Jim Hopper
Player Valuation: £40m
From a fantasy POV I just want us to bring in reinforcements so the likes of Davies, Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin and Oumar Niasse never get a look in again this season.
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From a fantasy POV I just want us to bring in reinforcements so the likes of Davies, Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin and Oumar Niasse never get a look in again this season.
ChesterBlue
Player Valuation: £35m
Just waiting for him to kick off an a 12 year old blue on social media again...Apparently that's exactly what Brands was signing with Delph
Apparently that's exactly what Brands was signing with Delph
To be fair when he signed a majority of us thought that too.
TheSecondComing
Player Valuation: £35m
We all pinning our Hopes on the return of two midfielders with career changing injuries?
Never change lads never change
Never change lads never change
blue_order
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Either way I doubt we'll hear who we're after until it's in the bag
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
Whys he still at Newcastle if that's a bargain? Same as ake, they can look good at these small clubs, but stepping up to us is totally different. It's why I never wanted Michael Keane, he played for a team with no adventure whatsoever, defending was twice as easy. We require a lot more than that here and if lascelles was that good of a player and leader he'd already be at a club at least our level.
gixerk6
Player Valuation: £5m
I found it somehow ironic that when you want to keep the ball and wind down time for the win, Ancelotti decided to bring on the one player that seems to consistently lose the ball and pass to the opposition (I know a lot of our players do that but Davies does it more than most)
You know this how exactly?
UltraVires
Player Valuation: £8m
I think the last month has showed major issues in several areas that even a few positive results cannot hide.
1) We have a lot of gutless players - This has been a trend for a long time now and its clear that we dont have a captain in the traditional sense, Digne is not a captain as far as I can see. We either need to tell Mina/Holgate that they have the freedom to run the dressing room along with Dunc (as those two are the only ones who command any kind of captain like image in my opinion).
2) Our midfield is a mess - When we play any combination of Snides/Siggy/Delph/Davies, we dont have any legs or real desire to take the ball forward. A midfield of Andre and Gbamin may be different but that is some way off. I think we are missing someone like a Barkley who will run with the ball and push their midfield back, ours just passes sideways or backwards. Most teams have someone who can do this, look at the likes of Villa who have Grealish and McGinn.
3) We cant address much of the above until we get some big wages off the books.
All that being said, I am a little bit gutted we haven't been linked with Jude Bellingham who looks off to Man Utd for £25m. From everything I read about this kid, he is 16 and going to be a top top player so it looks like we have missed the boat on that one because nobody was linked to him until Utd were this week.
1) We have a lot of gutless players - This has been a trend for a long time now and its clear that we dont have a captain in the traditional sense, Digne is not a captain as far as I can see. We either need to tell Mina/Holgate that they have the freedom to run the dressing room along with Dunc (as those two are the only ones who command any kind of captain like image in my opinion).
2) Our midfield is a mess - When we play any combination of Snides/Siggy/Delph/Davies, we dont have any legs or real desire to take the ball forward. A midfield of Andre and Gbamin may be different but that is some way off. I think we are missing someone like a Barkley who will run with the ball and push their midfield back, ours just passes sideways or backwards. Most teams have someone who can do this, look at the likes of Villa who have Grealish and McGinn.
3) We cant address much of the above until we get some big wages off the books.
All that being said, I am a little bit gutted we haven't been linked with Jude Bellingham who looks off to Man Utd for £25m. From everything I read about this kid, he is 16 and going to be a top top player so it looks like we have missed the boat on that one because nobody was linked to him until Utd were this week.
I'd guess he knew this long before last night.
Its fair to question his substitutions but we had that match sewn up and blew it, it was unforgivable.
Most watching it feared the worst or even expected it after the first went in and I'm sure the payers on the pitch did as well. The mentality throughout the whole club isn't good. The flaky snowman needs replaced with something much more robust, unfortunately it will take time. Confidence is a great thing (as per DCL) however last night will have been devastating to the team and theres a big job to be done by the coaching team between now and Watford away.
I do think there are some positive signs coming through, but you cant polish a turd.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
If we could get Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin and Delph out and signed Bellingham + 1 more u23 then that would be fine until the summer.
We also have Onyango the same as in midfield.
Should be after these young players and creating pathways through getting rid of the dross.
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