Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

[Gazza]

If it's quite obvious. You'd understand why buying 18 year olds was more important than buying ready made players.

You'd also remember the last few windows we did bring in ready made players.

It’s quite obvious we are still lacking ready made players for the here and now, regardless of what transfer window you wish to go back in time with.

Yes there is a need to buy young players if they have potential. But it’s not what the team needs currently.

 

[Lilbaz]

It’s quite obvious we are still lacking ready made players for the here and now, regardless of what transfer window you wish to go back in time with.

Yes there is a need to buy young players if they have potential. But it’s not what the team needs currently.

We have no club trained players. We had to address that otherwise in europe our squad is limited. Solanke, maddison, werner, johnson etc... brought in the last season. 3 of those homegrown as we also needed hg players. Buying ready made foreign players is pointless if we are unable to use them due to pl and uefa rules.

The space in the squad left by kane, skipp and winks could only be filled with clubtrained or 18 year olds.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

We have no club trained players. We had to address that otherwise in europe our squad is limited. Solanke, maddison, werner, johnson etc... brought in the last season. 3 of those homegrown as we also needed hg players. Buying ready made foreign players is pointless if we are unable to use them due to pl and uefa rules.

The space in the squad left by kane, skipp and winks could only be filled with clubtrained or 18 year olds.

It’s been a fudging huge issue and will be for the next 18 months in reality
We do need more react made players but we also have the trade off of HG and club trained rightly as you say
We need more players that Ange will play though because he is flogging a dead horse with some

 

[Muttley]

We have no club trained players. We had to address that otherwise in europe our squad is limited. Solanke, maddison, werner, johnson etc... brought in the last season. 3 of those homegrown as we also needed hg players. Buying ready made foreign players is pointless if we are unable to use them due to pl and uefa rules.

The space in the squad left by kane, skipp and winks could only be filled with clubtrained or 18 year olds.

I actually think we'll be OK. It would surprise me if we managed a top 4 space so realistically any UEFA football would be EL/ECL. Our squad is as big as we want it to be in that competition. This year we could have had Devine, Donley, Scarlett, Keeley, Abbott and Craig to really beef up that squad but we chose not to. We also lost Dorrington at the key time because of his injury recovery, whilst Phillips hadn't completed 2 years so we loaned him out. Next season, the only two on that list that we can't include in the EL B-list is Josh Keeley and Matthew Craig because they are 21 and become club trained. Then you have more youngsters like Lanks, Moore, Olusesi, Hardy and Williams-Barnett.

I think it depends whether a lot of these players get second year loans or start to become integrated into Ange's setup. Numerically, we can be so well stacked for a EL campaign. If we get in CL, I think that is a different proposition.

You are right in that we have no senior, experienced club trained players though. That can only be solved by buying back Winks, Cirkin, KWP, Edwards etc. I'm not a fan of that. I would rather continue as we are.

 

[Lilbaz]

I actually think we'll be OK. It would surprise me if we managed a top 4 space so realistically any UEFA football would be EL/ECL. Our squad is as big as we want it to be in that competition. This year we could have had Devine, Donley, Scarlett, Keeley, Abbott and Craig to really beef up that squad but we chose not to. We also lost Dorrington at the key time because of his injury recovery, whilst Phillips hadn't completed 2 years so we loaned him out. Next season, the only two on that list that we can't include in the EL B-list is Josh Keeley and Matthew Craig because they are 21 and become club trained. Then you have more youngsters like Lanks, Moore, Olusesi, Hardy and Williams-Barnett.

I think it depends whether a lot of these players get second year loans or start to become integrated into Ange's setup. Numerically, we can be so well stacked for a EL campaign. If we get in CL, I think that is a different proposition.

You are right in that we have no senior, experienced club trained players though. That can only be solved by buying back Winks, Cirkin, KWP, Edwards etc. I'm not a fan of that. I would rather continue as we are.

We also have to give the youngsters gametime to develop. Or they'll leave.

It's a balancing act.