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Please no

I have to hand it to brands, he missed with Lossl, but he’s made it right with this signing. Probably the best backup keeper we could get and on a free. Well done

Awful man just as they were about to get out for the summer. I hope everyone stays healthy. Hope you can still do a summer holiday.

sorry to hear that. When you say class, are your kids still in school? Do they do year round schooling there?

Ouch, Is it FFP or just moshiri reigning it in?

We’re talking about Leon here not @Bailey right

Hear hear

Yes let’s use liverpool as an example. They lose VVD and play bench players and youngsters who are then getting injured and have to play Fabinho out of position and more youngsters. We’re they relegated? Lower half of the table? Fuck they got 3rd!! Now is VVD the difference between 3rd and 1st you bet. We are 10th!!! Let’s worry about the absolute holes in our squad before we nitpick already above average positions. Let’s get to 3-4 place and then worry about getting the worldie at every position.

Great point, I would love to know too. Carlo said it himself he wanted him to stay.

Talking about the modern game mike. Liverpool won because of that gnarly front 3 and their pace, city broke the goal scoring records, it’s about scoring now. City plays center mids and fullbacks as CB plenty, they do fine. They aren’t sitting back and absorbing pressure. Totally different game now.

Not a formation Rafa uses much. 4 at the back in liverpool, Valencia, napoli, dalian. Only at Newcastle did he try 3 at the back, but he still preferred the 4. His most used setup is 4231. Not likely to ingratiate himself with our fan base playing 5 defenders.

Sad thing is he could have left in January but we blocked the move and he didn’t play (1-2 apps?). Makes no sense why he is still here. Makes you wonder

Agreed ive wanted Bailey for a long time, quality player there.

Brands “don’t fire me farhad” farhad “you’ll move to the board and keep your mouth shut, I make the decisions around here” brands “yes sir”

We only play with 2 amigo. You don’t win games with CB. Pep has won with lesser CB’s year in and out. We are dying for goals and creativity and pace, so we go for a CB, Everton that.

absolute saint on the pitch

holgate was excellent until he got injured, then others stepped up and he's been playing catch up ever since. his attitude is an issue no doubt, but he has the skillset and the physical attributes. Rio is working with him and Godfrey and there is a possibility some of that is the mental side, which would be wonderful. branthwaite wasn't signed by brands, he was signed by Unsworth for the U23, just like DCL. as far as signing 5 young players on the cusp, i want a whole side of them. i want long term. not a couple here and there. yes i see the value in a vet, and on a free someone like that could be helpful and i'm for it. but spending big on aging players (just my opinion here) is not smart. but it ain't my money.

i disagree, holgate was a beast under koeman, mina albeit unorthodox has been our best CB at times. branthwaite is unproven but he did well in the time he played. it doesn't make sense to sign an old CB for massive money. the whole "brands buys young players on the cusp" has been proved wrong time and again. we are another west ham just buying the best 27-31 year old on the market now and hoping for a miracle. there is a reason other clubs are surpassing us, it's called long term vision.

this proves to me that we still haven't learned how to correctly build a team and are making every season "this is it" which is stupid for a club of our size. we have 5 solid CB, that's the last thing we need.

you are confusing the backroom stuff with the pitch. sure 4 years for backroom stuff no argument there, but on the pitch the tactics doesn't take 4 years, my brenda and potter examples are proof of that. leicester played sit and counter with ranieri, pearson, and puel for what 3-4 years? brenda comes in and they possess and attack. why? because that is his philosophy. that's what you hire him for. my point is we aren't hiring those guys, which is what Brands is supposed to be about.

It doesn’t take 4 years. Brenda took over for Claude puel (Pearson and ranieri before) and instantly they were on the front foot and attacked and have kept at it. Same with Potter taking over from Hughton at Brighton. 100% manager and tactics. We just need to hire that, and we don’t which pisses me off

That’s how monchi does it they have a style and the youth play it and the senior team plays it. They recruit for their style. Under brands there is no cohesive style, no brand (pun intended) on the side. We have godfrey and delph, we have digne and Bernard. There is no signifying thing, which is what worries me. It’s like we change style and tactics every time we get new manager, which is exactly what shouldn’t happen with a DOF. Which is why I question brands worth. If he’s not good enough get some one better. If he is good enough let him have free reign.

Spot on, I feel the same and add Martinez to those I was fooled by.

if i could give you 100 upvotes i would. these interviews are dumb, every manager says the same thing for every club.

I’m in agreement that the DOF model is the way to go. Sadly our DOF isn’t choosing the managers. A rich guy who knows little about football is. @Cornish Steve had a great example in Sevilla. They have had a lot of different managers. But monchi does great recruiting and only hires attacking football type managers. If brands did that I’d be signing his praises. InsteD we get defense first guys and awful results on the pitch. So either let brands do his job or if moshiri doesn’t trust him then hire someone better that he will trust