It's not an obsession, Christ the people on this forum are fucking tedious. It's the notion that every player we bring in will be some Hamer quality unknown from overseas. If we want a good squad we need to look at the free market and be smart, we cannot spend millions on everyone, players like Riis represent decent value. If you sell BTA for £3 million and bring in Riis on a free, you've played a blinder.
As for Campbell being mid at this level.. well i'm not sure what to say, he's been far from mid and was exactly the kind of competitive forward we needed the other night rather than Wright ambling around doing fuck all as the only other option was Simms who looks like he's addicted to horse tranquilisers.
Apologies, I meant Morris rather than Campbell! Corrected.
Agreed that you have to make use of free agency, but I think many on here are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Lampard will obviously look to build the squad in his image but he’s not going to fundamentally gut the team and start again. His remit, to an extent, will be work with what he’s got and to improve players like Simms, Wright, Thomas, Kitch, Torp, Rudoni, EMC, MVE, Sakamoto, Dovin and so on.
Forward players like Rudoni and EMC have prospered under Lampard but other forwards (all the strikers) have struggled to make an impact in his 4-2-3-1 system. That will be evaluated in the off-season.
