Saint_clark

Gunn had a full season at Norwich at a higher level and was their player of the season if I remember correctly. He wasn't totally unproven.

He may turn out to be an inspired signing, but it's nonsense that quality and experience isn't available for similar or less. Brentford got David Raya for £3million.

Other clubs have released their retained lists... I was under the impression they had to be in by June to be honest. Any sign of ours?

Lots of wages freed up and we've needed to improve goalkeeper for the longest time. However I am so worried that we're planning to go into next season keeping McCarthy as number one.

Minamino gets goals in limited minutes at Liverpool because of the quality of chances created for him by the other much better forward players. Was not impressed with his ability to influence a game himself when he was with us.

Opened talks for a contract extension apparently, no surprise to anyone that I'm happy about that. Extra 2 years on similar wages is what I'd be offering.

I agree, that goal should have stood by the letter of the law.

The defender clearly played the ball in a deliberate action. Not lucky at all, 100% a penalty.

That cluster fuck of a freekick when you have JWP sat on the bench ffs.

Game on!

I was thinking the same, but wasn't he on £150,000 a week at West Ham? Doubt he'd drop enough to fit in our wage structure.

Yeah must have been the Euros I saw him as I wouldn't have seen any of him at Gent or Benfica.

Always liked that Yaremchuk, would like to see him at Saints.

Come on Scotland!

So we keep the ones that make zero impact and take a gamble on a £15million player doing better than he can?

Experience of fighting relegation and winning the league. That kind of dismissive mentality would have seen us never buy Marsden...

Would anyone consider Danny Drinkwater on a free transfer to add a bit of experience to the squad as well as competition in midfield?

The point i'm getting at is that I don't think we should be looking to sell and replace all of them at the same time, and if we're going to keep one of them it should be the one that's actually made the most contribution - not just in terms of stats but also in terms of our best performances. Elyounoussi was instrumental in Spurs away for example, he tore them apart.

The middle stripe is too thin, makes it look like it's puny and going to snap.

Interesting to note that Salisu made more interceptions than any other player in the league, and second in that list...was Bednarek. Clearly they're instructed to be more aggressive in trying to win the ball back, and when it works it works well but when it doesn't it leaves us massively exposed. This makes me feel more and more that we'd be suited to a 3-4-3 style formation, so when a centreback steps up and presses for the ball there's still two more to cover. Less risk when the fullbacks bomb forward, our midfield two sitting and transitioning the ball without needing to be too mobile and a front three ready to press the defense at multiple points. Hypothetical line up to follow... ------------Dragowski -----Tarkowski Salisu Bednarek KWP------JWP-----Romeu-----Perraud ----S. Armstrong Adams Nketiah Another CB out of contract we should be looking at is Jason Denayer.

Ok, I'll ignore those goals. He STILL has more goals than anyone in the squad except JWP, Broja and Adams.

Finished the season with 8 goals and 4 assists in 33 appearances, 3rd best in our squad for both. Can we improve? Yes. But he's nowhere near as bad as people make out and I would sell Redmond, Djenepo and Small one before Elyounoussi who I would keep as backup to whoever we bring in.

Too complicated a subject for me to get into right now, but one thing I will say in Bednareks defence is I think he is actually much better suited to playing left sided CB, he always looks better for us when he's there and he plays there for Poland too.

You don't have to be full pro, you have to be at least part time. From what I understand the league we were just in allows teams to be amateur.

Agreed. After one year we can either sell him or if KWP or Tino get big offers and move on we keep him as backup again.