2022/23 Yerry Mina

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

If were going to let Mina leave...do we then also sell DCL?

As their injuries currently put them in a similar bracket.

Yes.

 

[Furey1878]

Undoubtedly our best defender, as sick as we all are with his injury record I can never question his attitude on the pitch. Hopefully he can see out these last 3 games and help keep us up.

 

[Drico]

It's not, everyone who has rightly praised him has added the caveat about his fitness. Performance has never been an issue for Mina

Anybody calling for a new contract is a self-harmer.

Mina will NEVER stay fit. There is demonstrable evidence of that by now. Anybody saying otherwise - or hoping for otherwise - is utterly and irredeemably deluded.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Branthwaite comes in. For me, we then need to sell Keane as well and bring in someone better than Godfrey and Holgate.

That’s not going to be a one window job unless we get some new investment unfortunately

 

[Marius57]

If were going to let Mina leave...do we then also sell DCL?

As their injuries currently put them in a similar bracket.

Not for me. Mina is leaving regardless. I don’t think he would sign a new deal anyway. And he is 29 in September. This will be his last real move and we would want him to take a pay cut.

DCL is 26 and I believe has 2 years left. For me, we give him next season and see whether he can maintain his current fitness now that he has been allowed to actually get fit again and not rushed back. We still need to bring in another striker though to rotate/play alongside.

 

[Marius57]

That’s not going to be a one window job unless we get some new investment unfortunately

Selling one defender and bringing in another, why couldn’t we do that in one window?

 

[blulouie]

Going to be an interesting summer window if we stay up and don't retain Mina or sign Coady

We're going to need to sign some centre backs or promote from the youth set up, and judging by financial restraints it may have to be the latter

I'm glad Mina not only did well yesterday but that he seemingly got through it okay

The last thing we need right now is another injury prone player, so for that reason I'd be against giving him a new deal, but I'd wish him well wherever he ended up. No beef with Yerry at all, we just don't have allowance for having a player on the books who never plays

We'll have Branthwaite back for next season so we might need another 2 unless we are keeping Godfrey.
Think Holgate will be gone.

 

[Papa Shango]

Anybody calling for a new contract is a self-harmer.

Mina will NEVER stay fit. There is demonstrable evidence of that by now. Anybody saying otherwise - or hoping for otherwise - is utterly and irredeemably deluded.

To be fair he has been fit and available for months now, just wasn't getting picked.

 

[Drico]

To be fair he has been fit and available for months now, just wasn't getting picked.

Yes, agreed. But how many years has he been at the club now? How many games over that long sample size has he missed? This is an open and shut case. At his best, a fine defender, but completely unreliable and therefore has to go come the summer if we are serious about rebuilding.

In fact, it's quite arguable that the only reason he was available last night is precisely because he wasn't being picked. Had he been so, every chance he'd be in an ambulance.

 

[SJB]

A) Pay as you play deals don't happen in the modern game.

B) You wouldn't sign a pay as you play deal if you'd been fit for weeks but Michael Keane played ahead of you.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Selling one defender and bringing in another, why couldn’t we do that in one window?

Mina is out of contract, Coady going back to Wolves, you're saying sell Keane

We're going to need more than one new defender in that situation, especially if we need to think about replacing Coleman also if he's done through injury

So one right back and two centre backs at least, not to mention other areas of the squad that will need improving

For a team with no money, that's a big ask, especially as I don't expect we'll get much for Keane so it's not like his sale can finance it alone

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

We'll have Branthwaite back for next season so we might need another 2 unless we are keeping Godfrey.
Think Holgate will be gone.

Oh I didn't even think of Holgate

Holgate, Mina and Coady all gone, Coleman possibly retired through injury

A lot of rebuilding work required, and not many player sales to finance it with

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

To be fair he has been fit and available for months now, just wasn't getting picked.

I wonder if he'd've stayed fit if he had been playing?

I doubt it to be honest

 

[Papa Shango]

I wonder if he'd've stayed fit if he had been playing?

I doubt it to be honest

Probably not.

That said Dyche and his staff seem to be doing well at managing injuries so far so who knows?

 

[Jadubsee]

If he doesn't get injured in the first half of the City game then maybe I'll believe something has changed. I'll be astonished if that doesn't happen though. Fantastic player when his body allows.