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If Eccles leaves, it’ll be because he wants first team football. In terms of where Lampard views the squad, Sheaf and Grimes are his main two, followed by Torp. This is awkward for Eccles because he was a starter under the previous regime and if a team wants to spend a few million on him, that’s...

Nope, that was a 4-3-3 and Torp’s passes for Wright’s goal we’re all from deep.

Disagree, Lampard has said in previous interviews that Torp can ‘do it all’ and prefers him to play deeper. Torp has made a handful of appearances as an AM and it hasn’t gone that well. They’re v different players. Aside from both being creative in their passing, Rudoni is much more attacking...

He can’t play CM and AM simultaneously… Frankly, this window we ought to have a player who can comfortably play AM In the event Rudi gets injured. A far too influential player to not have a ‘Plan B’ for.

Jesus, definitely not CM and I don’t care if he plays there for Jamaica! I’d because happy to see us move on Lati to be honest. You could be a good CB in a back 3 but he has me on edge when we play him RB or CB when we play a back 4.

Presumably, yes because the CM stock is a bit much now. You’d probably look to sell Eccles if there’s concrete interest and keep Allen as a back up. I’d expect Andrews to go out on loan again. Sheaf, Grimes, Torp, Pereira and Allen/Andrews seem well balanced and enough cover to me. You need 5...

Exactly my point! This is quite idealistic, but we need 2 GKs in competition with one another, particularly if we want to get promoted to the Prem any time soon. Imagine how costly it would be if we start the season with Wilson in goal and Dovin comes back in October (absolute best case) and...

Statistically, the metric used is the sum of his saves v xG faced. Over 28 matches and the quality of opposition, it’s not likely to be an anomaly. Unsurprisingly, Collins and Wilson score poorly here so it’s reasonable to conclude that we’ve got a capable keeper in Dovin.

Didn’t JJ come back for a handful of games, even scoring a goal to do his ACL v Peterborough? Then again the ACL on his other knee v Rangers in preseason summer of 19. Had he not been so unlucky with his ACLs, I’m reasonably certain he’d have been a good contributor for us in the Championship.

Exactly this. He made one big clanger all season but was instrumental keeping us level in games we won away such as Blackburn, Wednesday and home games like Watford, QPR and Bristol City. All 6 pointers that got us within reach of the playoffs. My rationale for wanting a new, ideally permanent...

Dovin was a top 5 keeper in the league last season. In the Jan-Feb winning streak Dovin was MOTM or thereabouts in most of the games. Even v Leeds where he made a basic error, he was out MOTM because his saves prevented the scoreline being 3 or 4 to nil. Keepers will make mistakes. However, we...

You could even argue KKH is better than MVE…

No one has left so ‘unless there are no new outgoings’, we’ll be exactly where we left off! 😂

Wright’s valuation already started at £15 million - one of the top scorers in the league whilst missing 3 months of the season. We’d seriously have to be grade A mugs to even pick the phone and negotiate someone opening at a bid less than £15m.

You can tell a lot of fans haven’t really cottoned on to just how inflated transfer fees are for Championship players nowadays. A top end championship player is comfortably worth £15 million. An increasing amount of 2nd tier players do v well at Prem teams.

He is when fully fit, 100%. The only concern is his fitness.

Yeah, I’d just about back us to finish 4th with an unchanged squad. From Xmas we picked up the 3rd most points so why not? The squad isn’t complete, we need more out wide and AM imo. Even if they’re role players. Modest improvements to our defence and it drastically improves our PPG. So it’s...

We’ll go one better, 4th place.

Disagree that the Grimes signing ‘went against our transfer policy’. The club has tried to add loans and experienced players before we signed Grimes. This narrative has crept in because since Hamer and Vik went, we needed to rebuild the squad which naturally leads us signing younger players...

We’ve come along way since the weekly ‘your grounds too big for you’ chants. The stadium is not far off being a perfect fit. The demand is high at the minute because the club is moving in a good direction. Until we’re in the Prem and established there comfortably, there will be no talk of...