Steffen, Mowatt, Muniz, Giles.

Add these guys to any Championship team and it would be hugely improved. Nothing wrong with our recruitment, Wilders single minded attitude is the issue. If he isn’t going to change something, then something needs to be changed.
100% this
 
No ..Mowatt is poor/slow and WBA couldn't wait to get rid, and Steffan flaps at everything ,there will be loads of mistakes from him if Wilder keeps picking him..

Muniz & Giles are class..
 
Add those players to a squad with no midfield and the squad still won't be good enough. Context is important. We had no midfield, we didn't improve it, we still have no midfield.

Nice bank balance though. Maybe Gibson was expecting the rise in the base rate so he can get a better return on his savings.
 
Can’t blame recruitment team for how Steffen and Mowatt have performed. We were all buzzing when they were announced. Good management is about getting the best out of the players at your disposal.
 
We've signed 10 (or 12) players. Only Giles looks like he's improved us. I'll maybe give you Steffen yet I'm an upgrade on Lumley. Also probably paid a fortune in wages and loan fee.

The more worrying aspect is that Jones / Howson and Crooks were far and away our best players last season. Although Jones dropped off the final 10 games it was expected.

Yet all 3 look an absolute shadow of the players from last season. Crooks isn't even getting into goal scoring positions. Was Tav that important? I feel he was. He was the only one who had energy. To replace him with Mowett who's basically a Howson is ridiculous.
 
Add these guys to any Championship team and it would be hugely improved. Nothing wrong with our recruitment, Wilders single minded attitude is the issue. If he isn’t going to change something, then something needs to be changed.
Not greatly impressed with Steffen, Mowatt offers nothing, Clarke is very unimpressive , I’m not convinced by Lenihan, Giles consistently puts quality balls into the box but is suspect defensively, Muniz has quality but doesn’t get the service.

This really is not good recruitment overall.
 
We've signed 10 (or 12) players. Only Giles looks like he's improved us. I'll maybe give you Steffen yet I'm an upgrade on Lumley. Also probably paid a fortune in wages and loan fee.

The more worrying aspect is that Jones / Howson and Crooks were far and away our best players last season. Although Jones dropped off the final 10 games it was expected.

Yet all 3 look an absolute shadow of the players from last season. Crooks isn't even getting into goal scoring positions. Was Tav that important? I feel he was. He was the only one who had energy. To replace him with Mowett who's basically a Howson is ridiculous.
I agree Crooks has been below par but he was an inch away from equalising today from a Giles cross
 
I find myself continually being critical of Mowatt and I agree that at the moment he offers nothing, but I think he is not fit from that injury. I have seen him several times looking uncomfortable and feeling his grooin (oo-er). He shouldnt be anywhere near the team until he is fully fit because at the moment he is just not mobile enough.
 
Mowatt was effective at Barnsley, but they played long ball a lot, opposed to passing it through midfield, so the midfield was by passed a lot when attacking, the attackers would hold the ball up and bring him into play which does happen much at Boro. Mowatt struggled at WBA when there was less long ball. I do think he will improve and become a steady eddy type player, but was never going to set the division a light.

Steffan was shaky at first - he appeared he needed to adjust to the Championship then got injured. He will be fine with time.

Muniz is better than Sporar or Conolly and decent at Championship level. Not a typical Brazilian likes aerial crosses.

Giles is as good as Tav going forward but not as good defensively - overall decent - number of crosses is impressive, but seems to get frustrated a bit too quickly and this could be effecting some of his team mates. He just needs to concentrating on getting 10 or more decent crosses in a game.
 
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