Premier League Squad - The Alternatives

newyddion

newyddion

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Ellyes Skhiri 27yo FC Koln out of contract in the summer.. (defensive midfielder)​

 
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Louis Patris 21yo OH Leuven £2.5m (Right Back)​


In 2017/18 my top pick was Adam Webster for £3.5m we went for Aden Flint for £7m
 
newyddion said:
They said the same 2017/18 when I mentioned Jarrod Bowen and Ollie Watkins.. instead we opted for Martin Braithwaite and Britt Assombalonga.
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I reccomended Bowen £2m and Watkins £2m to Them before then.
Before them
Charlie Austin £2m and Callum Wilson £2.5m
James Mcarthy £1.5m , and James Mcarthur £1m
Joelinton £8m
Among many others .
 
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Simply red said:
I reccomended Bowen £2m and Watkins £2m to Them before then.
Before them
Charlie Austin £2m and Callum Wilson £2.5m
James Mcarthy £1.5m , and James Mcarthur £1m
Joelinton £8m
Among many others .
At least someone took notice with
Ledesma
Mowatt
mcgree
Missed Neymar age 18 and available for £1m , Strachan chose Flood and killen.
Don't bother now , if they can't make the effort to reply why bother.
Some bad decisions made by the people who made them costing us a lot of money .
Better now ?
Mcgree , Lenaghan, Forss , Yes
Fischer , Clarke , Ameobi , Lumley , Daniels , Uche , Hall , NO .
Maybe the manager at the time was to blame .
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Marc Proctor was the king of player recommendations.. a one man recruitment team!

I would say our worst transfer moments have come in the 2008/09 season and the 2017/18 season. Much better now, better with Woodgate, Warnock and Wi Carrick
 
WoodallServices said:
You still haven’t answered Sherlock’s question.
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“Because we only have two or so threads”

In relation to the one thread per player thread. We will need reinforcements to the squad if we get promoted. I like the look of Ellyes Skhiri as a defensive midfielder presuming Jonny Howson would need some back up Jose Cifuentes as the number 8 come number 10 midfielder we were looking for in Martin Payero and with Anfrenee Dijksteel seemingly out of favour I would personally opt for ‘the Belgian John Stones’ Louis Patris

Ardon Jashari on a permanent in the premier league I’m guessing would be preferred to Alex Mowett on loan in the championship..
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OK, I'll bite.

The question was 'why do we need an alternative' to Dan Barlaser?

How is 'because we only have two or so threads' an answer to that question?
 
sherlock1969 said:
OK, I'll bite.

The question was 'why do we need an alternative' to Dan Barlaser?

How is 'because we only have two or so threads' an answer to that question?
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Not sure why he didn’t answer your very clear question.

I will try, I think if we stay in this league ( hopefully not) then Barlaser will jump up the pecking order and become third choice/ first choice rotational option for Howson and Hackney and play a bigger part.

If we get promoted, I’m not convinced he will play much of a part at all and we will need to sign 2 athletic midfielders in my opinion to share the load with Howson and Hackney and I feel Barlaser may end up getting a loan move to the championship.

That’s how I see it anyway!
 
I think If we go up we'll go get Ardon Jashari in a similar way we went and got Viktor Fischer. There was already concrete interest from us in January, I think if we're promoted he already has his bags packed.

I have full trust in Kieran Scott, the two proper windows he's overseen at our helm have improved us no end.
Even the Wilder January he signed Mcgree and Balogun so in the words of Meatloaf 'Two out Of Three Ain't Bad'
 
newyddion said:
They said the same 2017/18 when I mentioned Jarrod Bowen and Ollie Watkins.. instead we opted for Martin Braithwaite and Britt Assombalonga.
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You're ignoring a few things though, the players have to want to come to the northeast, or be willing to accept whatever we offer and this effectively cuts down our options by about 90% I reckon.

Braithwaite is a good player, and has and will play for better teams than Bowen or Watkins, sure he might have a motivation problem, but that's hard to know in advance, especially foreign transfers.

Signing Watkins in 17/18 though? When we signed Britt? The season before in 16/17 Watkins had scored 13 for Exeter in League 2, hardly lighting it up enough to sign for a side apparently pushing for promotion. Then he only got 10 goals in 17/18 and same in 18/19, he wasn't good enough then, to get us back into the prem that year, which is what we were going for. Sure he's good enough now, and was in 19/20, but that would have been too late for what we were aiming for.

Assombalonga did alright (50% more goals than Watkins, in 17/18 and 18/19), even considering we had a lack of creativity which everyone mentioned every week. Sure, we paid too much for him, but that's what happens to unfashionable clubs in unfashionable places.

We're playing a different game in the transfer market, the player pool each team can sign is different. Just like we had an advantage from mid 90's to mid 00's when we would offer players more money, and could spend more on good players, for the next 10 years we had to do that on worse players (as everyone else had money, and we had spent too much). Parachute payments gave us money for the Monk season, but it didn't change the player pool.
We seem to be back near some sort of equilibrium for the size of our club now, and have seemingly balanced the books a bit so should be ok going forward, but we need a year in the prem for a money boost, and not blow it on unknowns or old players.

I like Barlaser, once he's found his feet and we've coached him to what we want he'll be pushing for a start, he's good enough to start for a play off side. He's possibly not good enough to start for a top-two side, but Hackney isn't yet either, and Howson's getting on.
 
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