‘All the ingredients needed to thrive’ – Sheffield United sign 26-year-old: The verdict

This article is part of Football League World’s ‘The Verdict‘ series, which provides personal opinions from the FLW writers regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

Sheffield United completed the Deadline Day signing of Charlie Goode from Brentford on loan for the rest of the season.

The 26-year-old has only managed eight league starts for the Bees since signing from Northampton Town in the summer of 2020.

With Ben Davies and Jack O’Connell sidelined, this seems to be a fairly important addition for the Blades especially with Paul Heckingbottom’s appetite to deploy a three at the back formation.

The Blades will have their sights firmly set on bridging the current six point gap between themselves and the top six in the coming months, Goode may go on to play a crucial role in that by drawing on his experience from last season with the Bees.

We have gathered the thoughts of a selection of FLW writers to see how they believe Goode will get on at Bramall Lane…

Adam Jones

With Ben Davies still out of action, you think he would start.

However, Jack Robinson’s emergence has been a real game-changer and after keeping a clean sheet against Peterborough United at the weekend, it would be hard to see him being dropped anytime soon.

Goode should retain hope though – because a couple of injuries will allow him to take his starting spot in the central defence considering Paul Heckingbottom looks set to play with a back three for the foreseeable future.

In terms of whether it’s good business or not, it’s a tricky one because he wasn’t even a regular for Brentford when they were down in the Championship, but considering they have chosen to only let him go out on a loan deal, this is