portslade seagull
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Watching Chelski lastnight they had pace and strength throughout the team. We need to match this to improve. Too many lightweights at the moment easily brushed off the ball
That's what £1bn will get you I supposeWatching Chelski lastnight they had pace and strength throughout the team. We need to match this to improve. Too many lightweights at the moment easily brushed off the ball
I like Adingra too , however his defensive work is not so good. Hopefully this aspect of his game will improve.Another defence of Adingra. Too many games this season although injuries have forced this. If we’d have been able to use as an impact sub then I think he would have shone more. He’s not done badly as it is.
In his first season Mitoma wasn’t used all the time as a starter. Forwards need to be rested and used as subs at times.
I do. Been keeping a close eye on him. Around £15m spent & finishing the season very strongly at his current club. If Barco, Enciso, Buanonotte have come straight in without added loans then absolutely no reason why this guy won’t also do the same.So nobody on this thread expects Osman to be around the squad next season, then?
Maybe not ready for the start of the season, but I'm looking forward to
Bart
JPVH, Dunk, Igor
Hinsh, Gross, Barco
Enciso
Mitoma, Pedro, March
Bench
Steele
Lamptey
Veltman
Webster
Gilmour
Estupinan
Baleba
Buonanotte
Welbeck
Ferguson
Adingra
and that's without any new signings or U23s stepping up. I think we're gonna need a bigger bench
Or SimaNo mention of Undav ?
In addition to the wish list we need a really pace central defender. Our defence has looked very slow at times this season.
He really hasn’t. Dunk is still our best centre back, by a distance.Dunk has been surpassed by JPVH, If we're to progress then we need a new Dunk, quicker and smarter . . . . . I'm sure he knows it already . . . . sad as it is to say, no one plays forever
except Keith Richards. . . . . . .
VerbruggenAs it stands with everyone fit I'd pick something like that.
Hinshelwood-Hecke-Dunk-Barco
Gross-Gilmour
March-Enciso-Mitoma
Pedro
No new signings then ?VerbruggenAs it stands with everyone fit I'd pick something like that.
Hinshelwood-Hecke-Dunk-Barco
Gross-Gilmour
March-Enciso-Mitoma
Pedro
Well no, not as it stands.No new signings then ?
JPvH has been our best CB this season quite comfortably IMO. Great to see Webster back showing what a good player he is in recent games too.He really hasn’t. Dunk is still our best centre back, by a distance.
Just for info he’s indicated Solly out until September at leastThe team line-up for our first Premier League match in August will surely indicate a return to RDZ’s favoured 4-2-3-1 formation if he has been backed in the window.
Whilst sorting our injury issues out will be a big focus (why so many?), there are areas on the pitch that just need strengthening.
1. Our best CM partnership (Groß & Gilmour) is not top 6 quality. We need at least on very good acquisition to join them.
2. We need a top level RB. Veltman is solid but unspectacular in an attacking sense and Lamptey is mostly injured.
3. If Barco is not up to challenging an in-form and fit Estupinan for the LB position yet, we need another with Perv out until the Autumn leaves start dropping.
4. We need another left footed right winger as quality back-up to Solly March.
5. We need a new CB with elite pace to stifle some of the breaks that can really hurt us.
Ideally, we’ll start the season with something like this…
———————Verbruggen———————
New RB—-JPVH———-Dunk—-—New LB
————Gilmour———New CM————-
March—————-Groß————-—Mitoma
————————Pedro————————-
Exactly so imo it’s an unreasonable comparisonThat's what £1bn will get you I suppose
I can’t keep up anymore! The messaging seems to change after the press conference as hacks try and work out what exactly De Zerbi meant or implied!Just for info he’s indicated Solly out until September at least