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For sure. Probably a situation like Hamer in 23/24 where he told the club he wanted to leave and we allowed it but at the right price. KKH wouldn’t have came to us if he was going to be competing with another player all season for a starting berth.

4th or 5th. We finished 9 points off 4th after a slow start. A lot of people have written off a lot of our players and this season I’m optimistic they’ll come good staying injury-free and a good preseason working with Lampard and his team. I’d like 2-3 more players to be added before the...

As soon as we signed KKH, it was inevitable the club had allowed MVE to move on. KKH is too good to be sat behind MVE for a season and is arguably better than him right now. Personally, MVE shades it but KKH is younger and probably has a higher ceiling. If we get the fee we want for MVE...

4th or 5th. We finished 9 points off 4th after a slow start. A lot of people have written off a lot of our players and this season I’m optimistic they’ll come good staying injury-free and a good preseason working with Lampard and his team. I’d like 2-3 more players to be added before the...

That’s not what this ‘debate’ is about. It’s actually about what’s a higher priority in terms of where we need improve. I’ve been consistent in saying that we’ve got a top championship striker on the books and it’s actually our wingers where need more goals. Haji Wright starts for all the teams...

I’m optimistic Torp will have a good season this year. He stepped up massively in the 5-3-2 days and was unfortunate with injuries. If he can improve in his goals and assists, he’ll be a starter. More long range shooting and passing from deep is what this team can miss at times.

First and foremost, you play your best players in their positions. Haji is our best striker and he shouldn’t need to Second point, 24/25 is an outlier for BTA and Simms so the club aren’t just going to pivot and sign a new striker to sit behind Haji. The priority of the club is to find a way to...

I don’t know for sure, but we’ve spent £16m on strikers, we’re not going to completely U-turn on them after 1 season. That’s just common sense. If you look at Simms and BTA’s goal tallies in 23/24 and 22/23, it’s better than what people want from a striker. The difference between you and the...

4 headed goals in a season is quite a lot… The average headed goals scored for a team throughout the season was 8.7 goals. I’m reasonably certain that Simms 4 headed goals would be up there as one of the top headed goal scorers in the league. Personally I’ve found it difficult to find a neat...

Look at the top teams in the division, the top scorers are increasingly being dominated by midfielders and wingers. Most teams play with 1 striker nowadays and an old Robins formula from League 2 is that promotion-chasing teams need ‘3.5 goal scorers’ in the starting 11. Our starting 11 has 2.5...

Do you think 4 goals is good enough from the wing? His assists are good, 26th in the league is generally good. There were 14 wingers with more assists and most of them scored more than him too. Sakamoto is deservedly a cult hero, but is he a top end winger in the Championship? No.

Happy BTA and Simms scored today, will keep people crying about strikers for an hour, maybe 2. Wright is the marquee man upfront. If we’re being realistic, it would look something like: - CB - Winger - AM who can play out wide or vice versa I’ve not been to the preseason games but it seems...

It’s illustrative. Even if Sakamoto is the starter, there’s no one pushing him or EMC for a starting berth, at push, maybe Rapha. We’re fixating on 2 sub strikers who both got more goals than our starting wingers. At the very least, surely you want the option to sub both your wingers if...

What a terrible shout. KKH scored has 3 goals in 82 championship games… Likewise, Sakamoto just isn’t a goal threat. Good facilitator but to round out the squad you need wingers who can change the game from the bench/rotate where there’s injuries. In any case, the only striker likely to leave...

Happy BTA and Simms scored today, will keep people crying about strikers for an hour, maybe 2.

The interviewer gave him the perfect answer to the question and Lampard just went with it.

Nail on the head. Of all our CMs, only Torp offers a goal threat and in the absence of goals from CM, we need more goals from our starters. There’s an obsession with the strikers when most of the time only one person will be playing in that position. Whereas we have 2 wingers, 2 CMs and an AM...

EMC got more goals and assists than Haji did at LW last season. Haji’s best position is also upfront.

Have I missed something?! Why are Millwall projected to finished 3rd!?

Last season, it was 9.98 xG, scored 6 in the league, probably 10.4 or something including the League Cup. 23/24, it was 11.1 (or thereabouts) and he scored 13. What's a higher risk, having Rapha covering Sakamoto/EMC or Simms/BTA covering Wright? To me, I'd rather us not have to change...