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He has been playing at RCB in a back three/four for Hannover since summer 2022. Played a fair bit at RB for Kiel before that, but much better at CB.

I'm a football trader by profession and Germany is one of the areas I focus on. Have watched Neumann for the last 4+ seasons. Blues also signed Klarer from the same league for around a million quid iirc in the summer who has excelled. Frankly I'm amazed we don't try to do more business there...

Meanwhile blues are signing a CB from 2.Bundesliga on a free in the summer who is better than any of ours.

In hindsight considering Burnley have so much defensive depth as things stand, them taking Lati as opposed to other clubs always seemed bizarre

Can't wait for the ACL/ruptured achilles for Lati that means we can't flog him in the summer

'Experience' alone doesn't negate on-field performance. Solid 7/10 in terms of effort granted. Two and a half year extension for: Someone past their peak Turning 32 in March No sell on potential Eye-test and metrics wise profiles as average - not great when the aim is top six. The prospect now...

Just the two year extension for a guy who turns 32 in March, what are we doing...

22/23 back five risk averse low block, then yes Bidwell's aerial ability and general defensive instincts are what you want. Almost two years removed from that and under a more progressive coach, stylistically he doesn't fit and only regresses as time goes on. Dasilva defensively isn't good but...

Bidwell being the better player than Dasilva is an interesting narrative

Reduced terms and short extension fair enough, but I'd rather let him go and recruit younger.

Extending Bidwell up there with extending Godden. Heart over head decision making and another DK recruitment based mistake.

It's less who he is and more signing 33-year-old free agents who no one else wants, will want a decent-ish wage and has no sell on is 2006 levels of recruitment and dsn't reflect well on our recruitment methodolgy.

33-year-old Jamie Paterson who couldn't get a basic contract renewal in MLS would be more utter shite recruitment

ITKs coming on the forum and not offering all the information they've received...but no, of course you don't do it for the buzz

Sorba Thomas would be more utter shite recruitment

We do obviously need signings but with the squad as it is and the underlying metrics, there's no chance we go down

Our recruitment since DK arrived, his comments about the quality of the squad at the forum and pushing back on much needed CM help with a player from an elite academy pretty much confirms Doug is clueless from a football POV. DOF badly needed, at the very least delegate more.

29-year-old injury prone Rob Holding is not smart recruitment. Won't be a DP in MLS so he probably fancies a lifestyle switch more than anything. Bloke has been insanely lucky up to this point to have had the career he's had, barely played for most of it.

Entire recruitment setup should've followed Robins out the door at the same time. Have to hope King realises this as the season ends in lower midtable mediocrity but I wouldn't hold my breath. Pointless spending more money if you can't recognise talent or value.