Our present squad

[BelfastEagle]

We are down to the bare bones now and playing 2 games a week.

 

[Foxy82]

We are down to the bare bones now and playing 2 games a week.

Not ideal is it?!

 

[Eagleman13]

We are down to the bare bones now and playing 2 games a week.

Only this & next week. Do we not also play 2 games a week in the League Cup?

 

[BelfastEagle]

Only this & next week. Do we not also play 2 games a week in the League Cup?

add in the additional conference games if we get through and it will be twice as many with a paper thin squad. Maybe a blessing to get knocked out of one of them maybe ?

 

[Lanzo-Ad]

I think two things at least have to happen, Guehi now has to stay and we need a marquee signing, Eze hasn't signed yet, so we need to put pressure on Arsenal to give us a good loan. or it might collapse

 

[DANGERCLOSE]

I don't think Glasner rates Esse and Rak-sakyi, also think he's told Eduoard to find another club. Esse looked fed up tonight i was hoping he would come on and play a blinder. Since being double substituted he doesn't get much play time.

 

[RubinsCube]

I can sense a definite direction of travel with OG's communications. He is a very skilled operator and the signs do not look great right now.

He was explicit in the afterglow of the cup wins (slightly off topic: I still have to pinch myself writing that. COYP!!!) about getting business done early this time so there are no "false starts" like last year.

This was later watered down to something along the lines of "it happens and we have our targets". Next was "many of our targets have moved but we still have a few left in the drawer".

This week we had "MG and EE will play on Thursday - they are great guys and want to be the ones who gave 100% to the club even if they do leave", progressing to a terse prematch press conference comment "this is the last time I'll answer that question - they are both committed and will both be involved". EE did not play.

Then tonight we had what I think is likely to be the last line in the sand: "MG has to stay". Full transcript from the BBC: "No injured player will come back and we cannot register anyone so we have to keep him. We already rested Chris Richards and Ty Mitchell who had small problems. There is no other chance than keeping Marc for these games. He knows it, everybody knows it. If we want to compete in all of these competitions we need players, that is pretty clear."

Arsenal showed us how to do it with Eze. Fingers crossed we get some transfer traction with some good incoming players this and next week.

 

[Team of the (20)80s]

I don't think Glasner rates Esse and Rak-sakyi, also think he's told Eduoard to find another club. Esse looked fed up tonight i was hoping he would come on and play a blinder. Since being double substituted he doesn't get much play time.

Esse was what really worried me tonight. Complete faith in Glasner but if he isn’t bringing Esse on when the opposition has largely shut up shop, we are halfway through four games in 12 days and only using 12 (tired looking) players, when will he?

 

[DANGERCLOSE]

Esse was what really worried me tonight. Complete faith in Glasner but if he isn’t bringing Esse on when the opposition has largely shut up shop, we are halfway through four games in 12 days and only using 12 (tired looking) players, when will he?

Glasner is doing a great job for us but does need to lighten up a bit and give Rak-sakyi and Esse a chance, Sarr and Devenny weren't the best tonight and should have been replaced with them imo.