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lol did you really ask that, I mean we could put milner on the right, and have lucas and allen in mid, but I don't know about that.
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Injury problems are piling up at a crucial time of the season.
The team I'd play in Villarreal would be:
GK - Mignolet
LB - Moreno
RB - Clyne
CB - Sakho
CB - Lovren
CM - Lucas
CM - Allen
CM - Milner
AM - Coutinho
AM - Firmino
ST - Sturridge
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Injury problems are piling up at a crucial time of the season.
The team I'd play in Villarreal would be:
GK - Mignolet
LB - Moreno
RB - Clyne
CB - Sakho
CB - Lovren
CM - Lucas
CM - Allen
CM - Milner
AM - Coutinho
AM - Firmino
ST - Sturridge yeah emphasis on passing containing villarreal, and making those inside passes from wide positions to get coutinho and firmino on the ball in dangerous areas. hopefully our off the ball running will pull players out of position as well if we broke if you like in the 4321. sturridge will help us keep the ball like firmino did at stamford bridge. just have to watch our own players getting dragged out of position as well if we use that, clyne got dragged out, moreno didn't cover across and was no where, and ramirez headed in from the cross.
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Exactly, he's not good enough and never will be. He may run around and try hard but its not enough.
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Exactly, he's not good enough and never will be. He may run around and try hard but its not enough. going forward lallana shouldn't be a first team player I agree, (hence I still suggest we sign a number 10 if we can because if firmino got injured we'd be light again - I don't think klopp should sign a left mid simply to free up coutinho), 3 goals 1 assist in 10 appearances from CAM, 1.7 key passes per game in the Pl, and 1.9 key passes per europa game, which isn't bad at all from lallana. But doesn't contribute enough in terms of goals, but then neither does firmino from CAM yet (4 goals 3 assists in 15 apperances) so it's not all lallana's fault, he's need a better team around him, like everyone does  . As I've said before we need our CAM to have a relationship with our ST and be able to link up on a regular basis if possible, like we had with FT and SG, I can't think of a partnership like that in world football today between a CAM and striker. if ozil had a better striker infront of him I reckon he'd be someone who was good at getting the ball to them.
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[As I've said before we need our CAM to have a relationship with our ST and be able to link up on a regular basis if possible, like we had with FT and SG, I can't think of a partnership like that in world football today between a CAM and striker. Kane and Alli have serious potential
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In that train of thought comes the Gotze rumors, but I think we need proper wide forwards more than CAMs. Phil and Firmino are good enough for CAM, and Lallana is fine as third choice. If someone absolutely world class becomes available and we have a chance to sign him (such as Gotze), then yes, buy him. But if not, I don't think that should be our focus. We need a keeper, cover at fullback, wingers, and a quality dm/cm. Perhaps a striker. With all of those needs, I don't see CAM as weekness, when we have 3, two of which are two of our best players and match-winners.
We have Matip and Grujic coming in, who look good, and we have Markovic potentially coming back. I would really like to see us lock down a keeper next, then a CM/DM and then fullback cover.
THEN we can look at the attack (which has been pretty excellent lately). For that I would think a winger would be the first priority, then a striker. CAM would be literally the last position we need to cover.
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[As I've said before we need our CAM to have a relationship with our ST and be able to link up on a regular basis if possible, like we had with FT and SG, I can't think of a partnership like that in world football today between a CAM and striker. Kane and Alli have serious potential 100% agree, tottenham are one of the fittest teams in the PL too
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In that train of thought comes the Gotze rumors, but I think we need proper wide forwards more than CAMs. Phil and Firmino are good enough for CAM, and Lallana is fine as third choice. If someone absolutely world class becomes available and we have a chance to sign him (such as Gotze), then yes, buy him. But if not, I don't think that should be our focus. We need a keeper, cover at fullback, wingers, and a quality dm/cm. Perhaps a striker. With all of those needs, I don't see CAM as weekness, when we have 3, two of which are two of our best players and match-winners.
We have Matip and Grujic coming in, who look good, and we have Markovic potentially coming back. I would really like to see us lock down a keeper next, then a CM/DM and then fullback cover.
THEN we can look at the attack (which has been pretty excellent lately). For that I would think a winger would be the first priority, then a striker. CAM would be literally the last position we need to cover. I don't disagree CAM is pretty much the last position in terms of priority, that's why I would want it to be a cheap option if possible, I've gone off sigurdsson, Chris is right, he wouldn't improve us, even if he's a useful quality player especially compared to, and in, the swansea team. I don't know if there are any other cheap options out there, even Wijnaldum too inconsistent for me, I'm not sure he'd be good enough either, even if newcastle are struggling and he can't do much in the current setup at present. Yeah I take your point about having proper wide forwards rather than all attacking midfielders who are better centrally, although that does help you play narrow. (Is this madness, but who thinks klopp might be able to rediscover hazard's form of last season? I know hazard only has 4 assists in 20 this season, but we know what he's capable of when he's at his best. Not the right fit?)
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