newyddion
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NonsenseOnce it became clear that we were replacing our prestige loans plus Chuba with relatively low cost prospects the chances of making the play-offs this season became very slim. It is the classic taking 1 step back so that (hopefully) we can take 2 steps forward into the promised land. That said, we were still one of the highest spending teams this summer so Carrick does have access to a squad that looks like it is strong enough for somewhere between 6th-10th. The injury crisis though is ludicrous.
If you break down our main players by current level this season and potential level next season then I reckon you get something like
Premier > Premier: Hackney, O'Brien
Top Championship > Champ/Premier: Dieng, McGree?
Top Championship > stay the same or minor improvement/decline: Fry, Lenihan, Clarke, Forss, McNair
Mid Championship > could improve: Lath, Greenwood, Jones, Coburn, RVDB, Engel
Mid Championship > stay the same or get worse: Howson, Barlaser, Dijksteel, Crooks, Smith
Lower championship > could improve: Rogers, Silvera, Bangura,
Unknown: Gilbert, Nkrumah etc
Basically, given a whole season there's a fair number of our squad who could improve significantly. Without massive investment in January I don't see the squad presently being good enough to make the play-offs due to the stupid number of injuries we've had so the focus has to be on improving what we already have as far as possible.
Hackney is not ready for the premier league
O'Brien was loaned out from a newly promoted premier league club
Dieng & McGree could play in the prem
Fry, Lenihan, Clarke, Forss, McNair all top championship when fit without question.
Lath, Greenwood, Jones, Coburn, RVDB, Engel are all top championship with premier league potential.
Howson, Barlaser, Dijksteel, Crooks, Smith.. all solid top performers at the top of the championship
Rogers, Silvera, Bangura.. young players with top division careers ahead of them
Gilbert, Nkrumah etc blah blah blah
We need to replace Cameron Archer and we need cover for Tommy Smith and Darragh Lenihan
3 cute loans would do it..