I said “Spine (build around this/add to this):”
Who will you add to that this summer to make the team better?
You think the kids aren’t good enough, but it’s not like these crap vets are doing anything for us right now either.
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I said “Spine (build around this/add to this):”
Who will you add to that this summer to make the team better?
You think the kids aren’t good enough, but it’s not like these crap vets are doing anything for us right now either.
75% of this shit show is the incompetent manager.
We're not going to bin off the quarter billion in investment over the last couple windows, strip the squad to bare bones and start all over. It's not FIFA.
Who have we invested in that I suggested to sell that you think are immovable?
If you are about to suggest Johnson or Kulu- I agree- I don't think we'll be moving them anytime soon. Johnson in particular will be a miracle if we can sell him to anyone for a comparable fee. Kulu I love but only suggest selling because the club will be incapable of supporting his conversion to a full-time CAM.
Romero, Bentanur, Bissouma, Son, Richarlison- these are players declining in effectiveness, uninterested to play for us anymore, or close to retirement- we won't miss any of them. We won't miss Brennan when he goes either.
They finished 5th because that’s how many points they earned.
This season is the freak occurrence. Next season is a new season. Football changes fast, Forest are in 3rd
Because I’m not parroting the same repetitive negativity as everyone else on every other post?
I agree, I am something else to that.
Forest in 3rd and the latter stages of the FA Cup.
They were worse than us last year and I’d still take our squad over theirs this year.
I don’t care how old you are, it doesn’t make something true just because you’ve been saying it a long time.
The biggest issue we have is Levy and ENIC, the squad is nowhere near as bad as it looks ATM
I think Danso is the Romero replacement. And I'm sure people will be disappointed with that, and I think he will turn out to be a much better signing for us ultimately than Romero. But agree with you otherwise. I hope we buy 2 premo attackers- we desperately need it.
Hard to say who we need when we don't know who will be manager and the type of players they need. Even the two positions most needed now (CM, ST imo) could be filled by existing personnel under a change of management.
Whatever we do it will be a disaster , does anyone believe Levy, Cullen , Munn have a clue?
Last seasons finish was because of a purple patch from August - November 2023, almost 2 years ago. Freak, out there purple patch. The comparison to forest is spot on, because that too is a freak occurrence, this squad has more in common with them than top teams.
We've had a lot of players that the fans have had a split opinion on. And Richi is definitely in the top echelon in regards to this.
The guy scores on average once every 90 minutes or so. Which is quite good.
But his injury problems means that he never builds any regular rhythm.
Agree. I like Lankshear a lot but it'd asking a lot of him to be our #2 in a campaign where we are shooting for European qualification. Losing Richy for me we'd still have to replace him. If Everton want to give us any amount over 10m I'd snap their hands off. The 40m being quoted is dizzyingly ridiculous but hell obviously we'd take it were it being offered...
THFC No Europe Squad 25-26:
-Minimum business
-All players 1 yr contract or less sold + Romero sold
-Add/subtract to it as you see fit
Dom
Odo-Madd-Kulu
Berg-Gray
Udog-VdV-Dans-Djed
ST: Dom, Richy
RW: Kulu, Johnson, Odobert, Moore
LW: Odobert, Moore, Maddison, Richy
CAM: Maddison, Kulu, Bergvall
CM: Bergvall, Sarr, Cardoso
CDM: Gray, Cardoso, Bergvall
RB: Spence, Porro, Gray
LB: Udog, Spence, Gray
CB: VdV, Danso, Dragusin, Vuskovic, Gray
GK: Vic, Kinsky
Sell: Son, Romero, Benta, Bissouma
Buy: Cardoso, ???
Notes: Honestly even though there's some unpalatable parts (Johnson/Richy barf) I'd be fine with this- so long as we get a good coach I think this would be a good, top half team.
-Minimum business
-All players 1 yr contract or less sold + Romero sold
-Add/subtract to it as you see fit
Dom
Odo-Madd-Kulu
Berg-Gray
Udog-VdV-Dans-Djed
ST: Dom, Richy
RW: Kulu, Johnson, Odobert, Moore
LW: Odobert, Moore, Maddison, Richy
CAM: Maddison, Kulu, Bergvall
CM: Bergvall, Sarr, Cardoso
CDM: Gray, Cardoso, Bergvall
RB: Spence, Porro, Gray
LB: Udog, Spence, Gray
CB: VdV, Danso, Dragusin, Vuskovic, Gray
GK: Vic, Kinsky
Sell: Son, Romero, Benta, Bissouma
Buy: Cardoso, ???
Notes: Honestly even though there's some unpalatable parts (Johnson/Richy barf) I'd be fine with this- so long as we get a good coach I think this would be a good, top half team.
No chance in hell you can finish 5th by only getting results for the first 3 months of the season.
If you look back at that season, the Christmas period from December to March was the best part of 2 PPG. I think it was 1.9 sth.
The team finished 5th because it finished 5th. That is an objective fact.
Then the squad got stronger since then.
This season has been an unmitigated disaster. The end of the day wages are more predictive than anything and our wages are about top 6-8 right now so the most likely outcome next season from a probability perspective is somewhere between 5-8th.
if we get the coaching appointment right and nail 3 transfers, it could easily be higher and include a good run at the FA Cup, especially if we don't have European football in the schedule.
If we could somehow land Jonathan David on a free I'd be fine with letting Richi leave. But if not I do think that we are better off focusing on finding a way to keep Richi healthy first and foremost.
Believe City want Madison. I'd sell him
Could be a replacement for madders
2 goals and 0 assists all season, yep checks out as Levy marquee signing.
RESELL VALUE
Hey look, I friggin hope you're right and that with a new HC and just 2 or 3 new players, we can shoot right up that PL table next season and maybe even bag the glorious FA Cup. Man I would love for that to happen, all I ever wanted was for Spurs to be successful. And yeah like you said, there are examples out there of teams that have done it. So amen to that, pal.
But as much as I wanna believe, hope, pray...I'm also a realist, brother. I don't see how all of a sudden Vicario gonna stop being a hothead and become a better passer. How Porro gonna learn how to defend. How Udogie gonna become willing to defend. How VdV gonna stay fit a whole season. How Mads gonna stop being a whiny lil bitch and turn into a stamina ledge. How Brennan gonna track back, learn how to beat his man. How Solanke gonna turn deadly. Etc etc, you catch my drift.
And I've read Levy's statement...he thinks we're plenty fine and he sure doesn't sound like he's gonna change his ways re transfers & wages. So that next manager gonna need to work miracles, like Poch did...but still fell short.
Surely you can understand where the pessimism comes from after the utter garbage this season's been...and looking at the downward spiral we've been in since that 2019 CL final.
Well .. ok.
It’s delusional. Your repetitive positivity has been constantly wrong all season yet you will still confidently make positive assertions as if that wasn’t the case.
That’s what makes you something else. Being wrong never knocks you, you just move on to the next big claim.