This is my point.
That's football fans for you, he's flavour of the month so loads think he should start.
But then you're playing Bellingham deep when he has been a phenomenon as a no.10, why do that?
Bellingham can drop back with Rice. Beauty is with him he can be 6 8 and 10.
We've got dozens of attacking options, not so many centre mids. Mainoo is a shoe in for the squad as a result.
This would be my concern I don't think anyone needs to. We have the players to play a fluid 3, for me it would be Rice, TAA and Bellingham. I worry he'll go with a double pivot when he doesn't need to
I think we need to, particularly with our CBs and the attacking FBs we have, it leaves Rice with a hell of a lot to do otherwise.
Aye, surely you’ve got to find a role for him as similar to what he does for Madrid as possible?
He didn't feature when Bowen, Rashford, Gordon and Maddison did in the last fixture they were all available in. Rashford and Maddison have been stinking the place out at club level too. It's not a significant reach to say he's therefore behind them in the pecking order, is it?
That's the thing though we have smarter players than that. We don't need to sit players there, they are all capable of interchanging and reacting to the flow of the game
And no one was moaning until he scored four LAST NIGHT.
FBs don't have to be attacking. Walker isn't. Stones is excellent too. Issue is who he picks alongside him. If it's Maguire then we'll need about 4 DMs.
Depends. We've got different set of options and concerns to Real Madrid
Rewind 20 years or so and they did the club equivalent of signing all of Kane, Saka, Foden, Bellingham, Palmer, Grealish and Bowen and just rammed them all in the team because how can you fail, they're all class, we'll just be too good for everyone else.
That'll teach me to trust sofascore.
We'll have to play that system then otherwise how will poor Jude adapt?
