If we want to improve our forward line yes. Especially at the level we want to compete at. If we are happy being mid table or lower European contenders then no.
Agree mate. I like Conor Gallagher, but I said at the time I didn't think he was a player that would make a big difference. Certainly not initially. Hopefully that will change.
I don't. Our defenders are leading the scoring because we score most of our goals direct from set pieces or from the second ball in immediately after a set piece, or when we're losing the game and leave a centre back up there in the final few minutes to try to hail mary an equaliser.
The midfielder is a good signing, in that he is a better number 8 than anyone else currently at the club.
No chance.... The only signings we'll make (which I think will be zero, unless the situation changes at Liverpool and we get Robertson) will be players who can come straight in and help us avoid relegation.
Except it’s the first time the net spend being zero has happened in a window since moving into the new stadium, isn’t it? Maybe with an exception in a Jan window in the peak of Covid under Jose, if memory serves?Mods - @DubaiSpur has hacked this account! Take action accordingly!!
Haha, only joking. Well, partially....you are now coming to the thinking that Dubai has detailed over many years
Tbh, i didn't disagree with Dubai before and i don;t disagree with your broad point about this window thus far
Sigh
I mostly agree with this, but VDV's goals are in the main, not last minute ones and the Romero's champions League goal was also early in the game. So I don't think what you're saying necessarily correlates. I do take your point about set pieces though. But We also do see VDV making marauding runs up the pitch given the chance.
I did see it but it related only to that game where it was obvious we were all over the place. Some of that down to Romero losing concentration or over committing. But also Frank was trying a new defensive formation which the players were clearly not accustomed to. Williams described scenarios that didn't lead to goals as well as how poor we were for the actual goals. The one that stuck in my mind was when we were running back completely out of our defensive shape. I think we are more open now than we were in those first few games so as a result we are conceding more goals. I am not saying we are effective in attack by the way. Just there has been a change since the start.
I agree but although I liked him at Palace where he was a relatively big fish in a small pond, I wasn't overly sold on him at Chelsea. It's telling that Chelsea sold him despite him being their captain (yes I get the PSR implications around that sale). I don't think they sell players they think have the potential to be really good in the future. I must say though, I've not followed him at Atletico so can't say if he has developed other sides of his game.
Well he did say how difficult it was to get player 'trading' done in January. He seems to be a man of his word!
Also doesn't help that the manager is hanging on to his job by a thread. He probably doesn't feel confident to go and demand players the way that (say) Redknapp would right now.
