Carlo Armiento

So I think, you know, he's a obviously a massive miss for them.

Carlo Armiento, although he wasn't very consistent, he chipped in with five goals as well.

So that's already 15 goals that they need to replace from last season.

Look, you know, are there any other big ones I missed? Tim Payne is obviously, you know, very well documented what's happened with him, but, um, the rest of them aren't huge outs.

Paulo Retre, he's gone.

Ramin Najoreen, Armiento's gone.

Sahreet Singh has gone.

Dan Edwards, who's only here for a season and played very much, he's gone.

He brushed away all the, you know, exotic, if you like, or exciting tactical stuff that we had under Chiefy, and just went 4-4-2.

And, "I'll pick the experienced players, and I'll give them a very simple job to do in their position, and that's all I want them to do, and we're not gonna do anything flashy.

We're not gonna pick a Carlo Armiento who can score from 30 yards, because I want a Paolo Retre who's gonna patrol his little box and just do exactly what I tell him to do and do nothing else." And it basically worked.

You know, we weren't exciting, but we picked up enough points that we only just missed out on the finals after looking like, you know, we could've been wooden spoons.

Here are the players who played for the Phoenix last season who have left the club.

Josh Olayemi, Tim Paine, Paulo Retre, Carlo Armiento, Efaine Isireme, Nasherin, Mandraka James, Luke Brook Smith, Santa Khartoum, Sarpreet Singh, Gabriel Sloan Rodriguez, Dan Edwards, Luke Supik, and Nikola Milosnic.

I don't even know how many that is, but it's over a full team.

I mean, are you sure you're not just reading out a starting 11 from one of their games?

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but goodness me, what a player he became, and his output of goals and his ability to just, you know, find goals from all sorts of crazy places was a real boost.

And no Carlo Armiento anymore.

That's, that's the bulk of the Phoenix's goal scoring from last season gone.