07 Nov 2020 12:36:55
Any news on Adama new contract?
Have been thrown into the mix of rumours for Samuel Chukuweze Nigeria international winger at Villareal. he's also linked with lots of premier league sides.
Very good player. Like to see Adama kick on this season a bit more. Especially in the goals department.
07 Nov 2020 22:22:21
One change for tomorrow I’ve been told
Yow ain’t sin me rite.
08 Nov 2020 11:50:16
Probably marcal.
09 Nov 2020 11:44:23
Adama will probably be sold in January for a fraction of what he was valued at when he was a regular in the team, everyone was quick to praise Nuno for turning him into “a playerâ€, an exiting attacking player at that, but then he decided there’s no place in his ultra defensive team formation so keeps him on the bench, moved on from last season when Jota, Traore and Raul were frightening defences up and down the Country, moved on in the wrong direction though, sell Jota (and Doc) leave Traiore out and leave one of the best centre forwards in World football struggling up front on his own, you couldn’t make it up, wonder if Nuno did, wouldn’t have thought destroying your own team would be part of the long term project.
09 Nov 2020 19:27:15
Oxley - totally understand your frustration but I think Nuno has previously done enough to be given a bit more leeway than perhaps you are willing to grant him.
Unquestionably we are not playing well - in fact we have been pretty awful for long periods in a number of games this year including the first half against Leicester- and results are poor. [The line that we are doing well misses the point that we have had a v favourable fixture list and indeed from the same games last year we had 4 more points! }
However we remain v solid at the back and have put together brief, (WELL VERY BRIEF) spells of good stuff - we just haven't, as Nuno commented, taken our chances.
If we had we could easily be sitting here with 6 wins a draw, (v MC), and just the defeat at WH.
I am concerned at both Traore's massive decline - if we sell him in J for.
09 Nov 2020 20:09:27
bother - typing v poor and sent by error.
If we sell Traore in Jan we will not get what we would have got if we had him sold in August and I fear that if you think Jota's going to come back and bite us by turning into a far better player than he showed he was at Wolves then Traore is going to swallow us whole.
He has the potential to be a top, top player but at the moment, in the handful of minutes he is playing each week, sadly he is looking v ordinary.
Just as worrying - perhaps more so as we are so reliant on him, is the poor run Jimenez is suffering at the moment.
Clearly the change in system we are supposedly employing is not working yet but it is still early days and there are green shoots.
Semedo is looking much better, (although he has v big shoes to fill), and Podence and Neto are both looking v promising.
The system - which I actually don't think is very different - still massively relies on the WBs to provide support/ attacking threat as the 2 mids sit v deep and we play 3cbs.
What has changed?
Semedo although improving is still a long way short of the man he replaced, Traore has fallen off a cliff and Moutinho who often opened teams up with his passing has grown old and has been replaced by the far more athletic but less talented Dendonker.
Sadly it now appears, (with the season over 20% gone), that we loused up the summer.
We were remiss in not buying a ready to play replacement/ support for Jimenez ( Silva from the v v few minutes we have seen is not ready and looks like he is some way off being so! If he was even close to ready we would have seen him for far more minutes! )
We didn't notice Moutinho had grown old (?! ) and bought a kid (for nigh on £20m) who doesn't even make the bench- despite the obvious problems in midfield as a project for the future!
In fact other than Marcal all the players we bought were for the future except Semedo who we had to buy because we gave Doherty away.
Despite all this we remain v competitive and just a tweak or two away from having a v good season - in a year when the league appears a mess and opportunity is screaming out.
If we don't successfully make those tweaks that lead to us scoring those goals that turn the draws to wins and even defeats like Leicester could have been a win it will be such a shame that we appear to have got our timing so wrong.
The decision that this was the year we were going to "change", effectively stepping back, coming at the very moment so many of our erstwhile rivals in the big 6 have floundered for various reasons AND teams who may have looked up to us like WH, AV, Everton, Southampton etc have moved forwards, means that instead of a potential dream season when we could have seriously challenged for Champions league we might end up mid table at best.
11 Nov 2020 22:17:12
We have good forwards and Coady but the team seems a bit uncertain after that.
Stars before lockdown like Adama and Boly aren't the same and the new players haven't yet staked their claim so we have Dendoncker and until last week Saiss as our regular consistent players can't wait for Semedo Marcal and Fabio Silva to show their skills.