PNE squad changes and rumours summer 2023

Depression is setting in for the summer

Absolute squad overhaul that I am very worried about. We need mobility in defence so I would let Bauer and Cunningham go to make room for a couple of mobile defenders.


We obviously need an RWB and LWB. Will we bring 1 LWB an and either keep Brady or have Slater more involved?

Midfield will need some attention unless we manage to keep hold of DJ and Onomah. Woodburn should be nowhere near an extension and shows how weak our current squad is that he is still getting minutes. Has he done anything of note since the Rovers game.

Strikers is pretty depressing, 2 long term injured strikers on the books, god knows what we’re going to do here.

There are plenty of quality OoC players out there but they will get gobbled up by the ‘bigger boys.’ As daws has said on another thread, decent quality loan players aren’t likely to be released until a few games into the season and I’m sure this will be heavily used again.

It will be interesting to see how the squad looks on the 1st game of the season but I worry Cunningham, Brady and Woodburn will be offered new deals to boost the squad by 3 members that won’t need replacing.

Loan players I would keep Woodman McCann Browne keeper rest of them can go

Unless PR goes, we are going to end up with more dross.

Bowler anyone? Bleakpool relegated & he's better than Potts.

No thanks and I dont think he's better than Potts since he went to forest.

I can see Whitman getting sold. Last year of his contract. But wouldn’t accept anything less that £5 million. Since we paid £2 mil I don’t think that’s unreasonable.

Great advert for his career go to forest club in trouble return to Blackpool club get relegated return to forest club get relegated lol talk about jinxed

Isn't this because

a) only Woodman and Whiteman would command a trasfer fee (and a fit Riis)
b) the club is not planning on spending anything on transfer fees?

The club's track record in previous summers makes me cynical.....but what we now have left (and I believe DJ is on his way to Stoke) is such obvious relegation fodder that, for PR< some extraordinary good signings are required this summer.

I'd be happy to see Diaby stay..../unlike the other defenders he has an ability to run. There's a chronic need to inject some pace into the team.

Two year deal for Woodburn incoming...

Brady, DJ out of the door.

My thoughts on the season

Performances:
A real mixed bag, some good, some bad, some ugly and many very mediocre. I'm really not sure if this is down to confidence, ability, quality of the other side, game plan, management or a combination of several.
My gut feeling is its a combination of several of the factors above, however, I do feel there are two significant issues, quality in depth on the field and performance consistency

Players;
I think we all need to accept they are very average, if not lower than average in terms of quality throughout the squad, having said that an average team playing at 90% of their ability will stay in this league, the key is to provide that consistency and try to build on the squad. Too many of our current players drift in and out of a game and to not provide high performances week in week out.
We also have no play makers, the only one who seems to run at defenders is Alvaro and I doubt he will be with us next season

Management Team
I backed off Lowe a while back now and all things considered I'm prepared to give him my support going into the summer and early next season based on the following.
The quality of what he has had to work with
The opportunity to spend money or not
The overall set up at PNE
I may be wrong but I think his "stock" is high elsewhere in the game. He gets air time on Sky, and I think "others" in the game think he has done ok with what he has got. It would not surprise me to see him leave to another club. If you doubt this, consider....who would sack Rodgers at Leicester and appoint Smith, who would sack Potter and go back to Frank....desperate football clubs do such things

Remember the Ferguson story and Mark Robbins, maybe RL will come good.

However, I, like others think he will be gone by Xmas if not before blaming the club for not matching his ambition.

Big battle next season, but as ever I'll renew and regret!

I’m an optimist - but that would be depressing, he’s so far off being good enough

I know your Avatar is The BLack Prince but I was at Leeds the Season they got promoted to Div 1, as it was then. There was an incident in that match when Dawson, who used to stay outside the box for Corners & then charge in, was despatched 3 rows up into the Stands by Charlton. Lethal & he would have been sent off these days. Not wishing to go back to those days but we have Pussies playing football these days, writhing around/screaming as though they have been mortally wounded, crying etc etc. I said at the weekend that Frank should be in charge of the Shakespeare Company because they are such good Actors! No wonder that they have scored more goals from Freekicks than anyone else. Football has lost its soul. Hope you agree.

Ashley Barnes leaving Burnley