• 2 days ago
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00:00How tough, Paul, do you think it will be to find the 1v1 players you've been talking about that will make a difference on a night like tonight?
00:09Yeah, well it is. It's a big club stockpile now. There's lots of ways of going about it.
00:18One's having millions and millions of pounds to go and get them and you know it's going to improve the team. We've not got it that way.
00:23The other one's loans and going to get them from the Premier League teams. You've got to be really good at spotting them and also understand that generally those 1v1 players, if they're younger,
00:37they may be good in their moments but they could be costing you for a third, two thirds, three quarters of a season and by the end you send them back, they're brilliant at performing and you need them on the second loan.
00:47So that's always your thoughts with that. The other one then is identifying talent that probably no-one else has got yet. Can we be the ones to nip in and get them ourselves and work with them and over time develop them into those players?
01:04They may have the talent, the physical qualities to be good 1v1 but maybe other parts of the game need improving. But if there are players, I'd rather do that with our players than spend a season developing someone else's players.
01:16So I think they're the three things.
01:18If you had them tonight, would they have fit in and played, would it be a different role to Magomor and Kessler?
01:23Yes, so for example Jadon, we're working with Jadon, but Jadon's played left-back in a four. Used to receiving the ball deep, then playing, then joining in. You can see today we asked him to get on the last man a lot.
01:37I hated it when I was moved from left-back to left-wing back. I tried to play it like a midfielder and come inside a lot, whereas other players, wingers, would play on the last man.
01:49So we spoke about it a lot earlier in the season, getting those type of players. Geppi was brought in for that type of thing, we tried it with Josh. So they're the type in certain games, when you're dominating the ball, if you've got 1v1 players in those areas, then you're generally getting the ball to them all.
02:08You're looking at the middle of the pitch as well, we've seen Aubrey England tonight, you probably felt his absence and then Holmes has gone as well.
02:13Yeah, definitely. Like I said, I'm always back. I'd be comfortable thinking you can coach the ball into the final third, whether you have to change systems to do it against certain shapes, I'd be pretty comfortable doing that.
02:28And then, like I said, it's what's next. So there's lots of things, 1v1 players, players who hold the ball and you can play into front men a lot more and build through front men. Players who are really good at playing in tight spaces. I'd love all the lot, do you know what I mean? I'd love nines where you can play into when it's tight and you're playing against a block like that. I'd love tens who can play in those spaces and combine off one or two touches and I'd love 1v1 dominant players wide.
02:52But, yeah, we're not going to get that. We certainly need to improve and we're going to try and improve all those areas, if you like, or be effective in all those areas. But we may have to settle for the middle or we may strike it lucky and get those 1v1 players wide as well.
03:10How much sort of change do you anticipate? I think Peter Riddell said maybe 10 new signings. Could it be that many?
03:16Yeah, because we're losing a lot of loans, do you know what I mean? People are gone, Dwayne's gone, so we've got a lot of spaces to fill. You can see we're light at the minute. Yeah, definitely. There's going to be change, but you also don't want to lose what these lads are, which is a fantastic group, work really hard, train really hard. Yeah, we can't lose what we are good at and become a soft touch.
03:41I think because we've got better, like seen today, with the ball in certain games when you dominate the ball, teams drop behind it then and that's when I think if we've not got the first goal. We've seen more of it deep down now when teams have come and sit back in and we have to be really patient and try and create that first goal. So, yeah, listen, they're certainly the positions and the qualities that we want to have.