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I cannot wait to see how Sullivan and Moyes try to justify this. Next season is going to be really tough with Villa and Newcastle spending big. Wolves look to have bounced back, Arsenal seem to be improving under Arteta.
The last two windows have been out chance to consolidate our position as top six contenders. And, IMO, we've absolutely blown it. You can't afford to stand still in this league, and it's exactly what we've done.
Happy to eat humble pie if we stay in the top 6, but just don't get not replacing Haller 12 months later.
We are still 5th, at least until everyone has played the same number of matches, but we’ve not been that good for the last few matches and yet the fans have been fully behind them. It will be interesting to see how they react if we start to drop down the league and pick up a couple of key injuries because any excuses the club trot out won’t wash.
Fact, we will have to rest players occasionally.
Fact, I will remain annoyed that we haven't bought a striker to replace Haller.
Worse things have happened in my life.
Fab
Coufal Dawson Zouma Cresswell
Rice Soucek
Bowen Fornals Benrahma
Antonio
The shadow XI, who might be needed at any given moment, is:
Areola
Johnson Diop Alese Masuaku
Noble Kral
Yarmolenko Lanzini Vlasic
Perkins
How many of this second eleven would people have confidence in starting a PL or knock-EL game? For me, it's only four. At a push. If we lose Zouma (again) or Cresswell (again), or Bowen, or Antonio for any length of time, our season is shot. And that is 100% on Sullivan and Moyes.
Unnecessary, unforgivable and completely avoidable.
Moyes had a lot of credit in the bank, but he's dropped in my estimation recently. Complaining about having to play Antonio every game, complaining about a lack of energy in the team, but doing very little to mitigate it.
Antonio plays for Jamaica on Thursday, by the way. An injury feels almost inevitable.
I expected an improvement on the squad this transfer window. If we really had £50 million to spend, we could have done this. It has not happened and I am disappointed.
* Moyes
* Newman
* Sullivan
* The poor person SSN had outside Rush Green all day.
Very disappointing day. I fear our fortune will still be hiding come May.
Areola, Noble, Kral and Yarmolenko are gone in June, so there's four needed straight away. We need at least one striker, a better left back and a Diop replacement. That's seven players. We've only signed five in the last three windows.
I really don't understand how we've left ourselves in this situation. I'm just confused. I accepted a long time ago that Sullivan doesn't want European football or any kind of success; but I really thought Moyes would want more. I get that he wants to build over time, and build around Rice, but unfortunately I don't think he'll have either come the summer.
West Brom have tonight parted ways with midfielder Robert Snodgrass by mutual agreement.
The former Scotland international made 15 appearances for the Baggies after arriving at The Hawthorns in January 2021.
"What he (Moyes) has said from day one is he’s not going to bring players in for the sake of it. He wants to improve the team, improve the squad and if you can’t get the right player he isn’t going to bring someone in that’s a waste of money if you know what I mean? Because I think we have done that in the past – not saying players are a waste of money – but it hasn’t quite worked or it hasn’t been the right character for the football club.
With the players the manager has brought in, you see they’ve worked and they’ve gelled with the squad.
So I think if it doesn’t work out, if we don’t get the players that we want then we’ll stick with what we’ve got and we’ll reinforce in the summer.”
So there we go. We'll reinforce in the summer. Because there's nobody available in world football right now that could improve on Diop at centre back or Yarmolenko up front.
It's all well and good looking for the right character, but what if they're not available in the summer either? Then what? Start the season with 14 senior players and look again in January? It's potentially never ending.
He’s not the only one!!