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Author Topic: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.  (Read 1109470 times)

Offline LeeB

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #570 on: April 26, 2021, 03:39:00 PM »
.. three at the back is horrendous.
Here we go again ...
The top teams seem to be able to transition between 4 at the back and 3 CB when required. Why not Villa? Klopp, Tuchel, Rodgers, Ancelotti and others are wrong?

Yes.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #571 on: April 26, 2021, 03:39:57 PM »
Atalanta play 3 at the back a lot, and are the most exciting team in Europe right now IMO.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #572 on: April 26, 2021, 03:50:25 PM »
The rise of Atalanta has given me the football-fuzzies. A trip to Bergamo next season to take-in a game looks appealing (once they've de-covid'd the region obvs).

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #573 on: April 26, 2021, 04:40:41 PM »
Atalanta play 3 at the back a lot, and are the most exciting team in Europe right now IMO.

Good for them, really, but please stop it.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #574 on: April 26, 2021, 04:42:01 PM »
Atalanta play 3 at the back a lot, and are the most exciting team in Europe right now IMO.

Good for them, really, but please stop it.

Stop what? Mentioning Atalanta? Alright then.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #575 on: April 26, 2021, 04:44:35 PM »
.. three at the back is horrendous.
Here we go again ...
The top teams seem to be able to transition between 4 at the back and 3 CB when required. Why not Villa? Klopp, Tuchel, Rodgers, Ancelotti and others are wrong?

Absolutely.

Offline LeeB

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #576 on: April 26, 2021, 04:47:55 PM »
Atalanta play 3 at the back a lot, and are the most exciting team in Europe right now IMO.

Good for them, really, but please stop it.

Stop what? Mentioning Atalanta? Alright then.

No, three at the back. Nothing good will come from it.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #577 on: April 26, 2021, 04:49:12 PM »
As reluctant as I am to agree with LeeB and cd, three at the back just makes me think of those 0-0s against Ever(yone)ton under Gregory.I'm sure that there are some innovative continental coaches who can make it work, but it's fundamentally shit, because it's never three, it always ends up being five.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #578 on: April 26, 2021, 04:51:37 PM »
Atalanta play 3 at the back a lot, and are the most exciting team in Europe right now IMO.

Good for them, really, but please stop it.

Stop what? Mentioning Atalanta? Alright then.

No, three at the back. Nothing good will come from it.

Oh good I can still talk about Atalanta, nice.

I've never understood this level of antipathy to 3 at the back. It's a bit particular, sure, but it works sometimes and can do a bunch of different styles. Just because Paul Lambert thought it was a good idea doesn't mean it's bad. Not quite anyway.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #579 on: April 26, 2021, 04:58:07 PM »
Just why? Why must posters keep revealing their depravity?

Three at the back, honestly. Why not bring back slavery while we're at it? Sickos.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #580 on: April 26, 2021, 05:00:15 PM »
Just why? Why must posters keep revealing their depravity?

Three at the back, honestly. Why not bring back slavery while we're at it? Sickos.

As reluctant as I am to agree with cd, three-at-the-back merchants are literally worse than slavers.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #581 on: April 26, 2021, 05:30:47 PM »
Just why? Why must posters keep revealing their depravity?

Three at the back, honestly. Why not bring back slavery while we're at it? Sickos.

As reluctant as I am to agree with cd, three-at-the-back merchants are literally worse than slavers.

The Sumerians invented slavery and three-at-the-back, but Sargon the Great overloaded the midfield and that was the end of them.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #582 on: April 26, 2021, 05:36:14 PM »
That's why they called him "Great". He was Sargon the Bellend when he was still tinkering with three at the back.

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #583 on: April 26, 2021, 05:54:40 PM »
I have to admit I’m not averse to 3 at the back, with the right players, though.

Imagine McGrath in between Konsa and Mings?
Wing backs Gidman and Gibson types

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Re: Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.
« Reply #584 on: April 26, 2021, 06:08:24 PM »
There's clearly some kind of outbreak.

 


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