StirlingBlue wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 1:14 pm
If we could sell Beto and go with Barry/Wilson we'd be no worse off and could free up funds for a RB which would make a big difference.
Not sure I’m keen on an RB who only costs as much as what someone is prepared to pay for Beto
Paddockoldie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 6:14 am
At least... a LB and strikers who can actually score. If Brentford can find a Thiago, why can't we?
Thiago had 8 games, 0 goals for Brentford last season. Bought for £30 million.
He had injuries in that period, but fair to say many Brentford fans would have been saying some version of ''what a waste of money''?
It took time for him to come to the league and adapt.
I know people don't like to hear it because we're all edging closer to death and further away from the cup win in '95, but lots of things, like turning a failing club around or helping a new foreign striker adapt to a different league take time.
Bluedylan1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:32 am
Thiago had 8 games, 0 goals for Brentford last season. Bought for £30 million.
He had injuries in that period, but fair to say many Brentford fans would have been saying some version of ''what a waste of money''?
It took time for him to come to the league and adapt.
I know people don't like to hear it because we're all edging closer to death and further away from the cup win in '95, but lots of things, like turning a failing club around or helping a new foreign striker adapt to a different league take time.
As always, the voice of reason and sensibility. Although, Thiago looks far more capable than Barry, both physically and aggression to cause problems, but your points are correct
Paddockoldie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:37 am
As always, the voice of reason and sensibility. Although, Thiago looks far more capable than Barry, both physically and aggression to cause problems, but your points are correct
Yeah Thiago does look good. I think Barry can improve and be a really good player for us next season and beyond.
We're not an easy club to join because our expectations are far beyond teams like Brentford and Brighton, and yet our recent reality has been that we're rubbish and comfortably worse than those teams. At Brentford you can go missing for 5 games, and hardly anyone but Brentford die-hards notice or care. With us, you get a game or two's grace and if you're not showing something immediately after that, you're garbage.
It just is what it is. It's a heavier shirt to wear than it should be given recent years.
I think we get a better idea of Angus Kinnear and his recruitment team in the summer. A year to settle in, having had that time to identify a number of targets. I expect another busy period of players coming in. We need four, possibly another five first teamers in. Another significant outlay required of approx £150 million plus.
Stop the presses. We need to find two good young fullbacks. Patterson probably needs to be sold and replaced now or this Summer. Moyes doesn't rate him. Coleman is done and wont get a new contract...surely.
Mykolenko is out of contract in June. We cant be offering him a new contract. He's just not at the level required and has never really got there. To be fair to him he can defend but that's just not enough anymore.
Aznou looks like a slow burner or will be sold on in a year or so.
Both can probably wait until Summer as we will have some cover when we get the Afcon/ injured players back. I don't think there's any point in going and getting another second rate sticking plaster solution in the short term.
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I think we'd all be a lot more accommodating if we had a manager that we could buy into more and see him building a future.
Maybe it's because he's David Moyes, the guy we loved but over time got to know his flaws and now we are seeing them again.
Just come up with a plan for the flanks. Show us you're working on stuff in training, trying different things, looking for solutions both pre and in game.
All just feels a bit meh. Which I suppose is a step in the right direction from last game theatre and just about staying in the league.
But we live in an era of more instant gratification, it just is what it is. We have all had our attention spans and expectations remodelled in the past decade or so.
