It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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mccity said:
This idea that Rodri plays on his own is ridiculous. Same as Fernandinho. They've both always been massively supported by fullbacks coming inside or a midfielder dropping deep. It might be a 1 on paper but it's a 2 in practice.

In fact, BOTH players have suffered from times where they were isolated since Pep arrived. Chelsea in the FA cup (Fernandinho) and Chelsea in the league (Rodri) are recent examples of this.

And this won't go down well, but of the two Rodri handled himself better, barring one admittedly bad moment.
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I've seen this said a few times on here (possibly by you, perhaps somebody else) you do realise in that FA cup game, Rodri also played and was even worse than dinho right?
 
mccity said:
Rodri played ahead in the Gundogan role. It's what happened whenever he played the both of them.
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He absolutely didn't. Rodri has never played as an 8. You'll see Kyle walker start in net before you see Rodri doing Gundogan things. Whenever both played, they were as a pair with a slightly altered approach that freed up the one infront (think it was kdb in that game?) to play with less defensive responsibilities and gave the fullbacks more license.
 
mccity said:
This idea that Rodri plays on his own is ridiculous. Same as Fernandinho. They've both always been massively supported by fullbacks coming inside or a midfielder dropping deep. It might be a 1 on paper but it's a 2 in practice.

In fact, BOTH players have suffered from times where they were isolated since Pep arrived. Chelsea in the FA cup (Fernandinho) and Chelsea in the league (Rodri) are recent examples of this.

And this won't go down well, but of the two Rodri handled himself better, barring one admittedly bad moment.
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Because he’s absolutely brilliant. I’ll die on the Rodri hill!
 
skillman said:
Because he’s absolutely brilliant. I’ll die on the Rodri hill!
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Wonder if we go for most expensive signing getting grealish then follow it up by snagging Kane the new most expensive signing. Irrespective of value or whether works out on pitch it certainly would be a statement! Something I think the city owners would go for
 
What's our current net spend this window (ie how much we've sold)? I need to get the shields up in preparation for Jacko signing.
 
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