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Burnwinter

goon No one's saying Rice is gonna "do badly" at 6—he's got many great qualities for the role. But if he were a natural fit for the way we've used the position, we wouldn't have ended up slotting Jorginho in there at all. I don't foresee the Rice—Merino—Ødegaard trio we seem to be planning* becoming the ideal fit. None of these guys is used best beating the press in the build-up.

* Well, we don't know what we've got planned if we sign Merino.

goon

Burnwinter

Who knows but I think it had as much to do with the lack of options at 8 than anything else. After the Kai experiment failed the options were Trossard and ESR.

I think the midfield will continue to be fluid, and Rice is capable in both positions. But I think he only has world class potential in one of those roles, and it's not as an 8.

Burnwinter

goon I don't think he's gonna be canonically "world class" in either role as he's an unorthodox type of player for those sorts of ratings. Everyone knows he's got exceptional traits.

However he's developed to become been highly effective at 8, he's a brilliant taker of corners now for example. See what happens but I reckon there will be a bedding down period if both he and Merino are first choice.

Burnwinter

Laughable gutlessness from Tierney. The VAR system is more about excuses than decisions.

Clrnc

Burnwinter Dale Johnson is the worst of the worst. Constantly being the ref mouthpiece and defending them with whatever excuses you can conjure

Asterix

The whole system is a bit of a joke. It was probably a yellow (maybe a dark yellow), just like Schar should have got a yellow and so should Brereton Diaz for ridiculous play acting. Everyone except PGMOL seems to know that.

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