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So with Chadli and Mason now gone, it got me thinking that did the Dortmund away and Newcastle away games flip a switch with Potch.
The only one so far who's escaped is Tom Carroll, wouldn't be surprised if he left too.
To be a top top team your 2nd XI need to come in and do a job for you and players like Tripper,Carrol,Mason,Bentaleb,Chadli etc have for me not quite been up to it. Tripper we let off a bit as Dortmund away is hard for any full-back with no protection and he's still young and improving but the others have let themselves down too many times.
I like the point someone made about Mason and Bentaleb that when they were our predominant CM pairing they looked good but we finished 5th and could've easily finished 7th, or did we come 7th I can't even remember... Basically not good enough.
Last year Dier and Dembele combo got us to 3rd.
If we can get this young GK, the Marsille winger and a top drawer AM or CM I think we will have had the pretty much perfect transfer window from an ins and outs perspective.
We have players who can fill in at different positions like Dier,Dembele,Alli and Kane and pretty much 2 good players in every position if we get the ones in mentioned.
But question is do you think these 2 matches struck a nerve with potch and the Newcastle game was almost a blessing in disguise as if that hadn't have happened we may have kept the likes of Mason etc.
The only one so far who's escaped is Tom Carroll, wouldn't be surprised if he left too.
To be a top top team your 2nd XI need to come in and do a job for you and players like Tripper,Carrol,Mason,Bentaleb,Chadli etc have for me not quite been up to it. Tripper we let off a bit as Dortmund away is hard for any full-back with no protection and he's still young and improving but the others have let themselves down too many times.
I like the point someone made about Mason and Bentaleb that when they were our predominant CM pairing they looked good but we finished 5th and could've easily finished 7th, or did we come 7th I can't even remember... Basically not good enough.
Last year Dier and Dembele combo got us to 3rd.
If we can get this young GK, the Marsille winger and a top drawer AM or CM I think we will have had the pretty much perfect transfer window from an ins and outs perspective.
We have players who can fill in at different positions like Dier,Dembele,Alli and Kane and pretty much 2 good players in every position if we get the ones in mentioned.
But question is do you think these 2 matches struck a nerve with potch and the Newcastle game was almost a blessing in disguise as if that hadn't have happened we may have kept the likes of Mason etc.