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And with Amrabat sitting with Casemiro we are far less exposed than the start of the season.
For me it was never about his ability, but the fact we don't need another midfielder in his mould, and if we were going to get one, it should have been someone better than Bruno.
I guess yesterday it was broadly Casemiro 6, Mount 8 and Mejbri 10 in terms of roles, so Bruno would take Mejbri’s place. I don’t see a huge problem with that.
This. I said it a few days ago, I'd bet once we learn how to use him, he will be easier to fit in the future team than Bruno.
I do see an issue with that. Amrabat was half a midfielder all game and Palace was not even trying. Mount or Bruno should be used in no8/10 role, never at the same time. If needed, one of them needs to be pushed wide.
Mount dropped deep and started our build up. I have confidence that he can transition in such a role, he has the intelligence and passing range for it
Im convinced that around 75% of the posters on here are intentionally hysterical, clueless or being kind at the very least more than happy to make the same mistake over and over in expecting something to click straight away and a new player or manager to turn us into city after one transfer window. “Look how far standards have fallen” would you ever fck off like! Fergie always signed or played steady players like Mount if he had a chance. It’s when we started signing past it and mercenary players on huge money that we truly began to fall off. Players those same fans probably really wanted.
Does well on the right usually. He is a genuienely excellent crosser of the ball.
I dont think Bruno is going to get pushed out to right forward, just to accommodate Mount.
It's not "just" to accommodate Mount.
Personally in the ~ 10 times I watched Mount at Chelsea and England, he never did anything, hence not really rating him. If he was say £35m sure it's a good deal, but for £60m you can get a genuinely top quality midfielder like Szoboszlai, not someone who no one's really sure what role he'd suit. Will he work? We'll see, but the first couple of games made people realise he's not the box to box that people initially thought. If the bar is 'well he's better than mctominay' it's not really a high one.
1) we don't have a RW
What has Szoboswhatever won or achieved in his career to be considered a genuinely top quality midfielder?
More interested to see what happens when Anthony comes back.
You've watched Mount 10 times for Chelsea, and I'd guess around half of those are for England where everyone plays shit except Kane and you concluded he never did anything.
We play enough games that we'll be able to rotate and rest when needed. Swap Antony with Garnacho or pellistri, same applies. Amrabat can come in tougher games or to rest casemiro, mount can be in the trio to rest Bruno or against teams we can dominate without the 2nd deep option, or we use Bruno wide if no Antony. We can always have a bench option or rotate around to keep everyone fit and motivated for their spot. Eriksen can also come in for the easier games where we can dominate more of the ball.
Amrabat was half a midfielder as a LB because that is what Ten Hag wants from at least one of his full backs. Yes, CP were weak, but we played with a defence with 1 first chice returning from injury, 1 second choice, 1 3rd choice and one midfielder who never played for us before. Up front we were down to 2nd, 2nd and 4th choice maybe, so it’s not like this midfield was bailed out by other parts of the team.
He’s not just a bit better than McT though is he? He’s been captain and player of the year at our direct rivals and a very important member of a CL winning team. It would have been like us selling Fletcher or Carrick. He’s technically 3 times the player McT is and that’s not an exaggeration who himself was valued at above 30 million yet people are still crying about the fee? It’s just the usual melodramatic talk because he hasn’t come in and transformed us in two games or single handed lead England to victory in the few games at tournaments people actually fully watch. Mount is creative and hardworking, two footed and a steady football first personality. At PL level you don’t get the chance to sign players like this very often at all these days.
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Invisible! Terrible player who does nothing well. Imagine we’d lost last night? This thread would be absolutely jumping!
He's a good lad.
The usual from certain posters on the caf, big up our rivals signings while shitting on our own. Hilarious he’s used Szoboszlai as an example of “top quality” when he’s looked bang average since joining Liverpool.You've watched Mount 10 times for Chelsea, and I'd guess around half of those are for England where everyone plays shit except Kane and you concluded he never did anything.
Genuinely top quality midfielder like Szoboszlai? Are you being satirical? How is Szoboszlai a top midfielder, while Mount is not, when one has done three times as much in his career than the other? fecking hell.
I guess it's all about the new names that sound exotic, rather than players who have shown it at the top level even if their name is boring.
I think the system was always the same - LB inverts, Martinez, AWB become the outside CBs with some responsibility for running with the ball from deep, Varane becomes the middle CB in a sweeper role. Fitness issues, new tactics (in Shaw / Martinez's case) caused problems. Everyone's trying to do a 3-box-3 (maybe apart from Ange). I think when everyone adapts to their new roles and we have the full XI back we'll be fine.
And it’s starting to look rather better for Utd.
Nah the diamond is shit.
I wonder if we might try a mirror image of the formation Barcelona did last season where they had Pedri as a "false left winger"? He'd defend the left side, but in possession would come into the middle to make the box along with Busquests, De Jong and Gavi. Then Raphina was wide right and Lewandowski up front. Left sided width came from the full back. We might try that but with either Mount or Bruno doing it from the right instead. That would give us a box of Amrabat-Casemiro-Bruno-Mount, which I think would be pretty effective.
