Lati and Ayari can. You don't necessarily have to play two holding DM:s. There are all sorts of options.My days, what is it with this forum?
Palmer, O’Hare and possibly Ayari are not CDM’s. Completely different role to one that Kelly would play. So not relevant.
Allen the only one who would play there but is currently not fit due to a heart issue.
I meant in terms of the squad. We were bloody lucky that Gyo wasn’t injured last season.
Yeah fairs, I suppose he must be half decent if Robins thinks he is but the £5m valuation puts me off. People say we shouldn’t be frivolous with our cash when spending it on a quality CM but then are sound with £5m on some geezer from league one(Not saying that’s you btw, just saying some people have argued we don’t need another CM and should save the cash, which I completely disagree with.)
I don't think we'd have coped with Maguire or Walker upfront...
Certainly were. Is always the danger on relying on one / two players, so I'd rather see us a little worse team wise for a bit until we click, in exchange for having more players at a better level to kick on from.
Presumably in a lot of cases... First question realistically will be "How much are you offering?"
still doesn't make sense. 2 players to do the job of 1 in a squad? I get it that Gyo was impressive, but i'd just like a man for man replacement rather than combining 2 and hoping they will both be half of the player........
Currently three of our four top scorers from last season aren't playing for us - that's a lot of goals to replace!
I’d rather have Gyokeres than Morris, would rather Hamer than Nakamba. But I’d ultimately prefer top flight to this division any time.
Unfortunately replacing someone like Gyo man for man is extremely tough and out of our budget.
Maybe not explaining my point well enough. What we lose in not having the best forward we’ve seen since 2001 we make up for in not relying so heavily on a single player.
I don't think it's easy to get promoted unless you have a few players who are well above the standard. Yes you need to be lucky that they don't get injured. But I feel you need someone who leads in terms of quality and it raises the standard of the other players. In this respect I feel we have missed a trick in not bringing in more Premier league loans in this window, with the extra quality they bring.
Can't be bothered to go over same arguments again tbh but the idea that literally every single player out there that is capable of coming in and doing well in our midfield is out of our price range is nonsense. If we are now 7 players short of what Robins originally wanted i think its fair to say we've dropped the ball a bit...
It was clear and is a reasonable opinion. I just don't agree and suspect Greggs doesn't either.
People are just over reacting in what is early in an extensive rebuild. It was never going to be completed in this window.
Fair enough and I can see the other side of the argument too.
Sheaf and Ayari should be fine. Sheaf is a quality player and Ayari hasn't signed for Brighton out of chance.
We cant just magic a like for like replacement, we need to develop one, we will also have to change how we play to suit new repalcements, which we are still learning to do, Simms isnt going to give you the running of channels and chasing long balls Vik did, but once we work out how best to use him he will develop in to a good striker, we also broke our Club record transfer fee on another striker, cant ask for more than that.
Ones left footed the other right footed.
If we'd signed mcnally we'd still need a LCB
Exactly, the arseholes are making themselves known.
Acl already?
When what we need is Kitching!
Are they going to shock you with a surprise signing also?
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