Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone 11:17 - Jul 15 with 2029 views | Woolfenthen | Not been a great pre-season so far for me |  | | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:18 - Jul 15 with 1736 views | SimonBatfordITFC | Trust the rebuild. Neither Burgess nor Tuanzebe were our best defender though. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:19 - Jul 15 with 1745 views | bluesbrothers | Which defender? That seems a bit of a push. And lets be honest a lot of us spent last season saying Morsy needed upgrading |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:20 - Jul 15 with 1719 views | TRUE_BLUE123 | Still plenty of time. |  |
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Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:21 - Jul 15 with 1669 views | SWLondonBlue93 | Each departure on its own can be justified, the cumulative effect however... we need to get a wiggle on, else we'll arrive at St Andrews undercooked. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:21 - Jul 15 with 1671 views | portmanking | Lots and lots of bedwetting going on right now. There's still 4+ weeks till the season starts and 7-8 weeks left of the transfer window! |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:21 - Jul 15 with 1660 views | Woolfenthen |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:18 - Jul 15 by SimonBatfordITFC | Trust the rebuild. Neither Burgess nor Tuanzebe were our best defender though. |
Tuanzebe was for me, incredible defender but yep only for a half a season! "so far" as stated has the potential to be great if we can get in the numbers and players we want |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:22 - Jul 15 with 1642 views | Woolfenthen |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:21 - Jul 15 by portmanking | Lots and lots of bedwetting going on right now. There's still 4+ weeks till the season starts and 7-8 weeks left of the transfer window! |
hence why I stated "so far" |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:22 - Jul 15 with 1628 views | TractorJack | Our best defender signed a new deal. |  | |  | Login to get fewer ads
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:24 - Jul 15 with 1598 views | Woolfenthen |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:22 - Jul 15 by TractorJack | Our best defender signed a new deal. |
arguably yes |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:30 - Jul 15 with 1517 views | Bellevue_Blue | Surely you prepared yourself for some important departures post relegation! We were never going to retain everyone and nor could we afford to. Last summer Leeds lost their best striker, winger and midfielder. Got 100+ points. Last summer Burnley lost their best winger, midfielder and defender. Got 100+ points. Summary: Good players leave & points are not won in pre-season |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:58 - Jul 15 with 1260 views | Radlett_blue | Well, people said that a priority is rebuilding our central midfield. I thought we'd get another Championship season out of Morsy. A lot of pressure on Matusiwa to be the new Morsy. I think he still needs a partner - don;t think Taylor is more than a squad player. We need a decent, fit central striker and a right back. |  |
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Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:06 - Jul 15 with 1181 views | SimonBatfordITFC |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:30 - Jul 15 by Bellevue_Blue | Surely you prepared yourself for some important departures post relegation! We were never going to retain everyone and nor could we afford to. Last summer Leeds lost their best striker, winger and midfielder. Got 100+ points. Last summer Burnley lost their best winger, midfielder and defender. Got 100+ points. Summary: Good players leave & points are not won in pre-season |
Burnley also lost their best keeper. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:09 - Jul 15 with 1141 views | itfcsuth | We could well see a transfer window where we lose Delap, Hutchinson, Tuanzebe, Burgess & Morsy. There is no denying that they will be big losses for us, have to trust that the recuitment strategy is correct to build the squad once again. Time is fastly moving, we still look a long way away in certain areas, and overstocked in others. Lots of works to be done. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:10 - Jul 15 with 1122 views | itfcsuth |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:19 - Jul 15 by bluesbrothers | Which defender? That seems a bit of a push. And lets be honest a lot of us spent last season saying Morsy needed upgrading |
Tuanzebe was certainly our best defender, by a decent distance as well. There were the obvious questions regarding his fitness though. It is far from controversial, and probably not incorrect to say on last season, we could well lose our best Defender, Midfielder, Winger & Striker. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:11 - Jul 15 with 1115 views | muccletonjoe | You will now be told a dozen times or more that you have it all wrong and this is all part of the plan , while being marked down for having the gall to say anything of the sort. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:20 - Jul 15 with 1032 views | Radlett_blue |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:10 - Jul 15 by itfcsuth | Tuanzebe was certainly our best defender, by a decent distance as well. There were the obvious questions regarding his fitness though. It is far from controversial, and probably not incorrect to say on last season, we could well lose our best Defender, Midfielder, Winger & Striker. |
This shows that it's near impossible to build a squad that can survive in the PL while in the Championship. We may build a squad good enough to go up, but shorn of our best players, it won;t be easy. Then, the even harder bit starts. |  |
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Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:21 - Jul 15 with 1013 views | OldFart71 |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:58 - Jul 15 by Radlett_blue | Well, people said that a priority is rebuilding our central midfield. I thought we'd get another Championship season out of Morsy. A lot of pressure on Matusiwa to be the new Morsy. I think he still needs a partner - don;t think Taylor is more than a squad player. We need a decent, fit central striker and a right back. |
Two points regarding Morsy. Firstly I agree we may have got another season out of him and Derby seems to think even more. But Morsy if staying with us would be getting towards 35, wouldn't be offered another contract at Town and his ability to get a two year deal elsewhere would probably not happen. Whereas now he may get a two year deal with someone. I don't for a minute think it's a one way situation as any player has to access their priorities as did Burgess. Those in charge will be weighing up the season ahead and beyond, just as they did last season. Have accessed what went wrong and what went right and will act accordingly. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:28 - Jul 15 with 945 views | Libero | Bed wetting nonsense - Morsy wasn’t even a guaranteed starter towards the end of last season and Burgess had as many terrible games as he did good and Tuanzebe could not be relied upon - talking about stretching for a negative. [Post edited 15 Jul 12:30]
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Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:36 - Jul 15 with 887 views | Churchman |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:21 - Jul 15 by Woolfenthen | Tuanzebe was for me, incredible defender but yep only for a half a season! "so far" as stated has the potential to be great if we can get in the numbers and players we want |
It’s not a lot of use being a quality defender if he cannot play week in week out. Tuanzebe couldn’t and carries just too much risk for me, fitness wise. One of the things I’d like to see next season is a settled defence with a No 1 keeper behind. Don’t care which keeper - they’re all about the same level and adequate. Delap? Well he was always going sadly as I suspect will Hutchinson. They need to be playing in the Premier League. The surprise is Morsy if he goes. He might have been our best midfielder, but frankly that’s not saying a lot as collectively they were taken to the cleaners after 20 mins max every week, neither protecting the defenders or supporting the forwards. Sam though was the heartbeat of the team; a top Captain; would be fine for another season at Championship level. But if he wants to move on or can get a better deal elsewhere, fine. Sad though it is. Same with any player. A team as broken as that needs change. Am I convinced we will be able to get in the quality we need in the areas with gaps (principally midfield and Hirst back up)? Not sure since everyone is after the better players. Time will tell. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 12:37 - Jul 15 with 884 views | Wright1 | Presumably if we wanted Sam to stay, we'd offer him a new deal and he'd likely snap our hand off. We've seemingly already replaced him and I think McKenna has earned our trust in matters like this. If I were offered Delap and Tuanzebe to be the major departures that were out of our control this summer i'd have taken it all day long - if that means Omari, Leif, Dara are still here. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 13:00 - Jul 15 with 790 views | Leaky | If ME still owned the club I would agree, however different times now hopefully all signing will be upgrades. Providing they all work out |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 13:01 - Jul 15 with 779 views | Bobbychase | Good thing it's (checks diary) July 15th then. |  |
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Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 13:41 - Jul 15 with 649 views | itfcsuth |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 13:01 - Jul 15 by Bobbychase | Good thing it's (checks diary) July 15th then. |
I don't think you can say that as a positive. We have just over 3 weeks until we kick off the season, with a really tough away day. KMc has consistently spoke about the importance of bringing players in for pre season, to avoid them playing catch up as the season unfolds. We've currently made 1 key signing, but likely to lose a big body blow in Morsy. We are a very long way away from being well balanced and settled for a very gruelling Championship season. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 13:47 - Jul 15 with 603 views | DavoIPB |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 11:18 - Jul 15 by SimonBatfordITFC | Trust the rebuild. Neither Burgess nor Tuanzebe were our best defender though. |
Tuanzebe was by far our best defender the only one who was prem quality. He kept everybody quiet who he played against. |  | |  |
Arguably our best Striker, Midfielder and Defender all gone on 14:00 - Jul 15 with 518 views | Big_Jase | Al-Hamadi has only been linked so far mate don’t worry. |  |
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