honeybradger

Conor Coventry was impressive the other day. He's the kind of midfielder we need, both comfortable on the ball and strong defensively. Technique on the shot against Stolarczyk was excellent as well. Think there's a Prem standard midfielder in there.

Stengs isnt the right option for us. 1. Injury prone 2. Not a natural 10 - with our weakness in midfield we cant have 3 wingers and Jordan Ayew in front of them. We need a 10 who can help the CMs control the game and also carry their weight in terms winning the ball back. Stengs does not offer that. Ideally we would go for someone like Titraoui or Joao Rego, natural midfielders who can stay fit and support our weak centre midfielders.

Generally it's best to leave injury prone players alone. Hopefully he ends up going to Celtic.

Our midfield are this team's biggest weakness in my opinion. Our backline has been under massive pressure in the first half of the Wednesday game, the Preston game and the Charlton game all because Soumare, Winks and Skipp do not do enough work to protect it. If i could pick two priority positions to replace it would be the two CMs actually, even ahead of striker because at least our wingers will bring goals.

Kristiansen and Faes next hopefully. Not holding out hope for one of Winks/Soumare to go but if they do this will be a very good window in terms of outgoings. Gives us a strong platform to begin the rebuild.

After them screwing us with Ayew and Edouard last season I really hope Spurs come in over the top. Although Spurs need a bit of karma as well for Winks and Skipp.

In isolation getting £10mil for Justin is a great piece of business on our end. Whether we spend it well if at all is another question.

Looks like this is moving For those saying we cant afford tk lose our 'best defender' selling Wout Faes is addition by subtraction. We will only improve by getting attitudes like his out of the team.

Gueye was one of Everton's best players last season so think they will probably want to keep him. Also at 35 and high wages this is the sort of transfer we should be avoiding.

I saw Page try it a few times and Fatawu ignored him for some reason 🤷‍♂️

Maybe it was by instruction. Very worrying if it was because we had no midfielders covering the space in front of our defence. I think he still needs to see the danger as it's happening though and reacted far too late.

I agree he did ok covering the space but we need a midfielder who wins the ball back and cuts out attacks before they become threatening.

Almost lost us the game by not tracking his man at 80 minutes, luckily Okoli was there to block it. The run down the wing was exciting but the problem with Winks is that he doesnt work hard enough off the ball. We need better than him and Skipp if we are to go up.

0 tackles, 0 interceptions, 0 blocks today.

He might be a write off sadly. Says it all when the only way to justify his ability is that he had a good loan 5 years ago.

I like the fact that he's willing to bench Winks and Faes. Need the first XI to be our most committed XI first and foremost. I think Pereira adds a lot of much needed quality and we will look a lot better with him in the side. Probably play him at right back and Choudhury instead of Skipp until we get another midfielder in.

Winks is going to cost us this game by not tracking a runner I fear.

What a goal!!!

Stolarczyk is so so good.

What has happened to Fatawu? Used to be really good at playing the midfielder in (Ndidi) but isnt using Page at all.

Ayew needs to be less selfish.

Page and ayew need to drop back and provide that extra option to play out from.

Defender crunches monga and ends up with a bloody nose. He's ridiculous physically for a 16 year old.

Vestergaard was awful against Preston. Worse than Nelson against Huddersfield. He still starts today, we need to move away from this mentality as a club where the senior pros consistently get away with murder whilst the academy players need to play well every time theyre on the pitch. The standards should be lower for academy players, not higher.

Personally I think what the club has been doing is a step in the right direction. We've all been saying drain the swamp and it's finally happening. It's not going to be a walk in the park but this squad desperately needed open heart surgery which it seems to be getting and I think this summer window will age better with time.