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Unfortunately, facts don’t care about your feelings. The fact of the matter is that Haji Wright has scored more goals playing upfront than off the left in less games… In fact, Haji has scored 1 goal playing off the left hand side under Lampard.

Rapha as a 4th or 5th choice I can get down with. There’s clearly something there that coaches want to work with. Binks, I don’t think Lampard particularly rates him and would sell him. Right, so he scores an extra penalty playing LW… That’s 11 goals at striker and 8 goals LW. Adjust for...

I discounted his penalty goals anyway and he still scored more playing striker. 19 goals in total, 4 penalties and 8 were scored playing upfront and 7 LW. He played 6 more games at LW too and was scoring at a rate of 1 in 3 or so.

Haji has a tendency to drift out wide and cut in even when he plays as a striker so that’s probably why Robins found a niche role for him at LW back in 23/24. I have a good feeling that Haji and EMC will have big seasons for us. We just haven’t had a prolonged period where both EMC and Wright...

To clarify, I said 6 goals from the wing + the winner v Wolves so it’s been credited with a goal from LW for that game as well as, Leeds, Ipswich, Southampton Plymouth, Boro and Swansea. It’s all visible on websites like Transmarkt anyway. Having done this exercise, the only Haji goals I...

This isn’t correct Fernando. Last season, he scored 4 of his goals playing LW out of 12. 2 v Oxford, 1 v Blackburn and Plymouth away. We played 5-3-2 v Leeds, PNE, QPR, Luton, Boro, Derby and Sunderland where Haji scored 4 goals. Then post-Lampard, scored 3 v Sunderland and another v Burnley in...

Wright will play upfront because it’s objectively his best position and has been throughout his career to date. Just because he had a good 20-odd game stretch under Robins, doesn’t make him a winger. He’s played made 2/3s of his career starts and scored 72.4% of his goals as a striker. So...

Firstly, Haji has been generally reliable when it comes to injuries. Second, both Simms and BTA have hit double figures leading the line in the Championship. Which is sufficient in terms of injury cover. What are peoples expectations for a 2nd or 3rd string striker? Yes, you should’ve done...

Haji has scored most of goals upfront for us lol… Besides, how are you fitting EMC in the team as well?

We need big seasons from EMC, Rudoni and Haji who all need to get 15-20 goal contributions. There aren’t much goals in the starting 11 after these players. For me, if Sakamoto or a new signing can get 12-17 goal contributions from RW, we could force ourselves in the conversation. We can’t go...

The only palatable option there is playing Wright LW which he is only record saying he views himself as a striker and wants to play there. Unless he forces a move, he’ll be our number 1 striker. If we’re in a position where our fullbacks need to play RW and LW, it’s not a good spot to be in and...

It’s illustrative at this point because the only winger in the squad outside of Sakamoto and EMC. I’d be surprised and disappointed if we don’t sign at least 2 forward players before the end of the window. If we had 2 wingers who could get 6-9 goal contributions from the bench, that would make...

Exactly. You can’t really say ‘Haji can play LW’ if he’s starting upfront and Lampard has given every indication that is what he intends to do. If we sell/loan a striker out and we sign someone who can play multiple positions that’s ideal. Even multi-positional players like Windass or Goodrham...

Haji is a proper number 9… One area we struggled last season was that we didn’t have options to change matches from the bench. If Rudoni/Sakamoto/EMC were having off games, there wasn’t any alternatives to switch things up. There isn’t much point in having 3 strikers on the bench when your...

Haji Wright was the 4th highest scoring striker whilst missing 3 months of the season… As things stand, the front 3 will be Sakamoto-Wright-EMC. It really is that simple and if you want a player better than Haji, you’re gonna need to spend in the region of £10m.

He was signed as a striker and that’s where he’ll play next season so the focus on Simms, Bassette or BTA is somewhat beside the point… they’re all role players. With wingers, you have 2 on the field and with 5 subs, you’d want the option to change 4 midfielders in most cases.

Sakamoto scored 4 goals in 44 games and at the top end of the league, that isn’t actually good enough. EMC, in fairness, has the underlying data metrics to suggest he could get 15 goal contributions next season so I’m less concerned about LW. Regardless, at minimum we need one winger in case...

I wouldn’t write either of those players off. Last season was quite low scoring compared to other seasons for strikers. The top scoring striker only scored 19 and after that was Sargent on 15 and like Haji, missed a lot of the season. The teams at the top of the table all had wingers and AMs...

Why are people obsessed with strikers? Haji was the 4th top scorer last season despite missing 3 months. Simms has had a 19 goal season and BTA has scored 10+ goals as a lead striker. We play with 1 striker and we have 2-3 wingers on the books. Sakamoto scored 4 goals last season and EMC scored...

Both had 1 year left on their contracts so that’s why people undervalued them. Pretty certain a lot of noise on this forum suggested we’d barely get £10m for Hamer, let alone £15m and a sell-on %. We got our valuation because we stuck to our guns on the value of our players. MVE is a good...