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I’ll take only the league every season and I’m feeling good about us getting that over the line in the next 6 weeks.
 

But lack of depth and some of our starting 11 no-showing the last 3 months has really hurt us this week.
 

FSG need to stop being cheap asses and upgrade the roster if we want to win anything next season. 

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Just hope we come back from the break and get a win against Everton because we're all going to start feeling really tight if that doesn't happen. I hope the moment is not too big for Slot. Perhaps spend the next two weeks figuring out how to get Diaz and Jota more involved. I think teams have figured out how to handle Mo. Add to that no TAA for who knows how long. 

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1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

Diaz does nothing for me

He’s bang-average at best. If Barcelona want to stupidly throw €70M at us for him this summer, then I’d take it in a heartbeat. It’s already unforgivable that we didn’t take the Saudi money for Nunez in January and let City walk away with Marmoush. Jota, Nunez, and Díaz should ALL be gone.

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Just now, Bodowned said:

He’s bang-average at best. If Barcelona want to stupidly throw €70M at us for him this summer, then I’d take it in a heartbeat. It’s already unforgivable that we didn’t take the Saudi money for Nunez in January and let City walk away with Marmoush. Jota, Nunez, and Díaz should ALL be gone.

Yup. Think we need at least two forwards in the summer

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1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

3. Darwin, Jota, Diaz need to go. 4 if Slot doesn’t like Chiesa. 

Well we know that isn’t gonna happen. We are gonna get one second tier option.

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The most head-scratching part of this Chiesa saga is that he makes £150K/week. He’s the FIFTH highest earner in the entire squad and he’s been chained up in Slot’s basement for 6 months while we watch Darwin, Díaz, and Jota produce fuck-all week after week after week. Also painfully obvious how limited Szoboszlai is as an attacking midfielder against more physical and technical midfields. Invisible and passed around against PSG and put in a replica today. We need a creative #10 — a Coutinho-redux who can break down low blocks with his dribbling, passing, and outside shooting. 

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No one plays with creative number 10’s any more. That position is extinct. Szobo got played around because he is worn out (has to attack and cover TAA and Grav defensively). Go watch him during our 5 league games in 15 days if you want to see what he is capable of. 

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8 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

No one plays with creative number 10’s any more. That position is extinct. Szobo got played around because he is worn out (has to attack and cover TAA and Grav defensively). Go watch him during our 5 league games in 15 days if you want to see what he is capable of. 

He has 17 G/A in 78 appearances across EPL and UCL with 18 big chances created as a midfielder who positions himself like he’s a forward when we’re in attack. The only consistent compliment you can give him across all of his minutes is that he’s a high-energy workhorse. So we paid £60M for a better-looking Jordan Henderson. We need more output from him if we’re playing donkeys like Nunez, Díaz, and Jota upfront. Harvey played 3 passes in 20 minutes (one for an assist) that I haven’t seen Dom try once this year. Szoboszlai is absolutely a critical part of our midfield rotation going forward, but he is not (for me) a nailed-on starter every week. He’s too passive drifting in & out of matches when we’re in possession and lacks technical ability on the ball. He can’t create space on the dribble and is mostly a lay-off merchant to the wide players. Somebody, at some point, needs to have some ambition to play through the middle.

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3 minutes ago, Bodowned said:

He has 17 G/A in 78 appearances across EPL and UCL with 18 big chances created as a midfielder who positions himself like he’s a forward when we’re in attack. The only consistent compliment you can give him across all of his minutes is that he’s a high-energy workhorse. So we paid £60M for a better-looking Jordan Henderson. We need more output from him if we’re playing donkeys like Nunez, Díaz, and Jota upfront. Harvey played 3 passes in 20 minutes (one for an assist) that I haven’t seen Dom try once this year. Szoboszlai is absolutely a critical part of our midfield rotation going forward, but he is not (for me) a nailed-on starter every week. He’s too passive drifting in & out of matches when we’re in possession and lacks technical ability on the ball. He can’t create space on the dribble and is mostly a lay-off merchant to the wide players. Somebody, at some point, needs to have some ambition to play through the middle.


 

The statistics don’t back up your argument that he doesn’t produce. He’s an extremely well rounded midfielder that is asked to do a ton in his current role. His recent drop off was totally predictable due to us playing so many high level matches in a short period of time. 
 

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Seems disingenuous to post comparisons against “all midfielders” which includes players who don’t venture forward with any frequency. Compare his stats to other attacking midfielders or wingers (which is where he spends his time in possession, as evidenced by his heatmap) and you can plainly see his limitations.

 

 

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Where he touches the ball is not substantially different from where players like Wirtz, Musiala, Cole Palmer, Bruno Fernandes, etc. find possession but his output is most definitely a step down. You can say he works harder out-of-possession than some of these players, but nobody looked at Szoboszlai in the Bundesliga and thought “we should get this guy for his pressing!” He played 70% of our UCL minutes and had 0 G/A in the last 7 matches in the competition and created 0 big chances in all of his appearances combined. The technicality of our forwards and midfield is a step-down vs. the likes of PSG, Arsenal (less so when it comes to forwards lately!), Barcelona, etc. and it’s something we need to solve for. 

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