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Thread: Noni Madueke & Olise contact - Miggy on his way ooot!

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    No worries, we have other targets.

    As long as we don't start the season with Miggy-or Murphy as first choice. Neither are remotely good enough as starters for where we want to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippity View Post
    No worries, we have other targets.

    As long as we don't start the season with Miggy-or Murphy as first choice. Neither are remotely good enough as starters for where we want to be.
    Yes indeed Zipaldinho.

    Who ever comes in and goes we need to see a first teamer who is gonna make that major improvement in the metrics of the Right wing position. We had a nice patch where Bruno, Longstaff and Miggy really clicked but it was shorted lived.

    We have to put that down to the weak links in the chain. Miggy being the chewing gum link of the 3 and Longstaff being severely under par whilst carrying an injury most of the season, his performances at time boarding on unacceptable.

    The reason top top teams win and grind out results even when they play badly, it's due to the tiny margins in quality that allow them to steal an inch here or a step there, beat a man to the cross or get a toe on an interception or place the ball a few degrees wider of the goal keeper and it slides past for the crucial winning goal.

    Sadly we are deficient in some of the important areas of the pitch at those critical moments. No one can carry a team game in game out. When Bruno has an off day others need to stand up.

    Those are the players we need to bring in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragatino View Post

    The reason top top teams win and grind out results even when they play badly, it's due to the tiny margins
    Just made me think of Ratcliffe there and his marginal gains claims…sorry!!

    Which then made me think about his INEOS cycling team… that thing where they travelled with their own pillows is now starting to sound more like his penny pinching tactics than optimising their sleep comfort

    Marginal gains in his bank account!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragatino View Post
    Yes indeed Zipaldinho.

    Who ever comes in and goes we need to see a first teamer who is gonna make that major improvement in the metrics of the Right wing position. We had a nice patch where Bruno, Longstaff and Miggy really clicked but it was shorted lived.

    We have to put that down to the weak links in the chain. Miggy being the chewing gum link of the 3 and Longstaff being severely under par whilst carrying an injury most of the season, his performances at time boarding on unacceptable.

    The reason top top teams win and grind out results even when they play badly, it's due to the tiny margins in quality that allow them to steal an inch here or a step there, beat a man to the cross or get a toe on an interception or place the ball a few degrees wider of the goal keeper and it slides past for the crucial winning goal.

    Sadly we are deficient in some of the important areas of the pitch at those critical moments. No one can carry a team game in game out. When Bruno has an off day others need to stand up.

    Those are the players we need to bring in.
    That's a very good point about other players stepping up.

    We need 'big game mentality' in the squad (to be fair, I think Tonali probably has that). The sort of player who would have banged heads together to stop the collapse against Liverpool at home or who would have stopped the rot against Forest or helped turn a couple of those rotten draws into wins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippity View Post
    That's a very good point about other players stepping up.

    We need 'big game mentality' in the squad (to be fair, I think Tonali probably has that). The sort of player who would have banged heads together to stop the collapse against Liverpool at home or who would have stopped the rot against Forest or helped turn a couple of those rotten draws into wins.
    Aye, Tonali was signed for the Champions League night as much as the domestic competitions. That experience as a Serie A winner and wealth of European experience. A captains never say die mentality.

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