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Firstly, Haji has been generally reliable when it comes to injuries. Second, both Simms and BTA have hit double figures leading the line in the Championship. Which is sufficient in terms of injury cover. What are peoples expectations for a 2nd or 3rd string striker? Yes, you should’ve done...

Haji has scored most of goals upfront for us lol… Besides, how are you fitting EMC in the team as well?

We need big seasons from EMC, Rudoni and Haji who all need to get 15-20 goal contributions. There aren’t much goals in the starting 11 after these players. For me, if Sakamoto or a new signing can get 12-17 goal contributions from RW, we could force ourselves in the conversation. We can’t go...

The only palatable option there is playing Wright LW which he is only record saying he views himself as a striker and wants to play there. Unless he forces a move, he’ll be our number 1 striker. If we’re in a position where our fullbacks need to play RW and LW, it’s not a good spot to be in and...

It’s illustrative at this point because the only winger in the squad outside of Sakamoto and EMC. I’d be surprised and disappointed if we don’t sign at least 2 forward players before the end of the window. If we had 2 wingers who could get 6-9 goal contributions from the bench, that would make...

Exactly. You can’t really say ‘Haji can play LW’ if he’s starting upfront and Lampard has given every indication that is what he intends to do. If we sell/loan a striker out and we sign someone who can play multiple positions that’s ideal. Even multi-positional players like Windass or Goodrham...

Haji is a proper number 9… One area we struggled last season was that we didn’t have options to change matches from the bench. If Rudoni/Sakamoto/EMC were having off games, there wasn’t any alternatives to switch things up. There isn’t much point in having 3 strikers on the bench when your...

Haji Wright was the 4th highest scoring striker whilst missing 3 months of the season… As things stand, the front 3 will be Sakamoto-Wright-EMC. It really is that simple and if you want a player better than Haji, you’re gonna need to spend in the region of £10m.

He was signed as a striker and that’s where he’ll play next season so the focus on Simms, Bassette or BTA is somewhat beside the point… they’re all role players. With wingers, you have 2 on the field and with 5 subs, you’d want the option to change 4 midfielders in most cases.

Sakamoto scored 4 goals in 44 games and at the top end of the league, that isn’t actually good enough. EMC, in fairness, has the underlying data metrics to suggest he could get 15 goal contributions next season so I’m less concerned about LW. Regardless, at minimum we need one winger in case...

I wouldn’t write either of those players off. Last season was quite low scoring compared to other seasons for strikers. The top scoring striker only scored 19 and after that was Sargent on 15 and like Haji, missed a lot of the season. The teams at the top of the table all had wingers and AMs...

Why are people obsessed with strikers? Haji was the 4th top scorer last season despite missing 3 months. Simms has had a 19 goal season and BTA has scored 10+ goals as a lead striker. We play with 1 striker and we have 2-3 wingers on the books. Sakamoto scored 4 goals last season and EMC scored...

Both had 1 year left on their contracts so that’s why people undervalued them. Pretty certain a lot of noise on this forum suggested we’d barely get £10m for Hamer, let alone £15m and a sell-on %. We got our valuation because we stuck to our guns on the value of our players. MVE is a good...

A package worth that isn’t outlandish imo when you consider sell-on %s, appearances and so on. Pretty sure people said similar things about Hamer and Vik in the summer of 2023 and we negotiated deals that compensated us sufficiently.

I don’t rate Beadle and he doesn’t stack up too well statistically. I showed a Blues fan at work the Simms winner v Sheff W after he told me about a mistake he made in preseason for them. We both reckoned Allsopp will be first choice before the season ends.

The only period he and Simms played upfront together, they both gave a decent return. With BTA, I’m convinced Robins just didn’t have a plan for him. He’s not a winger at this level and it seems that was our plan for him. I’d rather keep Allen and get Andrews out on a productive loan again...

Base fee is £3m for Simms and £2.5m for Bassette… 500k difference.

It was a more general comment but to answer the question, we will play a strong team because Luton are decent opposition. In any case, the club released its pricing structure and the Luton prices are Cat D and £30 for an adult and child ticket isn’t an unreasonable price. It’s not cheap but...

Ideally, yes. Frankly, the risk of needing Collins to fill in is too great. He was given one last chance fter Dovin got injured and he blew it, he’s done here. The start of his Coventry career was strong, but then crashed like its 1929. He needs a change in scenery like Moore.

It’s taking steps to ‘Prem proof’ the squad, £8-9m on two GKs is not that much money in the grand scheme of things. Loaning Rushworth only puts off the inevitable that we need to sign a permanent GK to fight for the Number 1 jersey. Wilson isn’t that guy.