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With regards to EMC being backup, even you must have the sense to admit it was a slightly left-field (pardon the pun) buy when the best player in the team is also in that position. Yes squad rotation is a thing, I'm quite clearly not aloof to that fact but wouldn't you raise eyebrows if for...

He retained the ball well he just didn't do much with it.

Right, and that's fine. But does that not mean we as fans we're allowed a counter opinion to managerial decisions based on what we see week in week out or as you've claimed are we not allowed an opinion because 'who gaf'. It's funny how you're clearly perfectly entitled to one though - but of...

The hilarious thing is, you yourself have admitted Wright is better on the left so you're literally proving my point. He's therefore being deployed in a position where he isn't as effective as he would be if he was played in his more comfortable role (out wide). Do you understand the definition...

You "Anyway it would work better if they allowed Wright to float out more to the left more iMO." Also you: "WhO GaF WhAt YoU ThInK." Such irony. But yeah, I'm the stupid one. I've genuinely seen ogres stumble into a job centre with more intelligance than you.

Christ you're not the brightest spark are you. Lampard wants to start the game with the best team available on paper from what he's seen since he came in which in his eyes will be EMC Wright (being our best player) and Sakamoto. Understandable. However, EMC's form has been very mixed since...

It's not drivel at all. As shown last night he's not a natural 9. He's a natural goalscorer. There's a fundamental difference.

What are you on about? At the time he was brought in, Wright was the first name on the team sheet at LW. Hence why it was a strange buy. EMC's strongest position is LW and we already had a player there who unless sold was never going to be replaced. He's also looked very uncomfortable when...

I think it's more that this is where Wright is very much exposed as a 9. He's nowhere near physical enough and looks very uncomfortable playing with his back to goal, especially when defenders are tight on him. Which they were pretty much all game until he went off.

If we are to get into the POs and there's far more at stake his mentality does worry me though. He's not going to get the same luxury against better teams.

Funnily enough that will happen when the first choice LW has been out for nearly 4 months....

I get the need for squad depth put spending £4m on a backup LW is a pretty bizarre use of budget.

In all fairness he only had to face one shot, and it was a tame one. Although they broke well, particularly in the first half, Portsmouth's end product was pretty toothless for the most part. Distribution was very good from him throughout though.

What he did well was put a bit more control back in the midfield by picking up second balls. Up until that point we were getting bullied and losing the physical battle.

It's also to alleviate pressure on the CBs to have to pass the ball out. One of the biggest issues earlier in the team was us giving the ball away in our own half which obviously made us vulnerable, our back line were the biggest culprits.

Thomas was all over the place first half. Got caught on a few occasions but was bailed out by players around him. Settled more in the second half though.

Their playing style isn't all that dissimilar than Sporting's was under Amorim, where Gyokeres was probably at his best compared to under the new chap where he isn't scoring as many goals from open play. Granted they might look at someone younger like Sesko but it boils down to who's available...

So you're saying that signing Florian Wirtz is off the table?

Bollocking was probably a bit strong. Reading between the lines of what Dean Austin has said previously on the club's stance on loans though, when he referenced the Ayari situation specifically, I suspect Brighton weren't particularly happy as the club would've likely given assurances about his...

Their biggest issue is last time they had a number of saleable assets they could use as collateral to buy their way back up to the PL. This time around I genuinely can't think of one player that would generate a decent fee.