He had Championship clubs offering him two year deals.
I’m not totally on board with it but not a chance in hell he was signing for us on a one year deal.
Stokes was really good against us in the cup games last year and had a great first half of the season but tailed off quite a bit once signed by Bristol City and loaned back, scoring just three goals in the NL after we hit January.
I agree with the poster above that I’d have thought L2 would...
Yeah I agree.
Let’s remember we’re coming off the back of a shambles of a pre-season (everything but recruitment) where there has be no chance for the new squad to gel coming into the opener with 10 players out injured and quite a few that did play severely undercooked.
Despite that we could...
We didn’t see much of him at all and that was despite us having huge injury problems in midfield.
His uncle came on our forum telling us how lucky we were to have him when he signed him. He was told how deluded he was and how he’d be a squad player and usually teenagers out on their first loans...
And where did you finish?
We scored five against you with 35 per cent of the ball towards the end of last season. It could have easily been 10 that night. Time and time again your ‘wing backs’ were exposed.
Why can’t your wingers play as wingers in a balanced system and still rack up the...
Madness that your continuing with your ‘let’s play wingers who can’t defend as wingbacks, push them high up the pitch and constantly concede five goals and wonder why’ tactic.
It seems from the press release we’ve signed him primarily as a winger despite us favouring wing backs and Fevrier mainly playing as one last season.
Similarly we’ve signed Mingi to play on the right of a back three so it’s looking like 343 might be our chosen formation next season.
I’m not sure you’ll be freeing up as much as you think. I should imagine they will want some extra money thrown there way to leave as no club is matching the contracts you’ve given them.
Agree with 95 per cent of what Stocky says about Sarcevic put I would put a bigger question mark on his ability to stay fit.
Year on year he’s spent more time out injured and given his age that would be a worry. He’s always really rusty on his return as well.
It’s so weird the way we won the league. A 12 game winning streak in autumn and then an 8 game winning streak at the end of the season. We either looked unbeatable or very average.
Having said we did reach 92 points despite having the worst injury riddled season I’ve ever seen the club have so...