10 mins ain’t gonna give them any sharpness, they won’t even be properly warm at that point and would barely even get a touch of the ball, but flip reverse, the benefits of getting the youngsters a feel for the pace of a game, that is priceless

Easily done when watching this drivell

It was a tongue in cheek post as he’d been anonymous

It’s all click bait headlines nowadays. Same with the Bayern boy, he didn’t reject Spurs, he doesn’t want to leave perm and we don’t want to drive up the value of another teams player, we want players who will become part of the project for the club, not his personal gain

We’ve seen this story unfold many times. These revolutionary young coaches come into the prem, work miracles and then get snatched by a bigger club and flop better than Peter Kay from a 20ft diving board! Small squads, lower expectations, opposition unaware and fans happy for the short time ride

At least that wasn’t caused by last night, unless he got injured celebrating at home watching on TV

My point is over your post regards the treatment of the current squad, I was adding that signing players would not made any difference to have a bare XI last night or players being on last legs.

3 changes can be made for EL starting for the KO stages and we have 3 players in the squad to register

Debut for Olusesi

No further injuries

We need to take 2 players out just to register Kinsky & Spence.

Which other clubs playing in 4 competitions have had 12 first team players unavailable for a game?

I’m still awaiting tonight’s result to be cancelled as we failed to name a sufficient match day squad and we fall short of next round in conflict of the corrupt UEFA rules. Similar to us going out of the EConf during COVID times as we adhered to their rules which caused us to not be able to fulfill

We can only register a squad of 25 players if we have the requisite amount of HG players for PL or HG & HGCT for EL

We are at the cusp in PL and over in EL

Tonight we started with our fit registered 11, we had 14 out, so that’s our 25

So it’s a balancing act and ensuring the right player comes in

I’ve been talking about this in regards Madders, he should be key to our shape both attacking & defensive. With our strongest team, we look better with Deki in at 10

The double can be delivered so many ways, stepping in, dropping off, coming inside, we just need the 10 to occupy the right spaces

It’s more that he leads the press, but his mate leave the holes. By the end I think he was dead on his feet as you say. The shape aspect is a myth in terms of defence, if you are rigid the opponent should be able to work you out, as we are too narrow full back wise defensively, we need to press

The 1st half showed it more, was very evident we were 442 defensive wise.

I’m talking more about huge holes that were there in the middle of the park, it Madders wasn’t going to track, he could drop into holes to receive the ball. The young boy who came on for him actually did it a couple of times

We do switch to the double pivot, if you looked throughout the game, when against the play we switched to a 4-4-2 with Madders hanging around up front.

The issue comes from not having an outlet, even if we play on the break we need someone to be available for our defence to target on the floor

It is years before negligence, managers not providing pathways into the 1st team.

We could sign 75 players today, but how many can be registered in both the PL and the EL squads

We can have a max of 17 foreign players and we are at the cusp of that

This will take 2/3 years to resolve