This thread is cringeworthy these days.
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Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
I fully expect us to bring in another CB, and what's wrong with Connolly as back up to Baines, if Dowell is now apparently our creative backup?
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
Striker. There is not enough goals in this team at the moment. We'll score more from midfield than last year but not enough to make up for a 25 goal hole up front. To me Sandro, Rooney and DCL are not "strikers" if that makes any sense (Rooney used to be). They are forward players but they are just as/more likely to drop deep or drift out wide than to act as a focal point of our attack and this will affect their/our goal tally. I'm one of the few on here that doesn't think the focus of our attack has to be a big target man-type. I can see the argument for that and I'm not as opposed to the so called "grock" strategy as some others on here but I also think a less physically imposing forward who can hold the ball up in other ways (Tevez did it really well for the Manc clubs and he's about 4'7"!) could do a job for us just as well. Either way we need a genuine striker at the club, I don't care if it is a megastar or a prospect (just don't let it be Shane Long!).
agreed. bit tired of all the boring posts which seem to deliberately miss half the points @davek makes and derail the threads for a few pages
granter79
Player Valuation: £35m
I fully agree. people actually replying to the same stuff as 6 months ago need to take a breather and stop encouraging this moron.
whiteshadow
Player Valuation: £25m
No, not ideally but we're not Barcelona or Real Madrid, expecting us to replace the whole first team in one summer is unrealistic.
We just need to make sure we spend the money on players that will make a difference. Koeman is trying to get as many match winners in as he can and that'll help us the most imo.
The number of times you see the big teams play poorly but one of their players pops up with a moment of magic out of nowhere. We need players that can win tight games. With the likes of Rooney, Sandro, Klassen and hopefully Siggy he's attempting to do that as well as make us a danger from set plays.
He's doing everything right so far, imo.
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
I count one senior left back and 3 senior centre backs. plus a one legged funes..i suppose it would be prudent to compare this with the top 6 squads? But i dont want too
Zen_Master
Player Valuation: £750k
[Poor language removed] it, resign Bilyaletdinov
Fair point this to be honest.
Worth pointing out that we only kept one clean sheet in 12 games against the teams above us, and shipped 23 goals in those games. The way the team was set up and organised meant we generally looked more solid than in the previous couple of seasons, but when teams really got at us we often looked like a shambles at the back.
lol Dave, what were you like during the many miserable transfer windows?
It looks like the deal to buy 17 year old Lewis Gibson from Newcastle will be concluded today. I saw him playing for England U17s at left back in the summer and he was one of the players who stood out . I would place his performance as similar to Kenny and Connolly when they played at this age. It seems that we've beaten off a number of other clubs for his signature. At 17 he's still got a lot of development to do and obviously one for the future, although he has been touted as " breaking into the Newcastle U23s team " last season as far as I can tell he didn't play regularly for them, but given his age this season he has the talent and physicality to become a regular at U23 for us.
building a formidable youth team, happy days! Any word on that Dutch 16yr old striker Zirkzee? I can't find anything since he played U-18 without actually signing
tim cahill
Player Valuation: £50m
I haven't caught the preseason games. Has Connolly been playing left back? Has he done well?
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