23 Jan 2022 19:24:05
Interesting to hear Danny Murphy talking about how we set up with both Coutinho and Buendia playing just behind Watkins in between him and the midfield with both fullbacks bombing on, if that is the way we are going to continue to play which seems likely as when we have played Buendia out wide it just hasn't worked, then all our wide players including Bailey won't have a future with . The rest of this transfer window and the next are going to be really interesting to see how Gerrard re moulds the squad.
23 Jan 2022 19:42:15
Bailey looks like he has no future in this league, to injury prone so far, personally I think we need some options as in wingers, not every game or team is going to suit that formation, we got to be able to change things up if we have notions of getting into Europe
23 Jan 2022 20:14:21
Bailey is in the same mould as Traore, Elghazi Trezz, all absolutely light weights, counting out injuries Bailey will never be a regular starter.
24 Jan 2022 10:32:51
I think your thoughts are right about Gerards preferred starting set up Lord, but I'd imagine (and hope) that he would want options to be able to set up differently for certain games and in certain scenarios within games.
I think most people are in agreement that players such as Trez have had a fair chance to impress now and have demonstrated clear limitations, so I can see Gérard thinning out the squad in terms of wide players, but would hope he wouldn't be as quick to write off Bailey as some seem to be.
This site has had plenty of people writing off Buendia in the last few months, we just need to have a little patience and give players a fair chance to prove themselves and settle in.imagine if we'd written off Martin Lauraen as a sick note with his initial injury problems for Villa.