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  1. #391
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    But he isn’t Mane, he is a Nunez. And Mané himself made way on the right for Mo.

    There are so many different ways to play, so many different players too and we need to explore that thinking or we become imminently fathomable
    And how does Mo play on the right and how has he always played? plays the role as Mane did keeping the continuity and automation but with his own personal flair and take on it after that, that is how it should be done
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nineteenx View Post
    And how does Mo play on the right and how has he always played? plays the role as Mane did keeping the continuity and automation but with his own personal flair and take on it after that, that is how it should be done
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    Quote Originally Posted by justme View Post
    Nunez aint got the technique to play on the left. dont chat nonsense
    7 goals and 2 assists from LFWD so far this season says different
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    The great thing about his goal tonight was how he set it to finish

    He was always going to need a lot of work on his finishing and still does, because if you watched his showreel of all his goals from last season, it was really clear most Premier League keepers would have saved a lot of them, which i why I keep banging on and on and on about him needing to get a net in his back garden and practicing and practicing and practicing his finishing, all kinds of finishing, and have someone drill balls into his feet and practicing and practicing and practicing all kinds of first time finishes and one touch our of feet to set it finishes

    Still needs more work than our coaches seem to do on working on the whole movement of our forwards, full backs and mids in combination to get the very best of him

    Although, we did look like we did do some of that kind of work on the Mo, Hendo and Trent combo last season, opening channels, closing channels, taking players away to give our player the inside or outside etc etc etc
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    Hes got 15 goals so far.. not a bad a start to your career at this club. And will obviously get better
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    Practising in his back garden, cop on to fuck hes not a 6 year old. You really do talk awful shit 19x. Your mum should get you sectioned for your own good

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    Quote Originally Posted by darrenpotter View Post
    Practising in his back garden, cop on to fuck hes not a 6 year old. You really do talk awful shit 19x. Your mum should get you sectioned for your own good
    You know, there's a lad plays for us, you might have heard of him, Mo something or other, his own story of how he went from hit and miss winger to top scoring forward, 'Got a full sized goal put in his considerable back garden when a Roma player and practiced and practiced and practiced finishing'

    FA coaching rule of 10,000 'For every 10,000 times you try something you'll do it perfectly once

    You really do know nothing
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    Needs to learn English and we need to do A LOT of work with him and he needs to do A LOT of work on his finishing in his own time

    Needs to look at Haaland in tonight's game for City, dropping a bit, being really strong, getting hold of the ball keeping it or laying it off, could link really well with Gakpo to create chances that way and the 2 working in combo like the bacon and shrek tonight IF Gakpo is ever allowed to be on the pitch as the support striker when we try Nunez up front again that is

    I think how we've tried to use Nunez when fielding him as a No9 has been really poor, banging in crosses or trying to release him in behind through the middle, seriously so fucking weak and lazy, we need him right across the line, dropping in winning it and keeping it ahead of defenders to release other

    Not only are the keepers much better than in the Portugese league, the CBs are and quicker and stronger and more aggressive, he needs ot get used to it
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    The English language thing seems to be a big problem, that on the pitch he can't communicate with some of our most senior and influential players. Even Jurgen said it was a big issue and was hampering his progress.
    Although Bobby is still barely able to speak English after eight years, and he has played more games for Jurgen than any one else i think.

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    Posted this in the match thread v Fulham

    I think it needs reiterating here

    He is not a donkey at all, he has scored 15 goals in 40 appearances, 7 in 14 from LFWD and 8 from 26 at No9 which isn't too shabby at all

    I don't think he was brought in and used right at all, I think given his strengths and a lot of his best goals, the hard goals he scored in the Champions League came from his movement right across the line and being released or played in from a LFWD or RFWD position with outside in movement, with or without the ball

    So that should have been our start point, using him at LFWD and RFWD, then using him at No9 but not always making runs in behind, have him dropping, getting hold of the ball, being strong, holding it up and holding off defenders, bringing other players into play and then turning following up the play he started looking to get into the box

    He needs to be deeper and help make play and release players and follow play up, to have a picture he can see and follow it for me, he looks lost trying to make runs in behind through the centre, playing across the line making his runs in behind down the left or right was more his game for runs in behind at Benfica

    It's a case of our not playing to his strengths, not seeing what they are, and integrating him using them while working on developing his other abilities, giving him specific movements we expected him to make and what the triggers were for them (as I suggested) would have helped him immensely I think

    So LFWD, outside in runs when it went to Trent or Hendo in a position to cross for example, that would have helped him, give him something that works, that our other players are well practiced at

    RFWD, do something opposition sides aren't used to from us, have him making outside in runs when the ball goes to or is with Robbo in a position to cross, might well have caught quite a few defenders out

    Little things the rest of the team are well practiced at and good at, that will get him goals, get him integrated and build his confidence, we never did any of that

    Look to have him receive in a little deeper as a No9, in front of the CB, lay it off, wide if possible, or to inside left or right then instantly spin and run off the CB looking to be released in behind through the channel between RCB and RB and LCB and LB

    Or his pass to inside right say, goes from inside right to Mo, Nunez is on the move, Mo goes back to inside right, Nunez making a run to be released of behind Mo and their LB

    These are all things that play to Nunez's strengths, things we could and should have worked on, I appreciate his lack of English is a barrier, but we have plenty of Portugese speaking players and coaches, so there's no excuse for me, we haven't done enough, we don't do enough coaching in general for me, there are lots of things we could and should have done with Trent and Robbo and STILL fucking haven't

    Our coaches need to sort their shit out and Jurgen needs to stop talking about coaching players and fucking do some of it

    Trent needs to still take positions and/or make runs to be released wide right or inside right in this new role too, because we need to have top quality crosses coming in still from both sides and we're already getting less from LB because of Trent's new role
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