| Topic of the summer - squad quality and areas for new players?? 10:12 - May 3 with 1572 views | unstableblue |
Looking back at how brutal the Premiership campaign was, and the fact that teams such as Brentford, Everton, Brighton, Leeds, have actually improved further. Below is a harsh critique of the current squad (with age) and where we need new players to meet the 25 squad members with enough quality for survival.
Position - starter (in brackets the back up player):
Goalkeeper - Walton 30 (Palmer 29, xx)
Right back - xxx (Furlong 30)
Right CB - OShea 27 (Kipre 29)
Left CB - xxx (Greaves 25)
Left back - xxx (Davis 26)
Defensive mid - xxx (Matusiwa 28)
Progressive mid - xxx (Taylor 27)
Right Attack - xxx (McAteer 24, Egeli 19)
Number 10 - xxx (Nunez 26)
Left Attack - Philogene 24 (Clarke 25)
Striker - xxx (xxx, xxx)
10 players?! And to be honest you have to have continuity so Greaves and Matusiwa probably start the first game.
But 10 new players is pretty unlikely - how many did we bring in this summer? And how many did Sunderland?
Who would you keep from the departing
Button
Young (retired)
Johnson
Townsend
Baggot
Neil
Cajuste
Azon
Hirst
Akpom
Mehmeti |  |
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| I guess j2 one question is given age, who’s got potential to develop on 12:55 - May 3 with 103 views | unstableblue |
| Topic of the summer - squad quality and areas for new players?? on 12:43 - May 3 by J2BLUE |
A partner for Matusiwa and a striker are top of my list.
Followed by a CB, LB and another ST for squad depth.
Azon, Cajuste, Akpom, Townsend, Neil, Baggott, Button, H Clarke all to leave IMO. Young retiring. |
Sindre is the obvious one… he’s 19, I agree with McKenna he still made a contribution and will have learnt a lot. He can develop. Maybe grab the number 10 slot.
His tracking does need to improve.
I do think Mehmeti, McAteer and Greaves can improve. The first two significantly.
Baggot still a project, but needs to get games.
Wonder if we’ll finally have some u21 break throughs - Tudor Mendel? | |
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| When you rewatch this first goal from yesterday on 14:40 - May 3 with 35 views | unstableblue |
| When you rewatch this first goal from yesterday on 12:40 - May 3 by Bellevue_Blue |
I'm afraid I don't think continuity counts for too much, it's your ability to gel the new team/ players that really makes the difference.
Sunderland gelled 10+ new signings pretty instantly and thats been the reason they stayed up. They won 5 of their first 9 games and started 8 new players in Gameweek 1. |
One real lesson from the last Premier League campaign Bellevue, was winning those early games.
It’s the MUST WIN paradox.
I think we had to get a win against either Fulham or Villa given how well we played. And in some ways we deserved and should have got a draw at home to Liverpool.
But it was that Saints away game - we didn’t turn up strongly enough, they were there for the taking and we ended with a draw.
West Ham away was more about us than the Hammers. Albeit Bowen showed what a quality Prem player is.
Indeed those new attackers West Ham have signed have to be out bar / they may well keep them up. | |
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