John.des said:I just dont know what the hell we gonna do vs Barca especially as we wont be able to play our usual possession game. We need to be different and still effective, also defending really well. Not against Giroud but Messi/Neymar/Suarez trio at once.
We need to be closer to them than last years tie which ended in two losses in 4-1 agg. results in two games.
These Burnley, Everton, Arsenal results costing us a lot.
Throwing away leads, 2-0, 1-0...
Giving away easy goals like stupid pens, set pieces like not tracking players with known ability as a good header. Maybe underrate opponent.
ZERO danger from corners. Maybe only danger from our corners is that they have a counter from them ffs.
Lack of concentration too.
etc.
Our first half display vs Arsenal today and the second half display vs Burnley, put that two halfs together and its some of the worst "game" for us.
We cant build on making clean sheets clearly, thats not even in Pelle's plans probably, but we really struggle in games if we cant score 3+ goals.
No way we can outscore Barca tho. We need organized defending, lots of workrate too.
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:Unfortunately Marvin, Toure is suspended.
We need to cut this crap defending out because if we don't they will cut through us without Toure playing.
We've spent around £250m since 2011. To say we haven't picked up some world class in that shows some poor recruitment.LoveCity said:I think he is a great manager but FFP and other teams snatching targets are making it harder because the very best teams spend a lot of money on the best players, that's a general football fact.
I do think he is getting almost as much out of the squad as he can. I don't think we have signed a real what you could call world class player since 2011 (Mangala may end up one in a few years) but with some good 'squad builders' (I'd say Fernandinho could flirt with world class status in his best form) he won a double.
Give him the players Real, Bayern and very recently Chelsea chiefs have handed to their coaches have been able to acquire and he'd probably have us even better. I mean, imagine Soriano had been able to hand him Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez last summer or Matic and Fabregas.
We have been hampered partially by ffp,but in all honestly we have signed some really good players,but who was the last player who made most of us go wow.... aguero...KippaxCitizen said:We've spent around £250m since 2011. To say we haven't picked up some world class in that shows some poor recruitment.LoveCity said:I think he is a great manager but FFP and other teams snatching targets are making it harder because the very best teams spend a lot of money on the best players, that's a general football fact.
I do think he is getting almost as much out of the squad as he can. I don't think we have signed a real what you could call world class player since 2011 (Mangala may end up one in a few years) but with some good 'squad builders' (I'd say Fernandinho could flirt with world class status in his best form) he won a double.
Give him the players Real, Bayern and very recently Chelsea chiefs have handed to their coaches have been able to acquire and he'd probably have us even better. I mean, imagine Soriano had been able to hand him Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez last summer or Matic and Fabregas.
With the players we sold in the Summer we had around £65-70m to spend in that window, do we look like a team that's strengthened a double win with £70m worth of talent? To me we look like we've gone backwards.
deano ou812 said:We have been hampered partially by ffp,but in all honestly we have signed some really good players,but who was the last player who made most of us go wow.... aguero...
Haha true,but then who hasn't,the timing of ffp has hurt us with the likes of Sanchez and de Maria have been missed opportunities...avoidconfusion said:deano ou812 said:We have been hampered partially by ffp,but in all honestly we have signed some really good players,but who was the last player who made most of us go wow.... aguero...
And unfortunately we also signed a lot of shit players for a shitload of money to boot.