It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[SWPISHOME]

Look at the quality and magnitude of players we’re losing. Gundogan can control the tempo of an entire game himself, same with Bernardo. Rice makes no sense unless Phillips is moving on.

Rice will be playing the John Stones role as its more suited to him with Stones dropping back into a back three I presume.

 

[Blackley_Blue]

Gundo and Bernardo to Kovacic and Rice.... We've lost about 15 goals a season in one hit.

Phillips and Gundo for Kovacic and Rice I could JUST about live with.

If we lose Bernardo we absolutely have to replace him with a goalscoring AM.

 

[Chopper2115]

Gundo and Bernardo to Kovacic and Rice.... We've lost about 15 goals a season in one hit.

Phillips and Gundo for Kovacic and Rice I could JUST about live with.

If we lose Bernardo we absolutely have to replace him with a goalscoring AM.

Foden?

 

[teddykgb]

Rice will be playing the John Stones role as its more suited to him with Stones dropping back into a back three I presume.

The Stones role is a midfielder who converts to a CB when we lose possession. It was very similar to what we were doing with a fullback but solved the problem of the fullback having to track all the way back to wide areas on a giveaway.

I don’t really see a scenario where we commonly would play Rice and Stones if we kept the same system as that would have Rice CB and Stones sliding out to RB as a defender. I suppose that probably works ok but we’d probably rather have Stones at CB in the defensive line than Rice

Having said all that last seasons final system may not be how we intend to play

 

[SWP's back]

Gundo and Bernardo to Kovacic and Rice.... We've lost about 15 goals a season in one hit.

Phillips and Gundo for Kovacic and Rice I could JUST about live with.

If we lose Bernardo we absolutely have to replace him with a goalscoring AM.

At least give them a season in our team before you decide how may/few goals they’ll score as part of a team with 70% possession.

 

[vin]

Some proper flappers on here fuck me. We've won 5 out of the last PL's under Pep. Trust him and the fuckin board. We will be there or there abouts.

 

[gaz76]

One sec, I’ll email the club and let them know.

While yer at it can you ask them to change the colour of the grass on the pitch, I'm not that keen on the green, think maybe a nice shade of grey would be terrific

 

[SWPISHOME]

The Stones role is a midfielder who converts to a CB when we lose possession. It was very similar to what we were doing with a fullback but solved the problem of the fullback having to track all the way back to wide areas on a giveaway.

I don’t really see a scenario where we commonly would play Rice and Stones if we kept the same system as that would have Rice CB and Stones sliding out to RB as a defender. I suppose that probably works ok but we’d probably rather have Stones at CB in the defensive line than Rice

Having said all that last seasons final system may not be how we intend to play

It's all second guessing as to where he plays his role.

None of us can second guess Pep, Especially when we watch City away at Burnley with Rice playing in behind Haaland :)

 

[Tony - MCFC]

This summer could truly boil levels of piss never seen before.

I’m all for it.

 

[dadnlad]

Losing Gundo and Bernie diminishes our technical ability.

hoofball is way forward