Bojan11
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Writing off a season because Mctominay got injured.I dont hold Ole totally accountable.
I wrote our season off when McTominay got injured. We have just about 11 players that are capable of playing the way Ole wants us to play. As soon as we lost one of them, and in such a critical area, I knew it would be tough. It's not simply that the replacements are worse, it is that the replacements suit a totally different style of play. Now we have a team full of players who play in different ways and it's no wonder we look so disjointed. As slowly others have gone it gets worse each time.
That we have such a disjointed squad is not Ole's fault. If he could have replaced McT with somebody with an equal skillset it would have been much easier. It doesn't matter how good the individuals are, at PL level cohesion is the most important thing.
Do you not see how silly that sounds? Scotts been good in a few big games. But he’s bang average when it comes to passing the ball forward or when we need to break teams down.
If Ole didn’t waste the summer chasing average like Longstaff because he clearly knew the CM position needed strengthening, so no idea why we just decided it was Longstaff or nobody then things might have been better.