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No, you’d either play 4-4-2 or play one of them on the right, most likely EMC. Sakamoto, all due respect, isn’t better than either EMC or Wright. We need directness on the wings to take players on because without EMC or Wright, we don’t do it enough.

I don’t think he misses 20-30% of a season if his minutes are limited to 60-70m per game. Look at a player like Martinelli at Arsenal who they get a lot more mileage out of when they manage his minutes. Last season, Shesf averaged about 83m a game when played. Playing nearly 90m for 50-odd...

It was the same as last season where he was overworked and subsequently injured. We needed more cover for that area before we’d kicked a ball this season.

Why Mary Earps?! Footballers: Robbie Savage or Joey Barton. Chael Sonnen was polarising when he was an active fighter but now runs a popular podcast.

If you’re under the age of 39, get a stocks and shares Lifetime ISA (LISA).

Lampard said Haji would be out for 2-3 weeks and EMC ‘longer’ so a minimum of 4 weeks from now. We’ve had some tough luck with injuries and this Sheaf news adds to it.

Landon Donovan?

Is he even available?

My bad, I didn’t realise that. The point still stands that the company kept is mightily impressive. Mutually, it’s not worth reopening the Lampard wound because we’re very much at the opposite ends of the scectrum on that talking point. It doesn’t mean he’ll be a success here, I just don’t like...

Any one of those managers would be amazing for us… His 9% in his second spell distorts that picture too.

In the Steam winter sale, I picked up the EU4 bundle for £36 and Rome Total War Remastered for £8 and both games have been really good!

Where does he rank in terms of errors/unforced errors? However those metrics are actually defined.

We’ve signed 17-18 new players since 22/23 we’ve had to do some serious rebuilding. It’s not just a case of replacing 2 starters with 4-5 players… it’s been needed to be spread over an entire new squad. It’s not actually that much money to spend per player.

Lati makes a lot of individual errors. I wouldn’t bet on him starting for a top 3 team personally so I’d take the few million in profit to be honest.

Patience is a virtue here. We could make a couple of signings that just alters are fortunes completely because they just tie everything together. Specifically, in midfield. For example, if you have a CM that hits deep balls for Bassette, BTA and Simms to run into, perhaps they score more goals...

That’s a lot! I’m surprised he hasn’t been sacked but he probably deserves a chance to turn the ship around. Their team will probably be gutted in the summer too to make things worse for them. Frankly, if we don’t at least get within 6-10 points of playoffs this season, our better players may...

Spot on the money. Just compare the crowd reactions to when Bassette makes a mistake v Simms/BTA. On Kitching, there’s been this narrative that he’s a tosser that’s been banded about which has turned opinion against him. Plenty of comment like ‘clearly Lampard doesn’t rate him’ or ‘he’s on his...

The margin between being a playoff/auto team and being a bottom half team in this league is very little. Revisiting the 22/23 season, how often did we grind out results where we won when we should've drew or drew when we should've lost. Right now, it feels that every 50/50 goes against us. I'm...

How many minutes has he played? He’s started 10 games and no consecutive starts since September. We’re not getting anything out of any of our strikers because let’s not forget that BTA and Bassette only cost £1m less than Simms. Simms cost £3.5m upfront with incentives taking it to £8m which...

It’s not really a relevant question because not all strikers like taking penalties. He scores enough open play goals that I’m happy with.