Ipswich vs PNE preview w/ Ross Halls

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00:00But no, it's still the same old itch,

00:02but they're just obviously still finding a way to jail

00:05because we've obviously made some signings.

00:07Yeah, there's been obviously some massive player sales for money

00:11and then some key men gone on threes, like you mentioned.

00:13Obviously, Luongo and Morsi were quality last time you were in the champ.

00:17So how do you assess the squad at the minute

00:19and the biggest gaps they need to try and fill?

00:23Yeah, it's been a lot of changes this summer,

00:25probably more than we're expecting.

00:27But when big money comes, you know,

00:30Nathan Broadhead was maybe a surprise one going to Rexon,

00:33but he had one year left on his deal.

00:34Going for £7.5 million is not too shabby.

00:37Amari Hutchison obviously had a release clause that got triggered,

00:41but then it expired.

00:42But then there's a little bit of a transfer saga with him.

00:44But now he's obviously gone the Nottingham Forest.

00:46The lap was always going to go.

00:48But the ones that were a bit more surprising was the Sam Orsey one.

00:52Obviously, he's gone to Kuwait, which is life-changing for his family.

00:55He had one year left on his deal as well.

00:57But to lose your skipper, who's sort of been the leading man,

01:01part of this back-to-back promotions, is a big thing.

01:04And he's been replaced by a Dutchman who's been playing in France,

01:08Azor Matasiwa, who is going to take a while for him to adapt to life

01:13to the championship football.

01:14Birmingham game was very tough for him.

01:16But for the Southampton game, he sort of showed what he can bring.

01:19In pre-season, he impressed me.

01:21Obviously, re-signed Yendik Yuste as well, who's another midfielder.

01:25That is a position we need to really strengthen in

01:27because we've lost players, as you mentioned,

01:29Masano Luongo, Sam Orsey.

01:31But now we're going to have Yendik Yuste and Azor Matasiwa,

01:34who are now going to have that partnership.

01:35But the good thing about them, they both play together in France.

01:38So it would take more while to maybe get up to speed.

01:42But yeah, we've obviously got George Hurst up top,

01:46who is a player who's going to have hopefully a really good season.

01:49He's had injury setbacks before, but hopefully this is a season

01:52where he can go and score goals.

01:54But we've still got Sammy Smoddix, who last time he played

01:56in the championship, scored 27 goals or 28 goals.

01:59So the squad is still growing.

02:02There's still going to be signings to be made,

02:04because we've made six so far.

02:06So this game has probably come at a point where we're still building.

02:10I know McKenna said that the Birmingham game sort of came too soon

02:13when it did, but now we've had the Southampton game.

02:16And yeah, most likely, as we record this,

02:19I can't see another signing in before this game.

02:22But after this, I think that's when town need to make signings.

02:25But Chewbac-Pombe could feature, who's going to have a new signing.

02:29So yeah, we'll have to wait and see.

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