12 minutes ago, Hendrie_7 said:

http://sportwitness.co.uk/sheffield-united-middlesbrough-scouts-action-international-break-follow-youngsters/

"Sheffield United and Middlesbrough scouts were occupied during this month’s international break.

Croatia U21 overcame Denmark U21 in the second leg of the UEFA U21 Championship qualifiers play-off at the Vejle Stadium on Tuesday. The aggregate score was 3-3 and the two-legged tie was decided by penalties.

According to TV 2 Sport in Denmark, officials from 39 clubs were in attendance to watch the European tie and this includes scouts from Sheffield United and Middlesbrough."

Only 38 clubs to compete with - transfers surely in the bag already!

3 hours ago, Smogzilla said:

not the croatians again!

In the interests of balance...

"Not the Danes again!" 

3 hours ago, AnglianRed said:

In the interests of balance...

"Not the Danes again!" 

Tbh there aren’t many in the danish lineup that would be realistic for boro currently. Most of them are either already at bigger clubs or will be targeting moves above championship level. Defender Thomas Kristensen is really growing into a great prospect though. He plays for my hometown club AGF and is really growing into a great prospect. Not really an overlapping CB though. 

56 minutes ago, Borodane said:

 Defender Thomas Kristensen is really growing into a great prospect though. He plays for my hometown club AGF and is really growing into a great prospect. Not really an overlapping CB though. 

That’s ok we won’t need overlapping CBs soon 👀

I always wondered like if our cbs are so bad at over lapping, why not just tell them to sit in the midfield and let the midfielder over lap.

8 hours ago, LinoJo3 said:

I always wondered like if our cbs are so bad at over lapping, why not just tell them to sit in the midfield and let the midfielder over lap.

You've just invented "Linoball"!

I reckon it would work for a season or two before getting found out and every opposition Manager countered it nulling it's effectiveness.

11 hours ago, LinoJo3 said:

I always wondered like if our cbs are so bad at over lapping, why not just tell them to sit in the midfield and let the midfielder over lap.

The way I see it, in the standard 3-5-2 we've employed in the past, our midfielders do overlap/underlap. They seemed to play a kind of triangle between the 3, the wide centre-mid, the wide centre-back and the wing-back. You'd have Tav either over or underlapping on one side and Crooksy doing it the other side. You see it against Sheffield United this season with our first goal kind of, that intention to play it wide and try and form an angle to get in behind that eventually comes from Jones' underlapping run and McNair's ball from wide on the right.

The problem we've had recently offensively is that our movement and the pass has been awful. Breaking down with simple passes out of defence. And McNair when he's been in the team on that right-side has felt like he's had much less intention to break into the middle of the pitch and beyond, perhaps because he simply isn't athletic enough to cover behind him. And of course in the past when he was playing well at LCB, he was on the side with Tav who had bags of energy and busted a gut to get back every time we lost the ball. We sacrificed so much letting Tav go, it's mad just how much it's affected our team simply through his ability to take risks but recover from them.

1 hour ago, wilsoncgp said:

The way I see it, in the standard 3-5-2 we've employed in the past, our midfielders do overlap/underlap. They seemed to play a kind of triangle between the 3, the wide centre-mid, the wide centre-back and the wing-back. You'd have Tav either over or underlapping on one side and Crooksy doing it the other side. You see it against Sheffield United this season with our first goal kind of, that intention to play it wide and try and form an angle to get in behind that eventually comes from Jones' underlapping run and McNair's ball from wide on the right.

The problem we've had recently offensively is that our movement and the pass has been awful. Breaking down with simple passes out of defence. And McNair when he's been in the team on that right-side has felt like he's had much less intention to break into the middle of the pitch and beyond, perhaps because he simply isn't athletic enough to cover behind him. And of course in the past when he was playing well at LCB, he was on the side with Tav who had bags of energy and busted a gut to get back every time we lost the ball. We sacrificed so much letting Tav go, it's mad just how much it's affected our team simply through his ability to take risks but recover from them.

I think that too, but also know these problems started with tav on the books also last season