escape2victory

Good explanation and I wasn’t aware of the FFP changes so that makes some sense but I still think we should have been more ruthless with some of them. Tielemans the prime one really, summer of 21 had just scored the winner in the FA cup final. His stock was high, 2 years left on his deal, should of sold him then if not prepared to sign a new deal, wouldn’t of been short of buying clubs that summer

Our transfer and contract strategy has been bonkers for ages. Spending approx £128m over the years on Tielemans, Soyuncu, Amartey, Praet, Ndidi, Iheanacho, Vestergaard, and letting them all run their contracts down and leave for free, awful strategy and been a soft touch on contracts for years. We need a proper sporting director dealing with this, Rudkin isn’t capable. I remember Pearson not being impressed with his promotion into role in 14/15

Some observations, the wingers need to go on the outside more rather than the safe option of cutting inside . In their defence, they can’t always go on the outside as the 8’s are constantly making runs wide looking for the ball down the line, which blocks the space for the winger. They need to mix up that tactic, hold their position at times and keep the winger isolated with the full back. A criticism of Enzo’s tactics is that they are so well drilled and machine like they struggle to adapt to in game situations and think on their feet at times. Also Justin needs time out of the team, not just been poor on the ball but his defending has been surprisingly poor. Their winger had the beating of him today and the Cov Japanese winger had his pants down too

Is just a brilliant footballer. Can put him anywhere on the pitch and he will do a job. Thought the injuries had finished him off but he is back to 2019 levels. Happy to keep him in the more advanced 8 role and Hamza inverted RB until Ndidi is back

To be fair he puts in a shift defensively but going forward I’m not having him at all. Needs to do so much more to influence and get into the game. Poor decision making and I question his mentality in big games

Really struggling to see how we win this one. I can see us getting our noses ahead 1-0 or 2-1 but from the evidence I’ve seen this season, I just can’t see us hanging on to a lead. If we are winning going into the last 10, no way we close the game out, unless we are 2 or 3 up which is highly unlikely. I think a draw with Leeds scoring a late equaliser in the best we can hope for, which wouldn’t be a bad result actually.

Yep. The keeper, defence, midfield 3 box 4 with Ndidi/Praet in there is perfectly fine. The issue is the wingers and strikers, lack of consistency and quality. Maybe getting Cannon and Yunus in that front 3 will make it click