God we missed Schneiderlin

[Legod Third Coming]

For me, when at full strength we have one excellent CM (Morgan), and one average (Hammond). When Morgan is out that leaves us with an average CM and then take your pick from Wotton and James - neither are great options.

 

I applaud Hammond as someone who works hard, but he doesnt have any creativity about him and next season, hopefully we can bring in another quality CM to play alongside Morgan. Hammond would be a great squad player in L1.

 

Shame we didnt get Danns if the rumours were true.

 

I think you need a hard worker like Hammond, but for my money he can go missing - but then people will tell me I don't see what's been doing so who knows... However, we desperately need another creative central midfielder who can link up play. That's what Morgan does brilliantly.

[saint-crinny]

I think you need a hard worker like Hammond, but for my money he can go missing - but then people will tell me I don't see what's been doing so who knows... However, we desperately need another creative central midfielder who can link up play. That's what Morgan does brilliantly.

 

You do need a hard worker, but if we had a hard working creative CM in there with Morgan, Morgan could sit deep. You don't need to be crunching into big tackles to be a good defensive CM - Morgan reads the game so well and makes a number of well timed interceptions.

 

Plus, particularly at home games like last night, we see so much of the ball that the need for someone like Hammond is minimal compared to a scrap on a horrible pitch away from SMS.

 

I'm sure Pards is well aware of it though and will be looking for creative CMs in the summer.We've got the money to attract someone decent from the Championship as we showed with Fonte

[Legod Third Coming]

You do need a hard worker, but if we had a hard working creative CM in there with Morgan, Morgan could sit deep. You don't need to be crunching into big tackles to be a good defensive CM - Morgan reads the game so well and makes a number of well timed interceptions.

 

Plus, particularly at home games like last night, we see so much of the ball that the need for someone like Hammond is minimal compared to a scrap on a horrible pitch away from SMS.

 

I'm sure Pards is well aware of it though and will be looking for creative CMs in the summer.We've got the money to attract someone decent from the Championship as we showed with Fonte

 

If we can get someone of his quality, we are laughing. He is a very class act.

[Chez]

If he does leave in summer, I'd be disappointed, but he is not as important as Lambert, Lallana or Fonte IMO. Our problem is the Wotton and James are very poor. We've had players in recent years like Oakley and Safi who have played that role just as well.

 

but didn't we struggle after each of those three players left? Losing Morgan in the summer would be a serious problem.

[jam]

but didn't we struggle after each of those three players left? Losing Morgan in the summer would be a serious problem.

 

I think there are three key players who I think we might sweat on this close season: Lambert, Lallana and Morgan.

 

Out of those I think Morgan is the most likely to leave and will probably be hardest to replace.

[NickG]

I think there are three key players who I think we might sweat on this close season: Lambert, Lallana and Morgan.

 

Out of those I think Morgan is the most likely to leave and will probably be hardest to replace.

 

agree