Out of the 4 Leeds players we bought which 1 would you keep ? a#Becchio b#Snodgrass c#Howson d#Johnson
It`s a tough Q? Dave, i would do the same but which one would you keep if you had to lose the other 3 ?,hypothetical if you will.
The combined transfer fees were peanuts compared to the January ball buster deals out there so in reality, i would keep all 3 until the summer just in case.
Genuinely a tough question, for most of last season Johnson and Snodgrass were exceptional and Howson was poor. This season Howson has been good but the other two have played well below what they're capable of. Still unsure about Becchio though, I shall not vote on this one because I can't decide but my gut would go with Snodgrass.
If you mean to keep just one then that is very tough - Snodgrass probably. In truth as has been said above, I would keep them all as thye are an intrinsic part of the inner squad with the exception of Becchio where the jury is out simply because he hasn't had the game time.
In the spirit of the question, I voted Snodgrass because of all that he has done last year and this. I value Howson just as much really, but he hasn't contributed as much overall, IMO. Johnson is not far behind either.
I'd keep the lot, at least as far as squad players go they are all up to it. If you were asking who you think could and should be in the starting 11 next season. I would say Howson and hope that we have better players to relegate the others to the bench. Bah!
If we want to get the best out of RvW or Hooper (in a 4-5-1), I think we need to be looking to have better central midfielders than Johnson and Howson, so Snodgrass to be kept for me. Not saying I wouldn't want Johnson and Howson in the squad, it's just I'd like to see us spend something like a combined £15m on a DM and CAM, to give us a quality central midfield that's solid defensively, creative, and chips in with a few goals too.
Howson. He's the only one who whose looked good this season and I think long term will be the only one who gets into our starting XI with any consistency. I think we need to sell Johnson and Becchio and bring in better over the summer. I'd keep Snodgrass but I feel he shouldn't be so guaranteed of playing.
Personally I think we already have that in a way with tettey fer and Howson. I'm sure we could spend 15 mil upgrading them but I think they are good enough to be honest. . The major plus for me last night was how lively tettey looked when he came on. His all round game is just better than Johnson's and fer looks far more eager to get forward when playing alongside tettey.
Tettey did look good in the limited time he had. Johnson's red might be a blessing in disguise as it'll accelerate Tettey's return to the starting line-up. Hughton would probably have waited for Johnson to have an absolute shocker, or pick up an injury, otherwise. Tettey, Howson and Fer are all fairly similar in that they're good driving forwards, but none have the creativity with their backs to goal.
the lack of creativity is definitely a problem which is why I'd quite like to see Snodgrass played in that CAM role. I just think he'd be far more effective there.
It doesn't work, we played Snoddy in that position quite a few times at leeds and he just doesn't get into the game anywhere near as much. He also doesn't seem to have the same confidence to beat a man or pick out the passes that he does so well. I always thought he would slowly move more central due to his lack of pace but I can't see it happening now. He came to Leeds as a striker remember and was moved out wide which is when he became a great player for us.
