Confirmed Signing Merlin Rohl

[Drico]

He's magic you know....

He certainly had a good spell at Freiburg.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

My god...

In the last page... 5 jokes about him being magic.

Youre letting everyone down here lads.

There's three stages to a magic trick:

The Pledge presents something ordinary
The Turn makes it do something extraordinary and confusing to the audience
The Prestige is the difficult final act of bringing the extraordinary effect back to its original state, providing the ultimate surprise and payoff for the audience.

 

[Fishman]

Everton pulled a rabbit out the hat with this 1

 

[ValBlue]

My god...

In the last page... 5 jokes about him being magic.

Youre letting everyone down here lads.

We’ve moved into the disappearing act of the magic show

 

[Daytripper]

I’m pleased we are Rohling the dice on this one.

You gotta Rohl with it.

 

[Drico]

it seems from a cursory look at Google that young Merlin is partial to an Alice band.

He’ll fit right in.

 

[wainy]

Rohlin' on the river

 

[Groucho]

My god...

In the last page... 5 jokes about him being magic.

Youre letting everyone down here lads.

Apparently his favourite Phil Collins song is “One More Knight”.

 

[dutchblue54]

Apparently and I’m no expert he plays across the midfield including 6, 8 and in the right of midfield

I’ve never seen him play so make of that what you wil

Transfermarkt has him done as an attacking midfielder but hasn't scored many goals. Scouting reports have him down as a box to box midfielder so seems quite similar to Armstrong, Alcarez and even Iroegbunam also similar a younger player still to develop

 

[toffeeblue9]

Oh I've no doubt that we've shifted within games to a 4-3-3 at times. And I've no doubt that at times (particularly on the ball) we'll leave one of the two centre midfielders back.

But my original point stands: we don't play a traditional holding 6 in a 4-3-3. The flexibility we have to shift within hames is borne from having that double pivot of well rounded CMs who can both advance and sit.

Which is the point I'm making, why would we seek out a CDM destroyer when we don't use one?

Intend to think any defensive midfielder either now or in the future that we buy needs to be comfortable in a double pivot and as a lone 6 in a 433.

KDH, for example, has a huge natural bias towards the inside left channel - he comes alive in that area and, that being the case, it makes sense to shift to a 433 at times. He isn't a natural 10 because he doesn't really drift, or even occupy the space behind the striker a lot of the time.

Merlin Rohl, from the little I've seen him, seems to be a number 8 who's been used like Doucoure at times by Freiburg - a hard running number 10. Again, you'd assume he'd be better suited to a 433. It would surprise me if he was playing in a double pivot, but equally you can't see Dewsbury-Hall doing that either, he's too lightweight.

 

[toffee82]

Apparently his favourite Phil Collins song is “One More Knight”.

Thought it was Abracadabra

 

[trueblue84]

Need to get him ‘a round’ the table

When I heard we were signing him, I camelot.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Apparently his favourite Phil Collins song is “One More Knight”.

I thought it was Queen’s ‘It’s a kind of magic’?

 

[millow1878]

In two minds between ‘rohl with it’ and ‘Rohl’s a kinda magic’

 

[millow1878]

I thought it was Queen’s ‘It’s a kind of magic’?

Hahaha amazing

Within seconds of each other