Lycan
Jeff Shi's Bitch
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I'm sure Moutinho at 10 has 'worked' before, can't think of specific examples right now though. It's never been spectacular, but it has been functional. It's just Julen squeezing the last bit of usefulness out of him tbh. I get why he does it and I'm not sure who else he has in the squad to do it if he's not picking João.I don't think anybody is disagreeing with his reasoning, but we'll have to disagree in that I thought he got it wrong.
The Moutinho at 10 is odd as I don't think it's ever worked (Spurs was his best performance and not in that role) but it is hard to think who could play that role if both Cunha and Sarabia are off the pitch/ in different positions.
I'm hopeful Cundle can fulfill that role next season (but I might be on my own there, although another assists for him yesterday in the 10 role).
I'm certainly in the camp of being happy we've got a decent manager but up until a few weeks ago I did wonder what he was doing with his team choices. He seems to have settled now and is seeing what does and doesn't work and brave to try it.
Agree next season is the time to judge when we have his squad and players in the positions he wants.
If you want real negativity read the match day thread. My word, it's horrific.
No idea on Cundle, haven't really followed how he's got on in the Championship. I think we probably need to recruit for that position, can't see anyone else apart from Cunha & Sarabia who could do it effectively and they can't play there all the time.
I think it'll take more than just 1 window to get it right. He's gone a long way to 'fixing' central midfield but then we don't know what's happening with at least 3 of our players in that position. Our CB options are woeful, I like some things about Dawson but he's not the right type of CB to be playing every week in that system, the rest of them are just straight up the wrong fit. That position needs a serious revamp. You could say similar about our wide options, there could be massive upheaval there. Of our forwards, one of the is broken, one is out of favour, one doesn't want to be here and one is out of contract. We could definitely do with another full back, especially if Jonny & RAN leave. We need to get a better GK as well... There's no way we do all that in one summer.