Mel Evo
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The fact of the matter is that we’ve got massive gaps up front right now. So we are objectively worse off than we were at the end of the season. It doesn’t really matter what you think of Sarabia, VP played him nearly every game and he made valuable contributions. Now we don’t have him and there is no replacement. The replacement isn’t someone already at the club. So that is very much that.It's not that I disagree with that, I suppose a large part of what I'm counting on is VP continuing to improve the players we have. Marshall got chucked in the deep end immediately and did pretty well (depending on who you ask, he's quite the marmite lad, as we know). I'm expecting more goals/assists from both him and Jørgen this season. Ditto for Jean; obviously have my biases but he just looks so much better in that shuttler #8 role next to André and João.
I'm genuinely more concerned about how we handle the fullback/wingback situation, which is pretty fucking dire if we consider both RAN and Semedo to be gone.
Now, even I think we will actually be replacing him and the other de facto gaps of Hwang (VP - you rate - doesn’t rate him) and Guedes. But until we do, we look, and are, worse. That’s before pontificating on Munetsi’s freaky role being worked out and JRBs ‘golden’ spell continuing. High tariff, both of them. We just clearly need some fckin players. Still time, but we need them.