Pre-season 25-26

[SSB]

Fiver well spent Jinky?

What’s the returns policy?

 

[Loki]

Jao playing with his nipper post match, highlight of the game.

 

[Lupo]

Vitor's face at FT...

 

[Jinky]

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”.

 

[jd1981]

the squad we have currently have with just 2 weeks to go is nothing short of a disgrace. We cannot even boast PL quality first 11.

 

[SSB]

Wonder if the Jota tribute cards can be reversible with a message to Fosun on the other side?

 

[AndyWolves]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930375859225145596

What a crock of shi t this was

 

[prawnking]

He'll be gone before Strictly starts

 

[Celtiña]

Made the rule: never pass the ball to Sa.

Buy a Defensive Mid Field (with good long pass).

Buy that two RWB-LWB, need it fast.

Buy one player to play in all positions of attack.

Try change the tactic, try 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 or another.


Arias---Larsen---Guedes
-----Gomes--Fer--------
----------Andre---------
Gomez-Totti-Abga-Doc
-----------Sa------------

Gomez-Doc-Guedes only temporary waiting the new players.

 

[jd1981]

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”.

Yep 4 additions leaves us still thread bare and totally reliant on no injuries.
Cannot emphasise enough how much of drop off in quality H.Bueno and Hoever are in comparison to RAN and Nelson.
The coaching staff know it and no doubt will want to upgrade those positions as priority.

 

[prawnking]

This is what happens when you have no decent succession planning at a club, but also won't fork out for first XI signings either.

Jeff's Third Way working like a charm

 

[Mel Evo]

Every chance of this being a repeat of preseason two years ago. Calamitous.

 

[Alan]

Arias---Larsen---Guedes
-----Gomes--Fer--------
----------Andre---------
Gomez-Totti-Abga-Doc
-----------Sa------------

I fucking wish

 

[Loki]

Do not understand it. We`ve only lost Semedo, Ait Nouri and Cuhna.

 

[AndyWolves]

We could just get Ryan Giles back for lwb

 

[Alan]

It's a glorified scrimmage; it would be nice to look better by now but it means almost nothing once the season starts.

That said, the wingbacks desperately need addressing, and we badly need another forward. Whoever calls the shots now, be it Shi, Teti, whoever; get your head out of your ass and start making phone calls. I still don't think we're going to be in real danger of relegation but it sure would be nice to do something that breaks the "we're just aiming for 17th" narrative.

 

[Celtiña]

I fucking wish

its because Francesco Totti...im sorry

 

[Wolftone]

Amazon Fire Stick - terrible quality
Can’t log in on TV Browser, gets stuck on verification that I am human
Phone and iPad, can’t make it full screen

Just some of Gary O'Neil's excuses

 

[jd1981]

It's a glorified scrimmage; it would be nice to look better by now but it means almost nothing once the season starts.

That said, the wingbacks desperately need addressing, and we badly need another forward. Whoever calls the shots now, be it Shi, Teti, whoever; get your head out of your ass and start making phone calls. I still don't think we're going to be in real danger of relegation but it sure would be nice to do something that breaks the "we're just aiming for 17th" narrative.

I think you’re in for a bit of shock come the autumn

 

[big mean bunny]

We lost the key starters but we also already had too weak a squad and bench considering how others use theres. In the latest era of bigger benches and amount of changes we were already behind, and we have so far made that worse heading into this season.

Even more frustrating is the manager highlighted this but still little progress seems to have been made.