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Goats squad analysis thread 2024/5

Manager : Sean Dyche

Goalkeepers (3)
Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Asmir Begović (HG)

Right Backs (4)
Séamus Coleman
Nathan Patterson
Ashley Young (HG)
Roman Dixon (UA)

Left Backs (1)
Vitaliy Mykolenko

Centre Backs (5)
Jarrad Branthwaite (HG)
James Tarkowski (HG)
Jake O'Brien
Michael Keane (HG)
Mason Holgate (HG)

Midfield (6)
Idrissa Gueye
James Garner (HG)
Tim Iroegbunam (UA)
Abdoulaye Doucouré
Iliman Ndiaye (HG)
Jesper Lindstrøm

Wide Forwards (2)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Jack Harrison (HG)

Strikers (3)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto

Total players: 24

Players purchased so far: (6)
Iroegbunam, Harrison(Loan), Ndiaye, Lindstrom(Loan), O'Brien, Begovic,

Players culled so far: (8) Lonergan(OOC), Dobbin, Gomes (OOC), Dele(OOC), Danjuma(OOC), Godfrey, Onana, Maupay

Non-HG players: 8
Home-grown players: 13
Underage players: 3


Be gone French devil.
 
Manager : Sean Dyche

Goalkeepers (3)
Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Asmir Begović (HG)

Right Backs (4)
Séamus Coleman
Nathan Patterson
Ashley Young (HG)
Roman Dixon (UA)

Left Backs (1)
Vitaliy Mykolenko

Centre Backs (5)
Jarrad Branthwaite (HG)
James Tarkowski (HG)
Jake O'Brien
Michael Keane (HG)
Mason Holgate (HG)

Midfield (7)
Idrissa Gueye
James Garner (HG)
Tim Iroegbunam (UA)
Orel Mangala
Abdoulaye Doucouré
Iliman Ndiaye (HG)
Jesper Lindstrøm

Wide Forwards (2)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Jack Harrison (HG)

Strikers (3)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto

Total players: 25

Players purchased so far: (7)
Iroegbunam, Harrison(Loan), Ndiaye, Lindstrom(Loan), O'Brien, Begovic, Mangala(Loan)

Players culled so far: (8) Lonergan(OOC), Dobbin, Gomes (OOC), Dele(OOC), Danjuma(OOC), Godfrey, Onana, Maupay

Non-HG players: 9
Home-grown players: 13
Underage players: 3
 
Can't you just put Garner in at RB and with Dixon and Myko and Young LB because in all reality that's what we're looking at by December at the latest.
IMO our RBs for the season should be Garner as a starting RB and Dixon coming in when Garner is out injured or suspended.

Garner is now crowded out of MF and effectively has only one place to slot into now.
 

Do this lot get us the goals we need to stay up?

🤔


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No more ins now so time for a comparison. On the left is the side beginning of the window (red denotes missing player, player we want to sell & player we thought might go). Right is squad end of the window.

Better but still highlights how poor we are full-back and up front.

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Do this lot get us the goals we need to stay up?

🤔


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6-7 from a couple of them will be just about be enough if there's a similar number of clean sheets.

For last season's comfortable mid table finish (points) it was Calvert Lewin with 7 prem goals, Beto with 3, Harrison with 3 and Dwight with 3. So none of the forward options bar DCL scored more than 4 goals despite many minutes played and yet it was 48 points accumulated.

That on its own is way Branthwaite is already a 70m valued player with his importance last season.

Have to hope Ndiaye gets an early prem goal or two as very unlikely Doucoure will contribute the amount of goals he did last season, well up to January at least.
 
Manager : Sean Dyche

Goalkeepers (3)
Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Asmir Begović (HG)

Right Backs (4)
Séamus Coleman
Nathan Patterson
Ashley Young (HG)
Roman Dixon (UA)

Left Backs (1)
Vitaliy Mykolenko

Centre Backs (4)
Jarrad Branthwaite (HG)
James Tarkowski (HG)
Jake O'Brien
Michael Keane (HG)

Midfield (7)
Idrissa Gueye
James Garner (HG)
Tim Iroegbunam (UA)
Orel Mangala
Abdoulaye Doucouré
Iliman Ndiaye (HG)
Jesper Lindstrøm

Wide Forwards (2)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Jack Harrison (HG)

Strikers (3)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto

Total players: 24

Players purchased so far: (7)
Iroegbunam, Harrison(Loan), Ndiaye, Lindstrom(Loan), O'Brien, Begovic, Mangala(Loan)

Players culled so far: (9) Lonergan(OOC), Dobbin, Gomes (OOC), Dele(OOC), Danjuma(OOC), Godfrey, Onana, Maupay, Holgate

Non-HG players: 9
Home-grown players: 12
Underage players: 3
 

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