Yeah i am screaming at the moon. Fishing for people to agree.
No we didn't bro but ok.
That’s not true at all.
In the past, we always let go a good servant on cheap. Just to reward for their long career and dedication. Now it's all about balance sheets.No its completely true. To press you have to have a high line, so having Vardy as a player up front to find with a longer pass into space is the most dangerous option. They also have Barnes they can release early on the left with his pace. Thats how Leicester play
It is a way but againstCity that’s not what they did. Fletcher pointed out exactly what they did and they didn’t play many long balls. It was all intricate middle of the park play.
It was some play in the middle of the park. And it was by their DM just before the half way line Nampalys Mendy, not their "ball playing" CBs. Mendy can take chances knowing theres a defence behind him, the defenders cant
How much did we pay then ??
That's not true now is it, whilst I don't think Maguire is worth more than half of what we paid. Smalling's footwork and longer passing is not of the same level. And his reputation has never been as big as when he went on loan, for some reason.
I like Smalling, but he’s not a better defender than Maguire. He has better pace, but doesn’t everyone. There’s been a good argument that he could be a better partner to Maguire than anyone else at the club, and I would have at least liked to have seen that. However, he’s clearly not in the managers plans.
I'm talking about defending here; the primary job of a defender. Can you say that Smalling is worse in any area of defending? Factor in that he isnt as slow as a barge, and you have a better defender.
Maguire has his flaws and is hugely overpayed but he is better than Smalling. The thing which i rate in Maguire's game (and Lindelof's) is that he is calm. Smalling is to nervous for my taste and has tendency to panic. His main thought is to clear the ball while Maguire thinks how to keep that ball. I like that. There is no need to kick every ball out of play. You can keep it sometimes.
The truth is the very best teams don’t tend to have players like smalling in defence anymore.
My argument is that Maguire sometimes overplayed on keeping the ball, and that resulted in him losing the ball in dangerous areas.
Thats a whole lot of sh*t right there, we had i think the 3rd best defence in terms of goals conceded last season and that was with a leaky david de gea in the sticks, we shipped far more goals when our defence was Lindelof and Smalling with a very inform De Gea in goal, let's not get carried away and pretend Maguire hasn't improved the back line, maybe not as much as an 80m signing should but it has improved.
I feel for Smalling - we seem to be just as ineffective at concluding a sale as we are at a purchase......surely surely can’t be that hard to strike a deal with a payment structure that suits all......then move onto more challenging tasks like shifting Jones & Rojo
This
Well he wasn't our permanent manager so I doubt he had much say in that - and it was a 4 + 1 deal - but yes, we should have not given him that contract.
Quite sure he said he was consulted on these sorts of matters even during his time as caretaker.
He is too injury prone and too expensive (salary wise) to make sense for those clubs, despite being better than their CBS.
He is prone to lapses but Lindelof is exactly the same when it comes to that. In fact, he seems to make more mistakes than Smelling did.
The team's play as a whole has improved but the defense is no better at all. As they the best form of defense is offense and we are better in attack than we were with the previous manager even if we seem to have been found out recently.
I think it definitely is
You could free up wages by offloading Paul Pogba. But that would not make sense.
The fact he is blasted on here is not a barometer of his quality, now, is it.
its very good money. What's mind boggling is we won't spend any of that to strengthen the team when it's needed
£20m??? Good money? Is he really a quarter of the player Maguire is? Answer: No.
Exactly I agree as I was one of the very few saying we were crazy letting him go on loan while at the time keeping Jones and Rojo .
Yes, lets compare Smalling, who rarely played, vs someone who is always in our best starting 11.
Hes 31 though and Maguire is 26. If it was reversed i think Smalling would be the more expensive player although hes not as good
I think it definitely is
And a question that ends with "don't be silly, of course they're not better. Even combined".
...then after saying that you look around and realize all your life has been spent in the twilight zone.I doubt many if any will share your opinion.
Maguire cannot lace the boots of either player lad.
