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“I think the managers know more than you. If it was that simple then it WOULD happen. It may also be too easy to defend against as it is readable..”
Maybe. But 4-4-2 is the exception, not the rule now. So maybe it would be less readable. Certainly less readable and narrow than 4-5-1 the way the likes of Martinez play it with everything funnelled down the middle.
We need 5-5-5 to give us a chance.
The more that managers seem to think about formations, the duller their teams seem to become. E.g Hoddle, Benitez, Martinez.
Here’s a radical idea. Why doesn’t a team in the Prem play 4-4-2, with a left footer on the left wing and a right footer on the right, one big guy and one littleun up front, and let the players get on with it. No, it’ll never work.
His teams battled for the cause until the last kick, more than you can say for this lot. Also played with a nice balance with Valencia and Zog.
Never been one for the long haul though.
Bought a few duds, and a few good uns as well.
Can’t blame him for coming back here for players. If he thinks he can rely on them, he’ll try and buy them them.
Valencia – although he had the advantage of playing on his best side. More end product, better balance and width in the team, more defensively.
Wouldn’t want him anywhere near our team – got enough dodgy centre halves already.
His mistakes were one of the reasons the geordies got relegated
Someone asked what Curbishley had done….
Well, he oversaw Charlton’s climb through the divisions including transition back to the Valley. Left them as a comfortable mid table club over numerous seasons, who have since shown how much he over achieved with them.
He then did a better job at West Ham than those immediately before or after him and left because he wasn’t perceived to be a big enough name for the new owners – great decision that. From what I heard, the few expensive and dodgy big name signings that were made there weren’t his.
I personally would welcome him with open arms as someone who knows how to get the best out of smaller clubs, and with the exception of O’Neill and possibly Jewell, he’s in a different class as a manager to the rest of the “realistic” names being touted e.g likes of Megson, Souness, Reid.
Saying that, I don’t think he’d come up here.
35 starts and only 6 assists and 5 goals last season. Poor. Let him go.
That said, I think Bruce will et more out of him by playing him in his natural left sided position.
Having never seen any of our new players play even on the telly, I couldn’t comment on their quality (never got round to watching Paraguay in that poor excuse for a World Cup)
I would have driven those two keepers to the airport myself, but I’m not convinced that we’ll be in a financial position to get anyone of the proven Prem quality of Bramble or Scharner (or Melchiot for that matter). If he’s banking on Caldwell as one CH I’m worried. Boyce at RB I’m more relaxed about.
Says £1m on BBC website. Thats not a good starting price for him – if that is true, Sunderland have got a bargain if it goes to £5m on appearances or not.
“You’d have a point if it wasn’t for the fact our No.1 is English and we have another English keeper who’s been picked for England’s under 19 squad but isn’t yet ready to play in the Premiership.”
Yes, and how many other English players have we got in our first team…..We can’t complain about how poor England are when our own team is one of the worst for playing dodgy foreign imports
In the first two games he did the job required, and that he is good at. He won lots of balls, pushed their back 4 backwards, created loads of space for Rooney, who bottled it in a major way, with two absolutely diabolical performances. I could hardly believe what I saw from him. Hardly Heskeys fault that.
OK he never got the goals he should have, but he’s one of the few in that squad that did what was asked of him in the games he had.
So we complain when the England team doesn’t perform, mainly because of the low number of English players in the Prem, then sign another Carlos Kickaball type. Or Catchaball in his case.
Doesn’t inspire me at all.