BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
Because the result is really what he was laughing at, nothing to do with the continued pretences
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Because the result is really what he was laughing at, nothing to do with the continued pretences
Arguably two - if not three - of our best performers this season have been new signings...
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £35m
Totally agree.
Gerbs
Player Valuation: £10m
Because at some point it isn't the manager and it's the veteran players and/or ownership. We've had 4 managers since 2016 and the attitude, fight, football iq is still the same. We can recycle managers all we want, but there is a systemic problem there that can't be fixed by scapegoating another manager
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
I do think we need a couple of battlers in there to see us to the end of the season.
They looked a bit limp today.
They looked a bit limp today.
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
This is what a lot of fans are missing .
Our best players are the international players signed from top club's by brands.
The underperforming ones are walshes players .
So give brands 2 years and it's not unrealistic to think we will have a much better squad with a lot more potential
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Agree it was dreadful, not defending him at all...just questioning your credentials as a Blue supporter....deep cover you..enjoy Salah's cheating today did you?
Blue Roo
Player Valuation: £15m
'Its the players fault' - this justification of Silva doesn't weight.
Its stating the obvious to say it's up to the manager to get the players motivated, focused and to communicate tactics and a style of play they can understand and go out and play on the pitch.
But consider the contrast between Digne and Gomes.
Its no coincidence that Digne has been our consistently best player while Gomes form continues to slide.
Digne is easy to manage.
His position/role is pretty straightforward and he has the character, passion, belief, intelligence and skill set you'd want from a player.
He's going to be this way irrespective of who is coaching/managing him.
Its not so much as case of managing him as effectively managing whats around him to get the best out of him.
Just get him to do his thing. The same could be said of Coleman and Baines before.
Gomes is a stylish player whose position needs a style to play to.
Not just any style - a style that is effective.
If a player in his position sees the tactics as ineffective his form becomes a slippery slope.
If the opposition counters the tactics and the players movements around him aren't responsive to solve it, his role is lost and it becomes a collapsing house of cards. He hesitates, doubts, second guesses and the focus and crispness of his passes goes.
Gomes is much more reliant of the coach than Digne.
Its hard to tell whether Silva has lost the dressing room. A lot of the guys are too professional and too good a bunch of blokes to just give up. But it does appear he has lost them out on the field.
And when that happens its not the players fault.
I just don't accept this excuse that he doesn't have the players he needs to play his system.
Look at Bielsa for a case in point.
But also, is it not a case of being competitive, winning and playing well first with the players you've got. A system and tactics that suit the players and over time, and parralell to this, moving them, teaching them to play the system you want.
Crucial to this is getting in the right player at the right time, where you now can say, ok we are now going to do this thing differently.
Tools for the right job.
Not to do it this way is to cause your team to doubt itself, to become increasingly dysfunctional.
Silva is trying to drag a team along and it doesn't matter how much yanking he does he not going to budge them down the path he wants.
And he doesn't seem to have it, to get them to the same destination down another path.
He incorrectly assessed what he had.
Blaming the tools is a cop out.
All our central players (with the exception of Gana - bc his role is his own) have gone backwards while Walcott only benefits from a well oiled machine.
Another point to consider is Richarlison. He brought him to the club, convinced it to spent serious money him.
Its his player. I'm not convinced.
We could probably get Wesley Moraes and Danjuma Groeneveld for as much and combined would do a lot more damage.
In the end you have to ask yourself, even if he gets the players to the destination - his way of playing - will it be successful.
Is the style of play/tactics effective in the EPL
and irrespective of this, is he a coach who is top 4/title contender.
If not then we should keep churning through them until we find one.
Someone mentioned Sunderland before - I'd rather risk relegation for a chance at the title than continue on with mid table mediocrity. We need to get real.
Silva was a decent shout but come the end of the season the search should continue.
Its stating the obvious to say it's up to the manager to get the players motivated, focused and to communicate tactics and a style of play they can understand and go out and play on the pitch.
But consider the contrast between Digne and Gomes.
Its no coincidence that Digne has been our consistently best player while Gomes form continues to slide.
Digne is easy to manage.
His position/role is pretty straightforward and he has the character, passion, belief, intelligence and skill set you'd want from a player.
He's going to be this way irrespective of who is coaching/managing him.
Its not so much as case of managing him as effectively managing whats around him to get the best out of him.
Just get him to do his thing. The same could be said of Coleman and Baines before.
Gomes is a stylish player whose position needs a style to play to.
Not just any style - a style that is effective.
If a player in his position sees the tactics as ineffective his form becomes a slippery slope.
If the opposition counters the tactics and the players movements around him aren't responsive to solve it, his role is lost and it becomes a collapsing house of cards. He hesitates, doubts, second guesses and the focus and crispness of his passes goes.
Gomes is much more reliant of the coach than Digne.
Its hard to tell whether Silva has lost the dressing room. A lot of the guys are too professional and too good a bunch of blokes to just give up. But it does appear he has lost them out on the field.
And when that happens its not the players fault.
I just don't accept this excuse that he doesn't have the players he needs to play his system.
Look at Bielsa for a case in point.
But also, is it not a case of being competitive, winning and playing well first with the players you've got. A system and tactics that suit the players and over time, and parralell to this, moving them, teaching them to play the system you want.
Crucial to this is getting in the right player at the right time, where you now can say, ok we are now going to do this thing differently.
Tools for the right job.
Not to do it this way is to cause your team to doubt itself, to become increasingly dysfunctional.
Silva is trying to drag a team along and it doesn't matter how much yanking he does he not going to budge them down the path he wants.
And he doesn't seem to have it, to get them to the same destination down another path.
He incorrectly assessed what he had.
Blaming the tools is a cop out.
All our central players (with the exception of Gana - bc his role is his own) have gone backwards while Walcott only benefits from a well oiled machine.
Another point to consider is Richarlison. He brought him to the club, convinced it to spent serious money him.
Its his player. I'm not convinced.
We could probably get Wesley Moraes and Danjuma Groeneveld for as much and combined would do a lot more damage.
In the end you have to ask yourself, even if he gets the players to the destination - his way of playing - will it be successful.
Is the style of play/tactics effective in the EPL
and irrespective of this, is he a coach who is top 4/title contender.
If not then we should keep churning through them until we find one.
Someone mentioned Sunderland before - I'd rather risk relegation for a chance at the title than continue on with mid table mediocrity. We need to get real.
Silva was a decent shout but come the end of the season the search should continue.
whilst bielsa is doing powerpoint presentations and i can imagine silva is on his phone playing angry birds all day with the blinds shut in his office
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Was scratching my head today with Silva, even the players looked like they didn’t know what they were meant to be doing.
I want a big bruising, physical lump up top for knock downs and flick one and occupying both centre halves.
I want to speedy wingers either side capable of going outside and in.
Tons of balls into the box.
2 proper CM’s that can go both ways.
One defensive mid that’s either a destroyer or a playmaker.
Too much to ask for?
I want to speedy wingers either side capable of going outside and in.
Tons of balls into the box.
2 proper CM’s that can go both ways.
One defensive mid that’s either a destroyer or a playmaker.
Too much to ask for?
gianthogweed
Player Valuation: £25m
Wouldn't surprise me if he gets sacked without a replacment the owner is totally clueless
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Feck bielsa....hope Leeds stay where they belong... made up they lost today...
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