I love Kyle. He's brilliant at nullifying pace, but let's not make stuff up. He's been involved in plenty of games where we've been done on the counter.I think we will miss him a lot more than some people seem to think.
Counterattacks were always the #1 tactic against Guardiola teams…and then he bought Walker and it stopped overnight.
I love Kyle. He's brilliant at nullifying pace, but let's not make stuff up. He's been involved in plenty of games where we've been done on the counter.
I can think of a few just against Liverpool, Spurs and united.
I suppose my point is it will still be the no.1 tactic against us, with or without Kyle, purely down to the our high line and press. I'd be amazed if Pep doesn't have a plan to keep it relatively low once Kyle goes.IIRC We’ve conceded the fewest goals from counter attacks in the PL every single season he’s been at the club.
We won the league the season after Silva leftPep can coach his way around players leaving, but people shouldn’t mistake that for it not causing us problems.
We lost games and missed out on titles in the 2 years we had no proper striker. We win the CL semi vs. real last year with a proper striker.
We lost the league the season after Silva left.
Pep can make a very good team despite players leaving or us missing transfer targets, that doesn’t mean we aren’t worse off because of it.
You could also argue that keeping players who don’t have the drive anymore is detrimental.Pep can coach his way around players leaving, but people shouldn’t mistake that for it not causing us problems.
We lost games and missed out on titles in the 2 years we had no proper striker. We win the CL semi vs. real last year with a proper striker.
We lost the league the season after Silva left.
Pep can make a very good team despite players leaving or us missing transfer targets, that doesn’t mean we aren’t worse off because of it.
Even easier done if he doesn’t flash his privates in public places.He may just want a move to get away from The Sun (newspaper) which has been stalking him for months.
We need him for those types of games. Definitely in the keep camp.For me Walker leaving is only a big loss defensively should we draw PSG (Mbappe) and/or Madrid (Vinicius) next season. Not too worried about the setup for pretty much everyone else. But for those two matchups specifically I can see us now having a problem whereas they were held in check in recent years.
Nobody else in world football does.We also have nobody else who could close to pocketing Mbappe or a Vinicius.