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LW has objectively not been Wright’s best position. The correct question is whether or not he’s better in a 2 striker or 1 striker formation.

No, people have been parroting the line that Haji ‘doesn’t suit Lampard’s system’ as a striker as if he’s played v well at LW. He scored once at LW v Plymouth. He’s a striker, Haji wants to play there and Lampard agrees because it’s his best position. Hes not had much of a preseason so might...

Haji scored most of his LW goals during the purple patch under Robins back in Oct-Dec 2023. In the same period, Collins had the highest shot saving % in the league was operating at a high level. People’s perception of Haji at LW hasn’t moved on from there but in reality, he’s been much stronger...

I’m pretty sure EMC has more goals and assists for us than Haji from the wing since 2024. The reality is that Haji had one really good stretch between October and December 2023 and from then, not a lot of goals and assists.

More than Haji Wright?

Massively. Sakamoto is a good player, but he’s not a a big goal threat and sometimes wasteful at the byline. One stanza that annoyed me is when Sakamoto got the ball in the good crossing position, he tries a dribble move and it goes out for a goal kick. For such a good crosser, it’s...

It’s one game and we play with one striker so if you have 3, you can’t play all of them without changing formation. Either way, the fundamental weakness in our team is that we use the wide channels a lot, but there’s no where enough goal production there. What did EMC and Sakamoto do today...

The importance of wingers is demonstrated by the one period we looked like turning the screw on Hull was when EMC had a 10-15m patch where he was running at his man, taking him on and shooting/crossing. We don’t have that and didn’t have it when he came off. It’s boring that we’re talking...

Who scored less headed goals than Simms last season.

Overall, the performance wasn’t terrible, we were comfortably the better side but there was the feeling that is was ‘same old’ from last season and struggled to breakdown stubborn opposition. Thought it was strange that EMC went off in the first place but assume he’s either got a niggle or...

Just about every Prem-Prem transfer has inflated fees. What other league in the world means clubs do not "need" to sell matchday tickets to be viable? For context, the 'average' Prem team gets more than double in TV money compared to their counterparts in Spain and Italy. That figure is over 3...

Depends if there's any 'ready made' replacements in the pipeline. Rudoni was involved in 33% of our goals last season so selling him for £20m (for arguments sake) at this moment probably derails the start of our season. To a similar extent to which Hamer leaving post-Wimbledon in 23/24. For...

Probably wouldn't have got that if they were in the Championship still. My bad, I thought he went for 32 million pounds rather than Euros. I like Jobe Bellingham and sincerely hope he follows in Jude's footsteps, it'd be fantastic for the national team.

The 'English tax' isn't on English players, it's the cost of dealing with English clubs. We all bemoan Sky at times, but their money has supercharged the Premiership clubs financials as the TV money is distributed equally, which isn't the norm in the other elite leagues globally. In countries...

How much did Jobe Bellingham go for this summer? Brentford sold Benrahma for £30m a few years back. Rudoni is a talented midfielder who is critical to our promotion bid and will be ready for the Prem in 1-2 seasons. Most importantly, has 3 years left on his current contract. We should be...

Thankfully, the squad is in a far better position than in the L1 years. We've spent a lot of money on the squad over the last 2 seasons so Lampard will need to work with a lot of the existing squad. The starting 11 is clearly good enough for the Top 6 so we're in the privileged position where...

I haven’t been to any of the preseason games so didn’t know that. It was something that’s been done quite a lot. Lampard likes the 3-2-5 overload and if KKH and Brau can push up and give us more goals and assists, I’m all for it. KKH played as a WB a lot last season so he’s capable of getting...

In fairness to MVE, his 'expected assists' was 7 which was more than most our outfielders. His defensive stats were good, but KKH's were better. Could probably do with adding goals to his game, you look at what Firpo and Bogle were able to last season for Leeds. In fact, we've never seen an MVE...

I don’t believe the fee is £6.5m, he’s got 2 years on his contract and is 24 years old. It’s not a terrible price with the add-on but isn’t good either when you bear in mind what we got for Vik and Hamer with 1 year left in their contracts.

At the very least, he's a better defender. MVE is overall a better attacking threat but KKH is younger and has developed rapidly so we've not done badly at all. Not quite the same comparison, but when Brentford replaced Watkins with Toney, it was a "downgrade" but everything worked out fine for...