Summer 2022 Championship Squad Rebuild

Another simple defensive cock up!

 

Looking at our squad today I can't see us doing any better than last season.

 

Manning netted the winner after good play by Congreve!

 

Deserved win, their keeper made some good saves. We still look vulnerable at the back when we try and be too clever.

 

Oh dear. How does Martin justify that cock up ? As embarrassing an own goal as you'll ever see. The League season starts next weekend.

 

Better this week than next

 

MY first rule of defending is - don't pass the ball anywhere near that space between the two posts. To do so invites the possibility,( not the certainty ), that something untoward may happen, viz, goalkeeper slips, miskicks, the ball bobbles awkwardly, goalkeeper takes his eye off the ball, etc., and voila, a goal has been conceded, points needlessly lost, etc.
Yesterday's own goal was a classic example of what NOT to do as a defender. Schoolboy defending, at best. That's Infant School, of course.
With defending like that, opposition camps must be licking their lips in anticipation of the many gifts about to come their way.
Some Coach, this Martin.

Most own goals are down to plain bad luck, usually via a rebound, deflection, etc., and cannot be avoided.

Yesterday's calamitous own goal, friendly game though it was, tells me all I need to know about Swansea City's defensive coaches and the mentality of Darling.

I'm not impressed.

 

Swansea City can confirm the club’s first-team squad numbers for the 2022-23 season.

Returning midfielder Joe Allen has taken the number seven shirt – previously worn by the likes of Alan Curtis and Leon Britton – following his move back to his boyhood club.

Fellow new arrivals Harry Darling, Nathan Wood and Matty Sorinola have taken numbers six, 23 and 29 respectively.

There has also been a change to Jay Fulton’s number, with the Scottish midfielder taking the number four jersey for the 2022-23 campaign, while goalkeeper Andy Fisher takes over the number one shirt.

1 Andy Fisher

3 Ryan Manning

4 Jay Fulton

5 Ben Cabango

6 Harry Darling

7 Joe Allen

8 Matt Grimes

9 Michael Obafemi

10 Olivier Ntcham

12 Jamie Paterson

13 Steven Benda

14 Kyle Joseph

15 Nathanael Ogbeta

16 Brandon Cooper

17 Joël Piroe

20 Liam Cullen

22 Joel Latibeaudiere

23 Nathan Wood

26 Kyle Naughton

28 Liam Walsh

29 Matty Sorinola

31 Ollie Cooper

37 Daniel Williams

40 NUMBER RETIRED

41 Jordon Garrick

45 Cameron Congreve

I will post the match day thread later today or first thing tomorrow morning

 

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/norwich-qpr-and-swansea-in-race-for-25-year-old-defender/

 

It's all gone quiet on the transfer front. Perhaps the Club are hoping what they have will suffice.

Compare with the tax dodgers, who are signing anybody who has two legs to stand on.

 

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...ut-on-saturday’-piroe-happy-and-ogbeta-latest

 

https://www.fotmob.com/news/119c42r...on-leaves-Spurs-for-Rennes-ahead-of-World-Cup

 

Feel sad for hm. He left Swansea for the bog time, and it hasn't worked out.

Has the Swansea City curse struck again ?

Anyway, good luck joe.

 

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...able-assets-that-are-most-certainly-available

 

https://planetswans.co.uk/2022/08/27/another-target-bites-the-dust-defender-wings-into-hull-city/

 

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/swansea-city-set-complete-loan-24875692

 

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...erdict-is-in-on-russell-martin-and-stoke-city