, Ilsinho, Marlos and Taison. But they refused. His goal is to make the players free agents, just to make money. This is wrong. This is his alibi. He wants to make use of the situation in the country and get the players for free. But they have contracts. Ferreyra has another agent. But he also expects to capitalise on the situation.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 We signed another striker yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Carroll out for 4 months with torn ankle ligaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19839 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 True to form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Might as well lock this, we're not signing anyone else are we? All that TV money untouched, and our team's weaker than it was last September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5941 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Not sure about that. 1 striker away from having a much better team imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26471 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Yup. We still have weaknesses at CB but a top class striker is the signing we have been looking for all summer. I just don't know if we'll spend the money that we need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 3472 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Not signing a CB will be such a dampener on the upcoming season. Whats the point of the likes of Cabella upfront when you've got Williamson and bloody Taylor at the back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13883 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I think we need another striker too tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Another striker? What do you fink we are? Sovereign states?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 3472 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 By all rights we should get both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 We've made a couple of okay signings but I honestly think we're going to be absolute garbage next year. If SDJ and RC/Sissoko are playing number 10 and a wide roles respectively, in the middle we've got Tiote/Anita/Colback - what can any of them do aside from tidy short sideways passes? No goal threat or great range of passing. Sissoko isn't a natural winger and RC isn't left footed so we're going to have a narrowness/awkwardness there. Our central defence is a huge cause for worry and our striker situation is only fractionally better than it was at the end of last season. And Pardew hasn't exactly used the 'number 10' role to great effect in the past either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13883 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 We've made a couple of okay signings but I honestly think we're going to be absolute garbage next year. If SDJ and RC/Sissoko are playing number 10 and a wide roles respectively, in the middle we've got Tiote/Anita/Colback - what can any of them do aside from tidy short sideways passes? No goal threat or great range of passing. Sissoko isn't a natural winger and RC isn't left footed so we're going to have a narrowness/awkwardness there. Our central defence is a huge cause for worry and our striker situation is only fractionally better than it was at the end of last season. And Pardew hasn't exactly used the 'number 10' role to great effect in the past either. Really? That doesn't suit your rhetoric at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 We need two more senior strikers for me. I almost feel like we're going to be forced into a 1 striker/number 10 formation because we're too tight to sign what we need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19839 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 it's the basis of an alright match day squad with a couple of holes in the first team that need to be filled. i'd rather sissoko was alongside tiote in centre mid with a fit and motivated ben arfa taking up one of the three positions behind the striker but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. -------------------krul ---janmaat - colo ---??? ---- santon ----------tiote --------colback ----sissoko ------de jong ------ cabella ---------------???? subs from riviere cisse perez anita williamson mbiwa taylor haidara sammy ameobi gouffran on the way out? ben arfa oberpants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Grim. Shoe-horning all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I know he quite likes 4231 but he could also revert to 433 with..... Krul Janmaat. Williamson Coloccini. Taylor ® Tiote De Jong Gouffran Sisokko Riviere Cabella I think he prefers Williamson and would love Taylor's set pieces depending if he's up to speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 De Jong doesn't play in central midfield. Or Gouffran. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Well done on finally getting Coloccini right though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 De Jong doesn't play in central midfield. Or Gouffran. :lol: I think Dejong would be the prong of that midfield 3 and I think he could utilise Goufran in the way he got some success with Jonas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 We need two more senior strikers for me. I almost feel like we're going to be forced into a 1 striker/number 10 formation because we're too tight to sign what we need.With SDJ and Cabella that formation suits the players we have. Personally I'd rather see that than Pardew try to force a 4-4-2 when we clearly don't have the players for it. That said, I'm not convinced (purely from his record in France) that Reviere is going to score enough goals for us to keep us in the top half let alone actually try and progress from last season. I do expect more goals from further back, SDJ and Cabella should be much more likely to score but that's not really enough to compensate for not having a striker capable of scoring the goals that Ba/Remy can. Talk in one of the papers this moring is that we will look to bring in Campbell on loan from Arsenal since we can't find a good deal on the likes of Lacazette. While Campbell could be a useful addition, he's unproven in a decent league and if he was a success we wouldn't get to keep him. To me it would be yet more penny pinching and proof that Ashley will only ever sanction spending the money we get from selling players. Hopefully Celtic sell Forster if claims of a 25% sell on clause are correct. That might actually allow us to buy someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I know he quite likes 4231 but he could also revert to 433 with..... Krul Janmaat. Williamson Coloccini. Taylor ® Tiote De Jong Gouffran Sisokko Riviere Cabella I think he prefers Williamson and would love Taylor's set pieces depending if he's up to speed. You've got a championship rightback/right mid at left back, a striker and a number 10 as centre mid, and a centre mid as a right attacker. I can only assume you're on the wind up with that team CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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