It's Quiet - a new dawn

[fatbloke]

I think it's very unlikely he's the first name on the actual team sheet.

He's not going to be a better RB than Walker, LB than Mendy or pivot than Yaya or anyone coming in.

Fernandinho's only chance of being in the starting XI every week is if we play 3241 again.

Fernandinho is better than Yaya as a pivot, it's not even close. Yaya is a liability against anyway willing to press or attack when they have possession. Just look at the Bernardo Silva clip, it's embarrassing.

 

[Trautmann's Chiropractor]

If Fabinho is off and these Carvalho links aren't true then I'd really like to see Leandro Paredes come in.

 

[CityStu]

I'd like to see Stones tried as a pivot. It would make me feel more comfortable having a pair of very offensive full backs with Stones in the centre happy to settle into a back 3 if both full backs go forward.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Valverde taking charge at Barca could be a game changer regards Neymar leaving.

 

[domalino]

Fernandinho is better than Yaya as a pivot, it's not even close. Yaya is a liability against anyway willing to press or attack when they have possession. Just look at the Bernardo Silva clip, it's embarrassing.

No, Yaya is vital if we're against anyone intent on pressing us, which is why he plays so often.

He is always available to receive the ball from someone in trouble, always shrugs off pressure on himself, and generally knows how to beat a press. To say he's a liability when we are being pressed is completely wrong.

We are a team which usually has 60-70% possession, and when we have possession, Yaya is twice the player Fernandinho is in that role - which is why whenever we played that single pivot after he came back, Yaya is who played, not Fernandinho.

In fact the one major exception to that was in the Monaco away game, when we were very aggressively pressed and without Yaya could not keep hold of the ball at all - which is why we lost.

 

[CWMCFC]

BillyShears saying he has info from a very well placed source that Fabihno isn't coming to England this summer

Isn't he the same bloke that said we were all in for Pickford and Ederson wasn't coming only last week? I'd hold fire before taking his word as gospel.

Obviously appreciate that people say things in good faith, but you never know.

 

[117 M34]

Valverde taking charge at Barca could be a game changer regards Neymar leaving.

more likely or less likely? Why?

 

[kaz7]

So I'm back from work, did I miss anything ?

Fabhino is off bit Ederson is rumoured to have landed this afternoon

 

[bobmcfc]

Fabhino is off bit Ederson is rumoured to have landed this afternoon

Fabhino is off but ederson landed this afternoon

Thanks Karen

 

[blue ranger]

This. He had one amazing season with us and has been declining ever since then.

Me too. Fernandinho been poor this season.