Johannes Spors

[Gloucester Saint]

6 hours ago, LGTL said:

Makes you wonder what the fuck he’s been doing since January. Window has been open since June and he’s managed to find us two completely irrelevant, pointless reserve players after the witnessing the worse season in our history. Not fucking good enough. 

Similar to Nathan Jones in that 6 weeks game and formation training for a manager is like 6 months to plan and prepare for a DoF. Very rare to get the luxury yet the performances resulting from both are unacceptable.

Huge week for Spors and he must be perfect in terms of 4-5 new faces who start the next league game. No room for mistakes after signing the two fringe players from Germany neither of whom we needed.

[Toussaint]

16 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

we'd have to ditch 3 at the back first (we could have done this already).

So far, it is like Juric/Rusk have never left

We also have to ditch diagonal crosses from deep to a penalty area packed full of behemoths

[Harry_SFC]

8 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

We also have to ditch diagonal crosses from deep to a penalty area packed full of behemoths

Manning was awful for that yesterday.

[Bakovnetski]

3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Manning was awful for that yesterday.

The whole team was awful for that. This breaking up the transitional play to check back for a possession pass is killing any opportunities to confront defences on the run or back foot

[Harry_SFC]

7 minutes ago, Bakovnetski said:

The whole team was awful for that. This breaking up the transitional play to check back for a possession pass is killing any opportunities to confront defences on the run or back foot

Doesn't help when you've got an incredibly one paced team. 

In terms of options yesterday ahead of the back 3:

Manning - slow

Downes -slow

Charles - slow

Robinson - slow

Fernandes - slow

Stewart - slow

Downs - doesn't look particularly quick

Fraser & Armstrong - used to be quick but both have lost most of their pace. 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Harry_SFC

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, Bakovnetski said:

The whole team was awful for that. This breaking up the transitional play to check back for a possession pass is killing any opportunities to confront defences on the run or back foot

Another reason why several new faces come in who challenge Russell’s boys when they do it in training. Need some shouts of ‘weak’, ‘cop out’ ‘weak dick’ and ‘bottled it’ when it happens to knock it out of the existing squad. Build some character as well.

[Whitey Grandad]

33 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Manning was awful for that yesterday.

He underhit most crosses which was disappointing considering his appearance against Wrexham that turned the game around. 

[Dr. Kucho]

I am under the impression that Spors doesn’t have free rein of who he wants to buy, but has been given a profile of players he should look for.

You don’t have to be a football expert to conclude that to get promoted you look at the best players in the league for the core of the squad and maybe a few young talents to develop. Like we did in L1 and the championship under Liebherr. 

[S-Clarke]

3 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

I'd certainly sell either Armstrong or Archer to facilitate Sargent. He'd cost £20m. Johannsson is available for £2m apparently. No brainer. Azaz available for £12m.

That would be 3 of the best players in the championship and combined they'd cost £10m less than what we are getting for Dibling.

I'd be totally down with this.

But would we get any takers? We know, bizarrely, that our players are on stupid money which clubs without Parachute Payments simply can't match. 

It's crazy really, we won't put down £2m on the Stoke Keeper (for an example), yet we throw down 50k p/w on people like Archer and Armstrong (and Stephens).

This is why I think we're struggling to shift them and it's probably a case of being easier said than done. We're going to need to wait for a lot of these contracts to expire to be free of the dross, which will take many transfer windows.

[Badger]

2 minutes ago, Dr. Kucho said:

I am under the impression that Spors doesn’t have free rein of who he wants to buy, but has been given a profile of players he should look for.

 

So who do you think is pulling his strings, Rasmus?