AVB - Is he all that?

We have Dembele for that now. He calms us down.

I like what AVB is doing for the team right now. I honestly think that Harry would have been doing better right now but I feel that in the long term AVB will build something really strong. He seems to use his squad more and has a vision of what the squad should be.

modric could play a through ball but he by no means did that on a regular basis.

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What do you mean? Depends what your definition of "regularly" is i suppose ,but considering he was the first name on the team sheet for 4 years, I'd say he was pretty consistent in churning out high class performances.

Which ultimately resulted in Madrid buying him

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Mate. Calm down. I simply said that modric by no means played through balls on a regular basis. That is truth. I watched him live every other game from the moment he came to the club to the moment he left.

I am not saying he wasn't class because he was. He is a superb player. But if you think he constantly played defence splitting passes then you are wrong. 99% of his game was simply getting on the ball and making us tick, with the occasional slalom through opposition players with his skills

Your blind defence of anything to do with modric has overtaken you actually reading what I said, which is undeniable truth.

Still too early to say. Yes we've qualified out of the group in Europa under AVB where we didn't last season under Arry, but AVB has played full strength teams and Harry didn't. We're yet to find out if this will take it's toll on the players at the detriment of either or both campaigns.

We probably should be a little better in the league than where we are but if AVB gets top 4 at the end of the season then he's done his job for his first season and can look to the season after to push further.

Chronic, fair enough - I wasn't having a pop. I just wanted to define what you mean by "regular", and the solitary statement; he didn't play defence splitting passes regularly, is doing him slight unjustice imo, because, as you rightly say, his contribution was felt in other ways, and was just as important.

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AVB - Is he all that?

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Shall i? Shan't i?



Na, i think i'll hold back for a bit.