Ash10
Chairman of the Bum Brigade
The thing you misunderstand is that we didn’t replace Ramsey, we replaced Cazorla with Cabellos.Ceballos for Ramsey . . . probably weakens us and he’s only on loan. Saliba is for the future and doesn’t figure this year. And young Martinelli is bit of a punt and might be better than our own youth forwards. So I’m discounting those for this season in terms of improving our team.
So where is the upgrade on last season . . Pepe. He strengthens our front line, but we scored 73 goals last season more than Sp**s and Chelsea. It wasn’t our problem. Will he help our attack and be an upgrade on Iwobi, Mkhi . . he should be, he’s a proper winger but as yet unproven in the Prem and may take a while to bed in. He’ll add some balance for sure. All will revealed.
But wondering who in our management watched the team last season and thought, “You know what, our captain wants to leave, Mustafi is a mess, Sokratis is very rash, Holding has had a major injury, Kola is a terrible defender, Mavropanos is always injured, Chambers is 24 and hasn’t broken through yet . . . So let’s buy a winger and an 18yr old forward’.
Unless we buy a CB and LB, this window is a 5 at best. Liverpool invested heavily in a tried and tested EPL CB and it paid off. United have done the same this season. Both having problems with their defences. We’ve bought a winger.
As for our attack, we basically had two guys who scored or else we wouldn’t . There was no width, no pace whatsoever. Predictable, easy to defend.
As for CB, if you rate Mcguire as a great CB then nobody should take your opinion seriously.
There's no VVD to buy out there. Rather improve the attack which you can convincingly than to waste money on some above average CB.