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I agree with most of what you are saying & ties in with Lampard talking about needing to develop different ways to attack With the Leeds comparison - it helps a lot that they are playing it into Piroe who you can trust to play it into. I think if we had a player like him we would play it into...

EMC was the target for most of our long balls against Sunderland in the second leg - and I thought he dealt with them well Was against Hume who is 5''9 mind

Could just be that we've opened talks with Austin to see what a deal would be - but would only press forward with it if we actually shift someone (Sheaf, Eccles, Allen). Clubs do this all the time What is worrying is that someone seems to have leaked it - meaning they're probably trying to drum...

Yeah makes sense while we have 3 LBs and 1 LW to give them all 45 mins by playing Brau there. Personally though I'd be playing Brau at LB and JDS at LW so Brau can get used to the high-line and the expectations of him (which JDS already knows) Won't be until the Betis/St. Pauli games that we...

Besiktas had a deal for him that fell through - could they afford MvE?

There were people on here after we signed Grimes arguing that Sheaf would be benched, only for him to play every game once fit What is evident is that he only manages 30-35 games, ideally he wouldn’t start twice in a week. To compensate for that you need solid backups

What is an acceptable fee for someone to be on the bench? Is Simms not allowed on the bench because he cost more than 3m? We should drop Saka to the bench and play BTA as he cost 3m. You need a squad. We had to bring on Allen in the play offs last year ffs

It isn’t that wild

Tbf to him he's made 133 appearance in a top-half Championship team & going into next season is 5th choice (6th if we sign this lad) Got every right to push for first-team football somewhere else

CM is probably the last place where an upgrade is needed - but I'd take him Would surely mean one of Eccles/Allen is off

Think it was 4 summers ago

Yeah he needs to have a bit of a stormer this season to get in - which benefits us Not a great start though with another pre-season missed (3rd in a row he hasn't had a full pre-season). It usually takes him a while to get going

Think their owners came out and said their priority is getting Watford back in to the Premier League (as its where all the money is) when previously Udinese has been the priority

I know we were 2-0 down but I don't think the gap was crazy in the first half with our first-choice midfield - we played some good stuff, although we couldn't create anything Our second choice midfield however got rolled over and couldn't cope at all (to be expected when we were in more of a...

Betis will be a similar test - fans will help though I think the fitness levels of the Monaco players will really Lampard drive home his point. We have a lot of players with desires to play in the Prem - games like this will help them realise the levels they need to reach if they want to make...

For the record I wasn't saying we can replicate the Brighton/Brentford model at all - just giving an example of how selling your best players doesn't mean you have to 'burn' a season / get worse Unless you're in the Champions League everyone in the pyramid has to try to trade up - but if you're...

Makes sense. The 6m is obviously bollocks Think it’s the perfect move if we can get it done tbh

Yeah I think Collins not getting any minutes does point to us getting a GK in. If he was definitely 2nd choice going into the season he'd have got a half in the 2 games

Surely he would have played Binks if he was available/in his plans Every other available first team player from last season is getting minutes - including 3 LBs

People are taking the piss. Nobody actually cares