Nah I believe 2 8’s was enough, Macallister and one of Szoboszlai/Gravenberch. I made the same argument at the start of the season that we would have been better served going for an 6/8 instead of
Gravenberch because we already had a similar 8 in Jones.
Gravenberch can still turn into a top player but he wasn’t addressing a pertinent issue in our squad, we need someone with raw athleticism who was more defensively focused, it’s no surprise we’ve let the league go because we are easy to play through and lack athleticism and tactical noise throughout our midfield. The only great athlete out of all the names we have is Szoboszlai and he isn’t a defensive player, we needed a defensive version of him.
Endo signing was fine, it addressed an area where we needed bodies at the very minimum, signing 3 attacking 8’s was a bad use of our finances for me.
Endo can play the 6 position but didn’t address the lack of athleticism and ease of being played through at all. He was a body that didn’t fix the problem. Assuming Andre would have fixed that we could have got a body in at 6 in Andre who actually sorted the problem and also bought the 8s we did given we definitely needed 2 8s and arguably needed 3 anyway.
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