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Ok...i'm assuming Mario and Milner will be signing on the dotted line...

--------------Given---------------
Boateng---Komps---Lescott---Kolarov
--------------Yaya------------------
Milner---------------------------AJ
--------------Silva-----------------
-------Tevez----------------------
------------------Mario-------------

Thoughts?

Too attacking.

Tony P wrote:Too attacking.

What would you change? Bearing in mind that team was for home ties...obviously if Bellers stays I might have him in over AJ with maybe him coming on as an impact player

Totally depends on the fixture.

I was rather hoping first team/strongest 11 threads had been consigned to a jar and labelled 'past'.

Tony P wrote:Too attacking.

agreed.

id go for...

----------given
boateng--komps--lescott--kolarov
----------yaya
------milner---barry
----mario--tevez--silva

All depends who we are playing. Nothing wrong with that line up at home against one of the weaker teams who will look to park the bus, away put in De Jong or Barry for one of the more attack minded players. Should be good fun trying to second guess Mancini's team selections this season.

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

Tony P wrote:Too attacking.

What would you change? Bearing in mind that team was for home ties...obviously if Bellers stays I might have him in over AJ with maybe him coming on as an impact player

The point Im getting here, which is pretty fantastic, is that places in the starting XI are going to be hard-fought battles. I can assure you that Barry, bellamy, de Jong and adebayor are not going to sit back quietly and watch someone play their minutes. Should be fantastically meritocratous if i might say so. Like ancient Rome.


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john@staustell wrote:Totally depends on the fixture.

I was rather hoping first team/strongest 11 threads had been consigned to a jar and labelled 'past'.

I'm fully aware of rotation John...which is why I labelled the thread 'Strongest 11' and not 'First 11' or 'Starting 11'

Given
Boateng Toure Lescott Kolorov
Toure Barry
Silva Bellers
Ade Tevez

In theory the strongest in my opinion

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

john@staustell wrote:Totally depends on the fixture.

I was rather hoping first team/strongest 11 threads had been consigned to a jar and labelled 'past'.

I'm fully aware of rotation John...which is why I labelled the thread 'Strongest 11' and not 'First 11' or 'Starting 11'

Even though we have a big squad and will rotate, Mancini will still have a strongest 11, the team he wheels out for the "big" games. Might take him a while to suss out his strongest 11 though.

Hart

Boateng
Kompany
Lescott
Kolarov

Toure
Barry

Johnson
Silva

Tevez
Adebayor

Murph wrote:

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

john@staustell wrote:Totally depends on the fixture.

I was rather hoping first team/strongest 11 threads had been consigned to a jar and labelled 'past'.

I'm fully aware of rotation John...which is why I labelled the thread 'Strongest 11' and not 'First 11' or 'Starting 11'

Even though we have a big squad and will rotate, Mancini will still have a strongest 11, the team he wheels out for the "big" games. Might take him a while to suss out his strongest 11 though.

Ah, but would it be the same strongest 11 at home to one of the 'failing 4' as away? I doubt it.

- - - - - - - - - - Hart - - - - - - - - - -
Boateng - Toure - Kompany - Kolarov
- - - - - - - - - -Toure - - - - - - - - - -
Johnson - - - - Milner - - - - - Silva
- - - - - Adebayor - Tevez - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - Given - - - - - - - - - -
Boateng - Lescott - Kompany - Kolarov
- - - - - - - - - -Yaya - - - - - - - - - -
Johnson - - - - Milner - - - - - Silva
- - - - - - - - - - - Tevez - - - - -- -
- - - - - - - -Adebayor- - - - - - - -

Given

Boateng Kompany Ya Ya Toue Koloarov

De Jong Milner

A Johnson Silva Balotelli

Tevez

(Formation 4-2-3-1)

sandman wrote:- - - - - - - - - - Hart - - - - - - - - - -
Boateng - Toure - Kompany - Kolarov
- - - - - - - - - -Toure - - - - - - - - - -
Johnson - - - - Milner - - - - - Silva
- - - - - Adebayor - Tevez - - - - - -

what you said, just swap Milner for De Jong and maybe play him behind yaya..

----------------------HART---------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
ZABALETA---TOURE-----KOMPANY------KOLAROV
--------------------------------------------------------
--------------DE JONG-----TOURE-------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
---BALOTELLI-------TEVEZ----------SILVA---------
--------------------------------------------------------
---------------------ADEBAYOR----------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
GIVEN
BOATENG
LESCOTT
JOHNSON
SWP
BARRY
MILNER/IRELAND
(is it 7 subs in a matchday squad??)

for all of us including milner in there squads - I don't reckon we'll end up signing him - it is all very gareth barry to liverpool-esque

--------------------Given
Boateng--Kompany----Lescott--Kolorov
------------Toure----------- Barry
Milner-------------Tevez------------Silva
----------------------Ade

There will be no such thing as a strongest 11. For instance if you put any of those attack minded front 6's against a line up of


Boateng.......Kompany.............Lescott.........Kolarov
..............DeJong.....................Vieira.........
.............................Toure......................
.........Milner................................Bellamy........

.............................Tevez...........................

It's possible that this side even without the same overall quality, could stifle it & beat it by scoring on the break. Horses for courses.