He was excellent for us after a shakey start. We loved him at ours and why poch left because management were insisting on selling him
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He was excellent for us after a shakey start. We loved him at ours and why poch left because management were insisting on selling him
Take him back then please, Bob and save us the agony of watching him.
If Senesi does happen I think another loan works for Vuskovic.
He’s probably already good enough to start for us but another year of developing will guarantee it, returns next summer and walks into the XI.
Assuming Romero leaves and Dragusin is sold, it still leaves us with Senesi, Danso, van de Ven and one of Takai or Phillips going into a season with only one game a week.
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I agree with you that gallaghers technical abilities leave a lot to be desired and the ball bounces off him more often than not. He has a little bit of mctominay about him that (although not shown) that if given the chance to attack he has a little bit of gangly magic to him when he doesnt lose possession and he will make space by stretching teams with well timed runs and attacking contributions. But yes his best attributes is his work rate and tenancity but thats exactly what we needed at chelsea (not your team which is uncreative to a tee)
And that’s the problem, work rate and tenacity is something we’ve actually got in abundance. It’s also a trait that should be a pre-requisite more so than a standout attribute for footballers.
If Ndombele actually worked hard we’d have probably sold him for about £100m to Madrid.
I don’t think we can offer him what he wants, we need a starting LW pronto, he’ll basically be in the same position here as he was at Bayern.
I think Tel's main grievance is being jerked around for a large chunk of the season, given he had 7 starts in total under Frank between August-February, compared to 4 each under Tudor and De Zerbi in February-March and March-May respectively
The most important question: is a new contract being lined up?
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He’s nowhere near good enough to be given guarantees of starts. Tries hard but not enough end product yet.
If Spurs can get their money back, I’d happily see him sold.
The obvious counter point is Frank had Odobert start far more often, when he had far less end product
Also the fact that logic says that Odobert is ideal to come off the bench to use his pace and dribbling against tiring legs
That’s the view I have of all the young players tbh. None have kicked on and they’re only likely to fall further down any pecking order now once we (hopefully) bring in more players, best to get as much as we can back on them.
My main fear is Angeball has actively ruined some of them
Brennan Johnson is the obvious example as he went from a pacey (if technically limited) winger to Clint Dempsey tribute act, and I do fear Sarr's had a lot of the attributes that Paratici signed him for coached out of him
Gray is certainly salvageable, though
I pretty much feel the same about Odobert as I do tel. If he’s happy to be a squad player and develop then keep him. If he wants first team football guaranteed then sell.
Mikey Moore deserves more of a chance than either of them imo.
You need the system in place first, and then make the signings that suit it.
All of those teams had a clear and consistent system in place when they were still in the Championship.
We don't.
Signing players before the system is in place is the equivalent of arranging furniture in an empty field and expecting it to build a house.
I’m just struggling to see where the game time for him or the others comes into play.
Only one game a week next season and if for a second we assume Vinai’s and the Lewis’ statements actually have substance then we should be expecting some investment into a squad that’s already hard for some of them to get regular minutes in.
We’re probably gonna be looking at an XI of something like:
New GK
Porro, Senesi, van de Ven, Robertson
Palhinha, Bentancur
Kudus, Maddison, New LW
New ST
If Kulu ever returns he goes into the XI. There’ll then be players like Spence, Danso and Udogie who will feature heavily, Simons will expect to play minutes when he returns, Gallagher and Solanke will likely be kept unfortunately and therefore expect minutes as well. It’s tough to see where any of these young players come into the side, even off the bench.
If your recruitment strategy is to use data to get a slight edge on signing middling players so that you can finish in the top half of the PL then having a settled system works well. If, like us, you are trying to play catch up against clubs with bigger spending power then you don't have much option other than to buy the best players available and coach them into performing well.
I agree with your theory but the problem is the club isn’t buying the best available, they’re largely buying players that West Ham, Brentford, Everton etc could buy and it’s why we as a club have declined ever since we got into the new stadium. It’s not even down to bad luck either, many thousands of fans could’ve told the so-called experts of our hierarchy that Richarlison or Solanke would never be top strikers, many of us knew Gallagher is a midtable at best midfielder. Archie Gray at £40m was crazy business, not the lad’s fault by any means and maybe one day he’ll come good but a Championship player should never cost that much, Palace paid half that amount for Wharton who’s currently 10x the player.
I’ve said it before but our recruitment strategy, if we can even say we have one, has been stupid. We've wasted incredible amounts of money over the last 5 or so years.