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Esse in 67m had 5 successful dribbles v Leicester… Sakamoto has had 12 all season. Esse’s per 90m stats are already off the charts and yes, it’s only been 2 games but the player is already a top end Championship player. Tate would not be a £15m player because in all statistical categories...

The guy was signed by a prem team for £15m last season after putting up league leading numbers in the championship. He’s an obvious upgrade on Sakamoto who is already a good winger. Esse would start for most, if not all Championship clubs this if he hits the form that earned him a move to Palace.

This would be lot more robust if you considered home and away form when weighting the outcomes. For example, we’re benchmarked against Ipswich who have had more home games than away in recent weeks. We have 9 home games left and using that as a guideline would give us 20-22 points alone...

To be honest, we’ve addressed the biggest need imo so even if we signed no one else, it’s still a decent transfer window. Esse on loan is a coup of a signing.

Agree that we need to strengthen. Disagree that we’re destined to be overtaken if we don’t sign anyone. We’ve got a better squad than Boro imo and as for Ipswich, they could be 11 points behind after Monday and their Feb fixtures is stacked with away games where they’ve struggled all season...

Ipswich’s poor away record doing them in again. If their away form carries on into Feb, come March we should have a sizeable lead over them. Norwich on Monday has just got bigger.

100% agreed. If we want to play him AM or out wide then I see a fit. If work rate is a problem atm at Sheff U, then he’s just not going to be in that role that Torp is currently in. We played counter attacking football when Hamer was here and he’s absolutely got the attributes for that passing...

If you followed the thread of conversation, I was responding to a post that said Hamer would flourish playing at CM. My basic point was no because on a fundamental level, he’s no longer a CM really. Why go on the attack and say I was warping the data? We were looking at two different things...

Exactly, and the per 90 shows that Hamer’s numbers are higher. So the data isn’t warped, it’s a matter of fact. On your second point, Wilder wouldn’t be playing Hamer LW/AM if he was his most trustworthy defensive player. This where posters lime yourself are getting the symptom and the cause...

Obviously the raw totals are higher… how else do you compare a player who’s played 1,198 minutes versus the same person playing 3,476? That’s without considering that they’re playing in different positions. You’d hope a player who’s played 2,278 more minutes would have the higher raw totals! 😂...

I’ve said we need another profile… It’s got nothing to do with Torp ‘not being able to play in England’ which is just nonsense.

Read it and weep.

Bar tackles and interceptions, his numbers are better this season than at his peak in 22/23 with us! 😂 It’s been a long time, we need to accept he’s changed as a player.

Tell me you've not looked at the numbers, without telling me you've not looked at the numbers :ROFLMAO:

The first statement is incorrect because Eccles, Sakamoto and Rudoni have missed more games. Haji Wright has played less minutes too, there's probably others. In any case, Torp is on course to comfortably surpass 2.5k minutes this season, so does your point become redundant if he hits 2.8-3k...

I agree but there was that one moment where Kitching gets turned and in the Prem, we won’t get away with it as really.

He’s doing a good job of it so far and Eccles has been playing just as well as him of late. You need something different and at a higher level than Allen. In the Prem, if you don’t have athleticism in every area of the pitch, you’ll be exposed. At CB an CM, we’ve got good technicality but at...

To be honest, Ipswich’s recruitment policy seems to be geared towards creating a Championship super team. Can these players keep them up or are they content with being a yo-yo team?

Last year Onyeka’s offensive stats, passing and shooting were generally above average his match rating was 6.94 for a whole Bundesliga season. I’ve documented his impressive defensive outputs elsewhere. Now, considering Augsburg finished 3 points above the relegation zone, it looks positive. I’m...

Right, if you bothered to check his historical data, it’s comparable to when he actually played CM. Hamer hasn’t really played much CM since the Prem days and there’s a good reason for that. Besides, whatever the interpretation, the idea that Hamer is going to play CM and cover as much ground...