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The core of the issue is that the forwards just do not have the quality of chances to score. We can bleat about all 4 of our strikers, but they haven’t been provided the chances to score. Simms proved last year that when supplied with chances, he’ll score. Haji Wright had one shot in the box on...

I don’t think so, £4.25m for a player with that record in the league below is a reasonable price. It’s not quite the same, but Toney for £10m seemed ridiculous at the time. He was 24 and had 23/24 goals in about 32 appearances.

I’m convinced we’ll turn things around but it’s clear that the team needs further investment in midfield and defence. We need experience/leadership and different profiles of players here.

EMC had 32 goal contributions from the wing last season, of course other teams would’ve been interested.

The problem is, and always been our lack of ability to create chances. We struggle to fashion good quality chances and that comes from the midfield and wide players (WB yesterday). Sheaf and Eccles are two individually good players, but do the same things and it negatively impacts the team...

Still scored 0 goals…

The Spain comparison was more that de la Fuente was not considered a top coach amongst his fellow countrymen. Which is relevant and when you consider how Spain looked under Luis Enrique and this Euros… Enrique had many of the same players. Many fancied Germany because they had the best manager...

There are lots of positives about Tuchel and think he was probably the best candidate available in terms of coaching ability. However, international football is not club football and having a world class manager is not a precondition for success. Yet, England fans are obsessed with the idea of...

On the F&B side of things, people should vote with their feet and opt out of paying for substandard products. I’m partial to a HT pint and if I’ve travelled up to the game I’ll end up buying something if I haven’t brought food with me… I regret buying the crap every time!

Scaloni and de la Fuente achieved what exactly in senior football before winning the World Cup and Euros respectively? On Spain and de la Fuente, he replaced Luis Enrique who is objectively a far more accomplished manager and yet de la Fuente’s team look far better. Further back, you had...

Fair enough - that’s way past my time and could not remember a Dutch national team manager being foreign-born in the 90s to present day.

This is chicken and egg thinking here… What major nations have dabbled in hiring foreign managers? I can only think of Belgium, Portugal and ourselves. We put too much importance on the manager and think Carsley would’ve probably done a good job with the team given time. There’s no point in...

The biggest increases in incapacity benefits in relation to MH, iirc in the 20-30 (or thereabouts) age bracket. Mental health isn’t really stigmatised the same way it was say, 10 years ago. Just leaving them alone sounds like a nice idea. Yet, how would young people benefit mentally from being...

Agreed. One thing everyone needs is a reason to get out of bed in the morning (i.e. a purpose) and it is often the case that those who have MH issues are having everything compounded by being reliant on the welfare state. It’s one of those policy ideas that looks bad but if the data shows...

It’s just such an easy job picking out good, ‘proven quality’ players for us to sign…

The transfer market has inflated values across the EFL - we wouldn’t have got the money we did for Hamer or Vik had been a few years prior.

There won’t be jobs for workers if those kinds of billionaires pull investment, or worse, disinvest altogether. The politician in question was a government minister, they need to be more diplomatic because it sends the wrong signals to business as a whole.

Undoubtedly the most successful manager who is available. The FA could’ve hired Tuchel in the summer so it’s not unreasonable to suspect that they approached Klopp and/or Pep and neither of them fancied it. Tuchel isn’t exactly well known for playing attacking football either so he’ll need to...

Why does Collins, Kitching & Thomas keep getting lumped together? Apparently, Collins is ‘distant’ with everyone in the first squad, only having a close relationship with AV. Putting 2+2 together, it would at least partially explain why Collins has gone from Number 1 to number 3. EDIT: Both...

£15-20m is a range ESB, £20+ million is outside of that range. Needless to say that the context has changed from April as he will have 6 months less on his contract. We got a deal that could be worth close to £17m for Hamer (within sell-on %) with 12 months left on his contract. Getting £15m...