Pre-season 25-26
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Del Woppio
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#pennyhasdropped
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Let’s be honest (yes, I know it’s pre-season) - our starting 11 is weak and didn’t look great in that first half. We barely created anything and looked pretty poor across the park. We’ve since made a load of changes and looked even worse. But we all know the back ups aren’t good enough and this is only proving that further. And Lens made 10 changes themselves at half time!
Vítor has really, REALLY got his work cut out.
Vítor has really, REALLY got his work cut out.
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Yeah. I’d say hopefully a wake up call but Jeff and co will just meander on until shit hits the fan
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And then the answer will be vitor getting the boot, because obviously it’s all his fault
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Id take brownhill coming into the squad right now
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To summarise.
Goalkeepers:
Sa - fine.
Bentley/Johnstone/King - at best, third choice. Two need to leave and another legitimate signing needs to come in to be second choice.
Full/wing backs:
Hugo B. Hoever. Rodrigo. Lima. All 4 are only good enough to be back ups. That means two starting 11 players need to be signed.
Centre backs:
Agba. Toti. Fine.
Doc. Ok, but you wouldn’t want him to be first choice long term.
Yerson. Jury is out on his fitness.
Santi only good enough to be a back up.
Central midfield:
Andre/Joao Gomes - fine.
Munetsi/Bellegarde - neither good enough to play central midfield and neither are long term options in the wide forward roles. Squad players.
Forwards:
JSL/Lopez - fine.
Arias - assume he will be fine, but anyone’s guess.
Sasa/Hwang/Guedes - combination of not good enough, need to prove fitness or will be sold.
So to put it in the cold light of day, our entire mens first team squad has 7 - at a push 9, premier league quality players. After that, the drop off is huge.
It’s an absolute scandal that Fosun have left Vítor in this position - and the funniest bit is, we’ve all seen it happen before. “The penny has dropped”.
Goalkeepers:
Sa - fine.
Bentley/Johnstone/King - at best, third choice. Two need to leave and another legitimate signing needs to come in to be second choice.
Full/wing backs:
Hugo B. Hoever. Rodrigo. Lima. All 4 are only good enough to be back ups. That means two starting 11 players need to be signed.
Centre backs:
Agba. Toti. Fine.
Doc. Ok, but you wouldn’t want him to be first choice long term.
Yerson. Jury is out on his fitness.
Santi only good enough to be a back up.
Central midfield:
Andre/Joao Gomes - fine.
Munetsi/Bellegarde - neither good enough to play central midfield and neither are long term options in the wide forward roles. Squad players.
Forwards:
JSL/Lopez - fine.
Arias - assume he will be fine, but anyone’s guess.
Sasa/Hwang/Guedes - combination of not good enough, need to prove fitness or will be sold.
So to put it in the cold light of day, our entire mens first team squad has 7 - at a push 9, premier league quality players. After that, the drop off is huge.
It’s an absolute scandal that Fosun have left Vítor in this position - and the funniest bit is, we’ve all seen it happen before. “The penny has dropped”.
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