(20-11-2019, 03:20 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: I repeat.
There would be no room for sentiment and neither should there be. Just my take on it.
Or do you want to get all sentimental and come straight back down again?
Thankfully our owner is a bit more ruthless and a winner so he won't allow that to happen.
No sentiment, pure practicality. There's a hell of a lot of value in a unified team which makes it worth way more than the sum of it's parts. To look at each individual player as an individual element would be just bad football management from the top level, and that's where EM's lack of sentimentality should see an heads roll, on any top staff who discounts the value of a unified team.
Look at Sheff U. Sat 5th in the Prem with players who some wouldn't have even deemed good enough for promotion, never mind the Prem. To extend on Salv's point, anyone thinking our players can't cut it should look at McGoldrick, Sharp, Freeman & Osborn as they sit in a Champions League place.
We should be building something more than a a set of players to win the next game, we should be setting the foundation of our long term future like they are.
Don't get me wrong, we should still strengthen, but I'd wager most folk woudl have had Jenks over Cash at RB and look how that turned out. If we go up the foundation of our side should remain the one which took us up IMO, with quality additions in key areas where needed.