Eaves should've scored at least 9 or 10 in that season in League 1. Even Magennis got 18 and Wilks got 19.
Norwegian defensive midfielder Sondre Tronstad signs for Blackburn on a three-year deal after his contract expired at Vitesse. But players from the Dutch league aren't suited for English football. Blackburn should've scouted the Humber Prem instead.
Where do we sit 'moving forward'? There's been loads of names getting thrown around throughout this thread(a fair few ranging in price from £2-£7 million from memory),but little or no mention of any figures budgetwise. My understanding was and still is that there's not a lot of money in the pot and we'd be looking at free's and loans unless we sell? The majority of discussion seems to revolve around foreign players as well,but surely most would agree we need to dig out a couple of British players who have done a bit at this level? If Rosenior is seeking 'robust' signings then surely players who have already spent a bit of time in the Championship fit that category...This League looks tougher to me this season and on top of the teams that came down we have teams who narrowly missed out in the play-offs,if they invest to go one step further then we need to also,otherwise we're bottom half again? In my view the teams not strong enough and lack of serious investment would see us as also-rans again...
Oscar has the exact same issue though. On paper we've got a good squad but in reality we've played an entire season with a chronic shortage of available attacking players, and as a result we didn't create many chances all season. I think it was an achievement to score 13 in this side.
As the rumours persist on Darlow to Boro and now links with other goalkeepers… surely Nathan Baxter is the obvious one to be going for?
I think i wrote on another thread about this lad? His dad plays in a veterans football league with one of my mates and they chatted in the bar after the game and was asked about Jude and even his dad said "Jude is good but watch out for Jobe"
We forget how potent he was with Tetteh providing service, when you take the provider out, teams can build a defence against one player.
I think it's as simple as Oscar is a penalty box scrapper and poacher, and as we know a lot of games last season we didn't get the ball into those areas very much. Clearly he's going to struggle for goals when that's the case. It's obviously our key priority to fix this window, and to me it seems obvious that if we can do that then Oscar will really benefit.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the same starting eleven play week in week out this coming season, suspensions aside that is. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I agree he did alright, I'm not his biggest fan but I would be a fool to say he is not decent by being there to poke some in and also scored some decent goals. I just don't think he is the right sort of player to bundle us into the top 6.
It's that Oscar's on a fortune and there's really important parts of his game that are really poor. If he was on half what he's on, he's a fantastic signing but when his hold up play is worse than Magennis and Eaves' and his link play is worse than Magennis' it gives you real problems. It's not like they set the bar high either. There's this odd notion that when there's better players around him, he'll magically improve but we struggled with creating openings in the final third and he played a big part in that. There has to be more accountability for his shortcomings.
Not sure what he’s like after barely playing for a few years, but Heaton in his prime was one of the better goalkeepers in the prem. Arguably a step up from Darlow
A year ago he was a really ambitious target, now Rangers and a few PL teams want him. We've absolutely no chance and they want £7/8m for him
