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AjaxAndy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:17 pm No Branthwaite, no DCL, no Doucoure who we've barely won a game without for 3 years, no Gana, Tarks a year older.

Still no right back, still no back up left back... Yes we will hopefully recruit these but we need soooo many players who knows if we will or what the quality will be.

We will have 12-13 players, and most are kinda crap. Our midfield will literally be Garner and Tim unless I'm forgetting someone.

Trying to firstly bed half a new squad in is really tough, you need them to gel very quickly which is no easy task. Secondly we need to recruit well but stretch the money across many players so either we buy incredibly well or we have big problems.

Yes we finished effectively 12th last season, with a team that consisted of Branthwaite, DCL, Doucoure, Gana and Onana... all of them will be gone at the end of this season other than Onana who already has.

I would be more optimistic if the 12 players we retained were quality and it was just adding depth, but they really aren't. Out of those remaining out only decent players will be Pickford, McNeil and Ndaiye, with Tarks and Mykolenko as ok.

We've seen this year without Branthwaite how much we struggle, well take him and half the team away and it's a very difficult picture.

We may recruit well, we don't usually but maybe we will this time... Only we'll have to wait for Branthwaite to be out the door so unless that happens early it makes things even harder as we rush about trying to finalise deals before the season starts.

It's a bit of a cluster fuck and that's not really a good place to build something successful from, or relatively successful in terms of our recent history.

AjaxAndy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:17 pm No Branthwaite, no DCL, no Doucoure who we've barely won a game without for 3 years, no Gana, Tarks a year older.

Still no right back, still no back up left back... Yes we will hopefully recruit these but we need soooo many players who knows if we will or what the quality will be.

We will have 12-13 players, and most are kinda crap. Our midfield will literally be Garner and Tim unless I'm forgetting someone.

Trying to firstly bed half a new squad in is really tough, you need them to gel very quickly which is no easy task. Secondly we need to recruit well but stretch the money across many players so either we buy incredibly well or we have big problems.

Yes we finished effectively 12th last season, with a team that consisted of Branthwaite, DCL, Doucoure, Gana and Onana... all of them will be gone at the end of this season other than Onana who already has.

I would be more optimistic if the 12 players we retained were quality and it was just adding depth, but they really aren't. Out of those remaining out only decent players will be Pickford, McNeil and Ndaiye, with Tarks and Mykolenko as ok.

We've seen this year without Branthwaite how much we struggle, well take him and half the team away and it's a very difficult picture.

We may recruit well, we don't usually but maybe we will this time... Only we'll have to wait for Branthwaite to be out the door so unless that happens early it makes things even harder as we rush about trying to finalise deals before the season starts.

It's a bit of a cluster fuck and that's not really a good place to build something successful from, or relatively successful in terms of our recent history.

Juanito wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 7:47 am What’s the point agonising over the future when we have no way of knowing what will happen next summer. Things might look bright after the January transfer window. Cheer up!

Evertonian in NC wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 1:38 pm At the risk of sounding like Forrest Gump. I'd posit that maybe, it's both? (ie, a "new dawn" and a "tricky situation to navigate")

Toddacelli wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 7:25 am So I remember from one of the news articles or podcasts that one of the things they did at Roma was to reduce or even eliminate loan signings because it devalued the playing squad. There will definitely be some movement in the January transfer window backed by the new owners because they have to keep us in the PL at all costs.

With the financial restraints, a loan or two might make sense, in terms of getting a better class of player. I know that they don’t like it at Roma, but we are a different more short-term proposition this season I think.

Also if long term plans don’t include Dyche, loans till the end of the season also make more sense so they can fully back a new manager going into BMD.

The Doc wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:25 pm A decent point today and we'll get another few at least in the next 3 games.

But I can't wait until we get a manager that wants to keep the ball and build pressure.

Shogun wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 8:28 pm DCL must get a hell of a good night's sleep when he gets home after a match. Gone from standing on the penalty spot under Ancelotti to winning headers on the halfway line these days.

Kerryblueboy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:39 am He got 20 goals that season

Bluebridge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 7:31 am He had Digne and James laser guided crosses then.