by Wycombe Royal »
02 Feb 2014 11:24
Hoop Blah Wycombe Royal Hoop Blah The issue is that if you're not improving them you're going backwards.
We have some players who've come in and not paid off yet (Drenthe, Blackman etc), some that have suffered injuries and need covering or replacing (Karacan, Legiertwood, Bridge etc) and some that just need improving for the team to keep evolving. Some of that can be done by bringing through the youngsters, but that's not always possible and so we have to look elsewhere to strengthen.
Not sure why that's such a tough concept to grasp.
Yes but for us to improve we would have to spend some serious money as players of the quality to improve on what we already have would not be cheap. We already have a big squad, one of the biggest in the division so in my opinion there was no need to make it bigger. And obviously nobody wanted any of our backup players.
Not sure why that's such a tough concept to grasp.
You said football fans being excited by transfers, not just Reading fans in this window.
We don't need to spend huge to add another forward on loan, bring in a natural left back, or supplement our central midfield with another decent option to cover the injuries we've got there though. I do agree the squad is big enough in quantity though, but it needs a bit more balance. The only way to do that is by adding to it (would've been nice to swap someone like Cummings or Kelly out of the squad to bring in Daniel Fox for example).
Obviously as I was posting in this particular thread on a Reading forum I was referring in this instance to People on here. Sorry if you misunderstood but I'll spell it out clearer next time for you.
As for bringing a striker in on loan, what is the point when they will be worse than we have? The better loan players aren't going to want to come here to sit on the bench. We've already seen that Sharp was no better than our current crop.
As for "swapping out" Cummings or Kelly for a left back, that requires,someone else actually wanting to take them from us. You make it sound like we can just transfer them off to another club of our choosing. As for left back, Obita is doing fine and Bridge is on his way back so why spend more money on someone else who probably won't get a game.
The summer is the time to address the balance of the squad. There is more time, there is no panicking, not so much "premium pricing", free transfers, etc.... January is not the time to do this unless there is an urgent need to fill a hole in the squad. We didn't have that problem.