forumwayseagull
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TB has stated today that we are only 5 years in into the Academy and the step up tp PL is huge. He does go onto say that in the future if a player is good enough they could potentially step up..
Lets not kid ourselves here, EVERY PL team has the responsibility to strengthen the squad. We did not do this in January and we avoided relegation by the skin of our teeth. GP is being very pragmatic and careful with what he is saying. Obviously he cannot come into a new job and say everything is crap and he has no chance with the players at his disposal. However, like anyone going for any promotion in any job, he would have done his homework and be well clued up on the question how can we improve? Obviously training harder, using some different tactics and promoting a few gems from youth will help....BUT it is also abundantly obvious we dont score enough goals, we are severely lacking pace across the Pitch and the squad needs 3-5 quality additions. (these I would imagine will be Hungry young British talent, very much in Bournemouth model)
Dan Ashworth is going to be the Key here as he has been brought in to develop this approach and this will be his FIRST window. The whole universe knows how poor our recruitment was, how low the wages were and what will need to be done to give us a fighting chance...
Should be a very interesting summer.
Lets not kid ourselves here, EVERY PL team has the responsibility to strengthen the squad. We did not do this in January and we avoided relegation by the skin of our teeth. GP is being very pragmatic and careful with what he is saying. Obviously he cannot come into a new job and say everything is crap and he has no chance with the players at his disposal. However, like anyone going for any promotion in any job, he would have done his homework and be well clued up on the question how can we improve? Obviously training harder, using some different tactics and promoting a few gems from youth will help....BUT it is also abundantly obvious we dont score enough goals, we are severely lacking pace across the Pitch and the squad needs 3-5 quality additions. (these I would imagine will be Hungry young British talent, very much in Bournemouth model)
Dan Ashworth is going to be the Key here as he has been brought in to develop this approach and this will be his FIRST window. The whole universe knows how poor our recruitment was, how low the wages were and what will need to be done to give us a fighting chance...
Should be a very interesting summer.