Damn you and your detailed analysis! However, if you had made the same analysis in October it might have been different. Also on my point about confidence, it's worth looking at Brighton, almost relegated in 2016, promoted in 17, with substantially the same team and reading and wendies playoff last season, relegation fodder this, again, pretty much the same teams.
I'd say 3 3-4 million additions, GK, CH and CF, bring more youth through (& persevere with Vieira & Alioski) an improvement in confidence and give a manager some time. And finally of course that all important ability to save before a match and go back and play again if you lose, that bought Me and Leeds multiple premiership and champion league wins in Football Manager games. Sent from my Mobile -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [LU] Wolves From: nat...@sky.com To: Richard Naef ,Leeds List CC: Lets go through each position then Rich and see how many we need Keeper - Felix / Longeran - not good enough - so at least one keeper needed (2 if BPF not up to the job) Right back - Ayling / Berardi - OK Left back - Anita useless, De Bock useless so far, Berardi "not good enough" says Berardi, so unless De Bock can be turned round we need one Centre Back - Jansson OK, Pennington going back / not good enough, Cooper not good enough, Shaunessey injured and jury still out - need 2 CBs Wingers - Alioski Ok, Dallas OK as back up, Sacko even I am giving up on him. Others there eg Roofe, Cibiski, Grot, Hernandez - not up to it - winger needed CM - Forshaw OK, O'Kane, Phillips, Vieira , all OK on their day - remember when Viera was the new Cook / Delph, Phillips had added goals to his game, and we all (bar RW) thought dropping O'Kane was a massive blunder by Monk. However all are also very suspect and have more bad games than good - need to get rid of at least one and bring in one replacement Forwards - Saiz Ok, Hernandez Ok (but will get worse) Lassogga going back, Ekuban jury still out, Rogers not seen him, Roofe lightweight, Grot awful so far, Cibicki jury still out but not shown much - another forward needed So at least needed 1 keeper, 1 left back, 2 centre backs (first teamer and a back up) 1 winger, 1 centre mid, 1 centre forward So I reckon that makes as a minimum 7 players, unless a player or two either gets to grips with the game (De Bock, Grot, Cibicki) or comes through from the youngsters who have been out on loan (Denton, Coyle, Wilkes, Japanese lad) or from the u23s - Pearce (seems most likely) Del Roi, Jack Clarke etc etc I accept I have maybe been over the top but on any level we need to replace Pennington and Lassogga who are on loan, find a new keeper (first team or back up) and a left back - so that is 4 at the absolute minimum Dave ________________________________ From: Richard Naef <rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk> To: Leeds List <leedslist@gn.apc.org> Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2018, 15:12 Subject: Re: [LU] Wolves It's worth remembering that the team put in some good performances early on in the season, so there is a decent team in there somewhere, confidence is a big factor in any team and that's a major issue with us. I don't think 6 or 7 are necessary for the first team to be contenders. We weren't as good as we looked early on and we aren't as bad as we look now. ttfn Richard _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org<mailto:leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org> Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE
