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I am frustrated with the result but I am fully behind Jose for next season. If it isn't working by the end of the year then it will be time to review things
This is a bigger issue than not having a striker - this is how we're set up as a team in most of our games. We played the same when we had Son and Kane on the pitch. If you didn't know better you would think Son was a right wing-back, looking at this heatmap for any of the remotely 'big' games we have played since Mourinho took over.Cut & paste comment from midweek.
Under investment in the squad has caused our issues. No striker = dramatic decrease in goals = much harder to win matches.
Sorry but Kane is a huge part of the problem. Undroppable for all the wrong reasons meaning we have no back up as no one will come. Tell Me now we would be worse off with Piątek or Giroud.
Kane was one of the most dedicated youngsters we've had, training harder than anyone else, showing huge amounts of maturity. Parrott is flying to Dubai to introduce Dele to the son of a drug cartel boss, and reportedly whacking his dick in his teammates faces on international duty. You're very, very lucky if you get a Kane once in a generation and Parrott is absolutely not the same thing.
2-1 flatters us. Could've got a pasting if GLC had been deservedly sent off. Time to ignore football for a couple days and go again.
Not suggesting Parrott will be as good as Kane just like to see him given a chance.
The former is true - impossible to know who made that choice to let him go. The latter is nothing to do with Levy, he doesn't pick the team and I highly doubt he's told managers that they couldn't spend their transfer money on a striker. Poch chose other priorities last summer and seemingly chose poorly (while I'm sure they're talented, investing for the future in Sessegnon and Clarke seems hard to justify given the immediate state of the squad and their horrific form).whilst I agree with some of this, yes the board have “loosened” the purse strings, however the squad building is very poor and on their shoulders. Whoever decided to let Llorente go without a replacement made a very poor decision, even more so to try and get him to stay by halving his wages. Penny pinching of the highest order.
We also pander to Kane to much...this “he must play every single minute when available” is harming the squad development. No other club has that situation surely? To say we can’t have a decent striker to act as Kane’s replacement is an excuse. You can you just have to pay for them.
Doesn’t he have a 50mEUR release at Dortmund?
An International striker that has talent and a proven record available for a mere 23 million. Pointless, right?Piątek was only available on a permanent deal once Hertha came in. £23m, out of form, and has his own fitness issues. If you sign him in January, that probably means you can't get a different striker come the summer. In hindsight? Obviously, yes. But if you didn't know Son was going to get injured (which happens very rarely), and you knew someone else was available in the summer, it seems an understandable choice from Mourinho. So I'll judge that one after the summer window. Giroud I don't see how we could have got, it always relied on Chelsea having a much better replacement to justify them selling him to a rival and that didn't happen for them after the Cavani deal fell through.
That's really on the manager isn't it? You work with the youngsters, get them to match fitness so that they are able to give the senior players a run for their money. I was expecting Jose to come in with fresh ideas, game plans but all I see is a leaking defence and a non-existent midfield and putting players at their wrong positions. I am not seeing a difference in both Jose and Poch's management at the moment.
It is so sad to see these 2 decline so much but it's only nature taking its course. All their hard work they have given for so long and no trophy that both so deserve.As I've said since November or December, quite simply Alderweireld and Vertonghen shouldn't be in the team anymore. Jan's legs have gone, Toby's have also basically. They're now reduced to timid, passive, slow defending that just allows attackers time and space to do what they want as they cling on and pray they can somehow deal with it. Jan shouldn't get a new contract, and the decision to award Toby a fat new one was a supremely retarded decision for several reasons, both for on and off field reasons.
Both goals today came from these two lumbering, decrepit pensioners just being simply unable to react and deal with what was happening in and around them.
Maybe none of them would have been ultimately good enough and taken their chance, maybe no partnership would have been found going forward, but we had 6 months during a transitional season, that included a managerial change halfway through which buys time, to assess Sanchez, Foyth, Dier, Tanganga and whoever else and see if any could find some form or build a partnership at the back and maybe learn something going into future seasons and maybe even save us some time effort and resources on buying for that position. At the moment I just think all we're doing is pointlessly wasting time, matches, and minutes on a couple of players who are only going to continue going in the wrong direction, decline.
We won a few games with Kane playing scoring goals, didn't we? Like Sonny last week? Focal point. You can't win football matches without a striker.
Doesn’t he have a 50mEUR release at Dortmund?