Who's this meff?
Who's this meff?
UltraVires
Player Valuation: £8m
Tonight was shocking no doubt but the players looked shattered, Coventry start their season earlier than us, are a good team and we are missing proper central defenders.
The worry is that our attackers still look clueless at creating chances but I don’t think we concede any of those goals with a full strength team.
Like most things in life, it’s never as bad as you think
Agree, we need to get a few out the door before we can do much. While Thelwell has made some good signings, I feel like we've not addressed the key areas of weakness in the past few seasons. Still no pacey wingers, no reliable striker. Now we have three players that all play their best in the #10 role in Doucoure, Ndiaye, and Lindstrom, so we are faced with playing some of them at less effective positions on the wing or midfield or the bench. And don't get me started on fullbacks. Another full season lies ahead of hoping for 1-0 with a goal from a corner.
I think that you could be right on this. It feels a little bit like that Koeman summer. We need a striker and a pacey winger, not a collection of players who want to play centrally behind a striker.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Think if we are willing to be reasonable over fees both can be moved in in the 15-20m bracket
Victus
Player Valuation: £30m
Looks it could be for the highlights and stuff for 'on the road' and things like that for the youtube.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
We've signed one out and out number ten, Lindstrom isn't a number ten has hardly played there he's played in a 3 as a wide forward, split wide am
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
What are these 'highlights' of which you speak ?
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Pre season is showing that we severely lack depth and that we still need key positions in the starting 11.
It's showing nothing more than that in actuality
It's showing nothing more than that in actuality
Depth ? More like we are lacking quality from what I see.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Lindstrom, Braithwaithe, Tarkowski, Pickford, Gueye, Mykolenko, all out.
Add in O'Brien and that's possibly 7 starting players currently out, can possibly even add in Paterson but that's a 50/50.
Sorry it highlighted as I said we lack depth and we have several positions that likely need a new starter (RB, CF, maybe CM)
Edit - likely a new winger too which is why we've been after one
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Basically this. It's showing the likes of Keane and Holgate aren't good enough. Which we have known for years.
Dyche is also running the knackers off them, which doesn't really help pre season results but affects the season itself.
ah11984
Player Valuation: £25m
Obviously we still want to bring a couple in but we don’t need a big squad. The reality is we will play 38 league games & probably a handful of cup games if we’re lucky.
Unless we shift some of the deadwood - Holgate, Maupay, etc, we won’t be bringing in another 4/5.
Unless we shift some of the deadwood - Holgate, Maupay, etc, we won’t be bringing in another 4/5.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Yeah I'm on the fence about how to go about pre season, there's certain sports where you have notorious great pre season teams who flop in the season (the NFL is renowned for some of those) the thinking bring if you are playing a blinder in ore season you've actually 'peaked' the players too early, same eith boxing and certain boxers being known as gym champions as they do all their best work in sparring etc and come fight night are drained