honeybradger

Ayew is on the bench.

Hopefully I'm wrong but it feels like the signing of Cordova Reid has made us weaker. I cant help but feel we would have been better off had we never signed him and just played Mavididi/Mcateer.

Sadly Monga and Nyoni would be as close to the first team at clubs like Liverpool, Arsenal, Man United as they would be with us and they are far bigger and better. The only way we can keep a hold of these talents is to guarantee gametime but the whole way the club is run is that our youth players have to beat the odds to get a chance.

Mate have you forgotten our financial issues? Even if we somehow manage to stay up this season we will get a points deduction because we are spending silly fees on players like Ayew.

£5mil with £3mil in add ons for a 2 year deal

£8mil for a 2 year deal

Considering what's happened so far this summer I'm not getting my Hope's up until he's got an announcement video. Knowing Rudkin this is a smokescreen for the return of Jeffry Schlupp.

Too far to suggest that he is already better than Bobby Reid?

That would be my preferred XI though. Ricardo has more quality on the ball than either Skipp or Ndidi and is quite good defensively as well.

Hermansen Justin Faes Vestergaard Kristiansen Ricardo Winks Fatawu Buonanotte Mavididi Vardy

Marcelino Nunez who assisted the Sara goal is also an excellent dead ball specialist. Yes the goals you linked were well worked but also had an excellent delivery on both. If you look at Sara's assists last season a lot were simply excellent deliveries and not much trickery.

Ipswich have managed to bring in players like Jacob Greaves, Jack Clarke, Smodizcs and we have brought in Okoli, Cordova Reid and Ayew. You cant seriously argue in good faith that we are going for a higher profile of player than Ipswich. They were also linked with players like Ionnadis but at the end of the day they have been able to land far better players for almost the same price.

I have a question for every poster on here who believes that signing players like Ayew = survival in the PL. Where is the evidence? Genuinely what makes you think that adding Ayew to this team will suddenly allow us to start grinding out wins? In Crystal palace's case last season in the 8 games where Ayew did not start they won 6 and lost 2 for a 75% win ratio. In the games where he did start they won 7 drew 10 and lost 13 which is a 23% win ratio. It's not a coincidence that Crystal Palace's run of form last season coincided with Ayew falling out of favour.

Everything you have brought up just highlights how short sighted we are as a club. Norwich scored the most from set pieces last season because they had an excellent dead ball specialist in Gabriel Sara. We have no dead ball specialist at the club and therefore our set pieces do not have the delivery to be effective. Furthermore the entire signing of the Norwich set piece coach based on his record at Norwich seems like poor business as we look disorganised whilst defending set pieces. It almost seems like we looked at Norwich's record and didnt bother to look any further into why it was working out for them I.e. not the set piece coach.

Considering we have spent £25mil on Skipp and £8mil on Ayew £30mil for this guy would be a robbery.

You're in for a shock. Ayew loses the ball as much as any other winger/striker in the league. That's not a strength of his.

£8mil to sign a player on a 2 year contract . PSR wise that's the equivalent of signing a player for £20mil on a 5 year deal. Give us a transfer ban now please FA, we will be a lot better off.

Us not making another transfer this summer is the best business we can do right now. With our transfer team as it is right now we dont want any more transfers being made.

Hopefully no more transfers.

He was really bad whenever he played under Rodgers if we're being honest apart from the odd game. Fair play to him though he has really turned his career around here.

That backwards flick was one of few good things he did. He just gets tackled too easily for me and his passing is sloppy. He has a lot of the same flaws as Mcateer has in his game but if we didnt know their age I would have guessed Cordova Reid was young and inexperienced and Mcateer was the Prem proven one based on their performances in the game.

I forgot Soumare but you're right he was worse than Reid. The gap between Reid and the next worst performer was quite big though.

It's not proper competition though because Reid doesnt have a serious claim to the spot outside of the Prem proven tag. Mavididi is clearly the better player and should be starting on merit. I would understand if we had brought in a good player to compete for the spot but Reid was our worst performer by a margin on Monday. Unless Reid improves significantly from pre season and the Spurs game then even if Mavididi is hungrier in the 10 minutes he comes on/the occasional start we are still worse off as a team because we have to put up with Reid who is worse than a less hungry Mavididi.

Fatawu shouldnt be the barometer for wingers who track back. He is as good defensively as any winger I have seen honestly. Mavididi does actually put in a decent shift defensively, I'm not sure where the idea that he doesnt comes from. I am also not sure that Cordova Reid is any better at tracking back than Mavididi, he certainly didnt help much defensively against Spurs.

you would have thought the same about Cordova Reid starting over Mavididi as well.