Young players

You make the point, lack of leadership ,and this seems to be on the pitch as well as off it .

Times running out Pots .

#freefofana

comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
Maybe I’ll be proved wrong but the Mudryk deal seems bizarre.

88 million for a guy that had 60 club apps and 10 caps at a modest level club and country who isn’t exactly that young in footballing terms.

It looks like a few decent games against European minnows sent his valuation through the roof.
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Werner mk2......its not looking promising

That’s harsh on Werner

comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 2 hours, 43 minutes ago
Maybe I’ll be proved wrong but the Mudryk deal seems bizarre.

88 million for a guy that had 60 club apps and 10 caps at a modest level club and country who isn’t exactly that young in footballing terms.

It looks like a few decent games against European minnows sent his valuation through the roof.
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£60m, and he doesn’t get better it’ll never reach £88m

Felix, Enzo, Badiashile and Wes Fofana are all elite, Madueke has a lot of talent IMO and tbf so does Mudryk but those two I’m less sure of long term than the others.

Actually think Mudryk will become a very good player eventually.

comment by Randomer (U5245)
posted 4 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 2 hours, 43 minutes ago
Maybe I’ll be proved wrong but the Mudryk deal seems bizarre.

88 million for a guy that had 60 club apps and 10 caps at a modest level club and country who isn’t exactly that young in footballing terms.

It looks like a few decent games against European minnows sent his valuation through the roof.
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£60m, and he doesn’t get better it’ll never reach £88m
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Is that true? I thought the whole reason you got him was cos you were happy to go in with the full amount and much less dependent on add ons

He may turn out decent but at the moment it looks Shakthar have played a blinder with that deal, Mudryk looks anything but a top level player. It's all worked out great for us in the end. Trossard has been excellent at a fraction of the price.

I'm fed up with our tactics. We are too slow, too narrow and any this is shown up by the fact that most of our decent stuff comes from the wingbacks when we play more direct.

What was unforgivable for me is playing one of the best attacking wingbacks in world football in central defence - Sure, James can play there, but why? Who would seriously do that? And don't get me started on Cucurella!

Havertz is our best forward but he slows play down too much. Mudryk has pace, so play quick through balls - but that doesn't happen because Felix and Havertz need 20 touches and the play becomes too slow and congested. How many times do we break quickly, have a 3 v 3 situation and then pass the ball backwards to build up slowly and let the opposition reset?

Players like Madueke and Mudryk are never going to play well in a slow team - the whole essence of their game is speed in the attack. It seems that we buy players who do not suit the system we are playing, or maybe a manager who doesn't understand the players he has. Somewhere in that squad, there is a decent team, but not with Potter at the helm.