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[Albion] The perfect storm - lopsided recruitment, injuries & FH was overawed today



Weststander

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The failure by the club to sign a CB, RB, LB and a pivot of real quality. Instead a small (literally) army of lightweight technicians. Soumaré showed us what a real box to box CM looks like, oozing pace, power, instinctive thinking and execution. It all bit us on the bum today. A 2-5 loss wouldn’t have been unjust.

Mad formation, Welbeck a passenger, FH didn’t react to Van Nistelrooy’s subs that immediately created one way traffic and playing Adingra for so long when he was sh1t.

A furious crowd all around us, this was versus Cardiff 2019 levels of Albion ineptitude.

Not entitled, just disbelief that we allowed a team everyone else has sailed past to tear us apart and we did fck all about it.
 








A1X

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Weststander said:
The failure by the club to sign a CB, RB, LB and a pivot of real quality. Instead a small (literally) army of lightweight technicians.
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On this, I think we’ve swallowed our own hype. We’re buying off the algorithm players who we can get the most profit from, which usually is wingers / #10s. We’ve badly neglected the other areas of the team. Huge summer coming up here.
 


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Weststander said:
The failure by the club to sign a CB, RB, LB and a pivot of real quality. Instead a small (literally) army of lightweight technicians. Soumaré showed us what a real box to box CM looks like, oozing pace, power, instinctive thinking and execution. It all bit us on the bum today. A 2-5 loss wouldn’t have been unjust.

Mad formation, Welbeck a passenger, FH didn’t react to Van Nistelrooy’s subs that immediately created one way traffic and playing Adingra for so long when he was sh1t.

A furious crowd all around us, this was versus Cardiff 2019 levels of Albion ineptitude.

Not entitled, just disbelief that we allowed a team everyone else has sailed past to tear us apart and we did fck all about it.
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I agree with most of the above
 




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Too many number 10s not enough experience or substance in midfield.? Need midfield players who are confident to want the ball in there own half on the half turn to then go and play. We have good young midfield players but no experience or blend there. This along with managers high line pushing full backs up leaves us expose
 




Deadly Danson

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Weststander said:
The failure by the club to sign a CB, RB, LB and a pivot of real quality. Instead a small (literally) army of lightweight technicians. Soumaré showed us what a real box to box CM looks like, oozing pace, power, instinctive thinking and execution. It all bit us on the bum today. A 2-5 loss wouldn’t have been unjust.

Mad formation, Welbeck a passenger, FH didn’t react to Van Nistelrooy’s subs that immediately created one way traffic and playing Adingra for so long when he was sh1t.

A furious crowd all around us, this was versus Cardiff 2019 levels of Albion ineptitude.

Not entitled, just disbelief that we allowed a team everyone else has sailed past to tear us apart and we did fck all about it.
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Agree with most of that but 2-5 not being unjust is absolute insanity 😄
 












Peteinblack

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A1X said:
On this, I think we’ve swallowed our own hype. We’re buying off the algorithm players who we can get the most profit from, which usually is wingers / #10s. We’ve badly neglected the other areas of the team. Huge summer coming up here.
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I had expected this season to be a transition and rebuild season, with a new young manager and new players settling in and gelling, but with a major challenge for top 7 and Europe to follow in 2025-26.

But I think that we're going need another overhaul this summer, which will mean next season also being a 'transition' season of frustration and inconsistency, and languishing in mid-table.

Yeah, I know that we should be supremely grateful for Premier mid-table mediocrity after nearly dropping out of the Football League altogether in the mid-1990s, and playing at Priestfield, then the Withdean, but I still can't help feeling disappointed that we are so erratic, and incapable of finishing-off teams below us. We just don't seem to have a ruthless streak or a real hunger.
 


Mustafa II

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I wouldn't say our recruitment failed, we've just been terribly unlucky with injuries.

We did sign a LB, a top drawer one at that, and he got injured.

We already have two first team RB's in Veltman and Lamptey - with a couple of utility players able to step in - so we can be forgiven for not strengthening that area of the team.

In CB, we have had Dunk go injured, Igor long-term injured, van Hecke suspended, Webster injured... it's been terribly unlucky, but we have also signed Cashin.

I think it's possible though that the club has got it wrong with Hurzeler - It is clear that he is not useless, and probably has lots of potential - but is the Premier League really the best place to develop managers, an unforgiving league where tactical mistakes are punished, and every point counts?
 


hart's shirt

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We're over-resourced in several more financially profitable areas and under-resourced in others that are less so. This has been the case for a while.

If your car gets a puncture in one tyre because you've ignored it or haven't fixed it properly, it really doesn't matter how good the other tyres are.

The whole car stops.
 




willalbion

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birthofanorange said:
We drew today simply due to players missing relatively easy chances, time and again.
Put the blame where it's deserved - on them.
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Can’t really argue with that, I would add that we were a shambles defensively. Hinsh is not enjoying RB, Dunk looks very un-dunk like, our best midfielder @ CB. Making Leicester look dangerous. Christ, what a disappointing afternoon.
 


birthofanorange

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Peteinblack said:
I had expected this season to be a transition and rebuild season, with a new young manager and new players settling in and gelling, but with a major challenge for top 7 and Europe to follow in 2025-26.

But I think that we're going need another overhaul this summer, which will mean next season also being a 'transition' season of frustration and inconsistency, and languishing in mid-table.

Yeah, I know that we should be supremely grateful for Premier mid-table mediocrity after nearly dropping out of the Football League altogether in the mid-1990s, and playing at Priestfield, then the Withdean, but I still can't help feeling disappointed that we are so erratic, and incapable of finishing-off teams below us. We just don't seem to have a ruthless streak.
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We don't have a constantly efficient goalscorer. Welbz is the nearest we have - the rest miss more than they score, despite multiple golden opportunities.
 










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A1X said:
On this, I think we’ve swallowed our own hype. We’re buying off the algorithm players who we can get the most profit from, which usually is wingers / #10s. We’ve badly neglected the other areas of the team. Huge summer coming up here.
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What summer? With PSR and our enormous outlay last summer we're not going to spend much at all this year, more likely to offload a few, possibly one big one (Mitoma/Pedro/Baleba) and that'll be that..
 


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