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Don't know about your team but we took it pretty seriously.
Bloke i know who was at the game had this to say, wondered what you thought.
" Burnley were terrible. They're merely a vehicle for Kompany, a
vanity project, he doesn't give a shit about Burnley and whether
they'll survive. His kamikaze play from the back stuff worked like a
dream in the Championship but to not change it at all now it's obvious
they've been found out in the Prem strikes me as being a dereliction
of duty. He's advertising himself and his style for his next job, at
somewhere like Palace or Lyon or Betis. Burnley going straight back
down again will simply be collateral damage for him. So if any
aspirational mid-table team in Europe wants to watch pretty triangle
patterns between CB, RB and keeper, followed by a 50 yard hoof down
the line when they're pressed effectively, Kompany's your man. He
knows Pep, so you can't go wrong."
Tonts-
We were probably playing a slightly weakened team but no-one knows what our strongest team is so who knows.
I can kind of see where he's coming from but I don't think the sacrificing Burnley part is really right if only because if we're shit all season and go down it's going to make it more difficult for Kompany to take that next step. He's also still learning, it was noticeable last year how he learnt from the cock-ups at the start of the season and we became more pragmatic as the season went on.
It's also missing the impact of the owners. It looks very much like they're thinking they can make loads of cash by signing lots of promising youngsters, increasing the value and flogging them on. As a result we have about a dozen nippy wingers in their early twenties and barely any steel in the team.
Fuck knows where we go from here. We don't really have the players to play a different style so it's going to take something innovative to get us going.
aggi
I looked at the starting XIs and thought "we're fucked".