19 Jan 2019 22:00:14
I haven't posted on here for a long time, I thought it was a bit of negatively, I didn't want to get Involved in, each person's opinion to there own though, I'm speaking for myself when I say I'm over the moon delighted with how the season has gone, I think our general play is awesome, I really enjoy the short technical passing game, I enjoy bossing games and playing attacking.

I judge players on touch technique, and vision, more so than pace and power, it's just personal preference, I loved watching the Barcelona team under pep, when most of my mates would say it's boring.

I've seen a lot of criticism of our lack of goals from midfield, I don't agree with the criticism, the way we now play football is different, so take the great Barcelona team that had xavi, inesta, and busquets in midfield, those 3 would orchestrate, they struggled to score more than 10 goals between them when they were winning trebles, and scoring 130 goals a season, same with assists, them 3 wouldn't get many assists as expected, exactly the same as Madrid, with modric, kroos and casmero, low goals low assists, same as Bayern who don't have high scoring midfielders, same as us, this is the style we now play, the big difference is the 3 forwards were getting 100 goals between them every season, that's our big problem.

I've seen stats latley that say we have created the second most chances in the league this season, second by about 20 to city, and that we have hit the woodwork, 15 times this season the most by any side, take into consideration that the manager had no real preseason, and Liverpool, city and spurs have built there teams over 3-5 years, I'm very excited about the future, we are only 2/ 3 players from a serious title chalange, but 1 has to be a goal scorer.

1.) 20 Jan 2019
20 Jan 2019 12:15:22
Hitting wood work 15 times doesn’t get you points, ., well it does 0 points and comparing us to the Barcelona team is terrible we don’t play anything like them and what is this attacking football you speak of, we’re out dated predictable and playing people out of position they are best at and hazard along with Kante in there best position there’s no better.

2.) 20 Jan 2019
20 Jan 2019 22:55:02
Cat, A-men, I read this site pretty much every day but rarely post due to the negativity, the fickleness nature of some on here is ridiculous, I’m always positive because for so long of my formative years we were second best. Ever since Roman arrived I’ve been lucky enough to witness some great moments and I have never been as optimistic about the club as I am at the moment.

Prior to his appointment I was staunchly anti-Sarri (due to his history of racism and homophobia) but I have been nothing but impressed by both his football and statesmanly nature, even the chewing fag butts!

I think the problem is that people on here generally don’t understand how a Sarri team is intended to play. Jorginho operates as a regista - a deep lying playmaker if you will, now this is completely missed by the press - the argument seems to be that he isn’t scoring or assisting enough but he isn’t David Silva and nor is he meant to be. The regista position exists to dictate tempo, Jorginho is key because he acts as a sieve for the defensive passage of play, he has created an abundance of chances despite his lack of assists and goals.

The general misunderstanding of Kantes position is because he’s operating as a Mezzala - as is Kovacic, a high pressing box to box midfielder Kante is the equivalent of Allan at Napoli, he’s doing everything he was doing before except HIGHER up the pitch - how can that be anything but positive? The issue in the midfield really lies on the reliance on Kovacic, unlike Hamsik from what I’ve seen so far Kovacic/ Barkley/ RLC none really offer the intensity required for this position, Kovacic is growing there week by week and I think Ross will get there but this is the midfield issue, not Jorginho or Kante.

Hazard playing as a trequartista could still come good, I tend to believe he could be amazing if we had a second Mezzala like Coutinho or Fekir to be that Hamsik to his Mertens. I’m excited for Higuain to arrive and would still like a left back but I’m always excited whoever we sign, one of the few posts I’ve ever made on here was being excited about Pato and look at how that worked out. My point is Cat thank you for your positivity and I’ll join ya in a toast to a positive looking future!

3.) 22 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 20:32:23
But the problem is that, while the Regista position may work in Italian football where teams tend to sit back, in the high tempo, high-press Premiership the Regista gets swamped by the opposition - and Sarri seemingly refuses to accept this and adapt accordingly. My problem with Sarri is that he has no Plan B (much like Theresa May) .

4.) 22 Jan 2019
22 Jan 2019 21:54:24
Im sure we can both agree on Theresa May’s ineptitude haha, Sarri however, I’m a 4-3-3 boy through and through and believe that in time we will see the team thrive. Guardiola didn’t set the world alight at City straight away give him a chance he hasn’t even got his striker yet!

I would argue that Italian football being slow and boring is an outdated assumption, Have you seen Atalanta or Sassuolo? They’re fine examples of working hard off the ball, while I agree there are differences and no league can match the premierships intensity, this doesn’t make the regista redundant.

Still hopefully the team will win you round my friend!