Recent content by Ash_G

Agreed, I really fail to see the logic, particularly yesterday. Surely if you were going to do an inversion yesterday (which I don't think was needed), have Lindelof step inside on his right and let Dalot provide width on the right with an overlap as Lindelof was never going to do that...

I agree in general and with most things this isn't black and white but I also don't think there are more issues in how we're playing, particularly when we're on the ball that won't be fixed from any particular injured player coming back from injury. We've played close to full strength teams this...

I think the injuries is a bit misleading as well as if you take CB where we've been most hit, I wouldn't say many of our issues come from them, generally I think the CBs have been ok (don't think we can say Evans for example has done much wrong). I think you can say the same for the defenders...

It's an interesting one. Personally for me I think if we were to try and sell Bruno I don't think a really top team comes in for him (as a first eleven player anyway, he could be a squad player anywhere) as I think he is to willing to give the ball away on low percentage passes and so for...

I totally agree with all the frustration in terms of lack of communication/ laziness in defence/midfield that causes a lot of these goals but I think we shouldn't forget how much our attacking approach contributes to this. It feels like we're way to open to a counter attack where we're in...

I mean if this is true for ETHs signings, really particularly Anthony then we really are shambolic. Surely he must have been aware that we were going to outlay c£80m on him being the vast majority of his transfer funds. I fully accept that he wouldn't personally negotiate but he must have been...

I think for him he's a good example of where we're setting up in an odd way. You know Bruno is going to give the ball away more often than we'd like (on top of others in attack) and so it's important we're compact in the middle however we continue to set up in a way that means we're so...

I agree with this, it's a complex issue with multiple things happening at the same time. I personally cannot understand some of the tactical decisions being made, particularly our willingness to sacrifice control of midfield however I also think we have got a lot of bad apples in the squad...

Agreed and I also don't get this argument that ETH didn't negotiate the deal. Ok he different but I really can't believe he didn't know we were going to invest £80m in him and agreed that was the right thing to do e.g. he wanted him at this price over other players (maybe even multiple players)...

I'm quite torn to be honest. I'm don't think ETH is the right person long term as putting aside injuries, whether he's got enough of his targets or not, you have to be able to adapt to what you have and I really can't see how he's doing that. The squad isn't good enough to challenge but it's...

I don't think we can sack him as we've invested so much in players he wanted and you have to hope this is a wobble. Clearly there will come a tipping point at some point but I don't think we're there yet. I do hope he's got some good, honest advisors around him though and he's willing to...

I think he is a project in the sense that he is someone who ETH clearly thinks must be able to take his game up a level (I too have my doubts on this). My wider point though is that whether it's Anthony or Garnacho, both are players who aren't at the level we need them to be in terms of playing...

Agreed and that's why I come back to the balance or whatever anyone wants to call it. Anthony is clearly a project and in certain situations you could potentially accommodate that (although you'd hoped to have seen more by now) but for us we just can't because the rest of the attack has their...

Will be interesting to see how he reacts. I personally think we really have to tighten up the midfield and accept we're going to have to grind results for now. The attackers aren't suddenly going to become super clinical or at least we can't continue to let ourselves be so exposed to a turn over...

Ha you're slightly more aggressive about it, but agreed he really hasn't pushed on and I've found it difficult to see how we could justify the money spent on him. I don't think tracking back is enough to get a place in the team. Or at least, and I appreciate this is unfair as he did offer much...