Is the Team/Squad balanced?

[Londonlisa2001]

Multiple people on here have said this and I am sure the club has in their statements. But our transfers do not actually reflect this that much.

Wales is the only very young player we signed this summer.
Burgess experienced and with no relate value.
Idah expensive, approaching the middle of his career and will be hard to sell on for more.
Casey, Samuel Smith, Yalcouye and Benson on loan so no resale.
Galbraith is potentially one, because he looks so good and was so cheap.
Inoussa maybe but it is not like he is a teenager. Same with Widell and Stamenic. If they need a year to get up to speed then they will soon be getting less attractive for Premier League teams to spend money on them.
Santos has been a shocking signing as he was signed for short term back up and has missed six months of that short term.

Our average age is young because we have a lot of players who are twenty three to twenty six but our youngest player contracted to us is twenty three and we are not playing teenagers and most other teams are playing players who are younger than ours alongside more older players.

They absolutely reflect the player trading model that we operate.

Buying players who are making a step up in this country, or a transition from another country or whose career is stuttering a little for whatever reason is prime profitable territory.

The only one who doesn’t fit that profile is Burgess and he was bought as we had to fill a huge hole.

It’s only when they approach 30 that you won’t see the big profits even if they perform well.

This summer, Inoussa, Widell, Galbraith, Stamenic, Idah, Wales have all been identified as ‘undervalue’ for varying reasons. Eom, Ronald, Vipotnik, Franco also fall into the model.

They don’t need to go to the PL for the model to work. Obviously if one or two do that, the profits will be higher, but buying a player for £2m, selling him for £7m in a year or so is good business. If only one gets £20m then it’s a huge success.
Doesn’t mean our team works though.

 

[tardylum]

This summer, Inoussa, Widell, Galbraith, Stamenic, Idah, Wales have all been identified as ‘undervalue’ for varying reasons. Eom, Ronald, Vipotnik, Franco also fall into the model.

I understand it with last seasons transfers more. Idah for example feels like we may have paid near the top of his value.

 

[Gors Buster]

We’ve played a system where we try to dominate the ball for years and, when we have an outlet/aim/target in some pace out wide, we’ve generally done well and we’re all entertained.
We haven’t had a decent threat out wide since Dan James.
When was the last time our keeper caught the ball and got us moving quickly? Pre pandemic probably.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

I understand it with last seasons transfers more. Idah for example feels like we may have paid near the top of his value.

We didn’t pay anywhere near what is being reported on Idah.

 

[monmouth]

We’ve played a system where we try to dominate the ball for years and, when we have an outlet/aim/target in some pace out wide, we’ve generally done well and we’re all entertained.
We haven’t had a decent threat out wide since Dan James.
When was the last time our keeper caught the ball and got us moving quickly? Pre pandemic probably.

Nah, Vig has done it by kick and throw. There was one beautiful skimming punt to Tymon that ended in a goal or big chance. It’s only be once or twice though. Normally he holds on and waits until the other team is fully set, they nod ‘ok’ to him, and then rolls it to Burgess.

 

[Gors Buster]

Nah, Vig has done it by kick and throw. There was one beautiful skimming punt to Tymon that ended in a goal or big chance. It’s only be once or twice though. Normally he holds on and waits until the other team is fully set, they nod ‘ok’ to him, and then rolls it to Burgess.

Yes that was a cracker.
Not meant as a slight at our goalies, just at our lack of adventure and sadly, ability.

The guys around us lost it on Saturday when Inoussa broke clear. Everyone was probably thinking “go on son, you’re through here, one on one”.
6 seconds later the ball was back with Burgess and they’d regrouped into 2 banks of four.
It’s all the time mun, hesitation trumps ambition. You know what’s going to happen.

 

[monmouth]

Yes that was a cracker.
Not meant as a slight at our goalies, just at our lack of adventure and sadly, ability.

The guys around us lost it on Saturday when Inoussa broke clear. Everyone was probably thinking “go on son, you’re through here, one on one”.
6 seconds later the ball was back with Burgess and they’d regrouped into 2 banks of four.
It’s all the time mun, hesitation trumps ambition. You know what’s going to happen.

Aye, I went nuts at the time on the match thread at that. It was us in microcosm.

I wasn’t disagreeing that we don’t shift the ball fast enough from Vig to every single other player. Plus this nonsense of having your goalkeeper and central defenders as the main distributors gets right on my wick.

 

[tardylum]

We didn’t pay anywhere near what is being reported on Idah.

The 40k figure was clearly Celtic trying to save face but he would have been on a substantial wage there without any reason to take a cut so I can imagine it is between 25-35k and people seem to think the fee was somewhere around 5m with clauses. I think he will score goals and do fine for us but I would not see him as a player signed for resale. More just a player signed for now and performances.

 

[Menston4128]

Yes that was a cracker.
Not meant as a slight at our goalies, just at our lack of adventure and sadly, ability.

The guys around us lost it on Saturday when Inoussa broke clear. Everyone was probably thinking “go on son, you’re through here, one on one”.
6 seconds later the ball was back with Burgess and they’d regrouped into 2 banks of four.
It’s all the time mun, hesitation trumps ambition. You know what’s going to happen.

What you describe is something that is happening right across football espically in the Premier League and as sure as night follows day the Championship will copy the Premier League.

How many players (espically fullbacks and wide players) do you see break forwards with the ball and then stop and turn back towards their own goal and recycle (hate that phrase) the ball.

Stupid thing is that it's so counter productive and just gives the opposition time to re-group and settle into their low block (hate that phrase too).

It's killed football as we knew it.