Shadydan
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You're right that sounds completely ageist.
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You're right that sounds completely ageist.
Colonel Dax
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Haha. I'm older than Fernando. So I guess I'm old and ageist ?
Luka Van der Bale
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The under 18s won’t take priority over the first team if we believe Parrott is ready. We actually been rotating a lot recently with the u18s, giving squad players a chance and debuts to a lot of the u16s, with the better u18s playing more for the u23s.
shelfboy68
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We have seen with Fulham and to an extent west ham two clubs who invested heavily in their squads by bringing in a lot of player's only for it not to work/click and in Fulham's case cost them their premiership place.
We have a very good squad which needs a few decent additions to progress and although money doesn't always equate to success, the type of quality we need will require clever scouting but also a fair bit of coin needed as well.
We have a very good squad which needs a few decent additions to progress and although money doesn't always equate to success, the type of quality we need will require clever scouting but also a fair bit of coin needed as well.
Japhet
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I think if we're shrewd there are players out there who could offer good value for money. Players like Diawara and Berge in CM and Andersen at CB would probably be in our range. Further forward there's Brandt and Kruse who should be gettable. Grimaldo and Meunier would be rather nice but expensive and therefore probably unrealistic. In England there are the likes of Jack Clarke, Harvey Barnes, Lloyd Kelly etc. who probably wouldn't break the bank and then in the next expense bracket, Grealsih, Sessegnon and Brookes. I think we obviously have to pick up a HG goalkeeper which shouldn't be too much of a problem. I don't expect us to be spending big on players like N'Dombele and deLigt though.
shelfboy68
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Agree the last two players you mentioned are out of our league now but yes the rest should be attainable but would like to see the club strike early and secure deals quickly to get them in ready for pre season although I suspect that won't happen.
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I think we have a much better chance of getting those type of deals done early than the big buys. Agents will always try to bump the price by waiting for other clubs to join the hunt, especially on the players mega clubs could be interested in.
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After two windows of inactivity the logical thing to do is strike early and enable Poch to work with the new recruits early in pre-season, but as you say in reality we'll probably do our usual faffing around until late in the window. Really hope I'm wrong though.
am_yisrael_chai
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And we’ve seen Wolves spend and hit 7th and get to an FA Cup S/F. It all depends how you spend. Spending nothing though definitely isn’t the answer.
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Hope so too mate
shelfboy68
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Spending nothing doesn't do you any favours either I agree but a balance of spending what is required needs to be done.
am_yisrael_chai
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I think the key for this summer is defining the level of the club’s ambition. As Poch has alluded to many times recently we aren’t currently built to compete for the league or the CL. So when we look towards next season the first order question is what are our aims. Do we want to compete to win or do we just want top 4. Very different types of player lists for either. Dare I say it a lot of the players mentioned more recently in this thread are in the top 4 category not let’s go and win the league. Call me impatient but I’d like us to genuinely challenge next season rather than be content with top 4. That needs some serious investment and buying players way better than Lloyd Kelly.
I really don't see how age matters this much. If hes fit, doing a job and not having a negative effect on team, why should it matter if hes 21, 36 or 58?
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You're right but will he still be able to do a job next season? Perhaps I'm wrong, but history would suggest that it's quite rare for a striker in their mid thirties to still be effective at the top level.
I like the idea of these players but I’d be reluctant to buy all potential. I think we could do with at least one who’s already there, or who has seen it/don’t it to a degree.
If Wanyama is back, I cannot emphasise how big that could be. Suddenly we have no need for Ndombele ( the pipe dream that has become taken into account! ) or the likes imo.
Maybe go for Gomes and Grealish? Gomes has the passing range that would flourish in our side, Grealish can play a few roles and ticks the homegrown box.
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How does having Wanyama back mean we dont need Ndombele?
Ndombele would be a Dembele replacement and much needed. Wanyama, Sissoko and Dier cover DM.
Another one I always see that confuses me is when people say Brookes would be a good Eriksen replacement. No he has a similar style of play to Alli not Eriksen. Grealish I can understand but not the Brookes comparisons.
Japhet
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We still need to find HG players to develop and I'd put Lloyd Kelly in that catagory. A purchase and loan out would probably be a good idea since LBs and LCB are always in short supply.
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Spending doesn't guarantee anything although I feel it's now the right time to spend. I would love to see Pochettinho promote our development players into the first team... Onomah Amos Edwards Skipp and KWP proved he is capable to be given more chances with his performance against Huddersfield (ok it was Huddersfield) people have mention AWB and others, KWP could be better than all those if given the chance to play.
Perhaps no need was a touch strong, you can never have too many players with that sort of quality, what I meant to say is the need for him would be reduced. Sissoko is closer to a Dembele replacement than he is a DM imo.
Having this lot to pick from would have us sitting in a decent position -
Wanyama, Dier, Sissoko, Winks, Gomes, Grealish, Dele. Obviously Dele and Grealish can play further forward, especially in Dele’s case and I’d like to see Dier move back.
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