If Nuno Tavares comes back it would be to play at left-wing.
Indeed but Dumfries is chaotic. Iād be panicking every game.
Sell Tavares and make a profit on the player.
Keep Tierney as a very good player and offers something different to Zinny.
Stay clear of Dumfries. Good going forward but isnāt in the same league as White or Tomi.
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I know it sounds insane and I was completely on board with selling Nuno Tavares a few months ago.
Iād bring him back and repurpose him as a left winger. Or at the minimum, loan him out again but stipulate that he plays as a forward. His ability to go both inside and outside and shoot off either foot intrigues me. Iāve heard Marseille is also using him on the right side.
Nuno had 9 shots in a game vs Monaco last month lol. Thatās nuts. I think it tells you his decision making still isnāt great, but itās still fairly impressive that heās got 9 shots off.
No point making any decisions on the loanees now. Bring them back for preseason and evaluate where they stand within the team.
People finally seeing the light wrt Tavares being a winger
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This was a consideration ages ago though to be fair.
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From the clips Iāve seen of him at Marseille he is not good enough to be a winger.
A lot of his dribbles and attempts are flukey happenstances where he loses control of the ball and it pings of the opposing player into space and then heās able to run onto it.
I think this season is just a crazy one-off for him when everything is coming up Nuno but ultimately it wonāt last and we need to capitalise on it this summer otherwise weāre gonna be stuck with a deadwood LB we canāt trust.
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This is why Google translate is hilarious most of the times, you cannot translate a lot of phrases literally 
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A hunger strike in protest or how bad a footballer someone is 
Iām amazed bo one has done it at the Emirates in the last 15 years or so lol
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Lol, no. But thanks for the free plug.
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Yeah I mean who wants Alaba, Mendy, Alba, Balde or whichever central defender Man City play at left back, when you could have king nuno 
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50m in summer please city. Added bonus is he can set up Jesus like he did Jota.
Why do you think the Emirates had all those empty seats in so many games during that period?
Tbf managers love runners these days because the art in football has gone, so Tavares will always have somewhere decent to play
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Football is faster than itās ever been but fuck me itās come at the expense of some players with quality on the pitch.
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Weāre so lucky to have players like Odegaard and Saka who bring the beauty and intelligence back. Unpopular opinion: I actually think Havertz is one of these guys as well.
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Actually I wouldnāt highlight Saka and Odegaard in that respectā¦ Iād rather go for Partey and Jesus, by far the most sauciest players in this squad, and when theyāre on it theyāre comfortably our best players.
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