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Moussa Dembele
Topic Started: 28 Jun 2016, 11:59 AM (860,691 Views)
adbhoy
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Can you fly, Bobby?
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He looks like an Na'vi from Avatar!

Tremendous potential :worthy:
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i can't decide!
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11 Sep 2016, 01:30 PM
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11 Sep 2016, 01:27 PM

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No system is better than 4-4-3, provided that we can get away with it.
Last man back does nets.

I've disliked us playing 2 wingers and 2 strikers for a while, worked for Strachan but not since. Always seems to leave us short in MF but I'd love to see Griffiths and Dembele start with Roberts and Sinclair out wide.
Yeah, 4-4-2 is a shape that doesn't work most of the time anymore. We seem to have a lot of fans who think it's the only way football should be played and that it's wrong to not have two up front.

Which is especially daft because regardless of how the formation looks on paper, we already play 3 up front, not 1. Sinclair especially plays more as a striker than a traditional winger, sort of an inside forward I suppose.

Griffiths can play wide but should only do so if Sinclair, Roberts, Forrest and maybe even Christie are all injured.

Dembélé, meanwhile, has all the potential in the world. We could have two players with 30+ goals this season!
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I see the Sunday Mail nicked Gonga's patter ( less the "big hoose" part).
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To be fair those three goals showed talent that I didn't quite realise he had - the second in particular; great control, huge confidence in knowing what he was doing and an absolute peach of a finish. Hugely, hugely impressive - well done young man for taking your chance in the team with aplomb
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11 Sep 2016, 04:37 PM
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Last man back does nets.

I've disliked us playing 2 wingers and 2 strikers for a while, worked for Strachan but not since. Always seems to leave us short in MF but I'd love to see Griffiths and Dembele start with Roberts and Sinclair out wide.
Yeah, 4-4-2 is a shape that doesn't work most of the time anymore. We seem to have a lot of fans who think it's the only way football should be played and that it's wrong to not have two up front.

Which is especially daft because regardless of how the formation looks on paper, we already play 3 up front, not 1. Sinclair especially plays more as a striker than a traditional winger, sort of an inside forward I suppose.

Griffiths can play wide but should only do so if Sinclair, Roberts, Forrest and maybe even Christie are all injured.

Dembélé, meanwhile, has all the potential in the world. We could have two players with 30+ goals this season!
Two up front still works fine, contrary to your point we have seen some great examples of that over the last few years, winning Spanish, English and Italian titles.

I believe flexibility is what we should aspire to, as time goes on and better players arrive I think we'll get that from Brendan.

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11 Sep 2016, 04:50 PM
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11 Sep 2016, 04:37 PM
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11 Sep 2016, 01:43 PM

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Yeah, 4-4-2 is a shape that doesn't work most of the time anymore. We seem to have a lot of fans who think it's the only way football should be played and that it's wrong to not have two up front.

Which is especially daft because regardless of how the formation looks on paper, we already play 3 up front, not 1. Sinclair especially plays more as a striker than a traditional winger, sort of an inside forward I suppose.

Griffiths can play wide but should only do so if Sinclair, Roberts, Forrest and maybe even Christie are all injured.

Dembélé, meanwhile, has all the potential in the world. We could have two players with 30+ goals this season!
Two up front still works fine, contrary to your point we have seen some great examples of that over the last few years, winning Spanish, English and Italian titles.

I believe flexibility is what we should aspire to, as time goes on and better players arrive I think we'll get that from Brendan.

Leicester won the EPL playing 4-4-2
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His link up play for Sinclairs goal was class, would love to see him get a run of games playing alongside Griff.
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Then you either drop Dembele, who is quite likely to be our most valuable player in a year or two if he isn't already, or you drop a FORTY goal a season striker, or you shunt one of them off to the wing to be a square peg in a round hole instead of playing Sinclair/ Roberts/Forrest. Which do you prefer?
I'd prefer to trust our manager to make the right decisions on the best team available. Arguing over two up front or 1 up front is a bit pointless given we just humped the huns with one striker.
Yeah. :thumbsup: It is good that we have the choice.

Last season, Posted Image gets injured and we are effed! We had to rely on him a lot for goals and, to be fair, he delivered but it is a lot of pressure to put on one player. :thumbsup: I think, had he not been injured, he'd have been on at some point yesterday but I am delighted with the way the game panned out and that, this season, we seem to have goals all over the team.

As said already, both will get plenty game time either together, separately or one or the other coming on. Also, as we've seen BR is not averse to changing from 4-2-3-1 to 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 or any other formation you care to mention in game if he thinks it will benefit us. :thumbsup:

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Can we go marching to celebrate his birthday?
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Fair play to his agent. Clearly playing the long game.
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Beginning to fulfil his early promise.
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If Celtic good enough for Henke for 7 years it will be ideal base for Moussa to become a superstar.
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mojorising
11 Sep 2016, 04:42 PM
I see the Sunday Mail nicked Gonga's patter ( less the "big hoose" part).
Where's this?
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11 Sep 2016, 04:36 PM
He looks like an Na'vi from Avatar!

Tremendous potential :worthy:
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I think his eyes might have been offside for the second.
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11 Sep 2016, 07:22 PM
I think his eyes might have been offside for the second.
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11 Sep 2016, 01:14 PM
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11 Sep 2016, 10:52 AM
Think it's hilarious those giving it they weren't convinced, he showed some very good signs and is still young, the only ones doubtful must have been those looking for an instant impact; doesn't always happen immediately and shows we have some folk too willing to write players off immediately.

Aye fair enough for the people who were talking about time being up for him in July.

I was not convinced based on the fact that several of his performances have been unconvincing. That's not to say I wrote him off or didn't think he could come good. Just as there were promising signs there we also some uncertain ones.
Immediate impact, judging by KDS standards for a striker, seem to be that he comes in right away and scores a goal on his debut and is a real handful from the off.

It took him a few weeks to get up to speed, I would imagine partly due to fitness as I don't think he'd have been at the same stage of pre-season as his team mates, the other due to him being a young player in a new country taking time to settle. It was bound to happen.

Based on allowing for the above I was happy enough with him giving the glimpses of promise he was showing in games and thought he would come good, we need to stop writing players off so early is all I'm saying, particularly given we've now got a manager who has shown he knows better than us.
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Barnsey
11 Sep 2016, 04:54 PM
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11 Sep 2016, 04:50 PM
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Two up front still works fine, contrary to your point we have seen some great examples of that over the last few years, winning Spanish, English and Italian titles.

I believe flexibility is what we should aspire to, as time goes on and better players arrive I think we'll get that from Brendan.

Leicester won the EPL playing 4-4-2
We could never play like Leicester though, the opposition in Scotland never set up to allow that.
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Gonga
11 Sep 2016, 07:02 PM
mojorising
11 Sep 2016, 04:42 PM
I see the Sunday Mail nicked Gonga's patter ( less the "big hoose" part).
Where's this?
Haven't got a link, but they used the Moussa loose about this hoose line as one of their headlines. I read it in my mum's house, not sure if it is available online.
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He's raw, no doubt , but by god he has it all. So powerful , quick , athletic, good in the air, good back to goal , good going in behind. Good finisher . We have a superstar on our hands
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