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WPM 2025/26 Squad Speculation, Confirmation and Mutual Termination

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Posted July 16, 2025 07:23 · last edited July 16, 2025 07:24

Mainland FC
LT01
Mainland FC
Just
This guy feels more like a Cola replacement than a Kosta replacement.

Maybe with how bad last season was for us with poor striker service/goal scoring, it would be difficult to attract a top striker so we taking a chance on this guy.

The defenders and especially the goalkeepers look not great in the highlight video, but he seems like a high energy guy who will be motivated to prove himself so if we back him early maybe he'll grow into replacing Kosta.

I do not expect Eze to be a Kosta replacement. There is no Kosta replacement. If he grows into a Huysegems replacement that is OK by me - that's better than a Yan Sasse replacement.
Incidentally, how many of you here noticed that Yan Sasse was playing at the Club World Championship for a Tunisian club?  Good on him to make it to that level at 28.
And he played quite well too. Shows some were wrong to dismiss him at the Phoenix.

Not to make it into an off-topic thread, but I thought that Sasse would have benefitted from a closer management, as he had the potential.  I felt he had skills but was all over the place with applying them; so a decision-making issue, possibly a maturity issue?  As a result I think someone looked at him and said "this is not what a visa player should be doing, we need proven winners, development players we have our own already thank you"  and the rest is history.

We really needed one less player! 

Iirc we had a season divided into 3. First third Kraev scored a lot, then …Zawada(?) and in the final 3rd play went through Sasse and he picked up a few stats there. As with last season our squad was unbalanced. Last year we lacked players, that season players got in each other’s way. 

But Sasse was a very instinctive player and his feel for the game was off, for whatever reason. He didn’t come across as a calculating player. Whatever he needed to succeed wasn’t there that season. 
Yeh- last 6 games he had 3 goal contributions., though we lost 4. That was the same as the 16 games before that.

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Mainland FC
LT01
Mainland FC
Just
This guy feels more like a Cola replacement than a Kosta replacement.

Maybe with how bad last season was for us with poor striker service/goal scoring, it would be difficult to attract a top striker so we taking a chance on this guy.

The defenders and especially the goalkeepers look not great in the highlight video, but he seems like a high energy guy who will be motivated to prove himself so if we back him early maybe he'll grow into replacing Kosta.

I do not expect Eze to be a Kosta replacement. There is no Kosta replacement. If he grows into a Huysegems replacement that is OK by me - that's better than a Yan Sasse replacement.
Incidentally, how many of you here noticed that Yan Sasse was playing at the Club World Championship for a Tunisian club?  Good on him to make it to that level at 28.
And he played quite well too. Shows some were wrong to dismiss him at the Phoenix.

Not to make it into an off-topic thread, but I thought that Sasse would have benefitted from a closer management, as he had the potential.  I felt he had skills but was all over the place with applying them; so a decision-making issue, possibly a maturity issue?  As a result I think someone looked at him and said "this is not what a visa player should be doing, we need proven winners, development players we have our own already thank you"  and the rest is history.

We really needed one less player! 

Iirc we had a season divided into 3. First third Kraev scored a lot, then …Zawada(?) and in the final 3rd play went through Sasse and he picked up a few stats there. As with last season our squad was unbalanced. Last year we lacked players, that season players got in each other’s way. 

But Sasse was a very instinctive player and his feel for the game was off, for whatever reason. He wasn’t a calculating player. Whatever he needed to succeed wasn’t there that season. 
Yeh- last 6 games he had 3 goal contributions., though we lost 4. That was the same as the 16 games before that.