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Pep and Klopp earned the right to be tactically stubborn, you wouldn't see them drawing or losing at home to Brighton or Bournemouth every other game. And even they changed their tactics significantly this off season, Pep left his very successful false 9 and bought Haaland when false 9 was one...

If how he wants to play is producing rubbish results then it should be discarded completely, why should people have to frame their criticism into the structure of his tactics? Managers change tactics all the time and the mark of a good manager is being able to adapt. If he's unable to change...

Nothing comes for free with Pique.

Xavi didn't look any better with the same set of players. When Pedri + Dembele + Ferran + Auba came in January it revitalised our season, for obvious reasons. We went from a 2nd division attack to Dembele Auba Ferran. That shouldn't be misattributed to Xavi, though he had a great spell through...

A side note on yesterday's game : Rayo's grit and fight and commitment is so impressive. Their guys fight for every ball, they don't switch off for a second and they don't have any lazy players. A strong and durable team with fight and togetherness. We could do with some of their values. They...

Pretty sure that his pass completion stats over the last season are lowest in squad only ahead of Pedri. It's not clear what he brings at this point.

Leaks have suggested that if the WC wasn't in Qatar Busi would already have gone to MLS and checked out of football. How do we expect him to give his 100 percent if he is prepared to go to the MLS in a year? Lol. We are relying on a 34 year old veteran who already wants to go to MLS and retire...

He had one great pass into the box where he could turn and shoot but dived for some reason.

Xavi: "We struggle with interior play. We already do well on the wings, but we need to combine more in the middle. The idea is to do it with the third man. We did it well a couple of times, but there are things that we have to adjust." Nice. Finally some acknowledgement of midfield not working.

He had several great chances in the box but either missed or was tackled by Rayo defenders. The service wasn't the problem, he must be more clinical. This is what he was signed for and additionally you can't always be served golden balls as a striker, you have to make your own opportunities too...

Even if he wants to don't defer his wages. If we disappoint this season and don't collect much revenue we will have an absolute nightmare on the salary cap next season also having to deal with Pique's 60m.

His start here was absolutely crazy and honestly you can't hope for better goalscoring stats than that from any striker. And also, as Porque said above, him and Dembele have a great connection and he fits well into the team. It's hard to see Lewa bettering the 6 months Auba had last season. If...

So what did he show in his 95 minutes? Whilst FDJ changed the game in 20? Mediocrity is not acceptable and that's what he's giving every single game. If you can't actually describe things he did well without having to really think then he probably didn't play well.

Defensively we are also very questionable but have been aided by the mid table and relegation teams not having very good attackers. We conceded 3 clear cut chances today to a bottom half side. Give those against a top team and you will sink fast. Currently this setup is not giving strength in...

We could give him a 1 billion budget and sign all the players in the world and for the most part we would probably look the same. Tactical issue. After our good spell teams began to react to our setup and play more defensively, knowing we commit numbers forward and are weak defending counters...

"I already said that we must continue to strengthen the team and we have time until the 31st of August." He thinks we need more signings :lol: :lol: :lol:

I think he did that himself because he couldn't find space in the box and the Rayo defenders were marking him very well.

Unironically could have done with him coming on. If there's one thing Depay knows it's how to bang goals against relegation and mid-table teams. His tricks work very well against them, he almost always scores a goal any time he is playing an inferior quality team.

He made 19 passes all game. 28 touches. Really uninvolved and even missed his usual hustle and work rate.

'Ansu Fati, Aubameyang and Frenkie De Jong are coming on from the bench' What team in the world could say that? The amount of talent we have is ridiculous and yet we get stonewalled by Rayo.