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How much did Jobe Bellingham go for this summer? Brentford sold Benrahma for £30m a few years back. Rudoni is a talented midfielder who is critical to our promotion bid and will be ready for the Prem in 1-2 seasons. Most importantly, has 3 years left on his current contract. We should be...

Thankfully, the squad is in a far better position than in the L1 years. We've spent a lot of money on the squad over the last 2 seasons so Lampard will need to work with a lot of the existing squad. The starting 11 is clearly good enough for the Top 6 so we're in the privileged position where...

I haven’t been to any of the preseason games so didn’t know that. It was something that’s been done quite a lot. Lampard likes the 3-2-5 overload and if KKH and Brau can push up and give us more goals and assists, I’m all for it. KKH played as a WB a lot last season so he’s capable of getting...

In fairness to MVE, his 'expected assists' was 7 which was more than most our outfielders. His defensive stats were good, but KKH's were better. Could probably do with adding goals to his game, you look at what Firpo and Bogle were able to last season for Leeds. In fact, we've never seen an MVE...

I don’t believe the fee is £6.5m, he’s got 2 years on his contract and is 24 years old. It’s not a terrible price with the add-on but isn’t good either when you bear in mind what we got for Vik and Hamer with 1 year left in their contracts.

At the very least, he's a better defender. MVE is overall a better attacking threat but KKH is younger and has developed rapidly so we've not done badly at all. Not quite the same comparison, but when Brentford replaced Watkins with Toney, it was a "downgrade" but everything worked out fine for...

For sure. Probably a situation like Hamer in 23/24 where he told the club he wanted to leave and we allowed it but at the right price. KKH wouldn’t have came to us if he was going to be competing with another player all season for a starting berth.

4th or 5th. We finished 9 points off 4th after a slow start. A lot of people have written off a lot of our players and this season I’m optimistic they’ll come good staying injury-free and a good preseason working with Lampard and his team. I’d like 2-3 more players to be added before the...

As soon as we signed KKH, it was inevitable the club had allowed MVE to move on. KKH is too good to be sat behind MVE for a season and is arguably better than him right now. Personally, MVE shades it but KKH is younger and probably has a higher ceiling. If we get the fee we want for MVE...

4th or 5th. We finished 9 points off 4th after a slow start. A lot of people have written off a lot of our players and this season I’m optimistic they’ll come good staying injury-free and a good preseason working with Lampard and his team. I’d like 2-3 more players to be added before the...

That’s not what this ‘debate’ is about. It’s actually about what’s a higher priority in terms of where we need improve. I’ve been consistent in saying that we’ve got a top championship striker on the books and it’s actually our wingers where need more goals. Haji Wright starts for all the teams...

I’m optimistic Torp will have a good season this year. He stepped up massively in the 5-3-2 days and was unfortunate with injuries. If he can improve in his goals and assists, he’ll be a starter. More long range shooting and passing from deep is what this team can miss at times.

First and foremost, you play your best players in their positions. Haji is our best striker and he shouldn’t need to Second point, 24/25 is an outlier for BTA and Simms so the club aren’t just going to pivot and sign a new striker to sit behind Haji. The priority of the club is to find a way to...

I don’t know for sure, but we’ve spent £16m on strikers, we’re not going to completely U-turn on them after 1 season. That’s just common sense. If you look at Simms and BTA’s goal tallies in 23/24 and 22/23, it’s better than what people want from a striker. The difference between you and the...

4 headed goals in a season is quite a lot… The average headed goals scored for a team throughout the season was 8.7 goals. I’m reasonably certain that Simms 4 headed goals would be up there as one of the top headed goal scorers in the league. Personally I’ve found it difficult to find a neat...

Look at the top teams in the division, the top scorers are increasingly being dominated by midfielders and wingers. Most teams play with 1 striker nowadays and an old Robins formula from League 2 is that promotion-chasing teams need ‘3.5 goal scorers’ in the starting 11. Our starting 11 has 2.5...

Do you think 4 goals is good enough from the wing? His assists are good, 26th in the league is generally good. There were 14 wingers with more assists and most of them scored more than him too. Sakamoto is deservedly a cult hero, but is he a top end winger in the Championship? No.

Happy BTA and Simms scored today, will keep people crying about strikers for an hour, maybe 2. Wright is the marquee man upfront. If we’re being realistic, it would look something like: - CB - Winger - AM who can play out wide or vice versa I’ve not been to the preseason games but it seems...

It’s illustrative. Even if Sakamoto is the starter, there’s no one pushing him or EMC for a starting berth, at push, maybe Rapha. We’re fixating on 2 sub strikers who both got more goals than our starting wingers. At the very least, surely you want the option to sub both your wingers if...

What a terrible shout. KKH scored has 3 goals in 82 championship games… Likewise, Sakamoto just isn’t a goal threat. Good facilitator but to round out the squad you need wingers who can change the game from the bench/rotate where there’s injuries. In any case, the only striker likely to leave...