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Guest LouBake

Westwood, Loovens , McGugan(if we sign him) and Nuhui? 

 

This combination or any other you prefer ... 

 

Are these players promotion standard? Cant argue with Westwood, Loovens or McGugan for being excellent championship players. 

There is obvious question marks next to our striker options but who would complete the perfect backbone? 

 

 

As a sub-category, will we hang onto our best players ? (Westwood, Lees etc)

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Guest CoryBailey96

Doubt we will lose Westwood. Getting first team play and obviously loves the fans, so we have him at the very least.

 

Otherwise, I feel our backbone is good enough for a promotion push, just need that little extra up front. Be it from Rhodes, or another championship quality striker.

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Westwood, loovens, Lees, semedo and mcgughan are the only players we have who can consistently come up with the goods

Helan, Maguire, Palmer, Hutchinson should be kept in and around the first team

Nuhiu, May, Dielna, Mattock, lavery and Kirkland should be kept on as squad players

Can't really pass comment on 3 new lads

Maghoma, Buxton (due to injuries), madine, coke, Corry and McCabe should all be moved on this summer

We need a right back, 3 wide players, 2 strikers and a centre half this summer

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Guest wayne the owl

Atty is a solid player . Gives us another option and his all round game is sound it's just a shame he flufs his lines so often ...... Saying that he has bagged 9 so far with 3 assists , not bad for one of our forwards lol

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Westwood, our defensive side of the team, plus the likes of Lee and Maguire are good enough for a top half squad at this level.

However we need around 5 or 6 quality additions at least, especially in attacking areas of the team to be a realistic promotion/play-off contender at this level.

We need to sign McGugan and we need players of his quality or better to push on at this level.

 

I'd like to see us sign McGugan plus a better version of Semedo (ideally Massimo Luongo); a pair of decent Championship level creative wingers (like Ben Marshall and James McClean for example) and a pair of quality strikers at this level or at least one experienced proven striker at this level (a Kenwyne Jones type to lead the line) alongside someone with pace.

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Atty is a solid player . Gives us another option and his all round game is sound it's just a shame he flufs his lines so often ...... Saying that he has bagged 9 so far with 3 assists , not bad for one of our forwards lol

He's scored a higher proportion of our goals than most top scorers in the league have of their respective teams'.

It'd be interesting to see how many he'd score if he had half a dozen chances a game, like Murphy/Jerome..etc. rather than one (that he gets absolutely crucified for if he misses!).

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We need a more targeted approach to our summer dealings. Look at the areas where we are short, and address those. Get the nucleus of the team sorted first and then we can upgrade our back up squad once we have the basics in place.

I think we lost our way a little, following the recruitment of Westwood and Lees.

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9 signings required for me...

 

 

GK - Westwood, Kirkland

 

LB - NEW, Dielna, Helan

RB - Palmer, Vermijl

CB - NEW, Lees, Loovens, Zayatte, Dielna

 

DM - Hutchinson, Semedo, Melo

AM - NEW (McGugan), NEW, Lee

W - NEW, NEW, NEW, Helan, Lavery

 

S - NEW, NEW (Keane), Bus, Nuhiu, Lavery, May (possibly send the last two out on short term loans).

 

 

Surplus to requirements:

Dawson

Mattock

Buxton (unless Gray wants to keep him around for cover. Maybe he'll stay injury-free if he doesn't play much?)

McCabe

Corry

Coke

Maguire

Maghoma

 

 

I'm not sure what contracts are left, but assuming we can't sell those with time left on theirs, we'd probably keep them as squad players and bring a couple fewer in.

 

 

The absolute bear minimum is 6 - CB, AM (McGugan), 2 wingers and 2 forwards

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