Everyone in the prem wants cbs except maybe man city
Arsenal are pretty stacked mind…
Everyone in the prem wants cbs except maybe man city
Agree with this, but (and this is old news) that elusive new CB would really give an additional boost of confidence I feelI agree we need CB’s however I have every faith in the management team and the current squad to have a real go at West Ham, think we will see a completely new motivated team cross the white line next Saturday, if we do get a CB in great, if not, I have every faith, this is unreal and I’m loving it, best time in my 45 years supporting the lads, can’t wait haway haway haway oh and FTM
I don’t think anybody is disputing that are they?
Yep. Once again. The window is idiotic. Everybody says it every season. Our problem is the injuries. The pressure is on us to get a defender because of that and I’d be surprised if we don’t in the next few days for that reason. That said I’d be surprised if we haven’t already sorted it. Then we can play the who blinks first game.I get the concerns but again
signings will go the end of the window and this is for teams across the board
it’s a reflection on uefa and the premier league, not Sunderland, that players will be signed in the period between the West Ham kick off and the window closing.
It’s a shame, it is what it is and was always going happen.
I dread to think what Xhaka, Le fee, Diarra, Sadiki and Mayenda will do to themI dread to think what Fullkrug, Bowen and Soucek will do to them.
Just asking a question based on the posts within this threadWell I don't know, are you speaking on behalf of yourself or someone else?
As cover. Van Dijk and Konate are a decent starting point.Btw, just reading a BBC article with have your say.
Quite a few Liverpool fans saying they need CBs, despite spending 200m and that doing do might be difficult
Just to add some perspective
Could be worse, could be Noocarssell. Unable to sign anyone.
Just asking a question based on the posts within this thread
Yeh the club haven't "failed". And they'll be as critical on themselves as anyone as to whether they're executing the plans effectively. They won't need fans to tell them we need this centre back in, like, yesterday
Agree. The club have so obviously set out to try to assemble a squad to compete in this league.After the signings we've made so far,the contract extensions and management and coaching additions,it would make absolutely no sense not to complete the job. CB is clearly an area which requires strengthening and I have no doubt that diligent work is going on to achieve it.In my view I think the noise around centre halves for the first game next Saturday wouldn’t be as loud if cirkin was fit.
I’d be comfortable with a back four of Hume, Ballard, Reinildo, cirkin while still preferring it if we had added a couple of quality centre halves.
playing jones or Huggins at left back is in my view the real issue as one is only filling in at that position and in my opinion that has shown pre season (nowt against the lad at all as clearly talented to make it to the level he has but he’s never been a left back in my view) and the other is back after a long term absence and again left back isn’t his natural position.
Club are doing well and clearly working hard, for what it’s worth I think we’ll have one centre half in who will play next week and if we can’t get our main targets then we will go for an experienced PL loan at centre back.
I'm still relaxed about the CB situation, just, as I know the club are working hard to get these deals done. I (all of us) don't want to just sign a CB for the sake of it, it has to be a quality defender that improves us - sometimes that means waiting for that player. The club will have cut offs with targets, as they'll need to move on to the next CB on the list.
We all want a CB in for the West Ham game, the club will be the same however, the most important thing is getting the right player in. I was hoping to get a CB in by next weekend so they could play with Ballard tomorrow but that's not happening.
The key then is to sign them with enough time to get plenty of time with Ballard, Hume and Reinildo on the training pitch.
Someone like Lucumi has been playing plenty minutes in preseason and he's used to playing in a back 4 so i wouldn't be a concern if he didn't get much time on the training pitch with the lads.
Huggins or Seelt will likely come in if a CB isn't signed, I'd trust Huggins a lot more than Seelt. Really concerned by Seelts lack of physicality, despite his height. Huggins will struggle against Bowen but let's be honest most LBs do in the PL - the key is how we double up on him and stop him getting the ball in good positions.
It's always easy to focus on where we need to strengthen and forget about our strengths - i can our CM should dominate West Ham's, I think we can double up on them in the wide areas and isolated Fullkrug upfront
The bad news today is I'm working from home and no news ever breaks when I'm working fdom home, so I'll take the blame if nothing happens today folks
A purely hypothetical question to whittle away the time.
Would people rather compromise on the quality of the centre backs we bring in to make sure they’re in for West Ham and are an upgrade on Ballard and Seelt (or the back four that sees Jones at left back) or….
Would they rather wait and get the very best options we possibly could at the very last minute of the window deadline?
The former being, say, a Creswell and the latter a, say, Diakite.