2022/23 Kevin Thelwell

[ToffeeTim]

People got very upset when we said exactly this all summer....

We prioritised the wrong positions. The positions that dont matter that much in football. We spent weeks chasing Idrissa Gueye etc when we had no available striker. It will prove to be a very bad window unfortunately.

 

[blueconverse]

Hope he works in January unlike Brands as he needs to be a busy boy to fix the problems he failed to address in the summer with mcneil and maupay

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

People got very upset when we said exactly this all summer....

We prioritised the wrong positions. The positions that dont matter that much in football. We spent weeks chasing Idrissa Gueye etc when we had no available striker. It will prove to be a very bad window unfortunately.

We spent half our budget on attackers. They're just not very good

 

[ToffeeTim]

We spent half our budget on attackers. They're just not very good

None of them are goalscorers.

Terrible recruitment

 

[john jako]

People where willing to chomp kopite kev off after the transfer window. Madness.

 

[mccole]

Thought we had a good window with defence strengthen, Onana looks good but still raw but McNeil and Maupay I just don't see where they play?

McNeil isn't a winger but is shifted out there game after game.

Maupay can't play as 2 or a front man and yet we haven't played him in a 3.

Crying out for a Winger and Striker

 

[Bob Elstone]

McNeil, Gordon and gray. They’re all toothless.

Never seen such a frustrating player as gray. One decent cross every 100.

 

[Nymzee]

People got very upset when we said exactly this all summer....

We prioritised the wrong positions. The positions that dont matter that much in football. We spent weeks chasing Idrissa Gueye etc when we had no available striker. It will prove to be a very bad window unfortunately.

Tim, we really didn't. It's a complete lose-lose situation.

If we'd have prioritised the attack, and left the midfield as it was, we'd be getting pummelled in games asking why he didn't sign midfielders as we watched Gomes, Doucoure and Davies line up.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Tim, we really didn't. It's a complete lose-lose situation.

If we'd have prioritised the attack, and left the midfield as it was, we'd be getting pummelled in games asking why he didn't sign midfielders as we watched Gomes, Doucoure and Davies line up.

You cant win if you cant score.

We've won football matches with those players in midfield.

We've certainly never won a football match where we didnt score.

If you try to replace Richarlison with midfielders and a non goal scoring winger, then you deserve to be in trouble, because you are totally inept at football.

 

[Nymzee]

You cant win if you cant score.

We've won football matches with those players in midfield.

We've certainly never won a football match where we didnt score.

If you try to replace Richarlison with midfielders and a non goal scoring winger, then you deserve to be in trouble, because you are totally inept at football.

Tim, you know we needed to strengthen all 3 areas of the pitch, we managed back line and midfield, couldn't do up front.

If we'd done up front and back line we'd still be in a mess.

It wasn't all fixable in one window (or was, if the club took some risks).

 

[ToffeeTim]

Tim, you know we needed to strengthen all 3 areas of the pitch, we managed back line and midfield, couldn't do up front.

If we'd done up front and back line we'd still be in a mess.

It wasn't all fixable in one window (or was, if the club took some risks).

Goals are more important than every other position on the field.

You cant not be in a relegation fight if you only score at a rate of 11 in 14 games. We are basically Burnley only it cost us half a billion to get here.

Calvert-Lewin is finished as a first choice no.9 in this league. Gordon is regressing at quite a worrying rate. Gray wouldn't make the bench of most midtable PL clubs. I dont know what the point of the Mcneil signing was. Maupay looks absolutely lost out there and can't win a challenge. Our midfield players offer nothing in terms of goals. We carry little to no threat on set plays.

These are bottom 3 forward options. That means we are in a survival battle, regardless of defensive improvements.

 

[blueblood]

Thelwell did a good job of making us defensively stronger and on balance I think his midfield reinforcements have strengthened us. I hope he’s got a couple of strikers or reinforcements lined up. Ajax are out of the champions league so I wonder if he’ll try again for Kudus.

 

[ah11984]

Tim, you know we needed to strengthen all 3 areas of the pitch, we managed back line and midfield, couldn't do up front.

If we'd done up front and back line we'd still be in a mess.

It wasn't all fixable in one window (or was, if the club took some risks).

I’ll have a couple of what you’re smoking if you think we’ve fixed our midfield.

 

[Nymzee]

I’ll have a couple of what you’re smoking if you think we’ve fixed our midfield.

Well I'm smoking nothing, it's not perfect, why would it be, but Onana, Gana, Garner, Iwobi, Davies, Doucoure is a massive upgrade on the midfield as it was start of the Summer.

 

[banno]

I’ll have a couple of what you’re smoking if you think we’ve fixed our midfield.

We havent fixed it but we still have improved it no doubt