Summer transfer madness thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Maybe we plan to fool everyone by playing 11-0-0? Feckers won't be expecting that, Bruce is a genius!

[ADVILLAFAN]

Maybe we plan to fool everyone by playing 11-0-0? Feckers won't be expecting that, Bruce is a genius!

Mourinho has been doing that for years

[Matt Collins]

Evening Mail do think he's really considering 352. I can see the logic - two strikers, could suit Jedinak and grealish, and obviously elmohamady

But I find it hard to summon much enthusiasm. I find 352 pretty boring. And not sure where green fits in (nor adomah).

I'd prefer the diamond

[SoccerHQ]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-transfers-elmohamady-closing-13292789

Really don't understand this one. How many right backs do we have?

I know the guy can play wing back or whatever but he's never struck me as anything more than a bog standard wide player at either level for Hull.

What was the point of signing Bree?

[SoccerHQ]

Evening Mail do think he's really considering 352. I can see the logic - two strikers, could suit Jedinak and grealish, and obviously elmohamady

But I find it hard to summon much enthusiasm. I find 352 pretty boring. And not sure where green fits in (nor adomah).

I'd prefer the diamond

I actually think aswell it will benefit the squad we have.

Problem was pretty much every time we played it last season it was a disaster, Newcastle at home, Forest away etc.

That's what pre season is for to drill the system into the players heads. He did get Hull playing it to a good standard and that was in the prem.

[cdbearsfan]

I hate 352. I like wingers.

We are fine at centre half. We sign a centre half.

We have loads of right backs.  We sign a right back.

Our most promising youngster is Green. We plan in a formation designed to exclude him.

This season is going to be fun.

[Chris Smith]

Evening Mail do think he's really considering 352. I can see the logic - two strikers, could suit Jedinak and grealish, and obviously elmohamady

But I find it hard to summon much enthusiasm. I find 352 pretty boring. And not sure where green fits in (nor adomah).

I'd prefer the diamond

It appears to be back in vogue, Chelsea won the title with it last year. As long as the players are comfortable with it and you can play on the front foot then it is great, the problems obviously start if you allow yourselves to be pushed back and it turns into 532.

[cdbearsfan]

Chelsea are full of amazing, creative players in midfield. That's the area we are most lacking.

It's lunacy to base our game around the worst element of our team.

[brian green]

Facebook says "Hart close to perm deal". Makes a change from shampoo.

[Matt Collins]

Who plays left wing back? Taylor? Looks like a conventional left back to me

Terry also is seen as not suited to the formation

I just don't like so many defenders. Under John Gregory we used to play 8 players whose primary job was defending or winning the ball. I worry we'd be similar under Bruce

Johnstone

Chester terry baker

Elmohamady Jedinak whelan Taylor

Lansbury

Kodjia hogan

Yuk

[avfcpg]

Yuk indeed
               Johnstone

Bree - Chester - Terry - Taylor
                 
                 Jedinak

Adomah - Lansbury - Hourihane - Green

                   Kodija

And that leaves plenty on the bench....even I could get a tune out of that lot I reckon.

[Dave]

Evening Mail do think he's really considering 352. I can see the logic - two strikers, could suit Jedinak and grealish, and obviously elmohamady

But I find it hard to summon much enthusiasm. I find 352 pretty boring. And not sure where green fits in (nor adomah).

I'd prefer the diamond

It appears to be back in vogue, Chelsea won the title with it last year. As long as the players are comfortable with it and you can play on the front foot then it is great, the problems obviously start if you allow yourselves to be pushed back and it turns into 532.

No they didn't, they played 3-4-3, which although they involve some of the same numbers, are tactically very different.

[ozzjim]

We will need to sign cover for Taylor whichever we play. We can't go into the season with 1 left back and 4 right backs.

3-4-3 can only work if you have a ball playing centre half that steps up and a holding midfielder than can do the job of 3 men. Kante is a machine.

[SoccerHQ]

De Laet will cover LB I reckon, he played there regularly for Leicester when they went up apparently?

[Sexual Ealing]

Elmohamady has been a certain signing since the sages of punditry let their soothsaying masks slip when we signed El Ahmadi.