Fabian Schär

[TBG]

More goals than Jude Bellingham in cup games this season

 

 

 

[Ben]

If he wants it, we have to give him at least another 1 year contract 

[alexf]

Offensively he's still one of the best around for a CB.

 

Legs have definitely gone from a defensive point of view. Pretty much every game now he's sliding in for stuff and not getting there anymore. It's the classic thing of he body not performing as your head thinks it still can. 

 

If we leave him and Burn exposed with careless passing like Osula tonight and Barnes did in that Brentford away game then it's going to be a goal near enough everytime unfortunately.

 

However I feel sorry for both Burn and Schar in that the club have unfortunately left Eddie short of options and the old boys need to play every min of every game and generally have played well when not exposed. 

 

But we do need to give them protection because pace is a real issue for us if not.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 00:31 by alexf

[Heron]

2 minutes ago, alexf said:

Offensively he's still one of the best around for a CB.

 

Legs have definitely gone from a defensive point of view. Pretty much every game now he's sliding in for stuff and not getting there anymore. It's the classic thing of he body not performing as your head thinks it still can. 

 

If we leave him and Burn exposed with careless passing like Osula tonight and Barnes did in that Brentford away game then it's going to be a goal near enough everytime unfortunately.

 

However I feel sorry for both Burn and Schar in that the club have unfortunately left Eddie short of options and the old boys need to play every min of every game and generally have played well when not exposed. 

 

But we do need to give them protection because pace is a real issue for us if not.

 

 

 

Fair but it's not the club. It's PSR/FFP and the PL.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 00:33 by Heron

[alexf]

1 minute ago, Heron said:

Fair but it's not the club. It's PSR and the PL.

I know 100%, but from the perspective tha the rules were set in place. It's not too unkind to suggest our recruitment for building the squad has left us short in some areas.

 

We knew Botman and Lascelles were long term injuries way in advance of the summer window. Granted we tried to get that Tosin guy who went to Chelsea and then picked up Kelly before throwing all our eggs in the Guehi basket. So I guess they tried, but it doesn't excuse the fact they failed.

 

Perhaps they expected Kelly to be better than he has shown. None the less even then, just having 3 fit senior CBs in the squad when two of them are around 32+ I think was too risky. We're already a little screwed by the fact Schar is now out of the 1st leg of the cup and I believe is 1 booking away from a league suspension also.

[Heron]

1 minute ago, alexf said:

I know 100%, but from the perspective tha the rules were set in place. It's not too unkind to suggest our recruitment for building the squad has left us short in some areas.

 

We knew Botman and Lascelles were long term injuries way in advance of the summer window. Granted we tried to get that Tosin guy who went to Chelsea and then picked up Kelly before throwing all our eggs in the Guehi basket. So I guess they tried, but it doesn't excuse the fact they failed.

 

Perhaps they expected Kelly to be better than he has shown. None the less even then, just having 3 fit senior CBs in the squad when two of them are around 32+ I think was too risky. We're already a little screwed by the fact Schar is now out of the 1st leg of the cup and I believe is 1 booking away from a league suspension also.

Botman might be back soon and whilst it's naive I think we can survive.

 

I think when you read opinions across the board in here it's generally RW and CF that folk thought we needed to bolster. We simply couldn't afford 2 upgrades to our first 11 let alone 3. Granted we got 0.

 

Us signing Guehi and getting a fine tune out of him would have set out back four up for a decade imo. But we base our football on attacking it would seem. The main thing stopping us above all else is our incapbility to spend what we have not our transfer policy imo. All of the signings made have been good and sensible and Howe has proven it.

 

We've been hamstrung by corrupt governing bodies and their minions.

[alexf]

I know I try not to think about it as it's so infuriating. You're right, no matter which position we strengthened, we would still have been short in 2/3 of the other positions needed. The fact we got 0/3, unless you count Osula, just made things all the more frustrating, especially whilst also losing a potential up and coming first team RW in Minteh. 

 

I really hope we can do something in January and manoeuvre some of the deadwood just to give the squad a lift going into the remainder of the season. 🤞

[PauloGeordio]

🥳🎉🎂🎈3 million! 😂