What sorcery is this?
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What sorcery is this?
CB's who have played in a back 3 invariably rotate either side. It's not uncommon.
The further away we get from it the clearer it becomes that we would've been better off not spending any money that summer. Not a single signing achieved anything
Davinson Sanchez has played in a back 3CB's who have played in a back 3 invariably rotate either side. It's not uncommon.
Are we happy with Sanchez as back-up??
what about lloyd kelly
now picture sanchez and lloyd kelly as the backups
I just mean he's been regarded as someone incapable of playing on the left.
The two CB's responsible for their clubs shipping 63 & 71 goals last season respectively.
Suddenly left or right footedness is the be-all, end-all of what side a CB can play on. I never recall that being an issue in the past.
I 100% agree with you. The primary responsibility of a CB used to be how good you are at defending and if they had to fill in at RCB/LCB was never an issue.
Looking at our starting XI (and back-ups) I'm not sure if we're targeting the biggest drop-off areas in the squad:
------------------------------------------Vic (Forster)-----------------------------------------
Porro (Royal)--------Romero(Sanchez)-----------VDV(??)-------------------Udogie(Davies)
---------------------------------------------Biss(Sarr/Bentancur)------------------------------------------
------------------Sarr(Bentancur/Biss)---------------------------Maddison(GLC)----------------
----Kulu(Porro)------------------------------------------------------------Son (Solo/Perisic/Gil)---------
-----------------------------------------Richy (Son)----------------------------------------------
Knowing you can never solve all your problems in one window, it's clear as day we should have targeted:
1. A CB that can play either side - David Hancko from Feyenoord
2. A left-back - Rico Henry from Brentford
3. A striker - Kyogo from Celtic or Gift Orban
None of these players would have broken the bank.
I feel like the players we are targeting still fails to address the balance in the squad.
For good reason!You've left off Veliz, Phillips, White, Sessegnon, and Skipp! .
For good reason!
Veliz - One for the future
Phillips - One for the future
White - Not good enough
Sess - Not good enough
Skipp - Not good enough
To be fair to Skipp he's a bit of a level above 'not good enough' that Sess and especially White are. Imo, he almost has to stay at the club simply for squad reasons.For good reason!
Veliz - One for the future
Phillips - One for the future
White - Not good enough
Sess - Not good enough
Skipp - Not good enough
To be fair to Skipp he's a bit of a level above 'not good enough' that Sess and especially White are. Imo, he almost has to stay at the club simply for squad reasons.
The thing with Skipp is that, for European competition, we must have 4 'club trained players': Champions League group stage squads, player registration deadlines: all you need to know | UEFA Champions League
"players who were on a club's books for three years between the ages of 15 and 21"
What this means is you can use 17 non-HG, 4 HG, and 4 'club trained'.
Since we've sold Tanganga, and obviously Harry Kane, we have 0 club trained first-team players outside of Skipp. Sure, we can use a youth keeper, and perhaps Scarlett/Dorrington/Donley etc will eventually qualify, but we NEED Skipp to stay at the club or else we will only be able to register a 21/22 person squad for UEFA competitions.