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Have to go with the classic 3-4-3 formation from Championship Manager. Forward arrows on all the "midfielders" as well. De Gea Varane - Maguire - Shaw Sancho - Bruno - Pogba - Rashford Greenwood - Cavani - Ronaldo You can't not play Cavani and Ronaldo together.

He'd be in the top 5 players in both the right winger and right back positions for us (at least in premier league era) I think. Thoughts?

So since SAF, we've never hit 70 goals in the league which for me (and I'm sure most of you) is just another example of how far below standard we've performed in these 7 seasons. This season, we're at Played: 16 and Scored: 33 - so around 2 per game which suggests 70 goals is a real...

Pretty much. If we carry on with our current PPG (which is not that great to begin with), it won't be enough to win the title obviously but we could end up being not too far off. The LVG season would have seen us only 5 pts shy of Leicester if we maintained the start...but that December was...

I was surprised when posting this by the numbers of our 3rd quarter last season (roughly starting from Jan) since we signed Bruno at the time. But upon closer inspection, it turns out our first 4 games in Jan, which were prior to Bruno signing, we managed 1 win and 3 losses. So 3pts from 12...

Apologies if similar threads have been done previously but with the good feeling of only being 2 pts off top after 10 games (roughly a quarter of season), I wanted to see how we've been doing since SAF over each quarter of a season. Now of course the numbers depend on who you're playing during...

That doesn't sound like this forum at all. Most people are talking about how we pay really high salaries which lead to very low sale prices (if a sale at all or in the Sanchez case, having to pay to sell...). The metric is fine but it leaves out too many important factors, (like player age...

Agreed. It made sense to back him last season (and possibly even earlier this season) but there has to be a point at which you drop a player. Continuously backing him has clearly not worked so surely dropping him for your usually reliable #2 has to be considered. Selling him is an extreme option...

No, that's Clive Allen.

9.7 rating for De Gea on here currently which might be the highest I've ever seen...yet it actually seems low. Not sure how long this 3 at the back formation will last. We lose way too much control in the middle for it to be sustainable in the long run.

Mkhi behind Lukaku is a perfect combo for losing possession the majority of the time when the ball needs to be held up high up the pitch.

Flattering result. This was much more of a 4-0 drubbing than the one we actually got last year.

If I saw the game, then yes. I use the rating system in Championship Manager 01/02 as the base. So 6 is an average performance, and 4 is very bad (3 is exceptionally bad) and 7-9 are good to excellent (I never give a 10 unlike cm0102).

:rolleyes: There just seems to be no middle ground regarding Pep on the Caf here most of the times. It's either he's a lovable genius or there is pure hatred against him.

The Arsenal board and Wenger should have a serious discussion with Ancelotti regarding next season. Obviously depends if he'd even be interested in the Arsenal job but it seems like a good opportunity for Arsenal to me and they obviously don't need to announce anything this early in the season.