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Oddly, I'd keep playing Salah. I know he's been absolute arse this season, but the argument I have in my head, which may be beyond stupid, is that we need all the experience we can get at the moment. My only question is what then happens at right back, because Salah isn't going to defend anymore. So, I'd maybe go with the following:

Mama then Alisson
Gomez
Konate
Van Dijk
Kerkez
Gravy
Szobo
Wirtz
Salah
Ekitike
Chiesa

I'd probably play some variation of the formation Slot used against Frankfurt where Wirtz pulled out to the right, play a narrower front three with Chiesa and Salah coming inside and Ekitike dropping off, and using Kerkez for width whilst Gomez comes across to form part of a back three when attacking. It's not ideal, and it's not without flaw, but it might go someway to compensating for Salah and a lack of a proper defensive midfielder. Gravy and Szobo would need to be told to stay deep.
 
SaRed said:
I'd have him on the left in place of Gakpo.
He'll make use of Kerkez's overlaps and has no problem tracking back to help out.
Also, I think he would interchange better with Ekitike when he drifts out left.
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This. Wirtz starting position out left, Kerkez overlapping.
 
------------------Ali/Marma----
--Gomez---Konate---VVD----Robertson----
------------Endo--------Grav/Jones---------------
------------------Szobo------------------
-------Wirtz------Ekitke-------Gakpo/Chiesa

That's all I would be looking at starting any time soon. I'd take some ugly football if we showed some fight and had a plan. That team is capable of playing some decent stuff. We've just forgotten what a side with some balance looks like.
 
Squiggles said:
------------------Ali/Marma----
--Gomez---Konate---VVD----Robertson----
------------Endo--------Grav/Jones---------------
------------------Szobo------------------
-------Wirtz------Ekitke-------Gakpo/Chiesa

That's all I would be looking at starting any time soon. I'd take some ugly football if we showed some fight and had a plan. That team is capable of playing some decent stuff. We've just forgotten what a side with some balance looks like.
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Slot would rather get sacked than play that team.
 
It's not a ridiculous idea for a predominantly left-footed player, but I can't help feeling the yard of pace he's missing would hamper him there too. There have been calls in the past for him to play more infield and I was never in favour of that, as I thought it blunted the effect of the pace he used to have, but things might be different now. He's still a nuggety little bugger who's heckuva difficult to knock off the ball.
 
Hyena said:
Just had a wild idea that's bound to get everyone rubbishing me.

Salah on the left.
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I've been saying this on and off for over a year. Some of our best plays come when a wide attacker hits the byline and gets the ball straight into the 6 yard box. We should be open to trying this and mixing things up with Gakpo & Mo.

I remember Diaz deputising for Mo 2 seasons ago on the right and that change in approach can put opposition plans out of the window.
 
We have no really good attacking wide players anymore which is a scandal that should never have been allowed to happen.

With that in mind & how nothing else is really working this season wouldn't it be an idea to go more narrow up top & push the full backs on to create the width?

That would mean no Gakpo or Salah & playing Ekitike & Isak as the 2 strikers.
 
It's just a complete mess. I don't think any of the players we signed in the summer aren't good enough for us, and I can understand the argument for signing each one of them, but it's insane to think that we spent that amount of money and there are still huge holes in the squad.
 
Best Believe It said:
Think it's going to be a case of limping to Jan and spunking cash again. A wide player, a CB and a Defensive Mid.
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Do we have any cash left to spunk?

My understanding from the stuff Beamrider was posting during the summer is that we just about made the summer transfer window work and it's dependant on CL qualification and all that jazz.

I'm hoping some allowances were made for future needs (and I guess we were willing to spend some money on Guehi) but I can't imagine they were planning to spend 100M in Jan.

Maybe there will be a case to be made that going deeper in the red is preferable to missing out on the CL.... though unless things improve soon, that might be gone by Jan anyways.
 
keniget said:
Do we have any cash left to spunk?

My understanding from the stuff Beamrider was posting during the summer is that we just about made the summer transfer window work and it's dependant on CL qualification and all that jazz.

I'm hoping some allowances were made for future needs (and I guess we were willing to spend some money on Guehi) but I can't imagine they were planning to spend 100M in Jan.

Maybe there will be a case to be made that going deeper in the red is preferable to missing out on the CL.... though unless things improve soon, that might be gone by Jan anyways.
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I don't have Beamrider's expertise here, so this is guesswork, but I would have thought they will have planned to address certain positions in the summer and then additional positions next summer, with Van Dijk, Salah and possibly Robbo coming to the end of their careers here. It's a question I guess of whether they bring some spending forward as they did when they bought Diaz. They wouldn't have expected Salah to drop off as dramatically as he has - and personally I think the drop in form has been heavily influenced by Jota's passing - otherwise I'm sure they would have targeted someone else to play wide, given Slot doesn't like Chiesa at all.

The Guehi money I assume we just have anyway; though our form might make him look elsewhere.
 
Best Believe It said:
It's just a complete mess. I don't think any of the players we signed in the summer aren't good enough for us, and I can understand the argument for signing each one of them, but it's insane to think that we spent that amount of money and there are still huge holes in the squad.
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The manager doesn't know what he's doing
 
Mamma Mia said:
Save your season instructions:

- acknowledge that none of this is important
- lower your expectations
- take stock of your personal life and expend your energy on family and friends
- chill out and find joy where you can
- prep for winning the CL in May
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Was with you until the CL. This manager wouldn't even win the Woman's Champions League
 
It’s important to practise gratitude. Our collective knowledge of obscure European geography will soar when we’re playing in the Europa Conference.
 
Any trophy and CL qualification would be great this season in my opinion.

But even if we win nothing, if we are in the CL next season and all our expensive signings take the season to settle in and improve, I would still call this a good season all things considered.

All moot really since we're going to win the quad, but my range for what constitutes a decent season is pretty wide.
 
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