Nah. His pace has gone and he's got none of the other physical requirements.
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You can't teach experience! Or something.
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He's spent his career using his pace to bail him out of trouble, so he's not learned as much as a slower player would have with the same number of games.
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Bindon gone on loan to Sheff Utd for the season.
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I'm disappointed, but given the Jair signing it was inevitable
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I'm not counting any of these Brazilian lads as done until they're wearing the shirt in a photo op!
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I still remember Ben Hamer so even then we can never be sure.
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L1 to the Prem was never really going to happen, especially given we've now set a standard for ourselves that will expect a top half finish at minimum.
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Not as a regular, no. But he wouldn't even be on the bench at this point.
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I get this will be the general consensus, is this the TalkBack view?
For me I still see last year as an outperforming oddity and am reverting back to expectations from start of last year, being comfortably away from relegation.
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I don't know about the Talkback view, but it's mine.
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Your expectations are in line with mine. I’d take a season in the Palace zone.
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Anything but fighting relegation will do me.
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Nuno has a monster job. Can't set the team up like last season, other teams were figuring out how to play it. He's going to have to come up with something else and he's going to need a few decent players in.
I'll take comfortable from relegation, and be delighted with anything more.
Champions of Europe(ean Conference) goes without saying.
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Finish tenth and win a trophy? Even the finish tenth bit alone seems quite demanding.
I think a good outcome for this season would be something like:
- develop our playing style more. Figure out ways to break down teams that sit deep.
- finish between 13th and 15th
- a good season for Murillo increasing his sale price in the summer
- get to the semi final or better of the European conference league
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Not sure about that. People played 4-4-2 for fifty years. It had been figured out long before that. There's no secret about defending with men behind the ball, and hitting teams on the break. It's hardly a new thing. More problematic is teams knowing that we don't necessarily conform to the modern convention of not putting the ball at risk. What's your thinking, try not to defend as well, try not to attack quickly?
Loss of Elanga's pace and strength will be more problematic than 'being found out'. We need to be better on the ball, so we aren't defending it so much. Ultimately we had a season where things went as well they could defensively, and also attacking. We are unlikely to get the same conversion rates and keep the same lid on goals conceded. Not because we've been found out particularly, but because of a reversion to the mean.
