wrd
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I have no intention of being pragmatic here, with a couple of astute purchases I think we can win the league next season.
Look at the efficiency we produced with a team which basically had only maybe 15 players who could contribute from January. I think the talk of juggling Champions League is valid, I think that we will be able to suddenly go from 3-4 reasonable rotation options to 8 very good ones in the summer, I think that'll help the Champions League conumdrum.
The reason I think we can do it is because our style suits teams who play attacking football. We have arguably the best two players for a counter attack in world football at the moment for me in Son and Kane, if they're not the best then they're up there but Son finishing statistics in 1v1s and Kane a number 9 with his passing range, you'll do well to find better in that method of attacking. So already despite limitations in the squad we have seen our style suits playing against Liv and City despite them being better footballing teams, our system means we're better than the sum of it's parts and we can get results vs teams who are set the bar high for attacking football.
Our issue has been breaking down teams who sit deep because we lack the quality to find ways through because they can so easily overwhelm our main attacking outlets because they know they can maintain shape when the ball goes to certain players. Honestly you replace Emerson with Spence and already you're going to see a significant output increase from that area, then you talk of replacing Hojbjerg with a deep lying playmaker, you add the possibility of adding Eriksen as a component. Suddenly we are going to be able to become ruthlessly efficient.
For me though the big one is Bastoni, Romero already elevates us to signifcantly higher levels as a team with not only his front foot defending but his ability to play the ball and become the extra man in attack. If you add Bastoni on the other side then all of a sudden we are going to be extremely difficult to sit back against, the guy has a wand of a left foot, he's also italian so we don't even need to mention his defending ability. No disrespect to Davies who has been superb or any of the other players I've suggested be upgraded but you can see quite easily how suddenly teams will just not be able to contain us with that level of quality.
Look at the chances we gave away vs Liverpool and City over the 3 games under Conte. We are extremely risk averse in our approach and when you combine a defence that severely limits chances already, two absolute world class forwards in Kane and Son and then add ontop the additional quality in playing out from back with a player potentially like Bastoni with players who have the technical ability to make the system just become ruthless then I really think we can do it next season.
If we tried to go toe to toe with City and Liv at their own game then it's a different conversation but we aren't. We are about to see what happens when you give Kane and Son the tools around them so they dont have to do it all themselves, we have already seen what Kulusevski and Bentancur added. I don't think the rest of the world appreciates just how much Kane and Son have had to do on their own, they're about to find out what happens when the rest of the team has the capability to support them properly.
Look at the efficiency we produced with a team which basically had only maybe 15 players who could contribute from January. I think the talk of juggling Champions League is valid, I think that we will be able to suddenly go from 3-4 reasonable rotation options to 8 very good ones in the summer, I think that'll help the Champions League conumdrum.
The reason I think we can do it is because our style suits teams who play attacking football. We have arguably the best two players for a counter attack in world football at the moment for me in Son and Kane, if they're not the best then they're up there but Son finishing statistics in 1v1s and Kane a number 9 with his passing range, you'll do well to find better in that method of attacking. So already despite limitations in the squad we have seen our style suits playing against Liv and City despite them being better footballing teams, our system means we're better than the sum of it's parts and we can get results vs teams who are set the bar high for attacking football.
Our issue has been breaking down teams who sit deep because we lack the quality to find ways through because they can so easily overwhelm our main attacking outlets because they know they can maintain shape when the ball goes to certain players. Honestly you replace Emerson with Spence and already you're going to see a significant output increase from that area, then you talk of replacing Hojbjerg with a deep lying playmaker, you add the possibility of adding Eriksen as a component. Suddenly we are going to be able to become ruthlessly efficient.
For me though the big one is Bastoni, Romero already elevates us to signifcantly higher levels as a team with not only his front foot defending but his ability to play the ball and become the extra man in attack. If you add Bastoni on the other side then all of a sudden we are going to be extremely difficult to sit back against, the guy has a wand of a left foot, he's also italian so we don't even need to mention his defending ability. No disrespect to Davies who has been superb or any of the other players I've suggested be upgraded but you can see quite easily how suddenly teams will just not be able to contain us with that level of quality.
Look at the chances we gave away vs Liverpool and City over the 3 games under Conte. We are extremely risk averse in our approach and when you combine a defence that severely limits chances already, two absolute world class forwards in Kane and Son and then add ontop the additional quality in playing out from back with a player potentially like Bastoni with players who have the technical ability to make the system just become ruthless then I really think we can do it next season.
If we tried to go toe to toe with City and Liv at their own game then it's a different conversation but we aren't. We are about to see what happens when you give Kane and Son the tools around them so they dont have to do it all themselves, we have already seen what Kulusevski and Bentancur added. I don't think the rest of the world appreciates just how much Kane and Son have had to do on their own, they're about to find out what happens when the rest of the team has the capability to support them properly.
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