| When you look at our squad 23:03 - Apr 20 with 776 views | FrimleyBlue |
And you think of the names of the players that we bring on as finishers etc
I know the HMs pss the league stuff is always a bit of fun etc but on paper it really is a FM champ cheat code squad
But... it also reminds me of the England team in that you can have foden. Bellingham Palmer etc all available but it somehow makes the team worse.
Kinda how it feels with ours this season.
Its almost a perfect squad but unfortunately the names dont work together as much as their individual talents could provide.
Jayden. Clarke. Mehmeti. All left side players. Who prefer being wide and cutting in.
This then Hurts davis our most prolific assister in 3 seasons
Nunez the best passer in the squad not mobile enough for double pivot. Doesn't get to the box enough for tbe 10. Akpom who likes to get into the box rather than dropping to midfield to collect the ball
Egeli. Mcateer and burns fighting for right side but also need help from an attacking fullback which isnt furlongs game.
Azor who himself said he likes to hold position in front of the defence and protect it. But hes not one to take the ball from cbs and play with it
Neil who likes to roam but needs to learn another cm role whilst on loan
Taylor who was an attacking type of central cm needing to become a luongo box to box cm
Two attackers. Azon a lot his minor goal count at his last club came from being wide left or wide right yet hes down the middle
On paper and in name its a disgustingly excellent squad
But its also in a way a really badly put together squad.
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| When you look at our squad on 08:23 - Apr 21 with 532 views | MattinLondon |
I’d say that all of the squad works hard collectively and it’s clear that a lot of emphasis is and has been placed on that quality.
But I think a number of players lack the necessary quality to their position. Our strikers main let down is that they don’t take the chances which fall to them. Our wide players lack pace (apart from Clarke) and a lot of our midfield either lack physicality or creativity.
And because if this I think this is why the team always looks disjointed - it’s like trying to finish a jigsaw but unable to find the missing few pieces. |  | | |
| When you look at our squad on 10:13 - Apr 21 with 439 views | LeoMuff |
Agreed, could also add nobody Burns excluded seems to have much pace. |  |
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| When you look at our squad on 10:15 - Apr 21 with 429 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
I think that is a very accurate take.
Lots of good players. Lots of good players that don't fit the system. |  |
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| When you look at our squad on 10:22 - Apr 21 with 403 views | itfcsuth |
Feels our recruitment has been a bit FM/Fifa career mode. Who's the highest rated, we'll just buy them.
There is both a science and an art to recruitment. Science behind the numbers and metrics you can see, but the art is in things that can't be measured on metrics - how do they fit our system, the way we play, how will they help or hinder the rest of the team balance, what is their mentality, how do they connect with the rest of the group.
It's the art of recruitment we have got so wrong, that is hardest part. |  | | |
| When you look at our squad on 10:28 - Apr 21 with 374 views | FrimleyBlue |
| When you look at our squad on 10:22 - Apr 21 by itfcsuth |
Feels our recruitment has been a bit FM/Fifa career mode. Who's the highest rated, we'll just buy them.
There is both a science and an art to recruitment. Science behind the numbers and metrics you can see, but the art is in things that can't be measured on metrics - how do they fit our system, the way we play, how will they help or hinder the rest of the team balance, what is their mentality, how do they connect with the rest of the group.
It's the art of recruitment we have got so wrong, that is hardest part. |
This is why I cant get behind the club line that KM is behind every signing.
You cant tell me that a man who is so technically specific about football he wouldnt look at the likes of jayden. Clarke etc and forsee that this would change the role of davis. Or the fact mehmeti is another one primed for that left spot.
Someone who spends hours watching videos wouldnt be able to tell that sammy S and akpom wouldnt suit our version of a 10.
Egeli.. weve had the luxury of burns and hutch on the right. Both exciting in different ways.. we then have mcateer who is a similar mould to wes.. yet egeli is nothing like hutch or wes and most certainly nothing like a chappers for the 10 spot in this side.. so I dont see how hes anywhere near signing that off imo.
I know whats fed from the club. I just dont but it. Our recruitment doesnt imo match the type of manager we have. | |
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| When you look at our squad on 10:33 - Apr 21 with 364 views | LeoMuff |
| When you look at our squad on 10:28 - Apr 21 by FrimleyBlue |
This is why I cant get behind the club line that KM is behind every signing.
You cant tell me that a man who is so technically specific about football he wouldnt look at the likes of jayden. Clarke etc and forsee that this would change the role of davis. Or the fact mehmeti is another one primed for that left spot.
Someone who spends hours watching videos wouldnt be able to tell that sammy S and akpom wouldnt suit our version of a 10.
Egeli.. weve had the luxury of burns and hutch on the right. Both exciting in different ways.. we then have mcateer who is a similar mould to wes.. yet egeli is nothing like hutch or wes and most certainly nothing like a chappers for the 10 spot in this side.. so I dont see how hes anywhere near signing that off imo.
I know whats fed from the club. I just dont but it. Our recruitment doesnt imo match the type of manager we have. |
Think in their defence until you see a player day in day out do you truly know if they will work in a specific way with another player?
Also who could predict Cajuste, Akpom would be completely ineffectual ? Szmodics looked good for us in the prem, clearly fell out with someone at some point.
But yes I also don’t buy the line that Kmac is behind signings, very much feels that isn’t the case | |
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| When you look at our squad on 14:45 - Apr 21 with 230 views | Weekender |
| When you look at our squad on 10:33 - Apr 21 by LeoMuff |
Think in their defence until you see a player day in day out do you truly know if they will work in a specific way with another player?
Also who could predict Cajuste, Akpom would be completely ineffectual ? Szmodics looked good for us in the prem, clearly fell out with someone at some point.
But yes I also don’t buy the line that Kmac is behind signings, very much feels that isn’t the case |
The trouble with that argument is that it just does not make much sense, either football-wise or commercially. Recruitment only really works if the players coming in improve the team, suit the manager’s way of playing, and ideally grow in value over time. That is the whole point.
So if players are being brought in over KM’s head, the logic falls apart. If they do not fit the system, they are less likely to perform, the team is less likely to do well, and the players themselves are less likely to increase in value. At that stage, you are hurting both results and the club’s investment, which makes it hard to see why anyone would choose to do it that way.
The more logical point is that recruitment is just difficult and far from an exact science.
Even if everyone is aligned and trying to sign the right players for KM’s system, it does not always work. Some players look right on paper but do not settle, do not adapt, get injured, or just never really fit once they are in the side. That happens everywhere.
So the more believable argument is not that players are being signed over KM’s head, but simply that recruitment is hard and sometimes clubs get it wrong, even with the right intentions. |  |
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