Now, to mitigate what I'm about to post, I KNOW we have a thin squad and might not have the players Brendan wants.
BUT
When he came in, I thought we were going to start playing like Swansea/Arsenal/Barca, in other words, pissing around with 10 thousand passes every game, and us moaning that we're trying to walk it in every game, after creating boatloads of chances and not putting them away. But I was going to be happy to accept that, as football was being played the proper way, and I do genuinely like the bloke, what he says, having the balls to make big decisions, playing the kids when needs be etc.
But it's just not working out that way, all we seem to do is pass the ball around in the back 2 thirds, only to turn round when we get to the opponents box, and start heading back towards our own keeper. Yes, keeping possession, yes keeping the ball on the floor, yes 'death by football', but creating nothing.
There's just absolute scraps for Suarez to work off, and thank the gods we've got him at the moment, with a silly high conversion rate, because we're creating nothing for him, and he's got no backup on the goals front. No one else looks like getting a goal, I think some of it is down to the players not being goal scorers (sterling, downing, cole, henderson, allen, lucas) but I think a big chunk of it is down to the system. How many sitters are we missing? Not a lot as we're not creating any.
We're on about we desperately need this goalscorer in Jan, and everyone is getting excited about huntelaar, walcott, sturridge, whoever. But how many goals do you think a goal scorer is going to get with zero supply? Suarez is a genius and can pretty much create his own goals. How many do other top goalscorers create for themselves? Not a fat lot, they expect to have some chances to work off, and the team around them to be creative, ours is not.
I'm very concerned that we're going to buy this wonderful striker in Jan (not likely) then we're going to all get on his back as 'its not worked out' and he's not scoring, but he's getting fuck all to work off.
I'm not sure what the solution is to this, but I'm not sure buying a goal scorer is. If we buy an out and out striker, I'm guessing the only option would be to put Suarez out wide in a wing-forward role and have him 'creating', but isn't that a waste considering his form infront of goal as of late? I think we might need someone to come in to replace sterling, with actual end product, if we're going to do the above. But I can't think of any players for that role that would even consider joining us. Walcott currently does a similar role for the arse, but the only way I can see him joining us is if we promise him a role upfront. Why on earth would he swap arsenal for us to be in exactly the same position?
This tippy tappy stuff is wearing me down, I just want some end product to it. And there isn't any. I'm not expecting us to score 5 goals a game and create 25 goal scoring chances every game, just SOME. Knocking 600 passes around every game, but only having about 3 passes in the opposition box is just crap. I'm hoping Brendan can sort this, but if we continue drawing/losing most games until the end of the season, I'm not sure if he'll be able to finish his 'masterpiece' and probably rightly so, football is a results driven business, we not making bloody cheese or wine :s
BUT
When he came in, I thought we were going to start playing like Swansea/Arsenal/Barca, in other words, pissing around with 10 thousand passes every game, and us moaning that we're trying to walk it in every game, after creating boatloads of chances and not putting them away. But I was going to be happy to accept that, as football was being played the proper way, and I do genuinely like the bloke, what he says, having the balls to make big decisions, playing the kids when needs be etc.
But it's just not working out that way, all we seem to do is pass the ball around in the back 2 thirds, only to turn round when we get to the opponents box, and start heading back towards our own keeper. Yes, keeping possession, yes keeping the ball on the floor, yes 'death by football', but creating nothing.
There's just absolute scraps for Suarez to work off, and thank the gods we've got him at the moment, with a silly high conversion rate, because we're creating nothing for him, and he's got no backup on the goals front. No one else looks like getting a goal, I think some of it is down to the players not being goal scorers (sterling, downing, cole, henderson, allen, lucas) but I think a big chunk of it is down to the system. How many sitters are we missing? Not a lot as we're not creating any.
We're on about we desperately need this goalscorer in Jan, and everyone is getting excited about huntelaar, walcott, sturridge, whoever. But how many goals do you think a goal scorer is going to get with zero supply? Suarez is a genius and can pretty much create his own goals. How many do other top goalscorers create for themselves? Not a fat lot, they expect to have some chances to work off, and the team around them to be creative, ours is not.
I'm very concerned that we're going to buy this wonderful striker in Jan (not likely) then we're going to all get on his back as 'its not worked out' and he's not scoring, but he's getting fuck all to work off.
I'm not sure what the solution is to this, but I'm not sure buying a goal scorer is. If we buy an out and out striker, I'm guessing the only option would be to put Suarez out wide in a wing-forward role and have him 'creating', but isn't that a waste considering his form infront of goal as of late? I think we might need someone to come in to replace sterling, with actual end product, if we're going to do the above. But I can't think of any players for that role that would even consider joining us. Walcott currently does a similar role for the arse, but the only way I can see him joining us is if we promise him a role upfront. Why on earth would he swap arsenal for us to be in exactly the same position?
This tippy tappy stuff is wearing me down, I just want some end product to it. And there isn't any. I'm not expecting us to score 5 goals a game and create 25 goal scoring chances every game, just SOME. Knocking 600 passes around every game, but only having about 3 passes in the opposition box is just crap. I'm hoping Brendan can sort this, but if we continue drawing/losing most games until the end of the season, I'm not sure if he'll be able to finish his 'masterpiece' and probably rightly so, football is a results driven business, we not making bloody cheese or wine :s