Craig Ward
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We have a massive re-building job, no doubt about it.
I'm curious with some of the names we are being linked with, the De Light/Dybala/Griezmann links and the like.
I think we need to be smarter with our signings and try and avoid big money "stars" as we have been burnt more than had success with such signings. For me, we need to firstly sign good players but look at the personality/workrate side of things to accompany that.
Matic was a good signing, technically good and a grafter. He's aged and declined, but our midfield has been weak for some time and he's not been the sole problem in our midfield. An example of a PL proven player signing. Of course, for every good signing there are bad, see Sanchez.
People slammed me when I said we should be in for Aaron Ramsey for example but think how his energy/workrate would impact on our midfield which is static and lazy even with the talent of Pogba. It would have been massive.
I think there are plenty of players already in the PL who we may not necessarily consider but would improve our squad.
Some names:
Rudiger - strong commanding style CB. Wins most of his duels.
Torreira - DM role / technically good. Has that winning mentality.
Rice - DM/CM role. Is a big talent (has been mentioned already)
Soares - Decent option at RB, has been Portugal's no1 for some time and would be better than Young. Good rotation/squad option with Dalot
The links with Longstaff/James make sense to me, players who are young, talented and Ole can work with. There is lots of talent in the PL, the lad from Wolves (Gibbs-White) and Maddison from Leicester all have great potential.
Improving players by coaching is our best route back to challenging for top 4/higher for me.
Likes of Young/Mata/Jones/Smalling/Sanchez/Darmian/Lingard/Rojo are extremely unlikely to improve any further, despite how well coached they are. Squad needs work, that much we know.
I'm obviously not against signing from abroad, likes of Bruno Fernandes looks good, but can see some talent here in our own league that might be worth considering in additional to the foreign market.
Any thoughts?
Any other names from the PL that we should be looking at?
I'm curious with some of the names we are being linked with, the De Light/Dybala/Griezmann links and the like.
I think we need to be smarter with our signings and try and avoid big money "stars" as we have been burnt more than had success with such signings. For me, we need to firstly sign good players but look at the personality/workrate side of things to accompany that.
Matic was a good signing, technically good and a grafter. He's aged and declined, but our midfield has been weak for some time and he's not been the sole problem in our midfield. An example of a PL proven player signing. Of course, for every good signing there are bad, see Sanchez.
People slammed me when I said we should be in for Aaron Ramsey for example but think how his energy/workrate would impact on our midfield which is static and lazy even with the talent of Pogba. It would have been massive.
I think there are plenty of players already in the PL who we may not necessarily consider but would improve our squad.
Some names:
Rudiger - strong commanding style CB. Wins most of his duels.
Torreira - DM role / technically good. Has that winning mentality.
Rice - DM/CM role. Is a big talent (has been mentioned already)
Soares - Decent option at RB, has been Portugal's no1 for some time and would be better than Young. Good rotation/squad option with Dalot
The links with Longstaff/James make sense to me, players who are young, talented and Ole can work with. There is lots of talent in the PL, the lad from Wolves (Gibbs-White) and Maddison from Leicester all have great potential.
Improving players by coaching is our best route back to challenging for top 4/higher for me.
Likes of Young/Mata/Jones/Smalling/Sanchez/Darmian/Lingard/Rojo are extremely unlikely to improve any further, despite how well coached they are. Squad needs work, that much we know.
I'm obviously not against signing from abroad, likes of Bruno Fernandes looks good, but can see some talent here in our own league that might be worth considering in additional to the foreign market.
Any thoughts?
Any other names from the PL that we should be looking at?