Harrison returns for second season-long loan

His work rate is good but he loses the ball too often and fails to beat a man.

Maybe with a better RB he will contribute more.

Only upside is there's no fee to pay and he already knows the club and manager. However, £4.5m in wages for a very average, albeit hardworking, winger seems a waste of a loan slot and a waste of a lot of money.

So currently, we've re-signed Coleman, Young and Harrison. Former two should really only be back up and the latter hopefully isnt the starting RM….

Still 7 weeks to the season start I guess….

If money was there then maybe we could bring better onboard. Harrison is a experienced Premier League player who in my opinion a few other Clubs wouldn't mind having in there squad.

For every Harrison there are a few Benrahma's who look may look good on youtube but offer little to a struggling side.

He's actually got a few good attributes and his work ethic can't be faulted. Hopefully he'll improve this year.

No brainer to get him back.

There's attacking returns in there for anyone who bothered to watch him under Bielsa.

Problem is he's got a walking disaster behind him on the right.

He's not going to fire us into the champions league places, but all we're looking for is a stress free season finishing 10th-14th. Then hopefully we can kick on.

Give him someone to work off of rather than an isolated role and we will see some better performances. He cannot create space on his own but knows the proper channels to run and can occasionally produce opportunities. Another player needed for overall strength of squad.

Harrison pisses me off as well at times but we havent got a player who doesn't. When one of your best passes of the ball is a centreback I don't see a problem with this its low risk. Harrison or a player who's played for 6 or 7 Clubs and produced in a piss poor league.

Karl # 29, Leeds are letting him go in order to subsidise his wages - not because they don't rate him.

Brian # 23, goals can come in greater number if we can improve some of the other key positions - especially RB and the (sort of) number 10 position Doucoure plays. Ndiaye looks like he might be the latter.

If the lad wants to play for us and is committed, thats.' good with me. Dyche will pick his players and team.

Not long until 17th August

Whether or not he surprises the doubters this season I don't know. But the added pre-season plus full health will make a difference. Who knows what kind of pliers we'll surround him with to give him a better chance of contributing offensively.

Certainly this signing is somewhat a product of where we are financially as a club, but I also think he's a better player than most on here give him credit for. Plus he works hard for the shirt and wants to be here. Along with his history of contributing to goals and his defensive work rate, that's all good enough for me.

Ah well.

Glad we didn't have to buy him.

Glad we're looking at other options in his position.

I think he will really benefit from a Dyche pre-season and I expect him to return better attacking numbers this year.

Can play RW, LW and behind the striker. Extremely hard working and suits the managers game plan to a tee. Great to get him in early and helps team consistency whilst allowing us room to spend transfer funds elsewhere.

How James Rodriguez has returned as Colombia's midfield maestro while utterly disappearing from club football -- currently sitting unwanted on the end of the bench at Sao Paulo.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40267466/can-colombias-james-rodriguez-quiet-critics-2024-copa-america

He also served up a perfect third for our old friend Yerry that drew a penalty, which was unfortunately overturned.

A full pre-season for him and all the squad could be a tremendous thing to enable us to start fit and firing.
Performance (not results) wise, we seemed very strong in the first part of the season. Very short of goals though, weren't we?

Perhaps Dele Alli will get a full pre-season and stay? If the takeover can get done in time, maybe we could get PSR sorted by letting Onana go, he seems to want away anyway, though that may change now we should be upwardly mobile post takeover.

Probably unrealistic to think James Rodriguez could return, to give us a real top quality cutting edge and sparkling creativity. What a play maker, what a player. He knows us and loves us, we love him, could Dan Friedkin make it happen.

Does he have 2 plus top quality seasons left, to dance on the Goodison Turf to light her up in this last season? Could he be the sparkling diamond to bring unbounded joy first season at Bramley-Moore Dock?

Taken on by Liverpool and then Manchester United academies. Also played out in the US.

On the crossing side, you are looking at a left footed player, being mostly put on the right side. I've never been a fan of that. But we have McNeil, who's delivery I mostly good.

I'm happy that he's staying. More thinking about how we bolster that midfield.

Personally, I prefer to use the Tongue in Groove type. ;-)

Which, of course was won by Olympique Marseilles, the only worrying aspect being that he only managed 4 in 46 for them. Hopefully down to style of (their) play and missing playing in England.

Not being a harbinger of doom, prolific scorers don't usually just 'dry up' unless they have just hit a bad patch, I am hoping that may be the case here. Welcome aboard lad !

It appears that the signings made so far are part of a short-medium term strategy to ensure we are comfortably mid-table but in a stable and sustainable way.

Once achieved, next phase – qualify for Europe through the league then who knows, perhaps Champions League in say 5 -7 years?