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And therein lies the bloody problem.

 

I don't disagree but we've all said how poor the squad depth is this year and now we're advocating for more outgoings than incomings. we definitely need to freshen up the squad but we can't release players without better replacements.

 

We have the quantity, not the quality. We have 26 players who have featured this season. Ok, a few are kids but they havent been the worst players!!! Id say Staunton and Cousin-Dawson two of the better.

Id be absolutely fine if the 6/7 mentioned went and we brought only 3/4 in. I think we are ok for bodies, its the strength in depth we lack.

We cant get much worse than BRE, DMH, Samuels and Guthrie. Id take that risk. They are simply appalling.

 

A fair assessment. But for me he was released by Accrington. He did ok at the start but Bowyers negative tactics probably protected him. Hes shot this season. Time to go.

 

Yes I agree about BRE. When he signed I thought we'd signed the bully we had been missing. The problem is that although he isn't slow he gets turned too easily and more importantly he doesn't look comfortable with the ball at his feet. The two O'Connors look a better bet at the moment, in the last five games they look safe and seem to know eachother's game.

 

On the plus side, severance pay doesn’t count towards the salary cap so we could pay off the shite and free up space for better players.

 

I agree that like many others, he didn't do well under Stuart and we might see a different player under T&S, but we aren't really at the stage where we can afford to be charitable to young unproven players. Getting Guthrie and/or Don off the wage bill will be harder than terminating Samuels loan and if that has to happen in order for us to bring in better, so be it.

 

Maybe we could re kindle the pre season interest we had for Guthrie
Weren't we lead to believe we turned down offers for him

 

Yes, the Peckham plumbers wanted him and so did itv for a remake of auf weidersein pet as a pc version of oz

 

To be fair I was going to write club rather than squad!

 

Ok, first of all lets not look at the internet and see ex players scoring goals then think all these players were good for us. Recent times the forwards that have done well for us are: Wells, Hanson and Wyke. Some mate say Clarke but we have him back. That's it! The Oteh, the Patrick's were rubbish for us. Oteh has scored what 4 goals this season. Mate, nothing to write home about.

Players might go to other clubs and do a little better than they did for us because they might get more game time but remember playing for Bradford City isn't just about playing in front of a 8-14k fan base, its a big club in the lower leagues with a lot of pressure on it. Some players can't handle the pressure and don't produce the goods.

Then reason my clubs recall their players or the Austin should go back is because he's better off scoring goals at Wolves under 23's or find a smaller club with less pressure like Stevenage which he can relax more and gain more confidence.

If I was doing a presentation to the PL Clubs I would be saying if your players want or learn about handling pressure then they should join us but don't send players that can't handle it as we don't want them.

We need players that can cut it! Austin isn't for us and we are not for him. Send him back!

 

agree about writing players off, but Samuels isnt ours and isnt working here so would send him back to free up a squad place. we have no time to let him come good and needed a first team ready striker not a project

 

It's a shame really because if we had a Staunton/FCD equivalent who was attacking/striker then he'd be getting the odd bit of time here and there and we probably wouldn't have Samuels. Shame really that the current group of young ones are all defenders/central midfielders

 

We are not a CHARITY!!!

 

Novak is perfectly good for the level we are playing at, he just needs someone else to put the ball in the net at a similar rate.
The Don and Gutherie are not the answer. Samuels i would hang on to for now , especially if he is only a bit part player/ third or fourth striker, even more so if Wolves are paying most of his salary, he must have something to be part of a premier league academy.

 

Didnt realise scott sellars ( connor's dad) is academy manager and former under 23 manager at wolves. I wonder if he can figure out a way of samuels going back and at the least cost to city

 

Depending upon what we can get in the (ridiculous) January window, the loss of BRE, Guthrie, Longridge, DMH off the slate would free up a lot more for potential signings. But my major beef is with the EFL. We're in a pandemic, a lot of clubs are on their uppers, we've never experienced anything like this before. And yet! The EFL continue with this January window madness. For f's sake, we're in the middle of really difficult times. Open up the transfer season so that it's all year long. I can't believe the EFL have been so crass and so short sighted. No window! Transfers allowable throughout the season.

 

With S and T's obvious knowledge of the youth teams I would not be in the least surprised to see a couple of young loanees come in. Lets hope they are of the Burke/O'Brian/Cullen variety.

 

Three ex players that no-one would be sorry to see rejoin (apart from @Fordy117)

 

You should get on the phone to Lee Turnbull, he could do with a man of your expertise.