02 Dec 2025 12:05:59
I feel EFC keep making the same mistakes. Very strange recruitment.
We sign players who don’t appear PL ready (Dibling, Barry, Aznou) when we are not replacing the obvious voids in squad.
Clear we have needed a right back for years - Coleman / Patterson should have retired / left in summer.
Guaye will need replacing soon and would have thought given AFCON would have been a good season to bed someone in / share role this season - against Newcastle shows how soft we are without him.
We need a proven premier league striker - players at Wolves, Botnmouth, Brighton, Brentford etc that we could have signed if went early end of season instead of Barry.
Moreover our style - it needs speeding up and has done for years - there is no speed in midfield and all players hold the ball up - not helped by our full backs not being good enough and not overlapping.
I do think we have basis for a decent team but need to sign 1-2 players who will make difference rather than 7-8 with 5-6 of them being potential - we are not at that stage - we need first team players - did you see our bench against Newcastle- it’s very poor.
{Ed025's Note - absolutely spot on Sobs..
02 Dec 2025 18:06:13
Been the same for years Sobs and when we’ve signed a ‘premier league’ standard player, it’s been the likes of Young, McNeil or Maupay.
At least KDH and Jack were an improvement. It was criminal we didn’t do a proper job getting a striker in. Look at Woltemart getting on at Newcastle - I wonder if we were seriously linked with him in the summer.
{Ed025's Note - he did not have "potential" BR, he was the finished article so we avoided him like the plague mate..