Just wants minutes so heads to Qatar. Makes totals sense, that well worn path for players trying to get their careers back on track.
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I mean you've just made that up mate.
For one, we've conceded the same amount of goals over our first 5 league games this season as we did last season.
We've conceded seven so far, if my maths is correct, which is the same as we did over the opening five last season, if I'm remembering correctly. So that would suggest we aren't actually any more or less open, or, we're less open from open play, but from set-pieces and crosses into the box we are absolutely garbage? (which, we are)
Two, we didn't go with flat back four because of James being in midfield. We went with that because Coleman and Digne both got injured.
messymascot
Player Valuation: £35m
If he wasn't going to play him leaving is best all round. If nothing else the constant circus of questions will come to an end. If I was manager I would have used him off the bench but that's just me. I wish him all the best and hope he gets into the Colombian WC squad. We are now short on the right side of midfield but I'm sure we will get through it.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Let's be honest, none of us have much idea with what's going on with James. The club has released so much contradictory information since he first joined who knows what to believe. I guess you can only go by your own instincts.
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You cant leave for elsewhere, windows across Europe are shut.
I think Forever has a point here. It's the club for me. But, Benitez isn't exactly James' biggest fan and vice versa. So it's an easy break.
However, we're doing it at a time that just shows we're absolutely desperate financially and people are just shrugging it off.
Not good enough. We're run by complete amateurs.
Carloblues
Player Valuation: £30m
People loving it he's going when his replacement this season has been Andros townsend.
You fans don't deserve nice things at this club.
Cloggers trumps footballers apparently ay
NSNO and all that
You fans don't deserve nice things at this club.
Cloggers trumps footballers apparently ay
NSNO and all that
tommye
Player Valuation: £100m
What does make sense is it being a state backed signing with James set to become the poster boy for the upcoming World Cup there. Instant access to tens of millions of followers on his socials. Makes perfect sense.
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Then we shouldn't have signed Benitez who hates creative players.
Imagine JR with Galtier, he would have been treated fairly and gotten game time regularly.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Come on mate we were cut through like butter last season - West Brom put 2 past us and were all over us until they went a man down, Brighton hammered us 2nd half and could have put more than 2 past us. Liverpool put 2 but should have scored 3, Southampton only won 2-0 but absolutely destroyed us with Ward Prowse having about 5 brilliant chances.
This season we've conceeded 7 goals in 5 games HOWEVER 3 of those goals have been direct unforced errors by 2x defenders (Keane against Saints/Leeds & Dignes OG at Villa). Those goals had nothing to do with the system - we've looked relatively comfortable at the back all season and never really felt like we were being put under the cosh even if we have had spells where we haven't played well.
4 conceeded goals in 5 games is decent.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
QPRs second string will beat us. Just saying
Gwladysstreetlad
Player Valuation: £50m
I don't agree with the people saying they're glad to see him gone. I think he was class for us in some games especially early doors and in that Derby win, his fitness wasn't great but how many players does that apply to in our squad?! I hold no ill will towards him, and it was a case of the club forcing him to leave because benitez didn't want him and the board needed his wage of the books. So good luck to the lad (not that he'll need it in that leauge).
But the problem is that we can't go back and fix previous mistakes. If we are (as it appears) having financial problems then we have to deal with it, and deal with it right now. We can't just put it off longer, or keep saying it's not good enough. It isn't good enough, but we can only fix the future. Saving 100k a week or whatever is not going to magically make all our problems disappear, but it's certainly going to help.
And one of those was down to Allan losing possession high upfield was it not, and the other was a free-kick which came from our left side?
Southampton, James played crocked, should never have played, and they taregtted Godfrey. After that, we played 4-3-3 on one more occasion and that was the home game v Man Utd.
You said that the reason CA went to flat four of CBs was because of James. It wasn't. James wasn't even in the side as he was injured. Coleman and Digne were out too and so we had to use all four CBs.
The goals we conceded in the first 5 games of last season were as follows
- West Brom (1 x fk, 1 x Allan giving possession away and Mina not closing down - nothing to do with the system)
- Palace (1 x set-piece)
- Brighton (1 x Pickford cock up, 1 x Bissouma stunner after James had gone off)
- Liverpool (1 x Mane/Robertson attacking Coleman (the first example of a team actually exposing James, who provided an assist and a key pass for the 2nd goal in that game btw, and then 1 x defensive mistake from Mina clearing straight to Salah)
So of those seven goals there, literally one came as a result of 'the system/James'. So just as many as have come from our system, whatever that system is, so far this season.
He doesn't want to be here.
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