mysteryduck
First Team Squad
Wow. Can't say we lacked ambition!
There was a link to it at the time but I can’t think anyone thought it would be real. January / next season will be interesting!
There should be names linked soon enough. We've got a threadbare squad as it stands and we're desperate for reinforcements. I can see us getting five or six new players in January and hopefully they'll be able to pick up the points we need in our scrap with likely relegation candidates Leicester and Wolves.Yeah. Surely there’s some rumours to look at for January? Come on.
Look how right you were!With our great list of purchases this Summer, with Serge Aurier arriving well after the others, Scarpa on the sidelines and Bowler and Hwang at Olympiacos, I'm beginning to wonder if we haven't gone from a very carefully worked out plan at the start of the window, to a free for all scramble for players at the end.
We seem to be short of a backup for Naikhate, Coops can't work out what to do now since Mangala was injured and the striker situation seems to have him in a tizz because he can't force in the players he wants elsewhere plus a striker, too.
It's all very well having two players for each position, but unless those players are compatible with each other, they just don't fit if one, for any reason, goes absent.
I’d rather stay up and pay the money.Of the inflated “£150m” transfer figures from the summer, how much is our actual spend when we go down?
MGW would be £25m not £40m+
Mangala £8m not £12m
etc
Feels like a decent % of our spend is add-ons, and surely the bulk of that is survival. Other clubs would initially see our signings and think they’d get that money… enter Nottingham Forest.
Looking rather generous at the minute.6/10?
If you can keep your head when all about you. Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.Fans love signings no matter who they are. See the Karanka January for reference.
It's only a bit of perspective to the notion we should sign any old player as he'll do and "we can't lose".
I too think it's the best squad we've had in a very, very long time.I still believe we have the core of a good side we’re just not showing it as of yet.
Exactly how I see it, I saw the transfers as a long term foundation remember we only spent money on a fee for one player over the age of 26. There is a method to all the transfers. I think MGW, Johnson and Mangala would give it a season as well. Niakhate will be coveted stick some prem loans in that squad and we look a very very good championship outfit.I too think it's the best squad we've had in a very, very long time.
Unfortunately the squad was so weak last year (and a miracle we went up) that a huge overhaul was required regardless. Perhaps we went too far at the end (don't think we needed Freuler, Lodi, Boly, Lodi, Dennis etc), but we were always going to have to spend a lot of money. I had us pegged to spend around £80m on 10-12 players with the anticipation we'd probably go down despite that, because £80m on 10-12 players at this level doesn't actually get you very much.
If we go down which looks likely we'll have a good squad for the Championship even if we lose a few players.
Hennessey
Worrall Boly McKenna
Williams Yates O'Brien Toffolo
Aguillera
Bowler Awoniyi
Assumes we lose Niakhate, Mangala, MGW and Johnson which I think is a worst case scenario. We'd probably recoup £60m+ in that worst scenario too, and despite that you're still left with a starting eleven which looks set defensively and in midfield, just needs some tinkering in forward roles.
I think Spence was always a long shot after Spurs interest but Garner 100%. And Davies would give them someone to aim for as well.In my opinion, we dropped the mother of all bollocks by not signing Spence and Garner. Probably Keinan Davies as well.