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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 (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 (4)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Armando Broja (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto

Total players: 25

Players purchased so far: (8) Iroegbunam, Harrison(Loan), Ndiaye, Lindstrom(Loan), O'Brien, Begovic, Mangala(Loan), Broja(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: 13
Underage players: 3

And that is as they say, is a wrap.

See you in December.
 
Nymzee said:
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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Trust Ev to go and actually do a last minute in and out and ruin this... final squad till Jan:

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Toffe3m4n said:
Arguably the best squad that Dyche has had (on paper) since he's been here.

If he can't coach these to a relatively comfortable 45-50 point finish this season then he's failed.
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That's even the best squad he had in his career and maybe even will have.

I'd say that a fair expectation, because other teams made their homework, Brighton, Bournemouth, Fulham, Forest have upgraded their squad.

Not sure about Palace, Wolves, Brentford stayed about the same.
 
Delargeinho said:
That's even the best squad he had in his career and maybe even will have.

I'd say that a fair expectation, because other teams made their homework, Brighton, Bournemouth, Fulham, Forest have upgraded their squad.

Not sure about Palace, Wolves, Brentford stayed about the same.
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Ipswich are this season's Luton,
Palace have improved a lot,
Brighton have spent heavily but are injury
prone,
Bournemouth & Brentford have lost their goalscorers which is always difficult,
Fulham don't have their talisman Willian who made the tick.

That's the mini league that hopefully we can climb above.
 
W84 Dum Freeze said:
Ipswich are this season's Luton,
Palace have improved a lot,
Brighton have spent heavily but are injury
prone,
Bournemouth & Brentford have lost their goalscorers which is always difficult,
Fulham don't have their talisman William who made the tick.

That's the mini league that hopefully we can climb above.
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Yeah I see Palace now when they got that Chelsea guy, that is certainly a very good Andersen replacement.

Brentford for me is a question mark, Toney wasn't available a lot of last season, they got some replacement Same as with Wolves and Neto, both are players that could play for the top 6 and make a massive difference.

Fulham for me upgraded very well with the budget.

Brighton for me was ahead of us last season, wondered how they didn't get replacements when they played 3 competitions last season, they can aim for top half easily.
 
Wolves are the big one now. They were awful defensively v Chelsea yet spent the last week signing loads of midfielders?!

Also Southampton been shot shy the first two games and their only solution there was to sign Max Cornet from West Ham reserves.

I think Ipswich might win today and some of their new signings could well step up, Szmodzics took all of five minutes to score v Man. City last week so that bodes well for them.

Leicester signed Eduoard very late on loan from Palace to fill the CF void so that's a signing that could go either way. He started well at Palace but faded last 18 months.
 

Goat said:
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 (4)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Armando Broja (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto

Total players: 25

Players purchased so far: (8) Iroegbunam, Harrison(Loan), Ndiaye, Lindstrom(Loan), O'Brien, Begovic, Mangala(Loan), Broja(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: 13
Underage players: 3

And that is as they say, is a wrap.

See you in December.
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Sorry to wake this out of stasis, but Leban needs adding to the goalkeeper list.
 
….there has to be a very real possibility that Keane, Doucoure and Gueye are offered new deals along with DCL.

Branthwaite committing to another season could be key but even then we might accept a big bucks offer. O’Brien hopefully transitions but Tarkowski isn’t getting younger so Thelwell might want further cover. The new CMs have yet to make a definite mark whilst Doucoure and Gueye could still be our best pairing.

Let’s not forget, Tom Davies was offered a new deal so it could happen here, that’s not to say any/all of them might prefer to leave.
 

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