Milan Skriniar

SecretLemonadeDrinker · Sep 23, 2020

TPdYID said:
an Oxymoron if ever there was one!

No, it isn't!

An oxymoron would be to say something like he's a slow fast player. Or a fast slow player.

To say that someone is neither fast nor slow is merely to say that he has medium pace.

Timberwolf · Sep 23, 2020

TPdYID said:
But don’t the best managers find systems for the “best players”?

If he is the best CB at Inter, Conte finds a system which suits.

Conte has his preferred system and fits players into it, not the other way round.

He's not gonna change the system he's consistently played for most of his career to suit one CB. He's the most stubborn fucker on the planet.

rossdapep · Sep 23, 2020

Hawkey77 said:
This is literally the antithesis of Conte’s management style. He has a rigid style...players either adapt or they go.

He then signs players and if they don't fit immediately (Eriksen) he agitates to the board to get them out

rossdapep · Sep 23, 2020

sausage said:
Just curious, as I can't think of any right now, but how many defenders can you name that came from Serie A and were good in the PL?

Stam
Desailly

SushiMane · Sep 23, 2020

I remember Halis making comments about Barca and Real Madrid were in the hunt for Skriniar last November. He said he saw Madrid as the more likely of the two... that obviously didn't happen, but this was less than a year ago.

dagraham · Sep 23, 2020

rossdapep said:
Which leads me to start to wonder did the club start off intending not to go crazy with spending but realised that they needed to be more ambitious due to panicking about missing out on top 4 etc? Or was it all a ploy to make selling clubs think we had little money and couldn't spend too much?

I'd like to think the latter and that its allowed us to get Doherty and Hojbjerg on the cheap, two players who are decent but not exactly worth spending 20-30m+ on.

However I imagine it's probably the former.

I can’t possibly imagine we pleaded poverty with Jose and then after one shit performance against Everton Levy and Lewis had an epiphany.

jpascavitz · Sep 23, 2020

F. Romano said on his podcast today that Mourinho sees him as one of the best cb in the world, I haven't seen enough of him or will pretend to, but if that's what JM thinks and we get him in then fair play

TPdYID · Sep 23, 2020

wrd said:
We played Inter twice and he was solid in both legs, we had to score an absolute fucking brilliant team goal to get past them in the 2nd tie.

We played Watford twice last year, scoring once across both fixtures. Nobody’s making a casing-point for signing Craig Cathcart.

The sample size has got to be bigger then two games!

Albertbarich · Sep 23, 2020

If were going to drop 50 million id far prefer it to be on a central midfielder who can challenge/ back up holjberg.

rossdapep · Sep 23, 2020

dagraham said:
I can’t possibly imagine we pleaded poverty with Jose and then after one shit performance against Everton Levy and Lewis had an epiphany.

Maybe not but I wouldn't be surprised if Levy did panic to some extent. Like he penny dropped the squad was dead and it needed drastic changes not 3 or 4 tweaks.

Jose, close journos, Levy, ITKs - they all said it would be a case of finding loans and frees and that we will be making subtle changes to the squad.

Doherty, Hart and Hojbjerg fit that strategy and then Reguilon and Bale came and ripped that idea up.

TPdYID · Sep 23, 2020

SecretLemonadeDrinker said:
No, it isn't!

An oxymoron would be to say something like he's a slow fast player. Or a fast slow player.

To say that someone is neither fast nor slow is merely to say that he has medium pace.

How do you quantify “medium pace”?

cjsimba · Sep 23, 2020

He has a bit of a weird running style.

Just an observation. ?

Amo · Sep 23, 2020

Albertbarich said:
If were going to drop 50 million id far prefer it to be on a central midfielder who can challenge/ back up holjberg.

Didn't we get Holjberg to challenge Holjberg?

KILLA_SIN · Sep 23, 2020

sausage said:
Just curious, as I can't think of any right now, but how many defenders can you name that came from Serie A and were good in the PL?

Staam went to Serie A

fortworthspur · Sep 23, 2020

TPdYID said:
How do you quantify “medium pace”?

as in if 11 CBs had a race he'd come in 6th.

mill · Sep 23, 2020

Amo said:
Didn't we get Holjberg to challenge Holjberg?

I’d rather he challenged the opposition players tbh

rossdapep · Sep 23, 2020

TPdYID said:
How do you quantify “medium pace”?

Not fast, not slow - or even - average. Pace is not an adjective, it's a noun so you can quantify it that way.

He has decent pace.
He has slow pace.
He has rapid pace.

Spurrific · Sep 23, 2020

Sorry, but some of you really embarrass yourselves when we’re linked with players who don’t play in England. Declare you’re ignorant to them as a player and then pass judgement - makes no sense.

He was coveted by a host of huge clubs last year but Inter wouldn’t entertain interest. He’s fallen slightly out of favour with a nutty twat manager but he’s 25 and already world class. He’d be our best centre back if we managed to sign him, and comfortably at that.

TPdYID · Sep 23, 2020

fortworthspur said:
as in if 11 CBs had a race he'd come in 6th.

So what’s average pace then?

Amo · Sep 23, 2020

TPdYID said:
So what’s average pace then?

Well you need to know the paces of all 11 players in the race to find the arithmetic mean.

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