[Albion] Tariq Lamptey

[Zeberdi]

Next season, I think .
I was responding to 'does Tariq make the starting 11?' & particularly at RB, of course he doesn't

Not at RB - Veltman is easily in front. I think (along with Velts and Jack) he’s proving to be a player particularly suited to FH’s style of play so as a rotational/back up LB to Pervis, he has my vote.

We have far greater depth in the squad now - part of our problem in 2023/24 was not having the depth to cope with aEuropean campaign and extensive injuries. We have had the same number of injuries this season but been able to work round them with a deeper squad (the only time we looked very thin was for several weeks at the beginning of January in CB).

Thing is, all these players need to maintain minutes or we loose them to other Clubs, I think Lamptey is an excellent squad player, versatile and a workhorse, I would be very sorry indeed to loose him - a certain amount of rotation must be expected (especially in non-League fixtures) or where we have more than one or two fixtures per week.

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

Not at RB - Veltman is easily in front. I think (along with Velts and Jack) he’s proving to be a player particularly suited to FH’s style of play so as a rotational/back up LB to Pervis, he has my vote.

We have far greater depth in the squad now - part of our problem in 2023/24 was not having the depth to cope with aEuropean campaign and extensive injuries. We have had the same number of injuries this season but been able to work round them with a deeper squad (the only time we looked very thin was for several weeks at the beginning of January in CB).

Thing is, all these players need to maintain minutes or we loose them to other Clubs, I think Lamptey is an excellent squad player, versatile and a workhorse, I would be very sorry indeed to loose him - a certain amount of rotation must be expected (especially in non-League fixtures) or where we have more than one or two fixtures per week.

IMO, we still look a little thin at the back. With Dunk and Veltman out we have 3 fit centre halves, one who is injury prone and another who has just joined us and has no PL experience.
And we played two full backs out of position on Saturday, and brought on another central midfielder to play right back in the second half.

 

[aolstudios]

Unless you have an inside track, I don't think we know the manager's opinion on this and I doubt that it's fixed. Surely he'll have been impressed by Lamptey's last three games and re-evaluated him at least to some extent.

At left back, no doubt