^ Jakakananory - I fancy a bit of that Posh defender with the big beard from last night. He was a beast. Our club needs better beards. Top of the list for the summer - a good beard and a Belgian.
Seriously though - I don't think there's a lot of good young English guys coming through in the Championship this season, in comparison with last (where most of them have been grabbed already). A lot of the start performers are 26/27/28, and there's not a lot of value in getting someone of that age. The only one I can think of that would help us would be Dale Stephens - he's 26, but bossing the midfield for Brighton. Lewis Dunk might be a CB we could have a look at, I guess.
Lincolnhammer92 wrote:Without wanting to be a bit reductionist on your whole post, which I do agree with most of, Tore is actually 22 months younger than Antonio.
I didn't realise Tore was that young (or Antonio was that old, to be honest) - feels like he's been around for a while. All that FM playing is colouring my player age guesses, obviously. But still - I'd rather we let Antonio have some playing time than replaced him, largely to bring through another English guy and to make good on our investment. Would hate to see us have a lot of expensive, recently purchased talent just pushed aside for more expensive new signings. Look at how that worked out for Chelsea and City - when they got money, their academies rotted away and they've hardly had any youngsters come through. We have such a crop of young talent (some from our youths, some we have got in) that I don't want to see that wasted.