I can't be alone in thinking selling Emi might leave us better equipped to stay up, can I?

Any one else with me?

Being realistic, our success rate at playing entirely through the middle in the PL, and against the better Championship sides, has been poor. Having Buendia and Cantwell in the side, along with a footballing number 10, and Pukki up top necessitates that approach. Crossing the ball would be completely fruitless.

We'd have to be incredibly good at playing through the middle to make it work well enough, and although I think we're really good, I'm not sure we'll be good enough to really make it work. It might be an unpopular view, but really, will we have improved THAT much since last time? Teams like Southampton, Burnley, etc will do what they did last time; give us no space in the middle and hit us on the break when the ball turns over.

Losing Emi would force us to change style a bit. Could make us more effective at Premier league level. As hard as seeing Emi going would be.

My only real concern with that would be what it meant for Pukki, but I don't think we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Posted By: SimonOTBC on May 24th 2021 at 14:19:03

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I can't be alone in thinking selling Emi might leave us better equipped to stay up, can I? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 24, 14:19:03
- I'm the opposite (NCFC) - ingi, May 24, 21:00:36
- Yes (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, May 24, 17:07:51
- Nope (n/m) (NCFC) - seminated_woolly, May 24, 16:06:09
- I think we're better equpped with him honestly (NCFC) - Old Man, May 24, 14:56:33
  - If we block our better players from leaving it makes us less attractive as a club. (NCFC) - usacanary, May 24, 15:08:13
    - Yes (NCFC) - Old Man, May 24, 15:12:36
      - People complain but Celtic have been doing this for along time. (NCFC) - usacanary, May 24, 15:31:14
      - agree we need to play the long game here (NCFC) - pinkney, May 24, 15:29:57
        
        I think he would be wonderful at Man Citeh. Sign him up Pep! (n/m) (NCFC) - JD3, May 24, 16:26:27
        
        People have to be realistic. (NCFC) - usacanary, May 24, 15:38:11
        
        And (NCFC) - Winged Eel Creosote, May 24, 16:15:26
- Being good defensively is normally enough to stay up. (NCFC) - usacanary, May 24, 14:45:23
  - Our current possession based approach isn’t conducive to being solid defensively (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 24, 16:15:21
- Feeding Pukki is the key (NCFC) - KevinBond, May 24, 14:33:34
  - I think he could be fed in a different way though (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, May 24, 14:36:43

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