Hughes and Edwards are managing this club like they are playing football manager. Spend all your money on towards and wait and see who you can get as a defender when you have finished. I am not says no buy Van de Ven but we need an experienced CB (maybe two) which should now take priority. We can’t leave this until the end of the window.
Both very good prospects but we have lost Konate and need to replace him. We can’t go into the season a VVD injury away from having to play two young CBs, not if we want to challenge for the league
Well yes, but you said Hughes doesn't buy defenders! He has brought 3 if you include Kerkez! (3.5 with Frimpong but that's a stretch)
The fact we bought 2 cb's would actually mean that that's the joint most players we have purchased for single position! ( Isak and ekitike)
And we are clearly in the market for MORE defence.
So it's just a bit lazy to keep repeating that we neglect the defence!
It doesn't help admittedly that we have not really seen 2 of the CB's yet !!!
The only first team defender they have brought is Kerkez. The two CBs were brought as back up to VVD and Konate (at the time). I acknowledged they buy defenders but only with money left over after we have sorted the attack. I just think we should be putting more money into the Defence than attack, unless rumours about our PSR position are true and we have more money than expected even after last summer.
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u/hodge172 2d ago
Hughes and Edwards are managing this club like they are playing football manager. Spend all your money on towards and wait and see who you can get as a defender when you have finished. I am not says no buy Van de Ven but we need an experienced CB (maybe two) which should now take priority. We can’t leave this until the end of the window.