Watched the league show today. Its dog eat dog down there with lots of big clubs scrapping it out. Im worried VP will become another great away day for a new set of clubs. Being centrally located, thered be big away followings and we'd be the biggest scalp. Our current lambs wouldnt stand a chance
Quote from: TheMalandro on January 03, 2016, 11:31:15 AMAs much as they didn't fit into our plans. I regret Lowton and Weimann leaving now.Lowton can't get in the Burnley team and Weimann has 3 goals. These aren't the players you are looking for, move along.
As much as they didn't fit into our plans. I regret Lowton and Weimann leaving now.
One thing O'Neil did was establish a means to an end. He brought pace into the side, height and somebody capable of delivering the ball. He opined that if you have ten dead ball opportunities per game then they shouldn't be wasted. If you can go back to front very quickly, then the opposition has to sacrifice territory. If you're strong out wide, then you need to be good in the air. We had a style, which at home could be blunted, but nonetheless was effective.We've had no discernable means since. We've spent a lot of money, but it's a scattergun approach and a hotchpotch mesh of different managers half baked ideas.We need to address this for next season and we should start now.The Championship is poor quality. Watch the games on Sky and see for yourself. The pace isn't any quicker, it'd just more frenetic because there is less quality on the ball. The best sides always come up. When they say it's a tough league, they mean it's a poor one blunt of quality.We will be the biggest club down there, with the biggest wage budget and likely one of the biggest transfer budgets too, depending on who joins us in the drop. The name Aston Villa holds currency, as would Newcastle, in a way Hull or QPR never will. Use this financial and physical size advantage to target players.The way I see it, Gestede offers very little outside the box. He's a championship player and he bagged 20 which tells you a lot. Amavi and Ayew have excellent delivery, but we are short up front in this league and we'd be short in most. A few pages back somebody categorised the two characteristics I think the side should have to come back up; pace and power. Flood the forward areas with pace, control territory for set pieces or crosses and Gestede will actually be an asset. We need more mobility though and a couple of quick forwards would be ideal. I am not the best at examples, but the Palace lad we were linked with; quick and direct, somebody to get the opposition to face their own goal more often than not and get squared up. That would at least be a second dimension to our attacking play.Ayew may well get poached but it won't be cheap. If he stays I would suggest one fast winger, if he goes, then two. Again, as examples, Hoillet, Philips, Puncheon, players of that ilk with experience of the league would be useful. Added I to Sinclair, whose delivery I don't think is good enough for this league, I think we'd force a lot of sides to sit very deep and away from home let us go back to front like the ONeill days. Sinclair has done well in that league before and would weigh in with goals. Equally, Traore would be an asset and you'd have four quick wide men to get you through a long season. We would also have greater capacity given our turnover (albeit reduced) and size under the rules to put together forward options like that.Gil and Grealish I think we'd keep and may be able to provide guile and flair but only if the platform behind them is provided. Sanchez is powerful enough, but isn't good enough and cannot be trusted to cover the back four. We need a big horrible git in there to really provide steel to the spine. Jedinak is your typical horrible Aussie and I'd welcome him, or somebody like him. That type of player would complement Veretout and his industry. We are too soft and easy to defend against, sides should find it physically difficult first and foremost to.play against us; pace and power are a must to let the extra quality we have flourish.You can take a broom to the back five. Amavi I like, Okore if he could string games together offers potential, but the rest are garbage.
Can't see Benteke lasting very long at Pool, still getting goals but looks a shadow of his best, Collins of all players dominated him on Saturday.
Tomd, I think the Noses game was very telling. Ayew's movement second half ripped them apart and couldn't live with our quick passing. They're pushing for promotion and offered nothing.I get that there is no confidence at the moment, but I just cannot see why people think we will drop through the leagues. My previous post wasn't anything particularly novel, but highlighted a way and means of taking on that league and going for the title, which has to be the aim.Financially, we are significantly stronger than any of the teams down there, so we will be capable of squad renewal to buy the firepower necessary.The defence needs a lot of work and I think we should be aiming for a mixture of big, physical and experienced championship centre half with a blend of younger players capable of carrying on their development after promotion. I'd start the work now. Next year's keeper, holding midfielder and centre half. If there are loan deals to be done then have a go, but I think we need to be bigger, stronger (dare I say snide) and faster. With players like Veretout, Amavi, Ayew supplemented by a new spine, then the flair players like Grealish, Gil and Traore will have a big impact. Without wishing to labour the point, Sinclair and Gestede were big successes in that league, even poor players like Westwood may have a limited role to offer.
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