pete 2,499 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 What's his best position?,where will MW paly him? Oooohh I hope that doesn't hurt him. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,721 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 Oooohh I hope that doesn't hurt him. Did you know smart people can read any word as long as the first & last letters are correct? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 By the looks of it we need a lot more defenders to balance the squad - about 3 or 4 with possibly a couple being youngsters to develop or promoted from the academy. So about two experienced players - a centre and full back. We have plenty of forwards but I think we still need another experienced number 9. I think that would make a 30 man squad of: 3 Gk 10 DF 9 MF 8 FW With younger, less established players making up: 1 3 4 3 Of course some of the midfielders and forwards are kind of either of these categories depending on how you look at it and where they are asked to play on the day. It's not the most awe inspiring squad but very interesting for where we are in the scheme of things now. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 2,025 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 By the looks of it we need a lot more defenders to balance the squad - about 3 or 4 with possibly a couple being youngsters to develop or promoted from the academy. So about two experienced players - a centre and full back. We have plenty of forwards but I think we still need another experienced number 9. I think that would make a 30 man squad of: 3 Gk 10 DF 9 MF 8 FW With younger, less established players making up: 1 3 4 3 Of course some of the midfielders and forwards are kind of either of these categories depending on how you look at it and where they are asked to play on the day. It's not the most awe inspiring squad but very interesting for where we are in the scheme of things now. Agreed. And it seems the gaffer's thinking is similar. We'll get a good sense of where we are with the first couple of games. By January, we can then look to bring in one or two more depending on how things go. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 10,603 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Is it significant he was presented without a jersey? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,376 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Never mind a or the jersey we now seem to have a squad with experience and youthful exuberance I personally am looking forward to the new season. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 2,320 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Did you know smart people can read any word as long as the first & last letters are correct? Dyslexia rules KO? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
boabie 230 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Welcome to the worlds most successful club Niko. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 1,693 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Joey BartonNiko Kranjcar Jordan Rossiter Clint Hill Matt Crooks Josh Windass All for a combined transfer fee of roughly 370,000 (250k for Rossiter and 120k for Crooks and Windass) - I understand that Hill, Kranjcar and Barton are in their 30's but. even so, getting those 6 players at that price represents, to me at least, incredible business. If you take just Rossiter alone, Liverpool were expecting a training fee of 8 million (if you believe the tabloids) had he moved to an English team. All this after the squad that Warburton put together last season on a relative shoestring too. There are no guarantees of success obviously - but I don't think, at this point, we can complain about the quality of signings. I know some think Hill is too old but we definitely needed experience back there alongside Kiernan/Wilson - no guarantees, but each of the signings are of the desired quality, in my mind, to give us a very good chance of success. I think the manager may actually have a magic hat and a wand. Unlike some who wanted to see large sums of money being spent i'm happy with the way business has been conducted for such a small outlay. Given that the bookies when we clinched promotion had us at odds of 8/1 for the league which has now fallen to 3/1 it would appear that they and I feel this team can mount a credible challenge. And another reason i'm happy with it is that if there is any money in the kitty I prefer to see how things work out with this team the rest of this year then have something in reserve for the January window when we will have a better idea of how the land lies so to speak. The manager hasn't let us down yet and I trust his judgement on this. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) If he's still anything like the player who featured regularly in the Premiership and for Croatia then this could be a very decent signing. Only 31 too so hopefully has quite a while left to go. I expected us to be spending more cash though. I think it's safe to say we don't have much European aspirations based on the current expenditure. Edited June 23, 2016 by Ser Barristan Selmy 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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