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Sheaf’s best bet of Premiership football is with us and frankly, this season has been a setback for him so his value has tanked from our POV. I don’t think he’ll leave this summer because it doesn’t suit either party imo.

Agreed on this season. Last season (23/24), he appeared in 24 out of 38 Prem games which is decent. I’ve not checked if that’s full games or cameos to be honest. Edit: checked his minutes in 23/24 and he played a decent amount of minutes in Forest’s first 2 seasons in the Prem.

To add onto what you said, comparing the two players it’s undeniable that Gyokeres is a lot more athletic than Hamer. The technical differences between the Championship and Premier League is generally closing. Where the gap is widening is Premier League players have the technical skills but...

There’s a weird obsession with Keiffer Moore. His MPG is worse than all of our current strikers, barring Bassette. If he’s the answer, I dread the question.

That will play a part but over his career, his passing stats are comparable to Simms. Iirc, Simms was better at short range passing and Salech better at long range passing (I could be wrong, the data is not in front of me). When I reviewed the data metrics earlier in the week, Salech was better...

Salech is absolutely better than Simms at things; aerial duals, clearances, interceptions and tackles. This season he’s had more shots and goals in less minutes. Areas he’s worse than Simms (per 90); pass completion, assists, xA, xG and xA combined, progressive carries. Frankly, the pass...

Unlike Vik, Rudoni has 3 years left on his contract. If Vik had 2 years left on his contract rather than 1 in 2023, his value would’ve comfortably been £5+ million more than we got for him. Players going to the Prem from the Championship for £25+ million is not unheard of. Frankly, we should...

Stats over his career to date are close to Simms in a lot of areas. Given how many on here feel about Simms, it strikes me that people haven’t done their homework on Salech. With the sums likely to be involved, this transfer is unlikely to happen.

In isolation, he has had some stand out games, mostly the games where we’ve needed to defend more than average. Over the course of the season though, he definitively has not been a stand out player. Attacking wise, he scores low on successful dribbles, shots, touches in the box and goals - most...

What would we do if we lost Sakamoto’s 4 goals?!

The inclination is that Sakamoto is a guaranteed first choice and a RW is someone to play 2nd fiddle to Sakamoto. Thats how I’ve interpreted things. In my view, we need another winger to come in and get close to 10 goals and a similar amount in assists. Presuming we want to really compete for...

He was v good in the playoffs tbf, but the stats over 60+ games for us don’t lie. Sakamoto’s best facets is the defensive side of the game. I have no complaints about his assist either. There needs to be extra star quality in the team and Sakamoto is a solid player but he’s not going to put the...

Gents, I was being snarky in response to the growing list of ‘basic needs’.

Add iPhones to list of ‘basic needs’ too.

Salech’s stats for his entire career, there’s a lot of metrics where he’s identical to Simms (fyi - per 90 stats). But with better dribbling, aerial duals and tackles. So for £7-10m, are you actually getting a significantly better player? There’s no doubt his half season with Cardiff was a great...

Aerial duals isn’t a particularly useful stat in of itself because we don’t play long ball. The important stat is headers scored which he’s scored a good few goals in his career. This season, we’ve scored more headed goals than the EFL and just about every major European league this season...

Josh Sargent is the best striker in the league imo. He’s like Aguero in his prime for Man City; misses at least 1/3 of the season but will get goals. He almost definitely won’t go to a Championship rival so we need to accept that this just isn’t going to happen. For the amount he’d cost and the...

Exactly and at the end of the day, it’s for a player that’s had one good half season. For context, Simms scored more goals than that in the 2nd half of 23/24 so it is a possibility that this player just had a fine run of form. If we sell Haji Wright, we need to spend a lot of money getting in...

More tactical tweaks than fundamental changes. We’ve changed tactics 2-3 times under Lampard, how we played 4-2-3-1 when he first game in was v different to how we ended the season and of course there was the 5-3-2 system in Jan-Feb. Wright, Simms and BTA have all proved they can score goals in...

I just find the notions put forward by you and others ridiculous, to be frank. Haji Wright has one of the best MPG in the league so unless we’re spending £10-15m on a striker, we’re not getting much better. You’ve think our team was a bottom half outfit rather than a playoffs by the way some...