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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #30 on: September 06, 2020, 05:33:46 AM »
Last season we were playing every game with 3 players not of PL standard in Midfield and attack. Crucially we never had a PL level centre forward.
So unless that is rectified this window we will go into the next season vulnerable to a relegation campaign.
A slight improvement at RB is not going to do the trick.
I feel if we keep Jack and Douglas,  we will do fine.  If not,  we are fucked
same as last season then, he’ll of a gamble.
Im thinking post covid - we were better. DL was awesome and lifted the team.  Also Konsa lifted his level
One major player injured SJM and we went from just about hanging in there to struggling.
We are still 3 players short of being able to put out a PL level 11.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #31 on: September 06, 2020, 07:04:03 AM »
We will win the league.
Drinkwater is back at Chelsea. No chance

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #32 on: September 06, 2020, 12:15:34 PM »
Read this and weep: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/06/premier-league-2020-21-fans-previews-part-1-arsenal-to-leicester
Jonathan Pilchard says we have no youngsters worth a light ... does the guy know the club at all?

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #33 on: September 06, 2020, 12:16:35 PM »
As things stand, I’d have to agree with the betting companies, most of which have us struggling this year (and most have us odds on for relegation).

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #34 on: September 06, 2020, 12:17:03 PM »
Last season we were playing every game with 3 players not of PL standard in Midfield and attack. Crucially we never had a PL level centre forward.
So unless that is rectified this window we will go into the next season vulnerable to a relegation campaign.
A slight improvement at RB is not going to do the trick.
I feel if we keep Jack and Douglas,  we will do fine.  If not,  we are fucked
same as last season then, he’ll of a gamble.
Im thinking post covid - we were better. DL was awesome and lifted the team.  Also Konsa lifted his level
One major player injured SJM and we went from just about hanging in there to struggling.
We are still 3 players short of being able to put out a PL level 11.
The same could be said of a few clubs, to be fair; but - yes! - we definitely need to improve our first 11 picks.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #35 on: September 06, 2020, 12:35:09 PM »
Two failings last season; 1 gaps and concentration defensively and 2 not killing games off.

The emergence of Luiz and Konsa, the alteration in tactics at the back partly solved the conundrum. McGinn, Grealish and Luiz is a very good midfield indeed.

The 2nd problem is 6 goals from forwards. Wesley might have got another 4 or 5 and depending who they were against, things might have been a lot more comfortable. But we simply failed to kill too many games off and owing to the prevalence of prblem 1 for three quarters of the season, we struggled.

Depending on who we buy up front and out wide, there's a fat lot of difference between 8th and 16th.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #36 on: September 06, 2020, 01:00:16 PM »
Read this and weep: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/06/premier-league-2020-21-fans-previews-part-1-arsenal-to-leicester
Jonathan Pilchard says we have no youngsters worth a light ... does the guy know the club at all?

Clueless.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #37 on: September 06, 2020, 01:07:12 PM »
Read this and weep: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/06/premier-league-2020-21-fans-previews-part-1-arsenal-to-leicester
Jonathan Pilchard says we have no youngsters worth a light ... does the guy know the club at all?

Clueless.
I don't know anything about our yoot but I broadly agree with him otherwise. 

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #38 on: September 06, 2020, 01:09:57 PM »
Quite a lot of the rest are fair points. It's the youth aspect I disagree with. There is a lot of potential in Archer, Vassilev and Ramsey. I can't comment on Barry as I have not seen him play.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #39 on: September 06, 2020, 01:17:07 PM »
All of league 2
All of league 1
Championship plus at least 6 or 7 teams maybe more .8 to 9 teams
As good and better than these overall

Fulham
WBA
Leeds
Palace
Brighton
Crystal Palace
Newcastle

West Ham if they don't buy Tarkowski
And then Maybe:
Sheff Utd if they don't perform as well as last season and we perform better
Burnley if they sell Tarkowski to Leicester.





Offline robbo1874

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #40 on: September 06, 2020, 03:15:58 PM »
Rash making predictions at this stage before a ball’s been kicked and the transfer window doesn’t shut for another month! I’d say we will finish higher than blues 😉

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #41 on: September 06, 2020, 07:20:49 PM »
Quite a lot of the rest are fair points. It's the youth aspect I disagree with. There is a lot of potential in Archer, Vassilev and Ramsey. I can't comment on Barry as I have not seen him play.

Genuine question, but what's Vassilev's potential.  Have only seen him for his brief first team cameo appearances, but what is it that's good about him?

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #42 on: September 06, 2020, 07:22:42 PM »
Quite a lot of the rest are fair points. It's the youth aspect I disagree with. There is a lot of potential in Archer, Vassilev and Ramsey. I can't comment on Barry as I have not seen him play.

Genuine question, but what's Vassilev's potential.  Have only seen him for his brief first team cameo appearances, but what is it that's good about him?

He has a great name.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #43 on: September 06, 2020, 07:27:07 PM »
Smith rates him.

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Re: Teams we'll finish above next season
« Reply #44 on: September 06, 2020, 07:34:35 PM »
Read this and weep: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/06/premier-league-2020-21-fans-previews-part-1-arsenal-to-leicester
Jonathan Pilchard says we have no youngsters worth a light ... does the guy know the club at all?

Clueless.

The Leeds contributor is typically over optimistic about their prospects.   

 


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