Joel Penny

that could also be a downfall because you might have, what, eight fellas at the back of this massive dressing room all chunching away, wondering why they're not getting played.

And so it can cause as many problems as it solves, the not European football thing.

I actually think Enzo Moresca did a really good job on the head conference league in the way that he kind of had the two teams and almost kind of created a bit of camaraderie amongst that second team.

Show me he's going to have his work cut out doing that.

And look,

literally his last job it was derailed by squad disharmony so he's gonna be walking into that thinking the last thing i want is to have to deal with all that again but if they get their player trading right there is enough quality players in there for him to be able to put together a good team it's whether or not the rest of them get in the way

for me the priority has got to be the wingers um you know i'm not saying anything to outline this there i think that would be uh what everyone else is looking for and i think you know alongside wingers the word you want in front of it is fast you know we want fast wingers um and then we can begin to to maybe have some sort of a coherent attack um so yeah fast wingers is where i really want to sort of focus how many fast wingers do you think they need

So this is where it gets, you know, I think one of the most difficult things with Salah, well, it might be the output, but I think you can probably make up output in different areas, you know, the two number nines, maybe the creative output from the likes of Vert, but I think what you're really going to miss is robustness.

I mean, his availability across the seven, eight seasons or however many it's been, it's just staggering, really.

The fact that he's not really had any long-term injury, I mean, his biggest absence has always been...

you know, through AFCON.

So what we need is someone who's going to be there and is going to be able to start, you know, 40 games a season or so.

Now, how you assess that in the market is obviously going to be a bit difficult, but I think in terms of numbers, you're probably going to have to need three just to make sure, you know, just in case anything does happen with injuries or fitness because replacing that availability from Salah is going to be really difficult going forward.

I think, is there a question, how realistic is Jadon Dans coming back?

Is that at all on the cards?

Can we even put that into the equation?

No you can't and unfortunately you can't really rely on Izak to be fifth for a long period of time I think as I just said with Salah he'll be there game to game will Izak give us that and whilst I think you're kind of expecting him to hit the ground running going into next season there's going to be games where we need some backup so

You probably are going to have to look at someone like a Bower maybe who could facilitate two positions, could wide or could play in the middle for that third person.

Yeah, no, definitely.

And look, Gakpo hasn't shown enough, but there are just going to have to be some players who we're just going to have to step up.