yeah Mane was light years ahead of Gakpo as a player. It’s not even a contest.
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Gakpo is closer in ability to Babel than Mane, with all due respect.
Don’t even know how this debate came to pass, but it really should end here.
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ha ha ha…
this fucking site!
someone mentioned Mane, to which i said what a sliding scale into (current)Gakpo as a throwaway line.
Gasband mentioned their stats weren’t miles apart, and its descended into this…
you could make a classroom study on the posts since post 3838
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The thing is… with Salah’s play having dropped off a cliff and still not defending, TAA having left, Frimpong and Bradley perpetually injured, Konate abysmal, Gomez unavailable and having failed to sign Guehi…
I don’t expect any improvement until we get some help on the right. Slot could help things by benching Mo, but the right hand side will still be a disaster unless we gwt some bodies.
Give me Mane over Gapko any day,
for a start Gapko lacks the desire and hunger of Mane
these are attributes that you’re born with and a footballer cant learn get attributes through training,
either you’ve got it or you dont
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Came across an interesting video on our failings recently. We are still very high in pressing aggressiveness but are the poorest in the league on tackles etc. We’re aggressive but crap at it. Plus our recovery is shit.
I’ll see uf I can find it again.
Look at post 3820. Is it that one?
I really do hope he goes with Ramsey. Like we are losing by 3 goals to these teams anyhow, might as well try a player in his position and allow the alternative to play further forward.
He did ok against Palace who were mostly first team that day.
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Szob could play in Mo’s position and cover the whole RHS 
Slot won’t play him. He said we only have 5 defenders atm - he didn’t even include Ramsay in that.
Arne Slot on whether he needed to shake up his starting side:
“Is the question should I change dramatically? If for example you want another system with five defenders that could be an issue. I don’t even have five defenders.
"It suits the players best the system we are playing now, they have played this system probably throughout their whole career and there is hardly any training time for us.
“So it is almost impossible to change our complete idea about football if we play every two days.”
Yes he has, Ramsey, Gomez, Konaté, van Dijk, Robertson, Kerkez.
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Gomez and Ramsey:
“Oh, right… I thought…
Never mind. I’ll just get my coat, shall I?”
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This simply confirms what we’ve already discussed; for Slot, some players aren’t part of this group and aren’t included in his plans.
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Well he is no longer in my plans 
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In the circumstance that we are… that’s a big problem. The summer window left us with Chiesa and Rio as backups which Slot will seldom use.
Endo - not my first choice CB but just rotating him in could give Konate a kick up his arse.
The reality is that after all that spending, this team is extremely unbalanced. We have some very good players but not everywhere. And to me, Slot’s biggest shortcoming is not using his squad (something against certain players). Yes there was bad luck, but some pragmitism is needed.
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We’d only need 2 or 3 more to show something approximating the same form as last year and the squad would look a lot less imbalanced
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Are we all ‘Slot In’ now! 
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Not really but if he can keep winning through this December period then he deserves the ability to see what he can do.
If we turn out another dud on Wednesday this just meant some points more towards safety.
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Too a early to judge
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He learns far too slowly however if he stops fucking up he might hang on.
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