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They might also have a magic money tree 🎉
How much have Liverpool & Manchester United spent? Last time I looked I couldn’t see any funds coming in at OT but millions going out.
I am resigned to a poor season and so am getting pretty chilled about it all which my family will appreciate as we don’t appear to be making much effort, again IMHO, to really change things.
They might not be making a lot from player sales but they have gazillions coming in from the commercial arm. They are a global brand and can command enormous sponsorship fees.
The worst thing for me, apart from a couple of chances we rarely looked like scoring, our build up play is IMO so, so slow and boring sideways, sideways, no speed going forward.
While Slacker is right, it's only the 1st game, but if anything we looked just as bad if not worse than last season, he's had the whole summer to improve things
This season IMO Potter cannot get away with this, but we do still have a couple of weeks left to get 1 or a few players in and a couple out, if possible....otherwise I do fear this season could end up a real nightmare season, all IMO.....
Potter seems to be trying to get us to play like ManCity, but without the quality of their players. He's going down a dead end if he is.
Sunderland won to day with deep defending and breakaway attack, the sort of football many were calling boring under Moyes.
I really do think that in the PL unless you are minted, counter attacking maybe the way to get some success.
Edit - I know many feel that it's not proper football. And want to not adopt that style. But it's a legitimate thing. And has brought success.
I would have recognised we need dominant centre back that can give confidence so the defence have some leadership and then have Kilman, Tobido and Aguerd as two of the other two that play alongside him.
I would recognise that the two DM's we started with today had proved ineffective at Premier level last season and to expect them to perform now would be unlikely to pay off, so I definitely would not have started JWP and Roderiguez today. I would have started with Soucek and Potts at DM or Soucek and Alveraz. In my view he selected the worst two of the five.
Then to end I would ask Paqueta to please please try and find it within himself to resurrect the player he was two seasons ago as he is what we need about now.
Unlike Potters suggestion in the week that we leak goals due to a cultural issue I think its poor players in key positions, Centre back and Dynamic midfielder are essential recruitment.
The third was poor all round allowing him to run, cut inside and shoot with the defenders turning their backs instead of trying to block, and then the keeper trying to palm it away and missing it completely.
I really do believe that we need to get all of our youngsters out on loan to the championship if possible this season. We have to future proof for what is happening now and the possibility of if things do end up being a complete disaster and we go down, these guys will be our backbone for the following season.
It would be unreal to see potentially 6 or 7 academy boys potentially starting for us.
The formation doesn’t work. We don’t get the best out of Bowen and Wan Bissaka in this formation. They won’t be as good as last season playing this formation. Also when Diouf got forward, he needs someone ahead of him on the left because he’s a great crosser but doesn’t take his full back on as dribbling isn’t his game. IMO we need to play 4-3-3 or 4-4-2.
Rodriguez actually played reasonably well. In the first half we looked solid but couldn’t break them down. JWP and Paqueta were our weakest midfielders (particularly JWP). It wasn’t necessarily the sideways passing that was bad… it was more the fact he needed several seconds/touches to spread the ball. If the ball could get zipped from left to right or right to left quicker or even a lofted pass from one side to the other, we could stretch Sunderland better.
Wilson looked decent when he came on. Put himself about in quite a clever way and won us some free kicks. Irving on the other hand wasn’t good when he came on and he fell asleep for their 3rd goal. Since we took off Todibo and brought on an extra midfielder, we had no one in defence on the right and Irving should’ve been aware of this when they countered. Shame Aguerd was beaten in the air for their first goal because if it wasn’t for that goal then he would’ve had a good game.
I think another pacy outlet is needed on the pitch like Guilherme or Marshall. I also think Soucek needs to get more minutes. I appreciate his technical ability can be lacking but time and time again he has proven he gets us goals and assists, puts a shift in, and seems a good leader.
First half we were ‘ok’. Not going to go overboard, but we kept the ball, got our WBs high, & other than one early chance from them, we were comfy. Second half was an absolute horror show. No attacking, no desire to ensure we kept a clean sheet & we just folded.