To be fair Palace are the 4th quickest and look at them so far this season.
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sharkey1001
Player Valuation: £10m
Few points on this 3 at the back nonsense:
- Teams who play 3 at the back have 3 top centre-halves. We have one.
- Also team who play 3 at the back have pace in their centre-halves. We have none.
- Teams who play 3 at the back have wing-backs who offer both offensively and defensively and get up and down the line all game. We have none (fit).
And teams who play 3 at the back have at least one, usually two, players comfortable at bringing the ball out and letting the midfield push up (surely the point of a back 3).
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
"But we want pretty football!!! Waaa waaa waaa"
Look where that approach got us last time.
Look where that approach got us last time.
I'm really starting to lose track of when you are baiting the easily antagonised hyperactive part of the fanbase or when you are making an actual point BLF!
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
What's crazy to me is that Everton had been a full back driven team for so long. It was such a blessing to have Coleman and Baines for so many seasons. Now we are facing a real dilemma. Koeman wants all the width to be provided by the full backs, but Baines attacking mentality isn't the same as it used to be and Coleman is crocked for a few months yet.
We stocked our team with central midfielders, but we don't have anyone that can carry the ball downfield. He's essentially frozen out Mirallas and now we are faced with the choice of youth or Lennon. I don't think we can sustain ourselves by playing such slow football away from home. We need to have an option for counter attacking. DCL can't do it all on his own.
We stocked our team with central midfielders, but we don't have anyone that can carry the ball downfield. He's essentially frozen out Mirallas and now we are faced with the choice of youth or Lennon. I don't think we can sustain ourselves by playing such slow football away from home. We need to have an option for counter attacking. DCL can't do it all on his own.
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
He obviously knew the score when he got off for his round of golf in Portugal.
I don't think he will be here by the end of the season either by his choice or the club's. I think the writing is on the wall after failing to bring in the striker and give him the tools he's asked for to do the job the board wants.
I don't think he will be here by the end of the season either by his choice or the club's. I think the writing is on the wall after failing to bring in the striker and give him the tools he's asked for to do the job the board wants.
devogue
Player Valuation: £35m
Saw this on Reddit aswell. Bit of a stupid graph tbh, this rs fan summed it up tbh-
"What a horrible horrible figure.
- Passes per sequence. A sequence, to my knowledge, can end due to a tackle from the opposition or a shot. So here we are seeing the "better" teams have more passes per sequences. This can mean their sequences simply last longer because they get to the box and shoot.
- The slight negative trend between the two variables is easy to explain (due to 1). You move up the pitch quicker when you are further away from the goal. If the movement carries on to the end, then it makes sense it goes slower. So it seems this entire figure is biased by "number of sequences ending in shot".
- Averaging kills this figure. Let's ignore point 1 and 2 above. If Liverpool have 2 passes in a sequence 50% of the time, and 5 passes 50% of the time (i.e. varied) it will come out in the same place as if it was 100% 3.5 passes per sequence. This is why any informative stats figure has variance/standard deviation on as well.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
If DCL continues to trend upwards, I think we will be okay. It really boils down to us having a respectable record till January (Coleman and Co. coming back from injuries as well as a new striker). I don't see Koeman getting anywhere if he keeps rolling out these slow lineups.
Find it a tad strange that some think he may walk because the board haven't backed Koeman considering we made 9 signings.
This is Koeman's squad now, so there can't be any excuses.
This is Koeman's squad now, so there can't be any excuses.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
Koeman did a poor job building the team. I like most of the players he brought in, but he really didn't prioritize as well as he should have. It's almost as if he went for depth first then starting XI
Good point, the amount of players he brought in who almost seem to play the same role/way was a bit of a head scratcher.
a bell maul
Player Valuation: £30m
There is recent precedence for this player purchase 'strategy' post a big sale: didn't Spurs (Bale) and RS (Suarez) employ similar "depth first then starting XI" prioritisation?
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
That's a big ask of DCL though isn't it?
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