ACL’s are weird injuries. You can feel fine immediately after doing it and it can’t be diagnosed without an MRI so physios go off the player feedback
I personally think Belloumi was looking VERY good before his injury, Millar not as good but certainly a player capable of creating something from wide positions that we're not creating from now
Belloumi was our best player and probably still is. Millar offered a threat on the left but Millar was very inconsistent. Some of his end product was really poor at times.
His starting time was hampered by the (absurdly regular) international breaks early on with TW benching him after each trip back to N America, may have contributed to that inconsistency
belloumi might never be the player he was never know with acls but it impacts your agility and explosiveness
Ye I was nearly going to start a thread on pedro and the others Posters keep ****ing over puerta alzate etc But if they’re so brilliant why aren’t they rolling over teams?
But we've only got half a decent team. SW3's Ferrari'll be ****e running on half it's cylinders, but get them all firing and it's off!
I think it's not simple. The squad Walter had was much better than the one Selles has had to work with so far. Walter had a big squad with a lot of options, but half of them are unavailable now for one reason or another. We always seem to have this January availability crisis under Acun. I think we have some very good players in certain positions. Goalkeeper, centre backs, midfield. And the full backs are better than people make out. But our wide options over the last month or so have been really weak and it's been hard to see how we can score goals with what's available. Pedro has been the only consistently available and in-form attacking player.
Imo coyle isn't gash, he's having a bad dip in form ATM and you could argue he's not a first choice RB for a promotion challenging team, but I'd happy have him in the squad for the next few years
Portsmouths first of two games in hand starts tonight Blackburn v portsmouth 7.45pm The lancashire ****ers to win
I don’t think Walter did have that many options tbh Uncle ped and alzate both coming after the window shut and not been fit and injured and also our best players didn’t help him As an example
We had a lot more options then than we have done the last few weeks. That wasn't the issue then. In another few weeks we'll probably have a decent squad again. But right now it's very light.
Hopefully he and any other signings are available before the end of the month at the latest, otherwise we’ll be introducing new players with a little over a third of the season left. They’re going to get some points from those games, it’s inevitable. Until they’ve played both games I’m ignoring them as one of the bottom three and teams we need to overtake in the short term. Working on catching up and overtaking both Cardiff and Luton is what city need to focus on.
