Summer '24 transfer window

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It’s a fair point that a lot of the lads will be better for having a season behind them and the timing of the appointment means they’ve had pretty much a full pre season with the coach that’s gonna take us in to the games.

Let’s not underestimate the value of that. Could easily be one or 2 who didn’t light us up last year rose fast.
 
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Scout73 said:
I forgot about Poveda!!! If he plays like he did at wednesday then we have another xfactor player in our squad

I would still like another CB to come in, Alese im not convinced by as a CB - i do like him as a LB tho

I also wouldnt be against a 6 month loan of a RB to cover behind Hume as i have real concerns about Pembele as a RB
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I think Alese, with games at CB, can become one. Agreed he’s not there yet, but if he had a run of games there, the value of having an athletic, left sided CB beside Big Dan would be massive.
 
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Yeah I think we all know we need a CF, just hope the club gets it done because there is absolutely no way we can exit this window without one that has goals behind him that's for sure
 
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Once a striker is brought in i'd back our starting 11 against most. Depth is an issue though. We have a lot of players who aren't championship quality at this moment so they need either a loan or to be sold.

Until a forward is brought in I struggle to predict us to finish above 10th, if a good one comes in though we could honestly finish anywhere.
 
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Nads said:
I certainly think we are a little bit behind them, I wouldn’t say a way off.

I think Coventry are going to be excellent. Of the non relegated sides they the ones to beat, Summerville is a huge loss for Leeds.

A lot for me is hanging on LB. A fit and on it Cirkin absolutely changed the dimension of us, it’s that fear of injury.

If we were going into the season with Cirks LB and Huggins RB both got and on form then the balance and shape and options are massive.

I feel we pinned a lot on not having a striker, and while I agree is mental, well we didn’t have one season before but we had better balance to move the ball.

There’s more to it than plonk a 9 in.

We have some lovely wingers, we have Dan, we have goals in the side. We can win with balance and shifting the ball.
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My biggest worry is genuinely our defence fully fit its right up there with the best in the league, just appear brittle at the moment, everytime cirkin or aji go in for a tackle I wince, ballard worries have eased slightly ironically given he’s injured now, proper striker and better luck with injury’s then I agree we’re close to being on par with the coventrys etc
 
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Hudson92 said:
My biggest worry is genuinely our defence fully fit its right up there with the best in the league, just appear brittle at the moment, everytime cirkin or aji go in for a tackle I wince, ballard worries have eased slightly ironically given he’s injured now, proper striker and better luck with injury’s then I agree we’re close to being on par with the coventrys etc
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Yeah the injury record of what should be key players really is a killer mate.
 
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Nads said:
Yeah the injury record of what should be key players really is a killer mate.
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Come kick off next week I’ll fully believe we’re the best team in the league mind, fickle like that haha, we just need a bit of luck and some help in certain areas then there’s no reason we can’t compete with everyone else atleast
 
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marcusblackcat said:
I agree, but I also accept that it isn’t as simple as “just go sign a striker “

Unless you want another will grigg?
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Of course, its not.

We're in real danger of starting the season having not rectified the problem from when Ross Stewart got injured.

We might be playing the long game but we could well be surrendering points as a result.
 
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Come kick off next week I’ll fully believe we’re the best team in the league mind, fickle like that haha, we just need a bit of luck and some help in certain areas then there’s no reason we can’t compete with everyone else atleast
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We will be alright.

The Beale disaster and the fact the season was gone at the back end seems to have given some the impression we are a poor side, when we plainly aren’t.

The bulk of our side would get in the bulk of most other sides in the league, we just need a couple gaps filled and a wee bit of depth.

Some of those players who weren’t quite there last season could easily be the depth with a year behind them though, we gotta see.
 
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CR17 said:
Yeah I think we all know we need a CF, just hope the club gets it done because there is absolutely no way we can exit this window without one that has goals behind him that's for sure
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The thing is mate, it’s not just the goals, it’s someone to hold the ball up. The number of times we gave the ball away too easily last season was far too much. Losing possession consistently will eventually see to your downfall. We have two ways of playing, get it to the wings and if that isn’t working errm get it to the wings. If it wasn’t for Clarke being lethal at cutting inside, god knows what would happen. We have wingers who would take their man on, look up and have nothing to aim for. I’d love to be a centre half playing against us
 
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Nads said:
We will be alright.

The Beale disaster and the fact the season was gone at the back end seems to have given some the impression we are a poor side, when we plainly aren’t.

The bulk of our side would get in the bulk of most other sides in the league, we just need a couple gaps filled and a wee bit of depth.

Some of those players who weren’t quite there last season could easily be the depth with a year behind them though, we gotta see.
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Yeah I put most of the blame on the head coach debacle for last years collapse it’s not a bad squad just need tweaks to be right up there
 
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marcusblackcat said:
I agree, but I also accept that it isn’t as simple as “just go sign a striker “

Unless you want another will grigg?
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That was about 5 years ago we can’t stall forever because we might sign a dud that’s the chance you take unfortunately. If the scouts have done their work then it shouldn’t happen. We sign plenty of wingers there’s never any conversation about being cautious in case they’re the next Lewis Morgan..
 
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