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If we started negotiations in September, strategically the club was operating on the assumption we’ll be in the playoffs and perhaps fighting for automatic promotion. Now we’re top by 5 points after the NY, the club needs ‘win now’ players to get us to the Prem. He’s in preseason mode fitness...

I never understand what people actually mean when they describe a footballer as a ‘luxury’. If his per 90 defensive stats are generally better than Sakamoto’s, he’s absolutely not a point in any sense of the word.

Yes, typing his name out in full is arduous work!

Statistically, Min-Hyeok Yang is more attacking, shoots more and surprisingly just as good defensively. I’m not sure if that’s complementary of Min-Hyeok Yang or an indication that Sakamoto is pretty average. However, the caveat here is that there’s much more data to draw upon for Sakamoto...

Not only us, Blackburn too. You could see there was something there but he definitely looked like he’d be one of many players who just didn’t have what it took to make it. Fair play to him, he’s looking like he’s making the step up from decent squad player to starter in a good BHA side.

Wasn’t Gyokeres one of the worst loans Swansea had? It’s all about the environment for most players and seeing how Pompey play, it’s probably not the best environment for him. They wanted to be more possession based but pragmatism has kicked in for them when it wasn’t particularly working...

He’s really stepped up in recent weeks, he’s by far our most potent attacking threat atm. Simms is doing a good job of converting chances but we all know he’s pretty useless in build up play. I’d like to see EMC score a few of those opportunities where he cuts in and shoots. He gets the space...

He scores v low xG chances and ironically, misses the higher xG chances he gets. 23 shots, 4 goals = 17.4% conversion rate. Which is good, but quite meaningless if you’re literally never going to shoot. EMC has just shy of double the shots and part of the reason that is, in my view, is that...

Top end squad player, absolutely. My ideal role for Sakamoto is to come off the bench, inject energy for last 20-30 minutes and get good crosses in the box if we’re chasing a late goal, for example. Wrexham game, he was the best player for us, the assist for EMC and his goal were top class but...

That’s pretty much what you did to me. It was funny, the joke was on me and I owned it… Again, you can’t accuse @Liquid Gold of going to ‘great effort’ when you literally went back to posts in 2013.

100% - I also don’t think Sakamoto is a top end championship winger. It’s been my unpopular opinion for a while now. Hes a good player, but you’ll get a 2-4 game streak where he’s one of the best players on the pitch… then basically no output for 8-10 games. The only players who like scoring...

My view of things is that accumulation of games caught up with the squad in December. It was also arguably our most difficult stretch of fixtures. With a bit of rest and reinforcements, we should kick on. People worrying about our form and us ‘bottling it’ really should have a look at Boro and...

Co’mon, don’t play the victim - you were more than happy digging up some post I made nearly 13 years ago to make a point. @Liquid Gold kept the receipts…

We’re 100% going to go for it. You don’t have The Guardian write an op-ed about us saying we’re gonna ‘go for it’ and then do absolutely nothing. We’ve got so far, there is no turning back this season. Some of the reactions to a downturn in form has been hysterical. I couldn’t imagine any other...

If Lampard didn’t get promoted this season, his stock will not be high. No team top at this point of the season has failed to go up. We’re in this together and frankly, we’re in a much better position than the other teams.

Grimes was signed and became an immediate key player for us. Torp was in his fist week of preseason when we signed him and EMC looked good from Day 1, Robins just didn’t know what his side was!

Russia literally declared war on Ukraine twice when Obama and Biden were in office… The guy literally warned Europe that it was too reliant on Russian energy in his first term, he was laughed at until the Ukraine war started and then the penny dropped. I don’t like Trump’s stance on Ukraine...

I’m sure officials in Moscow and Beijing were much more afraid at the prospect of dealing with a Biden/Harris led administration…

You’re worrying about stuff that’s yet to happen. We’re still in pole position to go up and as bad as our form has been over Xmas, our form is better than Boro’s over the last 5 games.

Both would be optimistic but seeing as we’ve also been linked to Liel Abada as well, it leads me to think we’re possibly after 2 wingers. To recap that’s Esse, Rak-Sakyi and Abada as well as Manneh before the window opened. It makes sense, we play 4-2-3-1 with only 2 wingers in the squad. Sky...