Montoya played 45 times in 5 years at Barca largely being kept out by Alves so yes he was part of the squad but not an integral part of the first team. That’s not to say he is rubbish but I would not say he was champions league pedigree either
Can’t fault the club off the pitch we have a quality PL setup the issue is we need quality on the pitch otherwise we can get any manager in but he won’t have the tools to deliver the clubs vision
The problem is to mix it up with a longer ball you need a target man upfront like Murray which is what Sheff United are doing with Oli McBurnie.
For some reason we are not using Murray who could do this job all the while we wait for the recruitment team to pull their finger out
I would imagine he is fine to use sparingly but we are managing the injury which is one of the reasons starts are being limited
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I agree with you which is why I think the Murray replacement is so important as that is another option of this system of being able to hit a longer ball which is held up rather than only playing through the pockets of space.
My concern is we need to back Potter with options to get around it...
Unlike the start of the season we are now so slow moving the ball from back to front which means by the time we are in an attacking position the opposition have reset behind the ball. The only exception to this Saturday was when Maupay won the ball off a villa player on the halfway line and we...
So one successful usage in the FA cup and now rolled out across the whole league.
Just making it up as they go along aren’t they. We can look forward to another delay whilst the referee watches the tele safe in the knowledge it will not be made up in time added on
I think a lot of players will see us a stepping stone to the bigger clubs just the natural order of things and I recall Locadia saying similar things when he joined. It is a whole different matter proving you can make that next step but reality is any player who shows top 4 quality ultimately...