The Terriers manager acknowledges that his side are still very much a work in progress but hopes that a busy run of games might help accelerate that development
The ten games that the Terriers have coming up before New Year’s Day will be crucial to their chances of avoiding major problems heading into the January transfer window, according to manager Darren Moore.
Moore’s offensive options are limited at best and have been virtually nonexistent over the last two games; therefore, Huddersfield Town wants to add players to the roster both from the injured list and the transfer market.
That hasn’t done much to help the manager, who wants to see the team establish a distinctive football identity over the course of the next six weeks of intense games.
Speaking ahead of last week’s defeat to Hull City, Moore said: “You are right [that you have to dig in], looking at this time of the season coming in. That’s why we’re really pleased these next few weeks to have one or two other bodies coming back off the treatment table because with the games coming in.
“You want your volume and your squad to be a bit deeper and better, and it looks like we’re getting one or two back. But this time of the year is a crucial time in the season where you’re coming into that turn of the year, the January transfer window, the FA Cup third round, all those kinds of things before it comes into it.
“You’ve got these sort of 10 or a dozen games before that happens to navigate through really, so it’s a really, really important time. As a group, we just take one game as it comes; we just load all our thoughts into one game, even though we know it’s over that sustained period. That’s what we’re doing.”
Moore reiterated that developing his side into his own preferred image was not all going to come at once, even in ideal circumstances, though he would later add that taking quite the level of safety-first approach that his side adopted against Watford and Hull was borne out of necessity rather than preference.
He remarked, “I genuinely would love that; of course we’d all love that (if it was instantaneous). But the truth is, in my experience, there is a process and a period involved when developing something. I understand that, in due course, we all want the outcomes to materialize and everything else to fall into place, but there must be progression and development as a football team.
“I genuinely believe that the process is still ongoing within the football club’s walls, and we are working incredibly hard every day to implement that process and that philosophy.”
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