Aaron Mooy

Whereas, if you're an Australian soccer fan (TM?) and up against the huge gulf in class your team will face in the CL groups, there is no need to win the ball back. simply keep it from the superior opposition for the entire game by making sideways 5 and 10 yard passes.

Like 32 year old Aaron Mooy! Oh wait...

 

You say that like it's a bad thing...

 

It's almost like Ange has been brought in to do the job, and not the Scottish Fitbaw fans (TM) of talkceltic.net ...

 

No word of a lie, I'd have taken a 35 year old Scott Brown over a 32 year old Aaron Mooy. I felt a Brown type signing was one we needed. Aaron Mooy is clearly being brought in as back up to the main midfielders and that's fine. I still think we needed someone in there to become a more physical presence, another leader who will demand more from the players.

Hopefully, we see that before the end of the transfer window.

 

Obviously off topic but as he's been mentioned...I'd have been interested to see what a final season under Ange could have done with Brown.

But I think that's my heart talking more than anything.

 

Broony was one of my all time favourites (and Larsson) but he was a shadow of his former self in his last season. Don't really think he's an Ange style player anyway.

 

Weird argument to make considering Mooy is 31?

 

Scott Brown isn’t a player anymore ffs are people mental?

 

This thread is * mental.

 

No, not a bad thing. Somewhat unrealistic but not bad.

I'm pretty sure that, unlike the * that my post was a response to, you actually do understand that when facing teams of a significantly higher level of quality it is necessary to be able to win the ball back and disrupt their passages of play. And that a team like us are never going to dominate the ball in European competition.

I'm also pretty sure that, unlike that other roaster, you understand that in order for a team like us to play football in European games we have to put in the graft to allow us to do so and that we should give ourselves as many tools to be able to do that graft. Even the biggest teams in CL make use of DMs, why shouldn't we?

 

It's almost like the Scottish fitbaw fans have got decades of experience watching their team in European competition and are able to form a reasonably educated opinion.

Its almost like no manager anywhere, in any job had ever gotten anything wrong, ever.

 

Exactly. We have next to no variation in our midfield, they are all very samey. Nothing wrong with having a player in the squad that can do the dirty work, most of the best teams do.

 

Weird hair to split considering his birthday is in 4 weeks.

Aaron Mooy aged 31 and 11/12. That better?

 

Ok so again, you’re saying that just because you’ve watched decades of failures in European competition that you’re more qualified than the bloke currently in charge? Who’s to say he hasn’t watched decades of European competition too? I don’t get what point you’re trying to make here. We had a big hard man in CDM (Broony) for more than a decade in European competitions and how well did that turn out for us?

 

That still makes him 31, right? So he was signed as a 31 year old. Do you see how this conflicts your argument?

 

I see what you did there

 

I genuinely can’t believe we have the football team we have right now, and people are still talking about Scott Brown. Astonished actually.

Forgetting the fact he now manages Fleetwood Town, the guy was absolutely finished here for a few years.

Spent the last of his time at the club dropping in line with the centre halves, slowing our play down, and letting runners drift off him on the regular.

He managed to make Callum McGregor look bad in the Covid season, which is an extraordinary feat in itself.

Loyalties aside, can anyone envisage Brown taking the ball under severe pressure at the edge of his own box whilst facing our own goal, the same way McGregor does?

Let it go for * sake. It’s almost like people don’t watch us.

 

Wouldn’t say he was finished for years. Lost his pace (or what he had of it) but still done a great job for us
He played in a different team and a different system which suited him down to a tee
Would never be able to cope with anges system but a younger Scott brown would’ve been able to learn and play in our current system as his position is the one the majority agree we need strengthened

 

I'm wondering whether Ange plans to play a McGregor/Mooy double pivot in certain European games, which he has done at other clubs/with the national team.

Regardless, don't expect wholesale changes to our approach in Europe. In fact, I'd question the impact a DM signing would actually have, bearing in mind that we'll still be playing an open style of football and pushing our CBs right up the pitch when we can. We're gonna live or die playing attacking football I suspect (as was the case last season in Europe) so a physical DM who can stick a foot in probably won't change a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. Also, he'd have to be some player for Ange to play him regularly domestically over Cal, O'Riley, Hatate, Turnbull and Mooy, so the idea that Ange would have someone to just wheel out for European games is... unrealistic.

Having said that, maybe Souza could have been the type of player to make a real difference, not based on being a physical DM, but more so on his apparent well-rounded skillset, able to defend, press, tackle and pass at a high level. I guess that's why half of Europe was after him, but if we were looking to bring somebody else in to play that position (which I seriously doubt, but you never know if the right player becomes available) that's the level we should be looking at, considering how well stocked we now are in midfield.

 

Don’t see him being heavily involved at all in all honesty.

He’ll come on now and again to help us see games out, in a similar fashion to Bitton.

No issue with that personally.