How many new players.....

When we start the season on 5th August how many  new players do you think we will field. A new player is one that did not play for us in the 22/23 season.

I will go for 5.

Ive gone for 7 or more mainly because we have much more going on behind the scenes with scouts and the Recruitment Analyst.

There are the obvious positions that need filling but Hurst may look for further in the future by getting in some up-and-coming players that have possibly been released from Premiership Academy teams or from Championship clubs who can play at this level from the off, but would mainly be used on the bench.

Surely it would be better to have back up players contracted to us than having to dip into the loan market and pick players up who are frankly useless.....mentioning no names over the last 2 seasons (mainly because it'd take ages to list them)

I think 5 is a relalistic number , I hope we go for quality rather than quantity this year

As an alternative perspective we have a solid starting 8 or 9 (if Max stays ) If not a keeper is certain .But starting with that XI that know each other inside out and gradually introducing the newbies might be an option ?

I wonder how many of his 'slots' Hurst will leave until the last minute , sometimes it works ,sometimes it does not ; but he seems to leave room to manoeuvre up until the deadlines .

How he uses loans will be crucial too , we need a higher % of quality loans for me .

I think anything less than 7 isn’t feasible to go into the season with. It’s surprising but until you look at the squad you don’t think we need as much as we probably do.

1 back up keepers, maybe 2 keepers if Max doesn’t resign.

A right back, wether it’s ahead of Michee (which I think it should be) or as cover we will need 1 there.

We have 2 centre backs so again 2 minimum for the season as 3 CBS would be dangerously low.

In central midfield we have numbers but probably need something in there aswell to add to what we have or give us something abit different.

We have 1 out and out winger, in addition to Harry doing a job there. So for me that’s 2 wide options.

Then the dreaded striker position, currently just Orsi. So you’d imagine 2 as a minimum.

So that’s 9, presuming Max stays. Granted it’s likely we get a couple that do jobs in more than one position ie CB that can play RB, or a winger that can play across the forward line.

However I think we need a fair amount through in this window to progress us forward. That’s without any departures of current under contract players. Wether all of these are permanent or ‘first team ready’ can be up for debate.

Quoted from Mikey_345

I think anything less than 7 isn’t feasible to go into the season with. It’s surprising but until you look at the squad you don’t think we need as much as we probably do.

1 back up keepers, maybe 2 keepers if Max doesn’t resign.

A right back, wether it’s ahead of Michee (which I think it should be) or as cover we will need 1 there.

We have 2 centre backs so again 2 minimum for the season as 3 CBS would be dangerously low.

In central midfield we have numbers but probably need something in there aswell to add to what we have or give us something abit different.

We have 1 out and out winger, in addition to Harry doing a job there. So for me that’s 2 wide options.

Then the dreaded striker position, currently just Orsi. So you’d imagine 2 as a minimum.

So that’s 9, presuming Max stays. Granted it’s likely we get a couple that do jobs in more than one position ie CB that can play RB, or a winger that can play across the forward line.

However I think we need a fair amount through in this window to progress us forward. That’s without any departures of current under contract players. Wether all of these are permanent or ‘first team ready’ can be up for debate.

It will be 2 keepers if Max does not sign up I think ,even though Hurst seems reluctant to have one on the bench ,he invariably has 2 in the building most of the time .

GK, RB, CB, CM, WNG, ST x 2

7 for me

For me we have a good spine of a squad. If we can bring in 5 players who will improve on what we have then I think we will be up their for sure. But each year everyone bar a small few seem to get stronger. So for me I've written 5.

Quoted from Stew0_0

GK, RB, CB, CM, WNG, ST x 2

7 for me

Is 3 CB’s and 2 wide players enough?

Efete was quite useful in a 3 but assume we will go back to 4 at the back next season - not sure if he can play in a 2 ?
If he could maybe only is  one required ,but if not definately 2 surely .
Will Shaun still be registered as a player or has he retired ,retired ?