Hound Other than LW I don’t think we have any glaring weaknesses
Not too sure what we’d do if one of the CBs got injured - maybe Dorsett there. Mola’s getting close to the standard of a regular LB so I’d be ok with not signing another one, esp with Carson, Ryan and Dorsett knocking about
Goes without saying it all depends on tbe takeover but I’d be interested to see if we put the faith in the U21 - ie Senga, Akande, Tuma, Wareham, Abrefa, John Clarke, Paul, Stickland - filling those gaps as they do have the same profile as what we need
It’s probably decision time on a few of those. Itd be nice for them to come through but my head tells me we’d prob need to bring in 4-5 strong div1 players to the squad to push for the play offs and not sure we can afford to also run such a strong u21 side.
I'm unsurprisingly very keen not to fall immediately back into bulking out the squad to block youth progress.
That's not to say we should be looking to rely heavily on them. But planning for a fair amount of bench time, sub appearances and maybe a fee starts.
If you look at Olise and Richards for example, two definite success stories. Both transitioned gradually into first team starlet over two or three seasons of exposure.
Not everyone is going to do a Rino and hit the ground running like a legend.
So important not to block them (and loans can help) so we end up losing them largely untried to go on and exceed us, like Dickie, Hyam, et al.