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I’d adapt that to a 5-3-2 personally. Thomas/Lati at RCB and play Simms and BTA up front. I doubt Rapha is ready to start a game yet.

Considering he wasn’t at the races for us or Blackburn, it’s probably more likely the case that last year was a great experience for him in terms of development but wasn’t quite ready to make a mark at our level. So often in football, you’ve just got to be at the right place at the right time...

That’s an unfair characterisation. Some players just need their minutes managed more than others. If you have a player that gets injured quite often, it’s just common sense you mitigate the risk. As it happens, Sheaf has one of the highest minutes per game whenever he plays.

The wage issue being an important point because it’s why we’ll lose out on the top end free agents and rely on ‘up and coming’ players on lower wages, but higher transfer fees. Of that list of 24, 4 players at least are complete non-factors; Tavares, Rapha, Tyler, 3rd choice GK...

Somewhat sceptical of this because we’ve needed and nearly signed several CMs since the summer. Are you sure it is 1 in, 1 out for the whole squad or just certain positions. For example, it probably would make sense if we did a one in/out for CBs. When we say ‘the money is gone’, is that for...

There’s a lack of depth across the board. After Sakamoto got injured the issue was more that we didn’t have the right players to play in the system. If you look at midfield, you’ve got Sheaf and Eccles playing more or less every single minute in games because Torp struggled for fitness and...

He scored all his goals playing upfront this season with the exception of Oxford at home. His main position in his career has been striker and it’s only been Robins who’s tried to convert him to a LW.

No, but BTA played a couple of games a RW even as a sub iirc in the league and cup.

It’s all dependent on Simms hitting some form. If he doesn’t, Wright will play upfront and EMC LW with a fully fit and ready squad.

Robins started Bassette upfront and BTA on the wing before thinking to start EMC LW or RW. Maybe put your dedicated winger LW, RW and/or move Haji to striker. Robins dropped the ball on that and there’s little point pretending otherwise.

Cynically, probably means we won’t sign him either because why would he join to play 2nd fiddle to MVE?

Players also just need a run in the team, how many games did he actually play RW for us? As soon as Lampard put a bit of faith in him to start games, it paid dividends. The main things we see from him; coming to the back post, high volume crosses and lots of dribbling attempts, I can’t see why...

No, you’d either play 4-4-2 or play one of them on the right, most likely EMC. Sakamoto, all due respect, isn’t better than either EMC or Wright. We need directness on the wings to take players on because without EMC or Wright, we don’t do it enough.

I don’t think he misses 20-30% of a season if his minutes are limited to 60-70m per game. Look at a player like Martinelli at Arsenal who they get a lot more mileage out of when they manage his minutes. Last season, Shesf averaged about 83m a game when played. Playing nearly 90m for 50-odd...

It was the same as last season where he was overworked and subsequently injured. We needed more cover for that area before we’d kicked a ball this season.

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Lampard said Haji would be out for 2-3 weeks and EMC ‘longer’ so a minimum of 4 weeks from now. We’ve had some tough luck with injuries and this Sheaf news adds to it.

Landon Donovan?

Is he even available?