Gaz_Gammon
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- Apr 16, 2005
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Okidoki..
I have cooled off a wee bit.
The obvious thing to all by now should be the weakness of the squad depth and the lack of leadership when things don't go our way. There were glimpses today of that Chel$ea match from last season and the final day debacle at Newcastle, indiscipline, lack of focus and lack of ideas.
We are in need of one or two experienced players who can glue this young side together when things don't go according to plan. We have seen piss poor performances in the CL, the run in last season at Newcastle and against sides that come to fight.
The transfers over the past two seasons have in some cases been quite baffling and wasteful to say the least. For a club that would win the Cup for transfer prudence year in year out, we need to either go all in on a player we need for the first team or promote from within because half our current bench that cost over fifty million quid, couldn't change a light bulb let alone the outcome of a game.
I am all for the philosophy of the club, it's Chairman and Manager, but if these current crop of youngsters cannot see light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to playing the perennial top four or five sides then they like a raft of other great players we have groomed over the years might, just might start to become unsettled and thats something none of us wants to see.
It's all well and good looking at what Poch has put together in two and a half short seasons, but we are desperately in need of some quality signings, and that much was evident today and not for the first time this season.
I have cooled off a wee bit.
The obvious thing to all by now should be the weakness of the squad depth and the lack of leadership when things don't go our way. There were glimpses today of that Chel$ea match from last season and the final day debacle at Newcastle, indiscipline, lack of focus and lack of ideas.
We are in need of one or two experienced players who can glue this young side together when things don't go according to plan. We have seen piss poor performances in the CL, the run in last season at Newcastle and against sides that come to fight.
The transfers over the past two seasons have in some cases been quite baffling and wasteful to say the least. For a club that would win the Cup for transfer prudence year in year out, we need to either go all in on a player we need for the first team or promote from within because half our current bench that cost over fifty million quid, couldn't change a light bulb let alone the outcome of a game.
I am all for the philosophy of the club, it's Chairman and Manager, but if these current crop of youngsters cannot see light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to playing the perennial top four or five sides then they like a raft of other great players we have groomed over the years might, just might start to become unsettled and thats something none of us wants to see.
It's all well and good looking at what Poch has put together in two and a half short seasons, but we are desperately in need of some quality signings, and that much was evident today and not for the first time this season.
