Shearergol Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I'm 100% more concerned that we still have the same midfielders playing than I am about our central defenders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Just now, Shearergol said: I'm 100% more concerned that we still have the same midfielders playing than I am about our central defenders. Same. Especially considering Howe insists on playing a formation suited to pressing, but we don't actually have a single midfielder who does it well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza ladra Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Just now, TRon said: Same. Especially considering Howe insists on playing a formation suited to pressing, but we don't actually have a single midfielder who does it well. Joelinton does it fine, and has been used as a midfielder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Just now, gazza ladra said: Joelinton does it fine, and has been used as a midfielder. That says it all really, a guy we bought as a centre forward is better at it than any of our specialist midfielders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Biggsbond14 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 minute ago, gazza ladra said: Joelinton does it fine, and has been used as a midfielder. Example of said pressing success ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 15 minutes ago, Chris_R said: By "someone like Schar", you mean Clark, right? Well he’d be the preference but I don’t see us having many takers whereas Schar will have some decent European clubs interested you’d think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonBez comesock Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I wonder if we could pinch Armando Broja from Chelsea ? Currently on loan at Southampton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, Shearergol said: I'm 100% more concerned that we still have the same midfielders playing than I am about our central defenders. Agreed, a centre back would fix a problem, a defensive midfielder would be potentially transformational. Fingers crossed its next on the list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLvOR Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 My worry is that so far, we've been very public with what we're doing. We've always had an idea of who's coming in, be it player or manager. There's not been a lot of talk about CMs or, more importantly CDMs, unless I've missed something concrete. I really hope we can have someone in before Leeds, because that would be transformational as you say, @The Prophet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonjam88 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 20 minutes ago, Shearergol said: I'm 100% more concerned that we still have the same midfielders playing than I am about our central defenders. Definitely. Even if we get 2 centre half’s and another striker it’s no good having a weak as piss central midfield Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I think we are going for defenders first, then midfielders, Wood was a priority signing due to Wilson being out. We badly need a competent DCM and maybe even an attacking midfielder too, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 minute ago, Toonjam88 said: Definitely. Even if we get 2 centre half’s and another striker it’s no good having a weak as piss central midfield It’s by far our weakest area, it effects us defensively and offensively and in a negative way, address that and the defence improves and so does the attack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Ikon said: Of the CB's we've been linked with/bid for then my favorite duo would be Badiashile and Carlos. I prefer Badiashile to Botman. Doubt either will happen. Think Milenkovic is an alternative to Carlos, and I may prefer Milenkovic as he is younger and a big time prospect too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, SiLvOR said: My worry is that so far, we've been very public with what we're doing. We've always had an idea of who's coming in, be it player or manager. There's not been a lot of talk about CMs or, more importantly CDMs, unless I've missed something concrete. I really hope we can have someone in before Leeds, because that would be transformational as you say, @The Prophet Kamara, Fofana, Haidara, Van de Beek, Sangare, Nunes, Guimaraes, Gerson, Zakaria, Berge, Veretout all been linked for midfield. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 17 minutes ago, SiLvOR said: My worry is that so far, we've been very public with what we're doing. We've always had an idea of who's coming in, be it player or manager. There's not been a lot of talk about CMs or, more importantly CDMs, unless I've missed something concrete. I really hope we can have someone in before Leeds, because that would be transformational as you say, @The Prophet I'd challenge that a little. All we can really say is that we've been very public about the things we've heard about. It's kinda hard to hear much about the non-public things we may have done, because by definition they've not been made public. There might be loads of things we've just never heard about. Also who knows why things leak? It's not necessarily us being public about things, indeed we have no vested interest in making anything public. Agents and selling clubs have far more to gain by publicising deals because they could potentially draw in other suitors who will pay the club or their player more. We gain by keeping things private. So I doubt that any of the publicity around any of our deals have been even remotely our doing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 13 minutes ago, KaKa said: Think Milenkovic is an alternative to Carlos, and I may prefer Milenkovic as he is younger and a big time prospect too. Milenkovic excites me a lot, from the little I've seen. I'd love to see him come. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awaymag Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Think result on Saturday, could be key to getting more through the door. Win on Saturday and I think more players will be up for coming Lose on Saturday and its likely players will think we are odds on to get relegated and unlikely to come. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 “It doesn’t surprise me that they (Newcastle) think of him,” says Bruggink, a former Netherlands international who won three Eredivisie titles at PSV between 2000 and 2003. Ibrahim Sangare. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLvOR Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Fair enough lads, @KaKa @Chris_R, just anxious and want our shite team overhauled ASAP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toon No9 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I think Milenkovic would be a good signing. A central defence of him and Botman could be very good for years to come. And maybe it would be easier to get Vlahovic in the summer. Bet they are good friends as they're both serbian and plays for Fiorentina. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 (edited) I'm as desperate as anyone about getting new players in. I feel more at ease now though because we have a striker to start against Watford at least. It's so much better than nothing. Ideally I would have liked more obviously. Thing is that even though we're desperate to strengthen our team we also set the tone for the future with our spending now. People say just pay this and that. IF we paid up straight away, after being held to ransom., but we pay it anyway because we can then that would send out the signals for other clubs that they can basically ask for whatever in the future. We can't just think short term, as it would also hurt us long term. We have to be ambitious, but not reckless. Have to show other clubs that we aren't gonna play ut their way, or the media's way. Edited January 14, 2022 by Ikon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I'm not that at ease myself like. We're essentially one right back up from where we were before Manchester United. We've maybe managed to get someone equal to Wilson (not convinced myself yet) but the rest of our defence and midfield remains the same. Trippier alone does not fix much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 "more at ease" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 More at ease than before we signed Wood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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