ErwinK1961

Hope for JWP’s personal sake he makes the squad, think he deserves it. Selfishly, hope he doesn’t get picked and gets a well deserved break. Seriously though, suspect an exit as soon as we come up against someone half decent - especially if Maguire is out. Is there no-one better at Cb than Mings or Coady? Godfrey didn’t impress me, Ben White looks decent but not in the squad. Tomori? Tarkowski? Surely got to be better than Mings?

Definitely has the literacy skills

None of our current crop are any good with the ball at their feet anyway, so if we got someone who can actually make some saves too that would be a major upgrade.

Because he was second choice behind Bertrand and he wanted to play regularly. We got £16m for him which we bought Adams with.

Yes please. Anyone know if this Nick chap is reliable?

To be fair, the club have said for a while that he would be getting a chance to impress pre season. Still wouldn’t rule out him being sold though, should someone make a decent bid. Imagine the ‘he won’t be loaned out line’ is to try and let teams (Celtic) know they won’t be getting a freebie from us.

I would say the fact he borrowed the money to purchase his 80% stake in the first place is a decent clue.

It’s not, when the other three would have been ahead of him.

Spot on.

Probably Redmond.

Blimey, that would be strange. Expected him to end up at Spurs or Everton. Surely staying at Wolves would have been more preferable?

Sums up my thoughts pretty much. Strange squad, unbalanced.

Great post TWar, thank you for the work!

Whooosh

Think I’d back England in a shootout v Spain if big Dave is in the sticks.

Indeed 🙂 Got to laugh, £3.5m plus Moi for Eduoard, if only

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/15071799/southampton-edouard-celtic-transfer-swap-elyounoussi/

Not sure he's going to ever make it in the Prem unfortunately, too brittle. But as others have said, he's not exactly had a consistent run of games (would we have been any worse him playing all the games Redmond shouldn't have?) and I don't think our '10' role really suits him at all. Needs a bit of freedom to get the best out of him.

I was in the Ralph in camp, but think after the end to the season we've had, I think his time is up. Tactically is a strange one - we clearly do a lot of work the week of the game on tactics, as we seem to start games well in general and look good (but generally fail to capitalise on). But as soon as the oppo manager changes anything, we never seem to adapt at all. It's as if the players are told 'these are the tactics and we will use them no matter what the game situation is.' If it is a fitness issue, you do have to wonder what training is like. I know pre-season was somewhat shortened this year, but surely if the main part of his tactic is to press hard most of the match, you would focus time on getting the players super fit. Look at Leeds, how fit must they be? Everyone thought they would blow up, but they seemed to get stronger in the last 10 games. The squad isn't great, there are only a handful of players (Ings, KWP, JWP, Armstrong) that I would be bothered about losing. The lack of any sort of investment is always going to hamstring us and limit where we would finish across a season - but surely you adapt to what players you have. To not meaningfully change anything (tweaking a position here and there doesn't cut it for me) when we have officially gone on one of the worst 20 game runs of any premier league team is inexcusable. I don't think there's a manager out there within our reach (e.g. one without a club and therefore free) who could get us into the top half with this existing team. But without a change I think we are bang in trouble next season.

Think he's got one til 2023

Good to see more links to GK's - hopefully the club is seriously looking to bring someone in. Was quite impressed with Woodman in the two playoff games - doesnt look the biggest, but came (and took) more crosses than Fraser and Alex combined.

Beat me to it

Errrr... the new padded seats will give us that extra 1%?