Only expecting a few more before the deadline now. Squad almost complete...
It would unfortunately give a lot of credence to those going against Sandgaard recently from a budget perspective. We've got rid of high wages in Watson, Leko, Arter, Gunter, Pearce, Washington & Souare and replaced them with mostly League Two or bottom half League One players. I'm all for poaching the best of League Two but it hardly screams top six budget to me this year.
Only expecting a few more before the deadline now. Squad almost complete...
It would unfortunately give a lot of credence to those going against Sandgaard recently from a budget perspective. We've got rid of high wages in Watson, Leko, Arter, Gunter, Pearce, Washington & Souare and replaced them with mostly League Two or bottom half League One players. I'm all for poaching the best of League Two but it hardly screams top six budget to me this year.
Let's wait and see. Was told to me "a few" but not in the next few weeks as it stands. Any one that moves on will of course add to that number. I am positive about next season. Think youth will be given a chance too which isn't a bad thing.
Thats 72, appreciate some are generous (Aneke/CBT/own goals) assuming we do sign another winger/forward he needs goals in him.
Same sort of figures were bandied about last season & after the strikers the next best was 3 goals.......and that was Purrington. So unless there is a big change in either personnel or tactics I dont see the midfield chipping in with 24 goals !
Fraser, JFC, Kirk, McGrandles all playing this season that weren’t last season, surely 4 new midfielders counts as big change in personnel?
Agree but apart from Fraser I'm not sure I can see the others chipping in many goals between them.
Kirk more likely to get most from open play (based on history).
We definitely need another goal scoring midfielder. Whatever we play we are going 3 in the middle. We simply cannot go into the season with 5 of them lacking goals to their game. For me Jack Payne makes so much sense. He’s free, plays the style we will be playing and can play with or replace Fraser.
Only expecting a few more before the deadline now. Squad almost complete...
It would unfortunately give a lot of credence to those going against Sandgaard recently from a budget perspective. We've got rid of high wages in Watson, Leko, Arter, Gunter, Pearce, Washington & Souare and replaced them with mostly League Two or bottom half League One players. I'm all for poaching the best of League Two but it hardly screams top six budget to me this year.
Only expecting a few more before the deadline now. Squad almost complete...
It would unfortunately give a lot of credence to those going against Sandgaard recently from a budget perspective. We've got rid of high wages in Watson, Leko, Arter, Gunter, Pearce, Washington & Souare and replaced them with mostly League Two or bottom half League One players. I'm all for poaching the best of League Two but it hardly screams top six budget to me this year.
Let's wait and see. Was told to me "a few" but not in the next few weeks as it stands. Any one that moves on will of course add to that number. I am positive about next season. Think youth will be given a chance too which isn't a bad thing.
True, I'm more optimistic this year, sometimes a manager and a philosophy is better than just signing players. That said, it's a huge error in judgement to expect to spend 1/3 of what Derby and Sheffield are on wages/proven players and perform better than them. If Sandgaard does end up exclusively signing lower league/loan players and it doesn't work out, what his gameplan would be next year. I don't think most of the fanbase would stand for it tbh.
We simply can’t go in to a season with those 3 strikers. Can’t rely on Aneke to play more than an hour a week and Davison just isn’t good enough. If Stockey get injured, we are £ucked. Hopefully Kanu will break though, but we need at least one more striker.
That still looks pretty weak. Bare minimum we need an out and out LB who can play wing- back, LCB, goal scoring CM, winger and striker. Appreciate Morgan/Gilbey and Davison leaving determines that.
Only expecting a few more before the deadline now. Squad almost complete...
It would unfortunately give a lot of credence to those going against Sandgaard recently from a budget perspective. We've got rid of high wages in Watson, Leko, Arter, Gunter, Pearce, Washington & Souare and replaced them with mostly League Two or bottom half League One players. I'm all for poaching the best of League Two but it hardly screams top six budget to me this year.
We’ve just finished mid div.3, what players are we going to get?, would you prefer the pick of possible up and coming lower league or the worst of the championship players? I think the recruitment team have a plan and a budget and seem to be implementing it. So far so good but as I’ve said all along, no final judgement from me until the season starts.
Thing is we’re not probably not going to get another full-back, winger and 2 strikers if we’re playing 352. Otherwise we’ve got far too many players down the flank. If it’s 433 we defo need a winger and full back but only 3 strikers. If it’s 352 we probably need 2 new strikers but not a winger.
Thing is we’re not probably not going to get another full-back, winger and 2 strikers if we’re playing 352. Otherwise we’ve got far too many players down the flank. If it’s 433 we defo need a winger and full back but only 3 strikers. If it’s 352 we probably need 2 new strikers but not a winger.
Garner used both at Swindon, hopefully he has a main formation in mind but we're also building a squad to give us good options for playing either.
Thing is we’re not probably not going to get another full-back, winger and 2 strikers if we’re playing 352. Otherwise we’ve got far too many players down the flank. If it’s 433 we defo need a winger and full back but only 3 strikers. If it’s 352 we probably need 2 new strikers but not a winger.
Garner used both at Swindon, hopefully he has a main formation in mind but we're also building a squad to give us good options for playing either.
Agreed but then it’s tough to determine the final squad. You wouldn’t want 4 strikers if 433 is the main formation for instance
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Another striker and winger seem the obvious gaps. Left back too if they intend to loan Clayden out.
Still wouldn't surprise me if any of MacGillivray, Morgan, Gilbey, Kirk or Davison move on.
Would guess they see the squad something like this:
GK: Wollacott, MacGillivray
RB: Egbo, Clare
CB: O'Connell, Lavelle, Inniss, Elerewe
LB: Sessengnon, Clayden
DM: Dobson, Forster-Caskey
CM: McGrandles, Fraser, Morgan, Gilbey
W: Jaiyesimi, Blackett-Taylor, Kirk
ST: Stockley, Aneke, Davison
if it goes the other way we will miss out on the top targets/replacements
IMO we are now at about the stage we finished the 2020/21 season.
Starting LCB as I don’t feel lavelle or inniss are good enough to play out from the back
natural LB
a winger to challenge both Kirk and CBT (always gets injured at some point )
2x strikers, Davison is quite simply not good enough to even be considered a 3rd choice back up striker…. If he is, then lord help us
IMO we still need at least 5 players, in terms of quality/suitability.
The worst bit is we need a striker, winger and midfielder that have got about 30 goals between them.....
Chill Winston!