JimJams

And here was me trying to cast a ray of sunlight on the huge pile of crap we see festering before us and you've just gone and closed the curtains, leaving us in the dark, smelling of shit.

I like that Ruud has come in and has a clear structure and plan for the way he wants us to play. I'm not convinced that structure is optimal. I'm less convinced it's optimal for the players we have and their levels. For me this system requires our fullback to arguably be the best player in your team. They play as an RB when defending and basically transition into an RW with the ball, with the "on paper" RW moving inside as a midfield player. So that requires a level of ability at both ends of the park. You need a good (great) engine, you need pace, and you need the ability to be effective at both ends of the pitch. You either need to be able to beat a man or put in a good ball. Consistently. I think there's a massive expectation on the fullback in this system. Others may disagree. In Enzos system both fullbacks made different transitions. One to LCB one to DM/CM. Far easier to do, with a lot less expectation on those players. When the ball is turned over it's also far easier to cover and change. Maybe Woyo is in to replace JJ, or maybe he's in to sub in for when JJ will inevitably be blowing out of his arse. But if this is how he wants to play I prefer this to whatever the fxxk Cooper was serving up. His "style" seemed to disappear about 3 games into preseason and ended up being sit back and hope to get lucky. Which we did a few times tbf, but it's a depressing watch and unsustainable.

Still got 2 weeks fella!

No? He's played the right of the CB's as Coady does in all but the game vs Chelsea and the back 3 vs Brentford.

He's literally injured right now. Listed as calf problems.

I don't see Coadys ball playing being much better at all, and the stats don't back that up either. It's marginal. It's not marginal defensively though, he's much better in that aspect than the ancient scouser.

Nuamah doesn't exactly help them score goals though does he?

Got a measly 6 minutes in tonights game, already won. Of the ones that we missed out in the summer the one we could have had but opted not to is the miss for me. Wish we'd have got Yunus.

Ranieri has stated he's the future of Roma and blocked any loan move. So maybe not.

Take a look at how everybody felt in the Moder thread from the summer and tell me anybody would have been happy getting him for £5mill.

Great signing.... ...once he's loaned to Bristol, they make a playoff charge, get promoted and they buy him off us for £6mill...

Could be useful come seasons end.

Football is a computer game.

Man Citys case isn't like ours. They won't find a loophole because they're basically being accused of falsifying information, not of falling foul of PSR. But it's whether the Premier League can back up that claim. And let's be honest. They can't won't.

There weren't any links to Woyo before we found out the deal was about to be done.

Innit...

The same people moaning about selling him now will be the same people that moan we don't sell players when there's an opportunity and loan them to eternity whilst subsidising wages.

There's not 4 on that list.

There's a real hard on for bringing ex-players back isn't there?

Vardy should have been on the end of Vardys cross then.. Fuxake Vardy.

In this thread there were people saying this was the best we've played this season. I think people forget how shit it was under Cooper. It's like reminiscing about your kidnappers.

They are trying, they're just very limited.

I blame the crowd for that one Bouba!

Well the subs look miles better right now!

Maybe they're fxxked. The press is notably absent this half.