Something I'd note is that we had 5 high quality attacking players in Chiefy's first season. Zawada, Kraev, Kosta, Old & Ball (yes, during this season he was still quality even if he himself wasnt getting G/As).
Of the players we have now, only Ishige deserves to be mentioned in their company. So we are short 4 attackers, unless one or more of the kids can do an Old style step up (I am not expecting any of them to do this, but I also wasn't expecting Old to do it that season either to be fair). Say that one does (a reasonably big if), we would still really need to add at least 3 quality attackers, but from the sounds of it we are only going to get 2... we are going to need so much fitness luck
Of the players we have now, only Ishige deserves to be mentioned in their company. So we are short 4 attackers, unless one or more of the kids can do an Old style step up (I am not expecting any of them to do this, but I also wasn't expecting Old to do it that season either to be fair). Say that one does (a reasonably big if), we would still really need to add at least 3 quality attackers, but from the sounds of it we are only going to get 2... we are going to need so much fitness luck
IF most of these things happen we will be fine:
- Walker, Hughes, Sheridan have a decent step up for us.
- We sign a proven striker, who then scores us goals. Someone like May would be amazing.
- Retre and Nagasawa play to their potential!
- We sign a top level CB. I'm talking someone who's played in a top league before and isn't 50.
- Rufer doesn't get injured for half the season.