Evan Khouri

Would be good to get him nailed down to a longer contract - getting stronger game by game. Looked solid all over tonight.

Always looked a player and now he's proving it week in week out. Congratulations Evan.

Ahhh Khouri. Worth reminding everyone of what jonny "sausage dodger" boy82 thought of Khouri during the Notts County game.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Refs been useless but so has khouri, each time his man has beat him.

There's a reason every single manager previously plays him for a few then he gets dropped. I hope now people can see he's not up to it.

Can't hold a place down at cm and now he's gone to right back were he's getting massively exposed.

Still waiting to see this beautiful forward flowing football artell was bought in for. See nothing but inconsistent lumps forward.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Sorry my bad "left back".

Just don't rate him, never have and if you do fair enough everyone's entitled to an opinion. But there has to be a reason he's never been consistently played by any manager.

This is the same poster who guaranteed John-Lewis wouldn't score 20 goals in a season, to the point of betting that were it to happen, he would insert a hotdog in his anus and parade around the Blundell Park pitch with it protruding from his backside. John-Lewis did score 20 goals and Khouri is developing into an excellent player. The sausage-dodger welched on his bet....thankfully.

jonny wasn't the only one who stated Khouri wasn't up to it, far from it in fact.

Just shows the value of giving any player the benefit of the doubt until they've had a consistent run in the team.  

Thing with McEachran and Khouri is that they compliment each other.  McEachran is far from immobile but he doesn't really dash around the pitch, Khouri's got that energy to his game.  But it was so pleasing last night to see the amount of times that McEachran used his reading of the game to intercept play (against much bigger opposition) yet was unable to retain the play, but it was Khouri who was the first to follow it up and pick up the play.

It might be a bit early in the piece but it's vital now we keep the nucleus of this squad together for a longer period of time than previously , all the one's out of contract need to be offered new one's earlier than May if they continue this form for another 15 games I would be looking to get them done around Xmas - I'm thinking Rose , Green and Hume  off the top of my head .

We have the makings of a good team and hopefully the next two windows are more minor tweaks than the 10-15  players we seem to need between January & August each season .

Quoted from Mappers

It might be a bit early in the piece but it's vital now we keep the nucleus of this squad together for a longer period of time than previously , all the one's out of contract need to be offered new one's earlier than May if they continue this form for another 15 games I would be looking to get them done around Xmas - I'm thinking Rose , Green and Hume  off the top of my head .

We have the makings of a good team and hopefully the next two windows are more minor tweaks than the 10-15  players we seem to need between January & August each season .

It’s interesting isn’t it, we know that the likes of JDS, Khouri, George & McJannet will more than likely be sold on, that’s are model now & I support it.

The question is could we replace Rose, Green & Hume with better? Joe Hutchinson will no doubt be working in this already, if we can get better players then we absolutely should.

I wouldn’t be offering any of the players you mentioned early renewals as it just gives their agent better leverage to try and get them moves elsewhere, remember players are employed by a club and not invested like a supporter so if they get a better offer they’ll move.  

Though I do agree as Artell says some evolution rather than revolution would be a good thing in the next couple of windows.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

It’s interesting isn’t it, we know that the likes of JDS, Khouri, George & McJannet will more than likely be sold on, that’s are model now & I support it.

The question is could we replace Rose, Green & Hume with better? Joe Hutchinson will no doubt be working in this already, if we can get better players then we absolutely should.

I wouldn’t be offering any of the players you mentioned early renewals as it just gives their agent better leverage to try and get them moves elsewhere, remember players are employed by a club and not invested like a supporter so if they get a better offer they’ll move.  

Though I do agree as Artell says some evolution rather than revolution would be a good thing in the next couple of windows.

Yeah agree Herts , I suppose my worry is in the past we have always thought we could get better and ended up with worse players and then seen them thrive somewhere else I suppose that's cherry picking though .

That was effectively with no model ,so things might well be different now with what seems a better system in place .

They were very on the ball with the keeper situation tbf .

Evan Khouri - the new "one of our own"?

Harry Clifton - WAS one of our own !!"

Cam Gardner - will he be the next "one of our own" ??

Happy to hold my hands up and say my reservations about Khouri earlier in the season were wrong. He's doing really well now and has gone from strength to strength.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

It’s interesting isn’t it, we know that the likes of JDS, Khouri, George & McJannet will more than likely be sold on, that’s are model now & I support it.

The question is could we replace Rose, Green & Hume with better? Joe Hutchinson will no doubt be working in this already, if we can get better players then we absolutely should.

I wouldn’t be offering any of the players you mentioned early renewals as it just gives their agent better leverage to try and get them moves elsewhere, remember players are employed by a club and not invested like a supporter so if they get a better offer they’ll move.  

Though I do agree as Artell says some evolution rather than revolution would be a good thing in the next couple of windows.

I think the better intent is about not looking to replace your better players directly, but upgrading the overall quality so the better players of today become the back-up of tomorrow.  Then the next stage is those 'new' better players are downgraded at the next stage of the process.

We've seen a little bit of it in action since 1878 came to take over the club but largely it's a foreign concept to this club for so long because the turnover in players is so high.

It's not amazing example but someone like Niall Maher is probably as good as we've had of this approach in last few years.  He came in and early on was identified as a key player.  He did ok, then Doug Tharme came in and took his place.  Maher dropped down the pecking order and became back-up and in turn took Luke Waterfall's place as back-up, Waterfall in turn moved on.

Maher has since moved on because we've managed to bring McJannet in, again intent of an upgrade overall rather than looking to replace your best players directly.

Conteh and JDS were certainly signed with the intent of selling them on for a decent bit of profit (immediate or future), but I don't think the approach is that we're constrained to using any profit to replace that position.  Conteh left and we signed a freebie in Thompson. But since then we've paid transfer fees (partly funded by the Conteh sale) for Tharme, JDS and McJannet - none play in Conteh's position.  

The question as to could we replace the likes of Rose, Hume, Green with better?  I'll add to that and say that the absolute ambition has to be to looking to better on everyone.  It doesn't matter if we've got a striker who gets 20 goals and 20 assists, we should be looking to bring in someone who can get 25 and 25.

That model isn't exclusive to us and it's quite literally one of the bragging points of our Lincoln threads on this very forum, how they've managed to continually sell their better players, yet manage to continually bring in better players for less.  

Throughout our whole team there's a thread of them improving.  There's a few with points to prove having had a stab at a higher level and not quite managed it (Wright, McEachran, Hume, Cass), there's those probably looking to us as a springboard from a lower standard (McJannet, JDS) and then there's those who already had and we're improving them (Khouri, Green).  

Last night there was only a single player in the matchday squad over the age of 27.  That's Danny Rose (30).  He's the second oldest player in the squad behind Curtis Thompson (31).  Until I looked at those ages I didn't realise quite how much we had lowered the age of the squad under Artell.  There's a lot to go at there.