Biggest Takeaway - Faster players!

[alcoblade]

Yeah course thay have !

Come on then Frank too long, explain why not?

 

[Frank the tank]

Come on then Frank too long, explain why not?

Please dont talk about my schlong !

 

[alcoblade]

Please dont talk about my schlong !

It was more a reference to you being left wing version of a low IQ member rather than a long one, but I’ll give you a

 

[robbiez666]

I doubt we can afford to sign players good enough to step up to the PL in this window. We’ll have the same problem next season if we go up as we did last time and, in my opinion, it’s pretty unavoidable. It’s more important that we get up than worry about what would happen if we did. Every club that doesn’t have an owner willing and able to invest money in the team when they go up will have the same problem.

The money a club gets from the PL alone is not enough to guarantee survival. It’s like you’ve moved from a country with a weak currency to one with a strong one. All of a sudden, a pint is £50 in your money. We have an immediate problem; we will not get promoted unless we strengthen - McBurnie can’t do it on his own, Sharp is not a promotion winning centre forward, Brewster is MIA and has yet to demonstrate he can play well consistently and Jebbo is a kid learning his trade. At the very least, we need another forward. Surely last night showed this?

IMO, you deal with the problems you’ve got, rather than get hung up over problems you might have later, because if you don’t do the first, the second is unlikely to be a problem.

Forest's approach is probably the example to follow with recruitment, but we'd need far less.

 

[BushBlade]

Forest's approach is probably the example to follow with recruitment, but we'd need far less.

I’m not sure how they’ve got round FFP. I can only assume they haven’t paid any of the fees in full and anticipate paying off the remainder by selling the players they don’t want to keep at the end of the season.

 

[robbiez666]

I’m not sure how they’ve got round FFP. I can only assume they haven’t paid any of the fees in full and anticipate paying off the remainder by selling the players they don’t want to keep at the end of the season.

I have no idea how it works for promoted teams.

 

[BushBlade]

I have no idea how it works for promoted teams.

I think they’re allowed to overspend by £40m a season. I remember reading it last season.

 

[Charlieblade]

I wrote last season that we were not ready for promotion, and I got pelters for it. PH proved me wrong when he nearly got us up through the play offs. Fans told me that we would be better off financially if promoted, and that was me told.
Wilder splashed the cash and did well in season one in the PL. The Prince backed him with big money signings that were meant to protect us if we got relegated.
It didn’t work. Most fans pointed loudly to a lack of goals from our six strikers. Sharp was brilliant, McGoldrick wasn’t, and McBurnie couldn’t score in a brothel, plus Mousett couldn’t get past half time.

The defence picked itself and the midfield included a bloke who didn’t want a new contract but never got dropped. Callum Robinson didn’t fit and Bogle and Lowe were a waste of money. Burke was quick and well built but he had no football neurons.

Some fans seem to think that 75 - 80% need to move on if we get promoted this season. Others think Norwood deserves another crack at the EPL, and some believe Berge and Brewster will never come good! Who knows? It really is anyone’s guess if we get one or more seasons at the top, even if we do get promoted.

The goal problem has gone. Ndiaye and McBurnie got 9 each and the other half of our goals come from all over the squad. (What changed).

Bottom line is, there is no easy way to stay up if we get there. I think Forest will find their solution takes too long to reach maturity. Maybe Wilder got it right by accident or design? Maybe Fallowfield has the answer, although I doubt it.

I understand the call for additions in JTW, but I honestly believe we can do it without. A couple of loans would be nice, but not essential with this squad.

My view is that it takes time and incremental additions to get it right, or you play turgid boring Dyche style football for ever and just manage to avoid relegation most seasons.

I’m an optimist, so I think we will get promoted this season. I started following the Blades when John Harris was the manager, so I have lived through a few disappointments too.

Ndiaye and Ahmedhodzic are this seasons gifts for the future, if we can add two more of the same calibre ext year, we can build the team around them and secure EPL longevity.

Softly softly catchee monkey!

 

[jt64]

The defence picked itself and the midfield included a bloke who didn’t want a new contract but never got dropped

Wait, are you seriously suggesting that Wilder should have not picked what he considered his best team for any given game because United are not offering a given player within that XI terms which the player finds acceptable, or that said player thinks he can find better terms elsewhere? What nonsense. Do you think that Klopp ever thought for one minute "well, I have the best striker in the league, possibly the world, but I'd better leave Lewandowski out of the side because he's intending to move to Bayern"?

 

[Charlieblade]

Wait, are you seriously suggesting that Wilder should have not picked what he considered his best team for any given game because United are not offering a given player within that XI terms which the player finds acceptable, or that said player thinks he can find better terms elsewhere? What nonsense. Do you think that Klopp ever thought for one minute "well, I have the best striker in the league, possibly the world, but I'd better leave Lewandowski out of the side because he's intending to move to Bayern"?

I was referring to the debacle over Lundstram. But I’m sure you knew that, despite the rather odd obfuscation.

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

Wait, are you seriously suggesting that Wilder should have not picked what he considered his best team for any given game because United are not offering a given player within that XI terms which the player finds acceptable, or that said player thinks he can find better terms elsewhere? What nonsense. Do you think that Klopp ever thought for one minute "well, I have the best striker in the league, possibly the world, but I'd better leave Lewandowski out of the side because he's intending to move to Bayern"?

He should have dropped him when it became apparent he wasn't putting in the requisite effort! I'd go as far as saying Lundstram is one of the biggest differences between the two PL seasons. Bigger than the loss of JOC. He was a shadow of himself that second season!!

And on that point, that's the exact type of player we'll be needing next season. A lung busting, tackling terrier who enables the likes of Norwood to focus on what he does by covering every blade of grass...

If we can find potentials now rather than wait til the summer, it would enable us/them to be better prepared for next season. If we know what we need, waiting til the summer seems a bit pointless to me...

 

[jt64]

He should have dropped him when it became apparent he wasn't putting in the requisite effort!

That's a different argument altogether though

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

That's a different argument altogether though

Not even an argument really. Only one person knows why he did it, and ultimately it cost him his job (and arguably his career)