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Lati is supposed to be a RB and CB. I touched on it in preseason, it’s fine that he can cover both positions until we have MVE and a CB injured… 5-3-2 just isn’t viable and playing Eccles and Burroughs over Sakamoto shouldn’t appeal to anyone.

Or just play 4-2-3-1…

Is he fit to play 90 minutes? If not, it’s not viable because there isn’t a sub to bring on.

Unless Sakamoto plays WB, we don’t actually have the personnel available to play that formation…

The club have a one year extension they can trigger that’s in our favour. So we can be relaxed about his contract situation until Jan/June 2026.

He’s effectively contracted till 2027 so there’s no rush to make a decision this off-season. Next season is a different story and if we’re still a Championship club and he is in good form, we’ll have to cash in.

Comparing the narratives around Sakamoto and Simms, you wouldn’t have thought Simms has the same amount of goal contributions in less minutes. 9 goal contributions for a winger isn’t amazing (certainly not top end) and there are games where he is ineffectual. A brilliant role player and...

Comparing them is apples and pears. Sheaf was a top performer in his categories last season as was Grimes and going into next season, both players will complement the other very well imo. The reason I used Grimes as a benchmark was because he’s slightly older and cost £4m so Sheaf is worth...

Kyprianou, yes. Poku, no. Sakamoto is a nice player, but we need better regardless of what league we’re in because the goals and assists from all our forwards could be better, barring Haji.

Grimes was older and we signed him for £4m, you’ve definitely undervalued Sheaf here. Sheaf won’t leave this summer imo, the window of opportunity for him and us to maximise his value has been and gone. A Premiership almost definitely won’t move for Sheaf this offseason so what’s the point in...

It hasn’t been done for a while but if you look at this season, our form is identical to Sheffield United and Sunderland are below us and Bristol in the 2nd half of the season. In short, Sheff U are trending downwards at the wrong time (compare to Luton in 22/23) and Sunderland’s rapid start has...

The rumour is that there’s strong interest in Eccles and assuming he’s 3rd or 4th choice, there may be a temptation to cash in on him and take the profit for FFP purposes down the line.

As lucky as we’ve been with stoppage time winners, there does seem to have been a run of bad decisions against us, to name a few: - Plymouth red card not given - Derby’s second being out of play - PNE’s goal being offside - Stoke’s goal being offside - a couple of stonewall penalties not been...

So did Robins, his line of questioning is a bit naff at times… I’d get short with Clive if I had to show up and answer his questions on a weekly basis.

Something like that assuming the outs are as rumoured. I’ve got a feeling Allen may end up leaving because you’d have thought he’d sign an extension by now if he was planning on staying. Kai Andrews is one to watch because it sounds like he’s doing well in Scotland so perhaps he’ll have a part...

The big absence is Torp. You can compensate for leaving Sakamoto out of the team if you have 2 CM capable of creating goals and assists. Rudoni, Torp operated v high and wide in that system and Allen was asked to cover a lot of distance so I have my doubts that Sheaf and Grimes fit into that...

Particularly with our wingers. Sakamoto and EMC are good players but when they have ineffectual games, who is on the bench to change the game? I’m hoping for more from EMC next season as he’s shown some great glimpses but the season has been stop-start for him. Sakamoto, imo, would make a...

First and foremost, it’s a squad game and there’s been times this season where there isn’t any game changers to bring on. The best example is our wide players, we only have 2 out and out wingers contracted for 25/26. There’s also planning ahead for some departures which could be anything from...

We’ve also scored goals to compensate… The personnel that made 5-3-2 work are not available and this is something people have overlooked when calling for 5-3-2.

Dovin is a class act with bags of potential, but we don’t know how he’ll recover or for how long. The minimum is Dec 2025 but 12 months takes us to late March 2026. I doubt the loan market will be brimming with experienced keepers, it’ll be most likely young keepers Prem teams want to farm out...