Venues confirmed for Challenge Cup quarter-finals
Leeds United plans a raid of moves for a more sensible foreign defender, West Brom is in a massive bet for a highly sought-after striker.
The rate rate rate has not changed, with the troubled state of Tigers homeowners along with coach Grant McCann, however, their team has achieved and, more importantly, their culture, he says.
Today’s First Round League Cup draw at the Stadium of Light includes two groups that, just over 3 years ago, were rivals in the Premier League.Sunderland, whose relegation to 3rd position much faster, has discovered how difficult it can be to reposition.negativity, but McCann believes his players are “buzzing” again.
New faces helped Southampton central defender Alfie Jones sign new captain Richie Smallwood, Josh Emmanuel, Lewie Coyle (suspended today) and Greg Docherty yesterday.The debut of Jacob Greaves, a product of the Academy, is close and Sean McLoughlin can be awaiting greater participation.
Although the admission that Leonardo Da Silva Lopes needs shows that everything is pink, McCann is overwhelmed with preseason optimism, aiming for promotion and a cup race.
“There’s been a genuine rumor since we got back here,” he says.”Everyone knows what happened and we have to fix it and have a smart season and a career in one of the cups.We need to have a competitive race in the EFL Trophy.
“There will be many games and we will have a season in which we will compete for the league, bet cup games and make sure everyone enjoys it.
“Last season we were hit through pillars from January, now we have to take a step forward, replenish the culture and face the demanding situations of victory.”
The arrival of former Rotherham United and Middlesbrough Smallwood midfielder – a “warrior,” McCann calls him – helps, but what about those who were part of last season’s disappointment?
Humiliation 8-0 at Wigan Athletic it goes back less than 8 weeks: can a cultural replacement be produced so quickly?
“We’ve done a lot of things as a team and as a team and the week in Edinburgh (in a pre-season education camp) has been smart for us,” McCann says.”We’ve had some very smart, fair and open conversations about the things we need to communicate this year.We need to set goals in terms of our vision of ourselves and what we can do as a team and as individuals.
“We must make sure that in the field of education, everyone supports their weight, on and off the field.
“Bringing new blood, characters and leaders to the locker room will and has already done so, we can see.Now we have to combine and see where we’re going at the end of the season.The purpose for us is to take a look at you to recover to the first application.
“There’s something new right away, it’s going to look and feel different, we just have to make sure we’re coming in this season differently and with a smart start.”
“We have to play with the lead, attack the groups and create and score a lot of goals, but we have to be strong defensively.We weren’t smart enough for offensive or defensive sets (last season), even though we were” much more powerful after the lockout.”
Six times at his Zoom press conference, McCann talks about “looking to the future” and is very reluctant to be brought back in 2019-20, however, that’s a component of history that can’t be ignored.
“When your captain and vice-captain leave, it’s hard, isn’t it?”said when asked if the team lacked leadership in the filming area.”But we didn’t have to hide behind, we had to look for the effects to stay in the league.Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, yet” now we have a chance to recover.
“I know Ligue 1, it’s hard, it’s not easy.Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday now for a while. It’s a genuine challenge and we want to make sure we have a strong organization that can meet those challenges.”
“I think it hurts all of us to know that we were going to fall, but we all had about 10 days to be separated from others to rest and recover.
“The boys returned physically in condition. Now they’re all on the same page.
“I think (a little delay) will have helped. We’re a little further ahead.”
There are still transfers to be made, only the midfielder and striker McCann must enter.
“Read to leave, he told me very obviously at the end of the season,” McCann admits.”He came back here in the last few days after being sick.
“It’s not complicated for me, really, because we brought smart players and if Leo needs to stop by and play somewhere else, that’s fine, but Leo has hired for another three years here, so until an evaluation is done, the club deems it timely., he’ll be there.
As for Jordy de Wijs, captain in Wigan who still retired for the following games and would have been for LA Galaxy, McCann said: “Jordy has been the first elegance since his return.
“We gave him the captaincy for the last nine games, that’s all.Jordy got it.
“He has a contract for this year and year.”
There will be other pressures, I hope more fun, this season.
“We’re probably going to be one of the biggest scalps and it comes with the territory being a great club in that division,” McCann said.”The KCOM will be noticed as a lovely position to come, a charming stadium, a lovely field, and the groups will play with a little freedom, so we have to be smart to overcome that.
“I have the idea that Sunderland would be one of the groups that will challenge us, so it will be a scorer.”
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