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Exactly this. The obsession with buying a striker this window is just strange. We play a formation with 2 wingers and do not have credible backups. Over a 50 game season, Sakamoto and EMC will both miss games. To his credit, Saka was reliable and durable last season.

They do have a good partnership and whenever they play, we concede less goals and more clean sheets despite what individual stats may say. Clean sheets is a team stat but the combinations cannot be underestimated.

Despite the facts, the wills and wants of player and manager… Haji Wright’s best position is from the left! 🤡

Can we save the bed wetting until the end of the transfer window at least? 😂

We now know that he was struggling with an injury so in my mind, he gets the benefit of the doubt. People don’t like Wright’s demeanour but his stats speak for itself and find this undercurrent hankering for a lump like Keiffer Moore or Carlton Morris really strange. Haji Wright was 4th joint...

In the case of Haji, he’s not even had a good stretch playing striker under Lampard. If he had a 5-10 game drought the questions being asked would be fairer.

We’re not selling Simms or BTA this season and people need to let that go… next season will be the time to take stock. As for Bassette, a loan will hopefully do him and us a load of good.

Nah, Kone is a good player but 18 goals in L1 is v good but Toney was a goal every 1.3 games… He’s not at that level yet. Intriguing signing and at £3m, a reasonable price tag.

Frank Lampard had this to say earlier: “Ephron had a bit of a sore groin. I’m not saying I had to play him but he’s our naturally left-sided winger in the team so there are definitely things in and around the scenes where we are slightly that little percent out around the box.” Reading between...

When we were playing 3-4-1-2? I don't think so. Sakamoto was brought in as a RWB who can slot in at AM. Which is why after Sakamoto gets injured post-PNE, we play 3-4-1-2 again quite few times. The recruitment issues haven't moved on from when we played that formation because we don't have...

It's potentially an issue. In reality, Haji needs time to settle in upfront and get a good run of games because last season it was swapping around too often due to injuries to EMC. Which again, highlights a need for wide players if you're playing a formation with wingers, you need a minimum of 4...

If you're going off this highlight reel, most of the highlights he was playing in a 2 striker formation where he had a free role. Particularly the Watford games (home and away) and drove from the right as well as the left - as he did v Sunderland last season. It's worth noting that there In...

Incorrect. I've broken this down elsewhere and he has scored more goals as a striker than LW. We played 3-4-1-2 to start the season and he scored a few goals, had a great start to his new role at LW 4-2-3-1 and this dropped off after NY Day v Boro. Scored 3 goals v Wolves, Leeds & Ipswich and...

Haji is good at working in the spaces, between the lines, from both side. The best example is Sunderland where all of his goals came from picking the ball up in space and cutting inside to shoot/win a penalty. He scored a lot of goals on the cut back centrally. I’m not Lampard nor a mind...

My logic is that Haji is a striker and has been his whole career so we should play him there. When people say LW is his “best” position, you’d expect that to express itself in more goals and assists. It doesn’t. If the Haji at LW is to ‘create and assist’, he only has 4 assists playing LW in...

You keep repeating what others are saying but the facts just don’t support what you say. It was true for a portion of the 23/24 season and that’s it. For context, it was also true that Collins was operating at a high level in that same period in goal - with the highest shot save % in the league...

The goals tell a different story and this has been true since the turn of 2024.

What are you basing that on? One 2-3 month stretch nearly 2 season ago. Last season he definitely wasn’t more effective off the left. He scored 4 goals from that position compared to 8 upfront. He had a goal drought, Robins changed to 5-3-2 and almost instantly Wright scores 4-5 goals in about...

Try the local team website for the tickets. I got Jets and Knicks tickets last season pretty easily and Nets tickets were $25-30 for one game Check out ‘city passes’ for your destination because the New York one could be used Yankees tickets - which I’d have done if it were in season. It’s...

This mindset is rooted in the 90s and 00s. We don’t need a Keiffer Moore or a Carlton Morris. We tried to put the ball in behind for BTA and nearly worked a few times. Likewise, our best chance of the game was arguably when Haji and BTA interchanged and unfortunately Haji passed up on what...