Paulus
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Current squad in last days of Transfer window
For my own benefit I’ve tried sorting out what our squad looks like as we stand as I admit I haven’t got a handle on it with all the summer changes so this is what I came up with and I wondered how others see things.
Y=Youth. C= Championship at best, U= Untested, I= Injury prone or having sustained a significant injury, P= Premiership standard
Youth also overlaps with untested but it seems unnecessary to include both against a player so generally I’ve used U to mark up players we’ve brought in for whom this is a step up. Premiership standard means an experienced player, without a history of significant injury who should be able to perform in a PL match without generally looking out of depth. Championship at best is generally for established players who for whatever reason, age, physicality or lack of ability I don’t think will cut it in the PL this season
GK
Davies U
Wes P
Amissah Y
Defenders
Baldock P
Basham C
Egan P
Lowe C,I
Ahmedhodzic P
Robinson C
Bogle I
RND I,U
Larouci Y
Trusty U
Seriki Y
Midfield
Fleck I,C
Norwood P
Coulibaly U,I
Osborn C
Brooks Y
Slimane U
Souza P
Hamer U
Davies P
Forwards
Brewster U,I
McBurnie C,U,I
Osula Y
Jebbison Y
Marsh Y
Traore Y,U
Hackford Y
So, we have 7 guys I think should be comfortable playing PL this season.
We have 9 who may be good enough but we just don’t know yet. Typically, some of these might make it but very unlikely all will. I think Davies should be OK as backup GK. I’m very hopeful with Trusty,Slimane,and Hamer. RND is now a big worry, prior to injury he was really starting to look promising I hope to hell we have some positive news soon. As we stand I’m struggling to see Coulibaly, McBurnie, Traore or Brewster making much of an impact Traore has youth on his side but from the matches so far he has lots of development needed.
The Championship guys are there as backup and in my mind to bring some degree of continuity to the squad, the spirit, traditions and relationships in the dressing room seem to be very good and the last thing we need to do now is lose this now. As we know key men have left and these guys have to fill that gap.
Youth represents hope and the future but the PL is a fearful place for kids to be learning their trade, we know they’ll make mistakes, are they good enough and resilient enough to grow into a role, time will tell.
What should we do in the remainder of the transfer window? I think we need another midfielder despite the recent signings, I would love to see Doyle return, McAtee would be great as well but I won’t be greedy and Doyle strikes me as more attainable and a better bet for the type of season we are likely to have. We desperately need at least one striker with experience and the ability to make an impact in attack, I haven’t a clue how we get a player like that working on our budget, Pellistri and Origi are in the rumours and quite frankly if they came off I’d be over the moon and pretty optimistic, it would also allow us to loan out at least a couple of he young strikers which is what needs to happen.
As we stand at the moment we all know we have one of the weakest/unproven squads in the league and It’ll be a bit of a miracle to finish 17th but I’m actually feeling positive, we always do better as underdogs, I bloody love it! It’s simple really GET BEHIND THE TEAM absolutely no room for negativity during any match.
For my own benefit I’ve tried sorting out what our squad looks like as we stand as I admit I haven’t got a handle on it with all the summer changes so this is what I came up with and I wondered how others see things.
Y=Youth. C= Championship at best, U= Untested, I= Injury prone or having sustained a significant injury, P= Premiership standard
Youth also overlaps with untested but it seems unnecessary to include both against a player so generally I’ve used U to mark up players we’ve brought in for whom this is a step up. Premiership standard means an experienced player, without a history of significant injury who should be able to perform in a PL match without generally looking out of depth. Championship at best is generally for established players who for whatever reason, age, physicality or lack of ability I don’t think will cut it in the PL this season
GK
Davies U
Wes P
Amissah Y
Defenders
Baldock P
Basham C
Egan P
Lowe C,I
Ahmedhodzic P
Robinson C
Bogle I
RND I,U
Larouci Y
Trusty U
Seriki Y
Midfield
Fleck I,C
Norwood P
Coulibaly U,I
Osborn C
Brooks Y
Slimane U
Souza P
Hamer U
Davies P
Forwards
Brewster U,I
McBurnie C,U,I
Osula Y
Jebbison Y
Marsh Y
Traore Y,U
Hackford Y
So, we have 7 guys I think should be comfortable playing PL this season.
We have 9 who may be good enough but we just don’t know yet. Typically, some of these might make it but very unlikely all will. I think Davies should be OK as backup GK. I’m very hopeful with Trusty,Slimane,and Hamer. RND is now a big worry, prior to injury he was really starting to look promising I hope to hell we have some positive news soon. As we stand I’m struggling to see Coulibaly, McBurnie, Traore or Brewster making much of an impact Traore has youth on his side but from the matches so far he has lots of development needed.
The Championship guys are there as backup and in my mind to bring some degree of continuity to the squad, the spirit, traditions and relationships in the dressing room seem to be very good and the last thing we need to do now is lose this now. As we know key men have left and these guys have to fill that gap.
Youth represents hope and the future but the PL is a fearful place for kids to be learning their trade, we know they’ll make mistakes, are they good enough and resilient enough to grow into a role, time will tell.
What should we do in the remainder of the transfer window? I think we need another midfielder despite the recent signings, I would love to see Doyle return, McAtee would be great as well but I won’t be greedy and Doyle strikes me as more attainable and a better bet for the type of season we are likely to have. We desperately need at least one striker with experience and the ability to make an impact in attack, I haven’t a clue how we get a player like that working on our budget, Pellistri and Origi are in the rumours and quite frankly if they came off I’d be over the moon and pretty optimistic, it would also allow us to loan out at least a couple of he young strikers which is what needs to happen.
As we stand at the moment we all know we have one of the weakest/unproven squads in the league and It’ll be a bit of a miracle to finish 17th but I’m actually feeling positive, we always do better as underdogs, I bloody love it! It’s simple really GET BEHIND THE TEAM absolutely no room for negativity during any match.
He’s our striker, he’s our number 9 
