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agrdavidsfan

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Aug 25, 2005
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He actually looked much more himself for the last 10 and played with some aggression which was good but before that he was poor.

Almost like he’s trying to hard he popped up in centre mid a few times trying to create things
 

emiley heskey

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Jul 3, 2020
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You rarely replace a player with one with the exact same attributes.

But you need to replace goals with goals ... Where will you find a player who can score guaranteed 15+ goals in every season and who can score almost all types of goals? It's very difficult to find..

If we had Pulisic or Werner on the bench, I would sell him though
 

dontcallme

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Mar 18, 2005
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But you need to replace goals with goals ... Where will you find a player who can score guaranteed 15+ goals in every season and who can score almost all types of goals? It's very difficult to find..

If we had Pulisic or Werner on the bench, I would sell him though
I don't deny that replacing a player of Son's quality is difficult, much like his goals.

Bergwijn has 3 in 9 for us so far. If he can continue that amount of goals and we buy players to get us functioning as a team again we can come back strongly.
 

Nicki78

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I don't deny that replacing a player of Son's quality is difficult, much like his goals.

Bergwijn has 3 in 9 for us so far. If he can continue that amount of goals and we buy players to get us functioning as a team again we can come back strongly.
Sorry but I don’t agree at all. He’s a young player and obviously I hope he’ll come good but he hasn’t shown enough yet to make me think he could even be half as important to us as Son is at his best.
 

dontcallme

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Sorry but I don’t agree at all. He’s a young player and obviously I hope he’ll come good but he hasn’t shown enough yet to make me think he could even be half as important to us as Son is at his best.
Not what I said at all.

I said Bergwijn can provide goals and we can spend money on other players to make us a team again.
 

rabbikeane

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Mar 29, 2005
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A goal and an assist today take Son into a 10 goals and 10 assists Premier League season.
Also make him the 20th most played player in our Premier League history,
and the 5th highest goal scorer behind Kane, Sheringham, Keane and Defoe.
 

ultimateloner

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Jan 25, 2004
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I hope we can keep him. I don't think we can realistically replace him like for like.
Also, his game has improved just like Kane over the last few seasons. He is someone who works on his game outside games.
He also seems very likeable and professional.
 

jamesc0le

SISS:LOKO:plays/thinks/eats chicken like sissoko!
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someone should make a ''son let's arsenal off a real smashing ''video LOL
 

JayB

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Aug 24, 2011
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He’s far better playing as a forward than as a traditional winger. Needs to line up as a WF or a striker, he’s completely wasted hugging the touchline.
 

emiley heskey

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He’s far better playing as a forward than as a traditional winger. Needs to line up as a WF or a striker, he’s completely wasted hugging the touchline.

Son needs to be in and around the dbox. I have nagging feeling he has ability like cr7 to score 30+ goals in a season.. But we need space creators like higuain/benzema to do that ... Can kane sacrifice his goal scoring appetite and become a support striker for Son?
 

Cochise

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Aug 8, 2019
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We've needed to see that from him for a while now. Not vintage Son, but a big improvement over his most recent performances.
 

dannythomas

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May 17, 2004
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He played better because he was used as a second striker not a wide midfield player who is expected to tackle back like Moura did so well yesterday. Kane and Son can continue to be a prolific partnership when they play in a 3-5-2 or 4-4-2 . Playing Kane by himself just Doesn’t work any more especially since he has yet to regain his form from 2 or 3 years ago.
 

BringBack_leGin

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Jul 28, 2004
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They both looked far happier as a two, sharing the burden of running. Issue is whether we can construct a midfield which maximises a front two. Even more reason to go all out for a top dm.
 

ginola007

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Much has been made about the tiff between Lloris and Son. Yes, modern footballers need to track back. Yet it is perverse to use Son in a defensive mode, just as it is madness to put Sissoko as a striker. Son is not a tackler; he is a runner, a worrier, a terrier of opposition's defence. Though hardly at his best, he was much more effective playing alongside Kane as a secondary striker yesterday. He scored one and made the other. We need to build the team around Kane and Son. All we need is a midfielder with vision who can provide through balls to them. Lucas put in some marvellous passes for Harry yesterday, but for the goalkeeper, Harry would have at least two. Son and Harry, IMO, must be kept, because we just do not have enough money to buy the replacements who could do as effective a job as these two talisman.
 

DJS

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Dec 9, 2006
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He played better because he was used as a second striker not a wide midfield player who is expected to tackle back like Moura did so well yesterday. Kane and Son can continue to be a prolific partnership when they play in a 3-5-2 or 4-4-2 . Playing Kane by himself just Doesn’t work any more especially since he has yet to regain his form from 2 or 3 years ago.

I think 3-5-2 is a good shout and Winks has also had some of his better games in that system.

Alternatively we need to go proper 4-3-3 with Son not staying out so wide with a Bergwijn on other flank providing the wing play.
 

emiley heskey

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If we can buy someone like greenwood or another left footed forward and have a proper DM(Hojberg) and a box to box cm like savic along with Lo Celso, I think we will see much more attacking intent in our play.

I am willing to give away both lamela and Moura for a left footed forward ...
 
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