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Still think our squad is stronger than everyone else's outside of Chelsea+Citeh. But Liverpool and United have caught up. Sometimes it's not the need for a player but the impact his signing can have for the team and fans. That said 16 points out of the last 21 doesn't really need galvanising yet:kaboul::lamelashock:
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And under TimSher we've not really been able to utilise these fellas yet
:townhmm::vert:aulinhowtf:And under TimSher we've not really been able to utilise these fellas yet
Sherwood has been in the job a matter of weeks and you expect him to have fully assessed the squad and compiled a suitable list of replacements. People are moaning about him not playing 20 players every week.
Part of me suspects people want a "Timmy signing" so they can pull him to pieces before the letters on the back of the shirt are dry... ala Bentaleb.
Playing devils advocare, Sherwood isnt new, is he?
He has been part of the transfer commitee for years, he has been running the youth set up with an eye on pushing players into the first team squad, he even watched most games from the box - he should, IMO, have had a bloody good knowledge of our playing staff before ever taking over as coach. So far as I can tell his job basically revolved around who we brought, how our first team was performing so as to recognise what can be provided through the youth/loan set up
No, but I expect him to have the basic capacity to see that at left back we have a "test" LB, without a proven backup, and we've lost a striker (Defoe).
If Rose's red card stands then it could cost us one of those "easy" games. If Ade gets injured or loses interest, we've got either self-flob or Soldado, neither of which have proven they can score goals at the club yet.
People can't blame Levy, as Tim has shopped himself by making it clear than DL wants to bring people in and TS doesn't. It's like he's trying to do a "Sir Alex", where they would bring in a talented youthy to fill a void - except we haven't got the other 90% of the players on the pitch performing for that to work
won't be easy getting in new players when the manager won't be there in summer, also, who are we likely to get that is an improvement on what we have? Unless we have the answers then we really can't moan about it. TS is merely toeing the party line, after spunking £100m in the summer, I don't expect us to splash out even further. We are short at left-back, up front, TS has suggested using Lamela or even Chadli as second strikers. Not saying this is ideal but what can our manager do?
Of course he will get injured leaving us with Harry Fucking Kane and Soldado who is finding his feet.
Loans. Short deals. Even Saha scored 4 goals for us (started as 3 in 3).
I am sure a left back or a striker on loan would not not of been a bad idea at all.
that was a much thinner squad than what we have now though.
We should have tried to go for Alaba.
To me sherwood just seems a stubborn basterd and has his favourites
Not as bad in our key areas though. We had Defoe and Ade as senior strikers then, an BAE as LB.
Aghh...
People were happy enough with Soldado playing upfront on his own finding his feet earlier in the season?
you're blaming this on Sherwood? And not the people who hold the purse strings?
Really, who are his favourites?
Soldado is better than Defoe though (imo of course), the LB situation is a worry of course, but Sherwood is hardly going to speak out of turn when he is trying to impress the people up stairs.