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It’s possible. Torp is a £2m signing and hasn’t ever been considered a first choice yet in 1.5 seasons. We also spent 2.5m on Bassette. On top of £7.7m for Wright and £3m initial for Simms. We’ve spent £15-16m on strikers and we’ve predominantly played a formation with 1 striker. Before...

Frankly, I don’t know anything about Pereira and his style of play so have no idea where he fits in. With Torp and Sheaf, they almost definitely will miss a portion of the season so there is a real need to have 4-5 options at CM. I don’t think we’ll sell Sheaf and there’s supposedly...

Squad harmony is a consideration that’s being overlooked here. How many minutes will a 5th choice CM actually make? Particularly when Grimes has barely missed a game in 5-6 seasons. Eccles is too good to be a 5th choice but not good enough to start with the options we have. If there’s concrete...

The bench was far too weak for forward players. BTA is not a winger. The way we play, you need 4-5 wingers capable of making an impact. We have 2.

It would be a Lampard signing… he will always have the final say on any signing. Its like on Football Manager when a scouts gives you a long list of duds and you pick out the gems, it wasn’t ’head scout X’ who made the signing! They identify talent and analytics people and manager will make an...

What did that table look post-Lampard? A general trend was that we created a slightly higher xG under Robins but under Lampard, the xG was lower but the ‘per shot xG’ was slightly higher. Which means we created less chances post-Robins but they were better quality.

Yes because not only have we just renewed Allen’s contract, why would Eccles want to be 4-5th choice when he can be a starter elsewhere? With Allen, he isn’t going to be a starter at many championship clubs (if any) so will be happy being a bit part player for us. If someone wanted to buy...

Is Haji Wright not a top striker?! For me, it’s out wide that we need more goals and assists. EMC needs to have a 10+ goal season and Sakamoto needs close to 10 assists (or improve his goal scoring) if he is going to be the starting RW. Saka scored 4 goals with an xG of 3.11 last season which...

If Eccles leaves, it’ll be because he wants first team football. In terms of where Lampard views the squad, Sheaf and Grimes are his main two, followed by Torp. This is awkward for Eccles because he was a starter under the previous regime and if a team wants to spend a few million on him, that’s...

Nope, that was a 4-3-3 and Torp’s passes for Wright’s goal we’re all from deep.

Disagree, Lampard has said in previous interviews that Torp can ‘do it all’ and prefers him to play deeper. Torp has made a handful of appearances as an AM and it hasn’t gone that well. They’re v different players. Aside from both being creative in their passing, Rudoni is much more attacking...

He can’t play CM and AM simultaneously… Frankly, this window we ought to have a player who can comfortably play AM In the event Rudi gets injured. A far too influential player to not have a ‘Plan B’ for.

Jesus, definitely not CM and I don’t care if he plays there for Jamaica! I’d because happy to see us move on Lati to be honest. You could be a good CB in a back 3 but he has me on edge when we play him RB or CB when we play a back 4.

Presumably, yes because the CM stock is a bit much now. You’d probably look to sell Eccles if there’s concrete interest and keep Allen as a back up. I’d expect Andrews to go out on loan again. Sheaf, Grimes, Torp, Pereira and Allen/Andrews seem well balanced and enough cover to me. You need 5...

Exactly my point! This is quite idealistic, but we need 2 GKs in competition with one another, particularly if we want to get promoted to the Prem any time soon. Imagine how costly it would be if we start the season with Wilson in goal and Dovin comes back in October (absolute best case) and...

Statistically, the metric used is the sum of his saves v xG faced. Over 28 matches and the quality of opposition, it’s not likely to be an anomaly. Unsurprisingly, Collins and Wilson score poorly here so it’s reasonable to conclude that we’ve got a capable keeper in Dovin.

Didn’t JJ come back for a handful of games, even scoring a goal to do his ACL v Peterborough? Then again the ACL on his other knee v Rangers in preseason summer of 19. Had he not been so unlucky with his ACLs, I’m reasonably certain he’d have been a good contributor for us in the Championship.

Exactly this. He made one big clanger all season but was instrumental keeping us level in games we won away such as Blackburn, Wednesday and home games like Watford, QPR and Bristol City. All 6 pointers that got us within reach of the playoffs. My rationale for wanting a new, ideally permanent...

Dovin was a top 5 keeper in the league last season. In the Jan-Feb winning streak Dovin was MOTM or thereabouts in most of the games. Even v Leeds where he made a basic error, he was out MOTM because his saves prevented the scoreline being 3 or 4 to nil. Keepers will make mistakes. However, we...

You could even argue KKH is better than MVE…