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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...

It’s a bit drastic to be honest. 2 will leave at an absolute push and reading through the comments on several threads, a lot of people stand to look v silly.

I’d like Ange and Spurs to win a trophy. It would be nice for Ange’s prophecy to come true even if his position is precarious at Spurs. Man U being smug about winning trophies despite poor league performances is irritating me. They wouldn’t be in the competition had it not been for VAR...

On that basis, why not hand out free season tickets? You can’t have your cake and eat it, cheap prices for a premium product. Operating costs have increased significantly since the last raise in costs. Even on the premier league package, my ticket price per game works out at £23.91 per game...

Champagne lifestyle, lemonade diet… I’ve managed several people who drive ridiculously expensive cars that they could never afford outright.

If it’s only 3, then: CB LB RW/LW Realistically, you probably have to add a GK as a bare minimum. This is on the presumption there’s no outgoings which seems unlikely. The squad is in a good place, but the gulf between us and the relegated teams will be large so we’ll need to add a little bit...

Hopefully this is the case and they’re slapped with a hefty points deduction and a transfer embargo. We all thought Sheff U were in the shit last summer and they ended up signing the best free agents and even added quality additions such as Burrows for significant fees. They are favourites to...

We don’t have a particularly young side anymore, I’d expect to add one more ‘experienced’ pro but rest of the signings being 25-26 and under.

Almost definitely and generally, his preference is to work with younger players and he’s made that clear when talking about it his coaching style. Robins was more involved with recruitment than we think to be honest and if he did take a step back, it would’ve definitely been his own doing. I...

I highly doubt Lampard joining the club will signal a change in recruitment policy. Grimes was a top end Championship midfielder that was available reasonably cheaply.

As an exception to the rule…

His stats from 23/24 suggest he’s a goal threat playing upfront or LW. Haji Wright hasn’t actually hit ‘form’ under Lampard, he had one game where he was top class but aside from that, the other games he scored he didn’t play particularly well. He should have scored goals v Hull, Plymouth and...