Exactly lets see two quality forwards and that midfielder who can pass as well as tackle. Then May upgrade the rest. Good done! The rest is up to the club and their current employees.
I do disagree with the lazy aspect, I always find it amazing that the players labelled "lazy" coincidentally happen to be the slow ones. Neither Morison or Surman are lazy. I ceratinly disagree that Surman gives the ball away, there are plenty of others ahead in that queue. I agree Surman is slow weak though.
I haven't really seen Surman enough to comment long-term, but today he was shocking in possession, he just kept being caught with the ball and a couple of times it could have easily cost us. He wanted time on the ball and naturally wasn't going to get it against pressing defenders. Also, I wouldn't call Holt quick or lazy.
The problem with Surman is he can be totally anonymous when we've played badly in the past and his had a shocker he seems to have an excellent knack to go unnoticed, when for an example players like Hoolahan will get ripped to shreds. Even though he was pretty lousy today for the moment though left wing isn't a priority area, I would like to see the area improved over the summer but we have bigger concerns to deal with.
I didn't see any of the game so I can't comment on it, whenever I see Surman play though that ball is generally glued to his feet when he runs, and he is a better passer than Hoolahan. I think he's technically probably our best player, however he is very slow and very weak in the tackle. I like his positioning and body shape when he has the ball and he's not headless like Bennett and Pilkington because he can't rely on his pace. He needs players around him with legs to shine, because we don't have a passing regime within the team.
Trust me, Surman couldn't win, hold or pass the ball this afternoon. But it wasn't just him. Howson has been pathetic in the last two games - makes me wonder why we persevere with him. Where, after our last three performances, is our next Premier League goal/win going to come from Carrabuh is correct, Hughton's preferred style of football is turgid - and after a failed attempt at an orthodox 4 - 4 - 2 formation today, he clearly knows or coaches no other way to set up or play
Trying not to panic but feel the next 4 days could be very important for us On the flip side, we risk relegation with the existing squad and then rebuild and try and get promotion again After a few beers tonight, whilst I really really hope the board show some reasonable ambition and go for option 1, if 2 happens its not the end of the world really. Otbc
According to the Mirror, our bid of £8 million for van Wolfswinkel has been rejected and Sporting want closer to £12 million. Looks like negotiations on all our prospective deals will be ongoing on until the last few hours of the window.
That's disappointing, especially after stories they'd take £8.5m. Someone else must be interested (which isn't surprising) to force the price up.
I think I read somewhere that Newcastle are interested. You'd think they'd be pretty close to their budget for this window though!
They've brought most of the Ligue One already, Joey Barton has obviously managed to make half of France want to emigrate to the UK!
I read that sporting are looking for €13mil so would be roughly £10mil, also the sporting manager has accepted he may well lose winky and needs to find a replacement. I hope these meetings that McNally was in was to scrape the barrell for more funds, a signing like this would give the club a massive boost and McNally knows it.
If a Championship level back up keeper on a freebee is the sole extent of our ambition during this window, I'll be even more gravely worried than I already am
DH, that is very worrying to me. Shows a lack of ambition (-although hoots recently in a bbc article said he wants to take us to the next level?) from hughton and the board Dissapointing more than anything
