Seen quite a bit of Lawal with the B team, he has played almost exclusively as a Centre Half (moved into midfield for Sevco Glasgow Cup tie to accommodate Jullien). Very composed on the ball, good forward passer, reasonable pace and very strong in one on one situations. Him and Dane Murray looked the most likely of the B team to step up to first team, although at 18-19 y.o. both may benefit from a season on loan. Ewan Otoo, another centre half but equally as good at left back is another who has good potential.
Anytime I watched the B team it was McKenzie Carse who played as the deep lying midfielder, wee guy who is a McGregor type player in that position. Dictates tempo, links up defence and attack and passes the ball to death. Not physical at all.
I would guess that Ange isn't looking at a Wanyama type defensive midfielder, more someone who can do what our captain does so well.
Great insight as always Gary.
Agreed that the LB position remains our main priority as a back up for Taylor is still desperately required still.
Will be interesting to see just how good our coaching staff really are in seeing if scales and Murray could be developed into decent left sided CB with the potential of being long stays in the position.
Just get the feeling that Welsh is possibly not a Ange type of player in the bigger picture, so could Liewel already be a ready made replacement for Welsh within the squad?
Don't think anything will get sorted out as such about the CB roles until CCV makes a decision, which I still remain very doubtful about it becoming a permanent deal, so again would leave the CB roles needing reinforcement imo.
Think the likes of Moffat, Dawson and Kenny may well be loaned out in order to potentially help with there development hopefully, even if it rages me that young players have to move on loan to help with there development than been able to do so, with a 2nd team in the lower leagues of Scottish football, still an issue that remains unaddressed.
Can't actually see to many new arrivals during the summer myself, but hopefully plenty within the club can be moved on as there is still way to many that are proving nothing for us still.
Still it will be interesting to see if we can actually use the loan system to help with developments of young players instead of what I believe mainly has been used in offloading young players and giving them a chance to gain a career elsewhere as such imo. The way the younger development of players has needed huge improvement for many a long year and hopefully this summer we might start to see signs of progress, and under Ange, I still believe that we will
