If Rob Edwards, O'Neil or Iraola had replaced RDZ mid season, with the no spend policy continuing, I'd be interested to know how they could've stacked up some goals and PL wins. Of course, we could adopt a low block of 9 players being camped out in deep defence for 90 minutes as with Hughton...
As part of a collective with the wheelchair olympics options of Lallana and Milner, yes. An embarrassingly slow CM.
Regarding the player -a neat passing game and tenacious. But painfully slow, never scores, can't defend, an assist every 20 PL games. He might thrive with two quality pivots...
Colwill, Caicedo and Mac Allister were on a different level and some.
CM options of Lallana, Gilmour, Baleba (at this stage), Milner are embarrassing. I won't include Gross because he's still a great ACM, unluckily he's now playing with grandads or snails.
RDZ OR NO RDZ, THE SUMMER 2023 TRANSFER WINDOW WAS A SH1TSHOW.
THE CLUB FAILED TO DEAL WITH DM AND FB. A HUGE MISJUDGEMENT AND OBVIOUS AT THE TIME.
MITOMA AND SOLLY'S INJURIES HAVE NEXT TO NO BEARING ON THAT.
LALLANA, GROSS, MILNER & GILMOUR MUST BE AMONGST THE SLOWEST PL PLAYERS.
Plus:
Our centre midfield is slow and shit.
No quality fullback cover for Estupinan and Veltman.
Glaring DM and FB deficiencies were pointed out by a load of NSC's last August, so not hindsight.