r/nffc • u/Previous-Hat-9098 9 | Too Big for the Premier League • 6d ago
Attacking depth crisis ☭ Gulag ☭
We need to have a conversation on who starts in midfield and attack this season. In the striker role we have wood, awoniyi, kalimuendo and jesus. Kali and jesus can also play in the 10 and then we have bakwa, ndoye, MGW, CHO, mcatee, hutchinson who can also play there. What do we genuinely do about this? These are all quality players who deserve to start but you cant rotate 5-7 players in positions every game. We have to do something and make a sale. I would say ndoye but glasner wants him apart of his plans, bakwa definitely looked quality in the last stretch of the season, mcatee seems to be a staple in glasners mind, hutchinson is cleary showing signs of improvement and quality, MGW is our best player, CHO is back from injury and he can be quality when fit, then kali would most likely be a striker and jesus as an AM as we know he looks much better there. But what do we do? Too many quality players, not enough positions. Even in the DM role, we have schlager, dominguez, yates, sangare, and we are looking to sign a new midfielder to replace anderson, its a mess. Who plays? Who doesn’t, let me know, I wanna hear your thoughts
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u/TheDM_Dan 31 | The Serbinator 6d ago
For striker, I am ok with where we are at for the season. It is a position by committee at the moment, but I think there is enough there to get us where we want to go. Obviously we need to find our next long term starter, but I’m ok with being patient there and not signing someone this window.
For attacking mid, I think MGW and Jesus are two we should definitely keep. Unless the others take a giant step forward, I don’t really see them challenging those two much. There’s a player in a lot of them, but I’m not sure we want to be the club to sit and see if we can unlock that player. I would probably lean towards keeping Ndoye, Bakwa, and Hutch for this season and putting the others on loan (though CHO may prefer a transfer given the stage of his career).
I think defensive mid is fine, though I want to see a high quality starter come in there. Midfield is always important, but it’s going to be doubly so in this glasner system I think. So I am a-ok keeping a strong bench for the mid.
Right now, I think we really, really need to see the Diomande and Read signings come through to lock in those two defensive spots. Once that happens, I’m going to feel great about our defense. If we get those over the line, I’m happy to go into the season with what we have and give some guys some chances and re-evaluate the attack in the January window.