Squad for the Championship

[MrsJohnMurphy]

Will Nathaniel Opoku be an option for next year?

[st albans fox]

Watching sheff u v Leeds and both have benches better than ours now !

[K789]

Whatever we do. Never ever hamza at rb. He's been absolutely dreadful. Oblivious to any runner

[Iwebema]

That Sheffield United team is awful and they are somehow 2nd. This is the reason why I can't see how we aren't a play off team next year, the league is really poor.

[OntarioFox]

10 hours ago, Iwebema said:

That Sheffield United team is awful and they are somehow 2nd. This is the reason why I can't see how we aren't a play off team next year, the league is really poor.

Thing is, this Premier League, or at least the bottom half of it, is also probably the worst it's been quality-wise in 20 years. And yet we're still sat here wondering if we'll be caught by a team flirting with Derby's record. We're bad. Really bad. Worse than two years ago.

 

Yeah the gap is big and growing, but clubs in as dire a position as our own don't always bounce back in the way we did in 23-24. I doubt we have a Luton-style second relegation on the cards, but I don't think anyone here would be surprised to see us rooted in mid-table and obsessing all season over how 'two good weeks' could see us push for sixth.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Just now, st albans fox said:

Watching sheff u v Leeds and both have benches better than ours now !

I bet you couldn't name 3 players (other than Hamza and Cannon) on the two benches combined without looking. 

[DezFox]

12 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

Thing is, this Premier League, or at least the bottom half of it, is also probably the worst it's been quality-wise in 20 years. And yet we're still sat here wondering if we'll be caught by a team flirting with Derby's record. We're bad. Really bad. Worse than two years ago.

 

Yeah the gap is big and growing, but clubs in as dire a position as our own don't always bounce back in the way we did in 23-24. I doubt we have a Luton-style second relegation on the cards, but I don't think anyone here would be surprised to see us rooted in mid-table and obsessing all season over how 'two good weeks' could see us push for sixth.

Where are the statistics showing that the bottom half of the premier league is awful this year? Worst it’s been? Says who? A bottom half with Tottenham, Utd and a really progressive Brentford. I think that’s abit of a sweeping statement to be fair. 

[st albans fox]

41 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

I bet you couldn't name 3 players (other than Hamza and Cannon) on the two benches combined without looking. 

Obviously I could cos I watched the game and saw the subs come on 

no idea who didn’t come on - although Leeds didn’t bring on the tricky small left winger they seem to rotate with gnonto when making the change taking off Solomon. 

 

[st albans fox]

11 hours ago, K789 said:

Whatever we do. Never ever hamza at rb. He's been absolutely dreadful. Oblivious to any runner

He was brought on to take care of Solomon who began to run the sheff u left back ragged back end first half 

he did that - Solomon did very little second half.   But watching Solomon so closely mean that he didn’t see firpo arrive late for the headed equaliser.  Shoud, have been picked up by brereton Diaz but wasn’t so hamza needed to spot it. 
hamza looked better than most players on the sheff u team with his early/first time play of the ball.  

Edited 25 February by st albans fox

[AKCJ]

Green = Look to keep/nobody will be interested.

Amber = Actively look to sell.

Red = Release/don't extend loan.

 

Danny Ward
James Justin
Wout Faes

Conor Coady
Caleb Okoli
Wilfred Ndidi
Abdul Fatawu
Harry Winks
Jamie Vardy
Stephy Mavididi
Bilal El Khannouss
Bobby De Cordova-Reid
Harry Souttar
Victor Kristiansen
Jordan Ayew
Patson Daka
Ricardo Pereira
Oliver Skipp
Jannik Vestergaard
Boubakary Soumaré
Woyo Coulibaly
Odsonne Édouard
Mads Hermansen
Daniel Iversen
Luke Thomas
Michael Golding
Kasey McAteer
Facundo Buonanotte
Jakub Stolarczyk
Sammy Braybrooke

Edited 25 February by AKCJ

[LVFox]

Firesale of the ageing crap we have and those who won't want to be here. Bring in some of the best young talents in the efl.

 

Sell

Hermansen

Justin

Coady

Ricardo

Kristiansen 

Soumare

Ndidi

Ayew

BDCR

Daka

 

Loan out Bilal and Okoli

 

Bring in

Alfie Gilchrist 

Teden Mengi

Alfie Doughty

Lennon Miller

Wouter Burger

Kwame Poku

Anis Mehmeti 

Richard Kone

Mathias Kvistgaarden 

Miles Leaburn 

[Les-TA-Jon]

 

The squad is a right mess. 

 

[LVFox]

2 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

 

The squad is a right mess. 

 

Do we know how likely Hamza is to go permanently to Sheff U? Is there an obligation if they go up?

[Les-TA-Jon]

3 minutes ago, LVFox said:

Do we know how likely Hamza is to go permanently to Sheff U? Is there an obligation if they go up?

They have an option to sign, not an obligation

[OntarioFox]

9 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

 

The squad is a right mess. 

 

Marcal is contracted until 2026? Good lord, he was at best a squad player at Championship level and was dropped by Maresca in favour of having two keepers on the bench with questions around attitude. Completely missed that he'd been given an extension weeks later and he's been a bit-part on loan at a second division Dutch side this year. 

 

Even when it was good under Enzo it seems we learned nothing about handing bloated contracts out like sweets. By all rights he should have been one of those due to have to find a new club this summer.

 

Edited 25 February by OntarioFox

[filthyfox]

On 27/12/2024 at 06:32, Aus Fox said:

Don’t forget Janik and has 3 year deal. No one is taking him off our hands and paying the wages we’re giving him for 3 years.

This, in itself is absolutely CRIMINAL!

[Les-TA-Jon]

5 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

Marcal is contracted until 2026? Good lord, he was at best a squad player at Championship level and was dropped by Maresca in favour of having two keepers on the bench with questions around attitude. Completely missed that he'd been given an extension weeks later and he's been a bit-part on loan at a second division Dutch side this year. 

 

Even when it was good under Enzo it seems we learned nothing about handing bloated contracts out like sweets. By all rights he should have been one of those due to have to find a new club this summer.

 

Think he's the least of out problems. Probably on a very small wage. 

[SuperMike]

7 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

 

The squad is a right mess. 

 

So the only player you'd offer a new deal is Soumare? A lazy player with an awful attitude whose only 'run' in the first team has seen ten defeats in eleven games? Someone who gives the defence no help (slowly jogging back after giving the ball away) and who offers little or nothing going forward? I know we are all entitled to our own opinions but I would seriously put him alongside Junior Lewis in the running for the worst player to ever wear the shirt.

[Les-TA-Jon]

Just now, filthyfox said:

This, in itself is absolutely CRIMINAL!

Given we only had the money to sign Okoli in the summer, we'd be even more short of defenders had we not re-signed Vestergaard. Don't forget he was a mainstay under Maresca and was the ball playing CB for his system. The new deal was offered and signed whilst Maresca was manager too. 

 

It's not great that we're lumbered with him. But there wasn't really an alternative. 

[surrifox]

2 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

This, in itself is absolutely CRIMINAL!

He’ll be OK in the EFL 

[Les-TA-Jon]

1 minute ago, SuperMike said:

So the only player you'd offer a new deal is Soumare? A lazy player with an awful attitude whose only 'run' in the first team has seen ten defeats in eleven games? Someone who gives the defence no help (slowly jogging back after giving the ball away) and who offers little or nothing going forward? I know we are all entitled to our own opinions but I would seriously put him alongside Junior Lewis in the running for the worst player to ever wear the shirt.

Note that I'm not the DOF.

 

I'm not a huge fan of his. He definitely isn't a defensive midfielder. But at times he's looked one of our better midfielders this season. He's about the only one who can progress the ball from box to box. All the players with 1 year left you either have to sell, offer a new deal or accept they'll be leaving on a free. 

 

He's about the only one on that list that could get better, so a new deal could make sense. 

[Lesterlad]

26 minutes ago, LVFox said:

Firesale of the ageing crap we have and those who won't want to be here. Bring in some of the best young talents in the efl.

 

Sell

Hermansen

Justin

Coady

Ricardo

Kristiansen 

Soumare

Ndidi

Ayew

BDCR

Daka

 

Loan out Bilal and Okoli

 

Bring in

Alfie Gilchrist 

Teden Mengi

Alfie Doughty

Lennon Miller

Wouter Burger

Kwame Poku

Anis Mehmeti 

Richard Kone

Mathias Kvistgaarden 

Miles Leaburn 

Why would anyone want to loan out Bilal he will be out best player

[moore_94]

28 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

 

The squad is a right mess. 

 

Skipp until 2029

 

 

Edited 25 February by moore_94

[moore_94]

30 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

 

The squad is a right mess. 

 

As long as the rest of his season with Cardiff goes well, and it has started well, I would be keeping Alves

 

Soumare needs selling

 

Can’t see Souttar being a sellable asset when he won’t be back until around Christmas

 

Would be looking to sell McAteer as well

Edited 25 February by moore_94

[Aus Fox]

12 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Given we only had the money to sign Okoli in the summer, we'd be even more short of defenders had we not re-signed Vestergaard. Don't forget he was a mainstay under Maresca and was the ball playing CB for his system. The new deal was offered and signed whilst Maresca was manager too. 

 

It's not great that we're lumbered with him. But there wasn't really an alternative. 

3 years! For a 32 year old who was shabby at best in his previous stint in the PL. 

A one year deal was the alternative, and make him earn a further year with performances.

We had Ben Nelson, who was an other option, we had Harry Souttar, we most certainly had other options than Vestergaard for 3 fooking years.