toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
It's a really good question and our instinct probably says the latter. It's been a long time since we basically blew big chunks of money on proven starters. Moyes I think felt nervous of getting big name players in as he found them hard to handle and we made a success of training up younger, cheaper players.
I think we are in a different situation now. Primarily because we have a manager who can handle bigger ego's. I also think as a squad we have more than enough potentially good players. What we need is real quality in key areas.
Chambers is a lad with potential, I'm not sure how much further advanced he is than say Galloway, or where Holgate may be in 12 months. Howedes is a great defender but does lack the physicality which I think we've been missing.
Coulibaly looks the perfect defender for what we required. Big, quick, strong and able to support the younger/smaller lads in the side.
most definitely. i just think we need two centre backs with stones going myself and as you know we have plenty of potential youngsters coming through without having to worry about buying potential. i really really rate chambers, but i've been wrong about young players before ha But yeah, we definitely need another old head. If jags gets a bad injury we have 25 year olds as our oldest centre backs, leading a team going through a transitional season.
ah well, i'm very very excited with the names linked, will be a tad deflated if they don't come in, all full internationals starting for good countries. I was excited of a good window, but was expecting the calibre of player to be linked to be a tad below. Ah well, it could all go wrong, patience necessary.