The majority of the preseason optimism and predictions of promotion challenges were based on the Portuguese signings making a significant difference to us.
It's starting to look more and more like Karanka doesn't fancy them, if they are not going to be playing a large part this year, and he is...
With Cox and Mackie (lol) leaving, we now have two strikers, one being injury prone and the other a young foreign lad who needs to adapt and bed in. Pearce said we would bid for two players this week, one today who is presumably Antonio and the other later in the week.
Anyone slightly...
If we do sign the Dutch lad today, it looks like we will be playing two up front. What the hell midfield are we going to play behind? We have:
Reid
Lansbury
Vaughan
Paterson
Abdoun
Mackie
Osborn
Majewski
Cohen?
The first four being your obvious first choices, but Reid hasn't been a winger for...
To Liverpool for £4m+? Isn't he a bit old to be commanding that kind of fee?
Also, its a bit sad how the vultures are circling around Southampton, raping them of their best players and reducing them back down to relegation strugglers.
Can we please now stop playing this? We were on a great run playing 4-5-1, then we change it and look horseshit against Yeovil, Preston, Blackpool, Sheff Utd. I don't get why you would change what was working so well back to what held us back during our bad period. Mental.
I am for a clip on youtube, its some ropey footage of a documentary and it shows a clip of the Sheff Utd fans chanting his name before an interview where he almost breaks down after. Anyone know what I am talking about?
From those who have seen him preseason, what has he been like? Does he provide anything resembling pace and width? Will he challenge for the first team?
Cheers
Dan
I think that if we got these sorted a lot of our issues would disappear. A Louis-Jean and Brennan would be the answer to all our problems, quick overlapping full backs providing us with the width we desperately need, and providing our midfielders more room to operate.
We currently have:
Right...
Disregarding refereeing descisions etc, anyone else concerned by our total lack of creativity? We have very few good chances per game, I think this comes from our lack of pace and width, be it from wingers or full backs. I cannot remember the last time we got behind or to the by line and pulled...
Does the BBC website no longer show highlights of our games? Or any games for that matter, I notice that it has no Premier League highlights on either.