2025/26 Iliman Ndiaye

The entire transfer policy for the summer should be built around how we can properly support him as our left wing and never have to play him on the right again
No doubt any scout worth their salt will have this as the number 1 attribute to look for regardless of the players age, experience or position.

You really do post some guff.
 
Is there no doubt? Because a lot of people are going to talk about bringing back Jack Grealish which runs extremely counter to the idea of never moving Ndiaye back to the right side.
The entire transfer policy - your words.

A lot of people talk about a lot of things, most of which never happen.
 
The entire transfer policy - your words.
Are you going to build the team around your best player or not?

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration. Find a RW you’ll actually use, a LB who can actually support him and a RB that allows the right side to carry enough threat that we have a prayer of creating advantageous situations on the left. The whole thing should be around him.
 
Are you going to build the team around your best player or not?

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration. Find a RW you’ll actually use, a LB who can actually support him and a RB that allows the right side to carry enough threat that we have a prayer of creating advantageous situations on the left. The whole thing should be around him.
My preference is that we sign players who are, or have the potential to be better than what we currently have in their respective positions in the team and/or the squad, based on how the team is coached to play.

If you think that basing an entire transfer policy on keeping one player in one position and enabling him to play well is the way to go, lets see how that strategy looks when said player gets suspended, injured, sold or goes to AFCON for a month.

A club's entire transfer policy - your words- also includes succession planning. I can just imagine scouts out there looking for an u21's goalkeeper whose primary attribute is supporting the left sided forward who won't be there if and when that keeper breaks through to the first team.
 
There are obviously mitigating circumstances, and it's tough to say this given the goal he scored at the weekend and his overall skill level, but I'm not 1000% sure that he is the singular guy to build a squad around. I don't think he's shown that, yet, whether because of the lack of support or his own play.

I'm not even down on the guy, just responding to the above.
 
My preference is that we sign players who are, or have the potential to be better than what we currently have in their respective positions in the team and/or the squad, based on how the team is coached to play.

If you think that basing an entire transfer policy on keeping one player in one position and enabling him to play well is the way to go, lets see how that strategy looks when said player gets suspended, injured, sold or goes to AFCON for a month.

A club's entire transfer policy - your words- also includes succession planning. I can just imagine scouts out there looking for an u21's goalkeeper whose primary attribute is supporting the left sided forward who won't be there if and when that keeper breaks through to the first team.
You’re asking them to have a coherent top to bottom plan which would be awesome.

I’m asking them to connect three dots which would be an enormous improvement.
 
There are obviously mitigating circumstances, and it's tough to say this given the goal he scored at the weekend and his overall skill level, but I'm not 1000% sure that he is the singular guy to build a squad around. I don't think he's shown that, yet, whether because of the lack of support or his own play.

I'm not even down on the guy, just responding to the above.
I think that’s probably fair. For me I think his game has been limited much more by things he can’t control than things he can. He does so much of the hard parts of the game well and I really believe he could dominate games in an attacking sense if he played in a team that wanted to and was able to dominate games in an attacking sense.

He’s also been done no favors with how much time he spends on the right which badly limits what he can do. Then when he’s getting chances on the left it takes him time to get set. Dewsbury-Hall spends a ton of time in the inside left channel which ideally Ndiaye would be trying to get to more frequently, but then he also can’t do that because holding the width would fall to Mykolenko who is frankly terrible.

There’s so much more there imo, I hope we find it.
 
….attached at the hip;

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