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I wonder if being brought through at Man Citha, he now has an attitude problem, in thinking he is too good for this level.
Don't all jump down my throat , as I'm only surmising, as a few years ago, he was being touted as going to be on the same level as Bale & Rambo.
What has happened to him, it's a bit like Jason Koumas, looks like he is not going to fulfill his potential until it's late in his career
He scored 3 goals and 1 assist for Ipswich scoring the winner against Villa and scoring against Newcastle. His goal per minute played is better than all of our midfielders. No wonder Mick wanted him.
Surely this makes the Ledley deal more likely ?
Get rid of o'keefe too. Free up some more wages.
According to the quote on **** Warnock says he'd like to get 3 players in before pre season starts. Ideally I'd like to see us sign 2 midfielders (a 4 and a 10) a winger and a striker.
I'd like us to take a punt on the young lad Mount from Chelsea on loan or Phil Foden from Citeh.
Would have loved him to at least have a pre season with us until end of July so he could have tested himself, but clear from the start Warnock didn't want to bother. Huws looks like a quality footballer and would have thrived here having had a good bit of man management. Mick McCarthy on the contrary is probably the perfect manager for him.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40410359
No mention of Bruno Manga I see, although, judging by the positions of the players he says he wants to bring in, he doesn't think he is going to be losing a centreback.
He's our new Whittingham!
From what I've seen of Huws, the question for me is how does he fit into the side.
Holding midfielder? Not good enough defensively for me. Number 10 role? Doesn't strike me as quick enough physically or mentally to play there. Box to box? Can't see he's got the engine to do that.
I think he should stay. We have a midfield of Gunnarsson and Ralls now with Halford and O'Keefe as back up. So far.
No doubt we will have the "In Warnock We Trust" brigade (cringe) trying to dress that midfield up but for me that is an awful squad of midfielders. Not one of them can pass the ball with any conviction, none of them are creative, none of them are going to get you 10 goals a season. In fact they are all pretty much same, same, with no one offering a different option to the other.
Unless Warnock has got 2 decent midfielders lined up to replace Whitts and Huws then that midfield quarter is extremely underwhelming.
That's not necessarily a major issue though. If Warnock wants something like a 4-2-3-1 then the responsibility for the two in midfield is to hold, protect the defence. Width comes from the full backs, reliance upon the wide players/number 10/striker to score.
Zohore looks like a twenty goal a season striker now, so that helps. More goals from out wide, from whoever plays behind Zohore will be more important.
We don't have a number 10 though. That's the point. All of our midfielders are limited technically.
The centre midfielders have to do more than just hold, they still have to work the ball to the full backs and front 4, and none of the 4 mentioned can pass the ball. In some of the cases they struggle to pass it further than 10 yards.
Warnock has gone on record as saying he wants 3 more players, 2 midfielders and a forward.
Regarding Huws he like Whitts are not the grafters and were never going to fit into a Warnock team.
Lambert will probably end up at somewhere like Eastleigh, where he stills has a home, and they are trying to show a bit of ambition to get into the football league
I can see "Mutual agreement" being stated here as we probably pay him a few hundred grand to piss off
National league or conference is about his level now if he wants to carry on playing