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If Leeds don't get promoted this year, I'd love Gary Monk. Done wonders with a poor Leeds side, and was unlucky to get the bullet at Swansea.
He is an absolute snake I wouldn't touch him with a barge poll.
Doing a good job though.
Haha why is he a snake?
There's so much but look how he got the Swansea job, downed tools, was whispering in the chairmans ear and lead/organised a player revolt. Then positioned himself as gaffa.
He's two faced with his players, staff and talks more *** to the media than AK.
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If Leeds don't get promoted this year, I'd love Gary Monk. Done wonders with a poor Leeds side, and was unlucky to get the bullet at Swansea.
He is an absolute snake I wouldn't touch him with a barge poll.
Doing a good job though.
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We are in a weird situation - must clubs down there, when they get a new manager, they come in, shore up the defense and make the hard to beat. Then they work on set pieces and counters etc to try to nick wins. That's already our tactics except we aren't nicking the wins!
Is it?
We are *** at set pieces and don't counter attack we counter possess.
When was the last time we went box to box with two or three touches on the counter.
I've seen us do it reverse. Every corner seems to be how quick can we get it to Valdes.
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Was it the Swansea game AK said was out the worst performance of the season and we won 3-0? funnily enough, we've not won since....
What's really cost us was all that bull *** about teams not being in our league and mini leagues.
It gave players and managers excuses for *** poor performances as long as it wasn't against a bottom 3 team.
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Would changing a manager at this point really do anything? Looking at it what can a new manager do?
Clement at Swansea brought players in who had been shunned by Bradley and started to play players in their proper positions. You can say the same for Leicester.
Who do we have that could come in and do anything Fischer, Downing, Husband, Bamford?
Hull and Palace used the transfer window.
Aside from that could we risk Agnew being in charge for some vital games?
I don't believe ASK can keep us up, I think he's been castrated since the walk out but I also believe that our issues run deeper. Our recruitment has been woeful.
I think the summer is the time for change come what may.
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Pretty clear answers from AK really: "I can't tell them more times that we have to play forward...and to arrive with as many players in the box as possible...but again I can't play."
I'd love to know how he coaches. Pep when he was at Barcelona gave people jobs and positions both defensively and offensively. His arguement was that a player should be able to pass a ball into space without looking if you are there. He should trust you to do your job.
If you consistently didn't do it you got dropped. I recall Henry telling a story of how he drifted from left to right, picked up the ball and scored only to be given a bollocking at half time by Pep.
For all the organisation we have defensively I don't see the same going forward.
There's two things that strike me with boro.
Firstly we look like strangers playing together, there is no appreciation of other people's game.
Secondly if we are so poor in open play then our lack of work on set pieces is criminal. We've decent threats in the area and over a season set pieces could have got us 3,4 or 5 points.
I honestly think our tactic is to get the ball to Valdes as quick as possible.
So whilst he's right he can't play for them he can have an impact (also perhaps dropping Leadbitter and Downing after scoring sends out the wrong message).
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Everyone's pretty happy and laid back about things.
Something wrong CT, that was only one sentence?
I'm beginning to sense a trend here.
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Sadly the machine I invented does not allow things from the future to be brought back as they dematerialise unlike the back to the future films :D
On the upside if you believe in the multi verse then somewhere out there we are top of the league.
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I'm here for two weeks and have read through today's match day thread but just wondering what's the general mood on the team, players, managers, staff.
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Doctor. Who is next on the Aitor Karanka blame list......
Even Karankas not delusional enough to blame a time lord.
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Sorry Linjo you replied whilst I was typing other post was about Mikel.
With regard to different directions
If you look at the people we've signed who play the same position as each other it's hard to identify similar traits:
Adama and Stuani.
De Pena, Wildshutt, Fischer.
Downing, Tomlin and Gaston.
Even Negredo, Rhodes and Nugent.
Probably the closest is our choice of left backs and Negredo and Kike. I think with those you can clearly see we have a type/model of player in mind.
For me sometimes you don't need plan b but a change in personal doing plan a. I don't think have that up top.
We seem really good at identify people who are similar across the back but up top it seems scattergun between down the line wingers, inside forwards, wide midfielders and even just advanced full backs.
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@Linjo I don't know. I'd be surprised as I think he'll move onto bigger and better things. I'll put feelers out in the next few days and see if I get anything. There's a bunch of Spanish scouts staying in the same hotel.
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He looks a real player, think he something like a £40m buy out. I think we are quite active still in Spain and may just be working on the database.
We've seen that we have scouted people for 2/3 years before signing them. It will also mean there's others we have paid interest in and not signed.
I'll be interested to see what our squad is like after deadline day. When I look at our signings and who we are linked with it doesn't feel that all the recruitment team have the same ideas.
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Hi guys,
Just read the last few pages so sorry if these are bullet points or repeats.
It wasn't the Gazette that broke the news about Shay signing for us. It won't have had any impact on their relationship with the club. That said they ran that we signed Lindelof three times last Jan.
I'm told Jese is a loan deal £2 5m and 70-75k a week. Deal has been agreed with the club but player needs to decided.
The reverse is true of Bojan - personal terms are agreed but clubs apart on valuation. Think we will end up at about the £10.8 mark.
I also believe Delafoofoo has agreed terms with AC but the clubs are thashing out a deal.
Looks like AK's friends don't want to work with him : )
We are scouting Mikel Oyarzabel don't know if it's a here and now thing or one for down the road.
I think I worked it out that we have 2 spaces currently available in the 25. Think we might have a busy end to the window.
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Does anyone know why the Brighton match has been postponed. Had money on them.
fog
could be worse I've got Everton
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on the subjet of Everton a really interesting article in the guardian
anyway see you guys at the end of the season utb
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So when the talented ones that don't make it at a higher level (Ayala for example) is it most likely to be mental related and not coach friendly?
Also would you say traore has at least 3 of those attributes?
Ayala struggled physically at Liverpool. Lots of injuries and there was doubt over whether his body would hold up.
If you get the chance to see any early footage of Ayala he had a strange frame and awkward gate.
From the people I've spoken to they all see he was very coachable but with that little bit of arrogance you need.
Adama is hard one.
He's a very unintelligent player and it doesn't appear as if the game comes naturally to him.
There are times when you can see him trying to think what to do.
Having spent 10 years at Barca I'm surprised at how basic of a player he is. His strength and pace get him out of a lot of situations.
His strength and pace are terrifying but unless he develops a final product there isn't much point. This is where I think it's difficult because it comes with experience.
Ideally I would be playing him upfront in practice games and friendlys. I'd want him to develop an understanding of the CF role so that when he goes back outwide he has an appreciation of what the CF needs.
Physically he's obviously got it and you can't coach speed. He's actually too quick.
I can see why teams would take a risk on him but I'm not fully convinced. I think there is this thought of 'imagine what kind of player he could be if only.....'
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So what's your top 5 things to look for in a young player? Like how can a premiership manager look at a 19 year old from league 1 and think yea he can do it in the premiership? Dele Ali for example.
At that age it's a mixture of things
Basic skills: What's their first touch like? Can they pass a ball?
Physique: Sadly it's still a major part in identifying players. The days of Micky Quinn style bodies has gone.
Footballing Intelligence: Are they positionally aware? Or are they running all over the pitch.
Match Impact: At that age the players that make it are normally the best players on the pitch.
Then it's attitude, how do they interact with other players, managers and coaches and coachability.
If you tell them to change the way they do something do they attempt to change.
Coachability is really important and what a lot of trails are about.
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Boro have been watching Caicedo or the Chinese club you work for? :D
Boro mate, think we (Shenhua) have our quota filled.
Boro scouts been watching Espanyol a couple of times in recent weeks.
Is that the guy who was at city?
And yeah ex Man City lad
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Can we please have a massive Chinese bid for Stuani. A Uruguayan international with Serie A, La Liga and Premiership experience. Any half decent agent should be able to sell that.
I'll put a word in with Gus.
We've been watching Felipe Caicedo who I believe is available for circa £7m
Just out of interest is there any PL players you are looking at that can be revealed?
I'm not scouting anymore.
With Shenhua I'm responsible for developing the coaching and scouting infrastructure.
Essentially coaching the coaches and showing how to identify traits in youngsters. It's then putting in place an education system to develop the players.
It's interesting because you are in a culture where youth football barely exists and where the government are really only interested in ***ing money away.
Rooneys the only EPL player that gets talked about so I wouldn't be surprised if that happens in the summer.
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Can we please have a massive Chinese bid for Stuani. A Uruguayan international with Serie A, La Liga and Premiership experience. Any half decent agent should be able to sell that.
I'll put a word in with Gus.
We've been watching Felipe Caicedo who I believe is available for circa £7m
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Selling two strikers who are better than the incoming and paying 6.5m to do it...yep that's logical!
Not sure I'd agree with that Nugent's never been a good top flight striker whilst we don't know what Rhodes can do.
We'll also probably get a fee for Rhodes and will end up in profit.
Ultimately though there is no point having 2 strikers in the squad that we aren't going to use.
Only question that remains is did Karanka want Gestede?
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Gestede isn't really plan b. It's more like plan a version 2.
Just much much worse. Pointless
We're just lucky that Friend, Fabio, Barragan, Adama, Stuani and Fischer have a great final ball.
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Gestede isn't really plan b. It's more like plan a version 2.
New MFC Manager Thread - Garry Monk Announced
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It's easy when the club chairman thinks you are his close friend and after every defeat you say what you would have done differently. It's really not that hard to imagine.
Abyway lovely well articulated post by the way Tom, thought you had more about you than that.
I see the curse of the mod has infected you as well.