The main issue I have with all our centre back is their technical ability, which is basically non existent. Holgate has looked the best imo, but still makes mistakes. I thought Keane was a lot better than he seems. Let’s hope is a first season confidence issue.
But what happens is they are so scared to give the ball away, they end up passing it square or back to Pickford all game. Jags on Saturday passed the ball straight to stoke players 3 times in the first 15 minuets. And they weren’t difficult passes. So when we have the ball at the back, it constantly gets filtered wide to Baines or Coleman. Very rarely do our centre backs try to drive forward into the opposition half. Or Look to play a straight 30yard pass to one of our attackers and maybe taking out 2/3 players from the other side in the process.
Just buying 2 technically better centre back and 1 midfielder would change our team dramatically imo.