The question will surely be whether we need 3 CBs + Young – or can make do on two CBs + Young?
If Taft is in the picture then I reckon we’ll need the larger number.
What we have lacked, for what seems an eternity, has been two useful forwards to: hold up play; be able to play back-to-goal if required; notch the simpler chances. But where can we find two 1 in 4 strikers when we are paying in monkey nuts and with a Blue Riband bar as a win bonus?
I don’t want Feeney in CM – it’s not what he does best.
You would not expect Nuttall to start.
So: we need CBs, real forwards, pace down one flank and from CM. We need a Grant-style general who ain’t kaput and at least one genuine utility player.
We cannot afford to have ANY young loanees, IMHO. It does not work for us.
So many developing young players – we can almost fill the bench But, of course we shall need a GK too.
A fortnight ago, I wrote that we needed 6 – 8 established players and wiggle room for injuries and not fitting in – which always happens.
I am reviewing that and now feel that nine is the very minimum.
