The Owners - FSG

The Albert
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And we would still need someone else other than Ekitike to play up top because Diaz was not only a LW last season, we played the best stuff with an attacking trio of Salah, Gakpo and Diaz up top.

Only signing a LW (or two wingers, questionable whether one of them could play up top) to replace Diaz and going into the season with only Ekitike as a proper striker (at the time we have no idea how well he might do) just wouldn’t be enough. It would’ve been criticized at the time by most, I’m pretty sure.

It’s absolutely up for good discussion what were our moves, did it have to be both Ekitike and Isak for the money we brought them for and tactical questions how will that work and our depth/competition in wide areas.

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On Morton (we’re really going to the periphery of things to find reasons and explanations…), the best he could hope was possibly to become our 4th choice CM on paper instead of Endo and then try to prove himself for more. These players were here for a while, some of them under two coaches and even if top professionals make mistakes, I’d say there are good reasons for most situations in football. Morton needed minutes and badly. Going elsewhere was probably the most logical move from all angles. We’ll see how his development and future goes.

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Interesting little piece about our first owner

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