Cyprus
Central Defender
Agreed. Major surgery is required in the summer if next season isn't going to pick up where this one is leaving. How far we have regressed is unreal.No senior strikers for the past 3 windows. Speakman actually left us short in the league one promotion season but got away with it, Stewart stayed fit. So 4 out of last windows we have been short top end of the pitch.
That brings me on to the next point. Bizarrely relying on players like Hemir, Burstow who had struggled to score at lower levels in the small amount of games in their career. It just goes against logic.
No defensive midfielder since Evans got injured in January 2023. 3 windows. We're wide open in central midfield.
A lack of leadership since we let go of strong characters like Bailey Wright, Danny Batth, Lyndon Gooch and Alex Pritchard. Part of the 'model' was to sign experienced players for free. Speakman successfully did this in his early windows but with the exception of the poor Bradley Dack, has not done this lately.
The disastrous appointment of Beale. Don't really have to elaborate on that one.
If the above isn't addressed we will struggle badly.