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Given the opportunity to play for either club, you’d be an idiot to join Sheff U over us right now. Even if they offered more money. Promotion clauses will give nice bonuses and pay rises to most, if not all our players.

I don’t know why anyone cried that we signed Markelo. It’s not immediately obvious why we signed him but Lampard has a plan for the squad, we’re signing a £4.3m player* to not be involved. A psychosis takes a hold of this place when we lose a game or we’re under any pressure. If you’re going to...

People can stop panicking now…

Wrong on both counts Shmmeee. Esse’s defensive stats were impressive before he went to Palace or if you watched the Stoke game, he’s good off the ball as well as on it. Were we open because of Esse or because tactically everyone pushed up? It’s the obviously the latter. Besides, Norwich’s left...

I’d rather start a winger who’s last goal was nearly 3 months ago… 🥴

I’m just pointing out that Lampard had good pretext for starting Haji v Millwall because he scored v Leicester. My view is that we should start Simms at the weekend, his goal scoring record this season when we’re away is very good.

If you followed my posts on this, I’ve supported moving Sakamoto to either LW/AM to leverage his best asset which is his crossing. Ironically, your point about him coming off the bench supports my view that he’s best suited as a role player for us. This back and forth between us goes back to...

‘Too raw and doesn’t add much off the ball’ lol

Whatever you do, don’t go to the transport museum on a Saturday…

When was the last time Haji scored a header and you want to start a player on the basis that they cross well. Esse has scored in consecutive games and is just a better player, wanting to drop him for Sakamoto is just not sensible. Simms got dropped because Haji also scored…

Chances created is of course one metric, but if it’s as simple as you present, why is he below everyone else? Now do successful dribbles, he’s behind EMC, Rudoni, MVE and even Esse has half his tally in 3 league games. We can rinse and repeat this all day when it comes to xG and shots taken and...

No room for 2 in 2 Esse? 😂

That’s precisely my reasoning… Unlike Sakamoto, they are high volume shooters and dribblers of the ball, Sakamoto is a cross-first winger. I just don’t believe we’ve signed Markelo to be 3rd choice, so either Sakamoto drops down the pecking order or changes position. That view point could well...

Pretty much and Sakamoto has played games at WB, AM and even LW before. That’s my reasoning and it could be wrong. Sakamoto would probably be more effective at crossing if he didn’t have to cut onto his left foot when crossing every time which is why I think LW would be a decent move for him...

What’s your view of what will happen? A lot of people view Sakamoto as untouchable. Lampard and his staff will see the numbers we all have access to and the picture is that we need ‘more’. If Lampard is happy with our winger options, why else we’d go out and sign another one? Either Lampard...

My best guess is that Yang will probably get pushed down the pecking order If he needs time to bed in, perhaps a judgement has been made to sign a player (Markelo) that they feel will come in straight away.

It’s more logical than sitting a £4+ million signing on the bench behind 2 other RWs. Meanwhile, Minny is only a young player so there’s probably more a higher likelihood of Esse/Markelo/Sakamoto pushing for the LW behind EMC. Given that Esse and Markelo’s game is taking players on and cutting...

Someone will move to LW imo and think it might be Sakamoto.

Correct, but we can compare Esse 24/25 to Sakamoto where we scored the same amount of goals I’m not drawing upon the data from this season alone, it’s a trend that goes to 23/24. It really isn’t, your first paragraph is full of sweeping statements. His best area is ‘aerial duels’ and it’s...

He’s created less chances than all our other wide players and less players took on… what do you find exciting about him specifically? Unless you really like watching players track back… Esse in 67m took on 5 players on his league debut, Sakamoto has had 12 all season. I don’t know anything...