The about-turn in the direction of the club brought about by Rafa has seen us have our most active transfer window in recent times with no fewer than twelve senior players coming in with an astonishing twenty one players with first team experience leaving the club either permanently or on loan. By anyone’s reckoning the manager has put in some shift over the summer, turning a £20m profit and ridding the squad of some bad eggs in the process.
Gareth Harrison Follow @truefaith1892 It seems very early in the season to be assessing where the business done over the summer has left us as a team and it would be fair to say that Rafa probably won’t know his best XI for a good few weeks yet but on the face of it, he’s brought in a balanced mix of players that can get us out of the division and some with the ability to establish us in the top flight should this season go to plan. I should stress that I’m a long way from tempting fate here mind you. Writing this before the Derby game, we sit in fourth but we’ve had a patchy start which is understandable as the squad gels. This season won’t be a procession and I don’t think that anything will be sorted out with weeks to spare as it was www.true-faith.co.uk
last time but with things as they stand, how does the squad shape up for a promotion push this season and where would we need to strengthen in January to keep us at the right end of the table and build a squad fit for a higher level? KEEPERS – I can’t think of any club who have no less than five keepers on the books who would be capable of starting for the first team. Rafa is obviously going to make Sels his number one this term, tf 39