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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...

Happy BTA and Simms scored today, will keep people crying about strikers for an hour, maybe 2.

The interviewer gave him the perfect answer to the question and Lampard just went with it.

Nail on the head. Of all our CMs, only Torp offers a goal threat and in the absence of goals from CM, we need more goals from our starters. There’s an obsession with the strikers when most of the time only one person will be playing in that position. Whereas we have 2 wingers, 2 CMs and an AM...

EMC got more goals and assists than Haji did at LW last season. Haji’s best position is also upfront.

Have I missed something?! Why are Millwall projected to finished 3rd!?

Last season, it was 9.98 xG, scored 6 in the league, probably 10.4 or something including the League Cup. 23/24, it was 11.1 (or thereabouts) and he scored 13. What's a higher risk, having Rapha covering Sakamoto/EMC or Simms/BTA covering Wright? To me, I'd rather us not have to change...

Who wouldn't be happy with a player of Wright's calibre returning back into the fold? He's our best player and league leading player in his position, he is obviously a lot better than Simms and BTA which is why he cost more than both of them and most of Bassette's fee combined. Lampard...

It gives us something substantive that we can work with at least. Just to make you aware, Simms hits his xG from last year (he outperformed his xG in 23/24), it fits your criteria perfectly. If he hit that, would you be happy? Rather than chuck the baby out with the bathwater, Simms gets this...

A number would suffice Webb. 5 goals? 10?

Ok, so what are you expectations for this unnamed striker - how many goals do you expect them to get playing 2nd fiddle to Haji? From my POV, it seems that no one wants to be put a number on it because it's either an unrealistic expectation or its roughly the same as what we've got.

Goals to appearances is the norm so anything other than that is a sneaky manipulation, frankly. Why you'd penalise a striker for scoring multiple goals in a game is baffling. Forget the specifics on individual players, what is your expectations for this unnamed striker? Specifically, a...

Who is good enough then? Piroe was a £10.5m signing to be their man striker and its more accurate to say he was 'eased' into the team. On Salech, I'm pointing out that he's had one half season so next year he could also have his 'terrible twos' season as Simms as had. He's been a 1 in 3 goal a...

If you’re Doug King, you’re not sanctioning another multiple million pound signing on a striker when you have 3 on the books have scored double figures in previous seasons. As well as Bassette. Lampard is supposedly an elite coach, it’s up to him to get the most out of these players. In the...