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Apologies, I meant Morris rather than Campbell! Corrected. Agreed that you have to make use of free agency, but I think many on here are throwing the baby out with the bath water. Lampard will obviously look to build the squad in his image but he’s not going to fundamentally gut the team and...

Perhaps, we all drop clangers. Not many will top this strange obsession with mid-players such as Bundu, Morris and Moore.

Inflation works on a year on year (YoY) basis. What’s inflation been since 2023? Probably in and around 10% comfortably.

Just a reminder that Moore’s minutes per goal is worse than Simms. He absolutely wouldn’t walk into this team. Haji Wright is light years ahead of Moore and has scored more goals than Campbell in less games. Seriously, there’s been some horrific takes on here lately.

Sunderland fans have a pathological need to be victims. There’s clips of their fans citing our players (Rudoni and Bidwell mainly) ‘disgusting behaviour’ for knocking their phones out their hands or nicking it. These football fans who get in players faces giving the ‘big I am’ fold as soon as...

You’ve chosen more offensively minded midfielders there box-to-box midfielders are by nature, balanced. It’s a shoehorned definition imo. At his best, Kante was getting decent amount of assists and given the systems he played in (4-4-2 and 3-4-3 in the Prem) frankly needed to have a presence in...

Splitting hairs here. How does that differ from a box-to-box midfielder? It arguably downplays just how effective Kante was in attacking transitions too.

The NBA is class! I went to watch the Knicks v the Nets in the NBA tournament back in November! It was an entertaining game! Who I support varies because it’s the players I follow rather than the teams. That said, I do have a soft spot for the Knicks and Jets (NFL) after going to games in the USA!

Is Kante not the ultimate box-to-box midfielder?

You need all of them to be technically proficient. Even if he’s a good player, does he materially make us better? Not particularly. I’m not one of our in-house scouts who watch football all over Europe, but there will be players around who will fit what we’re looking for. Picking up 29+ year...

So was Sheaf last season. More pertinently, does he fit the profile for our team? Probably not because his passing stats are awful. He’s 29 and the club needs to buy players to improve over time with resale value. He’s a good player but just not the right player for us.

Society in general seems to be a lot angrier. The amount of ‘stickers’ I see up and down country with the Reform logo and/or ‘Stop The Boats’ is astounding. There were a few in the away end on Tuesday but even on holiday I seen some and in most train stations of clubs and all over England...

It was Ebou Adams too after Derby away 😂

It’s an oversimplification, how does his role differ from Sheaf or Eccles? He’s there to win ball and to distribute in tight areas. They’re not clones of one another but the role has essentially the same function. Either way, unless we move Sheaf and Eccles on, I don’t know why we’d keep...

100%. We were 4th best in the league since Lampard has come in but we still need to continually improve the squad. We conceded more goals than we should have whilst scoring less than expected. That isn’t a good mix and we need to reverse these trends if we’re going to kick on next season...

Be careful of statistical outliers. If he usually scores around his xG, and the next season he outperforms that… you have to be sceptical. This time last year, people said the same thing about Sakamoto and he scored less goals in more games this season. To demonstrate: - 2024/25 - 4 goals from...

Like us before we got relegated in 2010/11?! 😂 I’ll always be a half glass full kind of guy and to think that after such a roller coaster of a season that people are choosing the negatives really baffles me. The team is useless despite finishing 5th? Come off it, plenty of teams like our...

The team has proven over the course of this season that it’s a Top 4-5 squad. We still need to be thinking of ways to improve the team because it’s not quite there yet. A few things to point out: - 13 clean sheets in the league, 28.2% of games - Joint 10th in team clean sheets - 58 goals...

We’ve progressed year on year and have been the 4th best in the division since Lampard has come in. The reason it was close was because we started the season with a handicap. To remind you, we were closer to relegation than playoffs until Jan.

Allen was in inspired form when we played 5-3-2 and v Sunderland. Since then, he’s been v average and slipped down the pecking order. It seems harsh, but I’d let him go.