Rousseau

It's on the SPFL group chat... 👀

To be fair, it's a pretty offensive and entertaining formation as used by Leipzig and Salzburg, etc. BealeBall is... Zzzz...

I've created another Fantasy League for us. I think it adds a bit of fun to the PL season. Join here: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/tg4esa

Butland Stirling Raskin Cantwell - Hagi Lammers - Danilo - Dessers - Roofe - Sima - Tamundo

We'll just make this the match thread.

@Frankie

I think it was an 'option', not an 'obligation' to buy.

I have been saying for ages that we'd double our money on Tillman within 6 months. Most were saying £5M is too much for him. Alas! It didn't matter. Bayern cancelled it. That's why we got the £1M.

Apparently PSV have an option to buy Tillman for £15M at the end of his loan. No wonder Bayern didn't want to take our £5M...

Absolutely. I said that at the time: '£5M for a geriatric forward that doesn't do much'.

That would help. I was more frustrated at the lack of movement from our attacking midfielders and forwards, though.

How dare you criticise the manager after one game! Ludicrous! Psychosis! I agree.

@BlackSocksRedTops @Graeme Ro55 The graph is a passing network. The bigger circles mean those players have more of the ball. Basically, we're passing it about the defence (big circles) and not getting the ball to our forwards (small circles). It's just showing what we've seen with our eyes.

Rangers 2 - 1 Servette FGS Cantwell

Rangers vs Servette

You're calling me a Tim because I have doubts about our manager? Harsh.

Graham Potter is still available. Just sayin'...

I liked wee Fashion. Criminally underrated because we rarely used him properly, IMO. We have to take the money, though. Watch now as he becomes the answer to all our problems, even from those same people that couldn't wait to stick the knife in when he got caught offside or fluffed a shot. We're weird fans.

He comes from Zam—

Kent never played wide. He was played as a #10, as part of the christmas tree formation. (Actually, he did truly play wide under GvB, but was worse - many said he was 'wasted' out wide.) This 'lack of width' issue is a red herring. We've got width from our FBs and one of our forwards (as one of them has to play the channels, like Sakala: Sakala was playing as part of a front two). The issue is we don't know how to build through the thirds. Our defence can't find our midfielders, and both midfield can't find our attackers.

I agree: It's mostly the same sh*te from MB. I was hoping the boring football of last season was just because he had inherited a squad and he had to make do. He's had 8 months with those (inherited) players, a full pre-season with new players - on which he's spent £15M - and it's still the same.