I know i should be happy, but Stringer just said that Gelson Fernandes is about to sign. He is a good player, but all these midfielders are just ridiculous. We totally have too many which means on our bench we will have at least 2 of the best midfielders in the division on it. Which is good. But a team with 3 of Danns/King/Wellens/Fernandes/Johnson/Abe(/Oakley) on it is ridiculous. Players like King who we are priviledge to have will get dropped and a King without confidence is worthless. A wellens at his age not playing will send over his legs and waste him. Johnson has come to play and said he needs to play to get fit... i presume sven has promised that. Danns is quality and didnt move under the burden of one of the divisions top players not to play! Fernandes is a good age and ex-premier league regular and adds steel, and expects to play. Everyone will start to get p***ed off that they arent playing. If we rotated, they will get p***sed that they play better but dont play all the time. I know i should be happy, but does anyone else feel this? Maybe im just grumpy today.
Yep, you're grumpy! Just sit back and revel in the quality we are brining in. I reckon a midfield 5 of Johnson and Danns raiding wide, Wellens and Fernandes holding central, and King raiding forward behind a lone striker will crush this league. I know 4-5-1 sounds defensive, but it can be devastating - ask Sol the wall Bamba, he'll confirm.
Understand where your coming from ed, im hoping its just strikers he buys now, im concerned how many games Abe will play, seeming hes a Top favourite. 4-5-1 works for me, 3-4 will get forward with the striker during each attack. I bet theres a chance 1 will play on the opposite wing of Gally if it will remain 4-3-3, so hes technically a striker/pushed up attacking midfielder.
I think we'll stick with 4-3-3. The midfielders we are bringing in are good but you can't accomodate all of them just for the sake of it. I would pick Wellens, King and Johnson as my first choice 3, with Gally, Nugent and a new striker as the front 3. I don't see anything wrong with that, we don't need 2 holding midfielders anwyway, one will do, and our defence will be better. Wellens and Fernandes can both sit butt we don't need both at the same time. Though the 4-5-1 could work, there's nothing wrong with plan B and plan C or mixing up formations to get the best out of the team in a particular game.
If I were to pick my team for Cov, it would be: Schmeichel Pantsil - Mills - St Ledger - Konchesky Johnson - Fernandes - Wellens Danns - Nugent/NEW CF - Gallagher Subs: Weale Bamba Peltier King Nugent/Vassell Tough one to leave Kingy out. Abe also unlucky not to make the 16.
so do i. So why sign him? Why not sign a winger who is better at playing wide than playing Danns out of position? If we take Wellens and King out of the team we have really taken the spine of the team out and the team will have no chemistry or 'familier spark'. We just simply have too many midfielders and not a striker (he will come though). Jeeezzzz, i really do seem more grumpy than i thought!!
Despite not being good enough yet, i feel Johnson will play. I think fernades will too, as sven likes his own signings. So thats one play for King, Wellens, Danns. Wellens isnt dynamic enough for the 'attacking' space left. Simply too many players.
Calm Down Dear! please log in to view this image Just remember Sven knows what hes doin, hes not gone senile yet
I would rather have competition for player that are good rather than competition because they are all ****
This is OT, but when I'm clicking on 'go to first new post' icon on the thread menu it's taking me to the top of the article instead. Then when I go back to the menu all the articles are still in bold, as if to indicate an unread post, even when I refresh the page. Is this happening to anyone else? It's a bit annoying.
I think it will work as Fernandes the enforcer and the one who sits, Wellens is like the playmaker and Johnson the one who gets up to support the strikers. And agree with Andy about competition for places - it makes a squad stronger.
I'm not saying I don't have some concerns, but we'll have to wait and see. In an ideal scenario, King and Wellens both start the first game because they are established good players at the club who shouldn't be left out after their last season, with Johno/Fernandes/Danns being the other starter. 2 midfielders (Danns and Fernandes for example) sit on the bench, and one is brought on after an hour. These 2 only become starters though when results start going wrong or form from one of the other 3 is poor. This is fair enough and refelcts how a good squad should be, full of quality but with a favoured starting 11 based on form. On the other hand, we could be playing 5 in midfield. If we do, I'd like it to look like this: --------------------Wellens------------ --------------Johno--------King--------- -------Danns--------------------Gally------- I don't know much about Fernandes but having seen him at the world cup and Euros i can't say I understand why evryone's raving about him. Anyway he has to earn his place.
Johnson didnt have great pace before the injury, and now hasnt played for two years. We spent all this pre-season gelling, and now the midfield, our whole core of the team, is now different. Taking King out gives us much, much less of a goal threat. I agree Fernades will hold. I think Johnson will be played (personally i wouldnt). Which leaves no speace for Danns, Wellens or (less importantly in my eyes) Abe.
The one game that stuck out for me that he played in was the Spain vs Swiss game at the WC. I've not seen many people cope with the speed of passing and movement from Xavi, Iniesta etc. but he was one of them. Did an excellent job.
Sir alex had loads of midfielders for Man Utd last season and they all got a game but when players played badly in games and others impressed in training they got game time. The same message needs to be used here because having a team full of players moaning is useless but a team with a group of players striving to better themselves is extremely healthy.
Agree but the only thing I'd say is that because it was Man U, players might have been happy to bide there time because they were a tone of the biggest clubs in the world. A lot of our signings are ne wplayers who will have come to play games and not to sit on the bench. Also, Man U had many comps to play in as well and went far into all of them.
With having loads of centre mids its keeps everyone on their toes. Look at King towards the end of last season he wasnt performing but was in the team everyweek because there was no one else who could play his role in the team. Now if he has 2 or 3 bad games then someone is going to take your shirt. Abe can play right back if needed so that adds versatility to the team which is needed
