27-06-2023, 08:45 AM
(27-06-2023, 08:31 AM)mikey393 Wrote:(27-06-2023, 07:32 AM)blueandwight Wrote: It's beginning to look a bit like 'same old same old' to me.
On the plus side they've done some early business but if these players were first choices there is a frightening lack of ambition in my view. Other than the keeper they all look like squad players to me filling holes left by a dozen or so departures and I don't see any going straight into a starting eleven other than possibly Scully and maybe Shaughnessy.
At least we're consistent by bringing two players who were out injured for the best part of last season. That doesn't necessarily make them injury prone but there must be an inherent risk.
The Irish kid is a huge gamble but lets hope this one comes off; it'd be nice.
As they say rumours are rumours but the pattern/response to these rumours is very predictable inasmuch as there is some qualified interest then other clubs join in the hunt and we immediately drop out.
Apparently Bernard wants 'to consider his options'...well we should know from experience what that is likely to mean and there is reported interested from a Championship club in the Portsmouth born Accrington kid and we know how that type of scenario normally works out with us being outbid and/or better wages. Whyte? Well who knows but last season he didn't exactly tear up any trees with a very poor Cardiff side.
Still time is on our side but I think we desperately need a no.10, two strikers and another keeper. I feel Jon Harley will need to come up with at least two half decent loan signings from Chelsea.
Question is when are we going to se evidence of the increased playing budget promised by Eisner because my guess is that the business done so far should have cost us next to bugger all.
Good summing up for our current position. We've acquired a lot of bench warmers but No head turners. I like the owner who seems like a genuine nice guy but still doesn't understand English Football. He now appears to be totally reliant on RH who did acquire 2 good players end of last year but this is a far harder total team rebuilding task. But what experience has he really had of being a DOF. Forrest Green Rovers who nobody had heard of 2 years ago but somehow managed to get in to Div 1 last year but got instantly relegated.
Unless we sign a couple of decent contract players & a couple of loans - agree about Chelsea using JH connections we could struggle.
I know I'm biased but think we should have kept Michael Jacobs for another year & played him in the No.10 role. Good creative players cost money & it doesn't look like we're prepared to spend it!
I really don’t understand all this negativity when you haven’t seen the current team play and a ball hasn’t even been kicked. As we all know, football is played on the pitch not on paper. The art of management is to create a team from a bunch of individuals, you have to get the chemistry right. There are countless examples of teams consisting of players who were not previously household names confounding the pessimists. There are also countless examples of teams who have spent big on ‘name’ players who have failed miserably.
As for Jacobs, if he was a good as you appear to think he is he’d be a regular in a Championship team. He isn’t because, despite having ability, he just doesn’t possess the ability to stamp himself on games.
Let’s have a bit of optimism lads ffs.