Doom and gloom

By: Richard | July 28th, 2008

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I got extremely frustrated after the 3-1 loss to OM and I thought I would wait awhile to post to avoid saying anything rash. Well, I’m still annoyed days later, so let’s talk about it.

You can say it’s only a friendly and that we lost to quality opposition, etc., etc., but what concerns me is the continued poor play of the defense. ASM let in a ton of goals at the end of last season and I see no improvement in that regard. They’re still ball-watching, giving too much space to attackers, you name it….and yet every player the club is linked to is an attacking mid or a striker.

This club needs to get rid of the deadwood (Adriano looks more and more like the sort of Brazilian who should be playing for a low-level J-League team rather than in Europe, and did I really say I have hope for Meriem a few posts ago?) and bring in someone who can captain the backline.

Oh well, things can only get better in the pre-season. We only play OL tomorrow. What could go wrong?

I could go on about the Mercato rumors surrounding this club, but regular Ligue 1 blog readers have heard it all before. I don’t remember an off-season where the rumors of certain transfers persisted so long without anything happening.

Category: Monaco Team News

Tags: Adriano, Camel Meriem, Monaco Team News

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• Sportboy |  July 28th, 2008 at 9:18 am

  
  
  

  Carlos Tenorio is the big rumor right now. Cant say that I’m thrilled about it but he does seem to have a similar profile to Piquionne and theyve even the same age. I dont mind bringing him in and shipping Piquionne out but I dont wanna send him to Lyon. Anyone but them please.

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• Ronald |  July 28th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  
  
  

  an ecuadorian player to a french team !!!!! please tell me this rumour is true

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• Inara |  July 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

  
  
  

  I read that Garcia was planning to turn down both Lyon and PSG for Mallorca because he wanted a lot of playing time, which he wasn’t sure he’d get in France.

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• Inara |  July 28th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  
  
  

  oh OOPs.

  I posted this in the wrong window. I’m so flaky.

  But since I’m here, do you think Adu will play tomorrow?

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• richard |  July 29th, 2008 at 8:35 am

  
  
  

  Adu is not listed in the list of available players on the club’s website. go easy on us today, eh Inara?

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• Sportboy |  July 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am

  
  
  

  Senegalese Pope Diakhaté (24 years, Dynamo Kiev) is being rumored to help bolster the defense.

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