Say what you want about investment and that whole midfielder drum that keeps being sounded, this is some shocking sh*t we are watching. Could've had prime Lionel Messi in that side today and it still would've made no difference.
Every set piece is like the lads are not watching the same thing we are watching. They are just stood there letting everybody beat them on the run up. Another shocking first 15 where it looked like no one, and I mean no one except for Alisson and Bajcetic even cared to be on the pitch.
Shocking stuff. The way this is going we might as well recall Clarkson and Morton from their loans and play a midfield three of them and Bajcetic. Everyone else can F**k off. I would argue the same about Matip and Salah. The only downside to this idea is that we'd be pulling youngsters from decent teams in order to plug them into this energy blackhole.
Can we also stop the F***ing flip-flopping of positions between Nunez and Gakpo? The former is just sh*t as a winger. He can beat his man for speed but that's about it. He cuts to the outside and the produces one of the shittiest crosses you'll see in your life 9 times out of 10 so we might as well use his height down the middle and let Gakpo play his natural position. Maybe Nunez could work as a winger when we are in form and there's space for him to make runs, but right now, as a ball carrying winger? F**k that
Another thing about Nunez. Jesus this kid is really a player who's mental state is a mountain. He's either on top of it and king of the world or he's at the bottom and there's not chance he's climbing it. If the lad is in a good mental space, he'll perform. Couple of misses at the start of a game or a collective bad start to it by the team and he'll spend the rest of the 90 minutes hesitating between shooting or passing and ends up doing none or both wrong. Will definitely come good and score loads in the future, but he's one to be carried (mentally) and not the opposite. .
One final thing, even in our best spells during the game, the levels of energy in our press don't come even close to what they were in the past few seasons. Before someone tells me a midfielder in the summer would've changed that, I'm talking the 10 outfield players look like old men except for Bajcetic. One or even two midfielders pressing like him would change nothing when the rest of the team is jogging around like they are drowsy or something. Are they knackered? If yes then from what? Why do they look like someone has them breathing from one nostril only?
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