Fabrice29

Real David Moyes vibes from this

They signed him when they were in the PL to be fair.

We have a whole squad of these ffs 😂 The desire for us to sign someone now that you’ll be concluding isn’t good enough for the PL and needs replacing if we go up is off the charts on here.

Appeared to be playing centrally at one point based on those highlights today. His best position going forward for me.

Obviously ffs That's the point I'm making. You don't need "seasoned professionals" you need people to be good at identify translatable skills into the league you are in.

Make your mind up on the math. But no, I named the 7 players that came with PL experience and performances that satisfied some, including you, when signed. You can disagree if you like. Point I was making stands imho. "Seasoned professionals" isn't something we've ignored and isn't the magic bullet to success.

You seemed reasonably satisfied with BBD experience when we signed him Which is kind of the point I'm making. We've signed so called quality as well and sometimes they also don't work out. Think we need to just get better at recruitment overall, rather than think the answer is in proven quality/season professionals which can also struggle to translate to good performances in a bad team. There is risks either way.

Well you didn't say premier league quality firstly but Ramsdale, Lallana, Fraser, Cornet, BBD, Archer, Taylor all had at the very least respectable PL seasons behind them.

I reckon at least 7 of our signings last summer could be considered "seasoned professionals" so not sure we've ignored them tbh.

All this does/would do is leave you over paying players who haven't played or under paying players who have played and played well. Which isn't a culture thats going to attract good talents. Other than that, top idea.

Will Smallbone could be the fittest player in the club and league for all I know. He could be able to replicate his top skills consistently more than anyone over a longer period of time. That's fitness to me. He undoubtedly isn't the strongest or quickest though which would be physicality to me. I never thought anyone apart from Onuachu and Fernandes occasionally looked like they were out on their feet last season, so I had no issues with fitness. Did I see the majority of the squad get bullied physically? Yep, 100%. I think that lies in recruiting more physical players, not boosting players fitness.

I dont think fitness and conditioning are the same as "quality, physicality or intensity" fwiw.

The idea that we were unfit last time we were in the Championship considering our record in the final parts of the game stands up pretty well that season is about as on point with the idea that we didn't attack teams in that season too.

No moving on here. Go speak to a therapist about it, or your daughter if you have one.

One of the first posts in this thread is you 3 years ago laughing at the idea of people enjoying womens football and dismissing the idea that they should have a certain amount of media coverage. Rather than ignore the thing you don't like, you continue to make the same point 3 years later, on a semi regular basis. I can only assume it makes you feel good to continue to make that point because there doesn't appear to be any other motive behind it?