The biggest issue for me right now is the square pegs in the round holes scenario. SJM is wasted out wide like that and Pau might as well hop for the rest of his life he's that one footed!
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That's my gripe Sue, we can't play Kamara, Youri, SJM and Onana in the same team. We have signed 2 flair attackers in Malen n Guessand who don't get a sniff.
aug 24, 2025, 10:11 am • 0 0 • view
Guessand still settling, I get that, but Malen had a strong pre season. I said earlier my understanding is he’s not trusted yet to do the off the ball work Emery demands from his wide players. If he can work a bit harder going backwards, he’ll be in
aug 24, 2025, 10:19 am • 3 0 • view
He needs to be given more than 10/15/20 mins a game to prove that he can do it though?
aug 24, 2025, 10:21 am • 2 0 • view
From what I can gather, he wasn’t doing it pre season when played wide, so he has had that chance. He’ll be expected to do very specific things for a manager like Emery, you have to be 💯 in on that
aug 24, 2025, 10:24 am • 1 0 • view
Fair enough. It does feel a little bit like cutting off our nose to spite our face right now but in Unai we trust
aug 24, 2025, 10:25 am • 1 0 • view
He won’t be the last player under Emery who takes a while to figure out what’s expected. I agree tho, I did think he’d be starting on the right
aug 24, 2025, 10:28 am • 1 0 • view
That's interesting. I did think people were focusing on the finishing but that his all round play was a bit scrappy. Mind you that applies to Rogers too
aug 24, 2025, 10:39 am • 0 0 • view
Not necessarily about being scrappy, altho that doesn’t help. It’s defensive positioning. Rogers does his role there pretty well
aug 24, 2025, 11:06 am • 1 0 • view
If he really won't start Malen there then I'd reluctantly put Rogers back there. And have Maatsen overlapping mcginn. Because cash and Mcginn is like having no threat at all on that side. But hopefully we might get a new signing....
aug 24, 2025, 11:51 am • 1 0 • view
If he isn’t going to play Malen, isn’t it best to sell?
aug 24, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it’s more not yet, than won’t. It’s not that black & white
aug 24, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t disagree but if we can flip for £30m and emery isn’t convinced surely that’s a decent sale?
aug 24, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
The loss would be massive
aug 24, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view