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You look at the accounts and the growth in revenue shows the club is being run well and sustainably. There’s an operating loss but that’s a reality of chasing the riches of Premiership football. There is a narrative that you need ‘football people’ to run a football club. That was probably true...

How exactly? He’s scored 2 goals and only 1 assist. Oxford he got a goal and assists and his goal v Norwich Sakamoto wasn’t on the pitch. If anything, Rudoni links up with him the best down the right flank. This idea Sakamoto gets the best out of MVE is a mantra we keep repeating without being...

You’d hope this is a game where we don’t need to do too much pressing because we have a lot of possession. In any case, BTA may actually be better at pressing than Bassette. Even Simms’ 2nd goal against Sheff W demonstrated his targeted pressing has actually led to a goal.

Egotist and narcissist are two descriptors that get overused now, similarly to how people say ‘literally’ about non-literal things. If you’ve met the guy and been around him for a period time, perhaps your opinion is informed. A lot of people say those things are uninformed and that makes me weary.

Kompany getting the Bayern job sent all the wrong messages. I feel the same way about Maresca being fast tracked to the Chelsea job, last year Leicester didn’t have a Plan B whenever they hit snags in games. Acolytes of elite managers can now have 1 good season in the championship and be fast...

Yep, calling King SISU 2.0 explains why he’s got an axe to grind with him. Safe to say we can take what he says about King with a pinch of salt.

Why do people think King is egotistical? If he was, he wouldn’t have U-turned on many things. Egotists don’t tend to admit they’re wrong and to his credit, he has several times. At the fans forum after Robins sacking, if anyone spoke to me as they did to him, I would get arsey them and imagine...

There was also the issue where there was a documentary that deliberately mistranslated what a young girl was saying. Specifically, the word ‘Jihad’ was mistranslated to ‘struggle’ and ‘Jews’ to ‘Israeli forces’. This alters the meaning of what was being said completely. It obfuscates a meaning...

I was careful to say in attack. The best argument for playing him is his defensive actions and that there could be a risk that Wright and EMC would leave us too open. If we did play both, we’d probably defend in a 4-4-2 (which we do a lot) with Rudoni covering at RM, Haji and Simms up top for...

The narrative that EMC or Wright can’t play RW is irritating now. Wright had nearly played LW before coming here, it was made to work. EMC played a lot of football at RW too. Looking at the tactical roles, neither is used as a traditional winger and they both bomb into the box. Even Sakamoto has...

What is Sakamoto actually offering the team in attack? I came across which appears to support the view that he’s not that effectual.

Wishful thinking if it’s true. It’s not quite the same as mobilising the country in defence of our sovereign territory against an aggressor. Most people can see the Ukraine war is a frozen conflict and a deal needs to be done.

Last season, the 3 promoted teams from the 23/24 scored the lowest combined points tally since the Prem began and this season’s cohort will probably score lower. One of the reasons for growing gulf is that tactically, the teams set up to be mini Man City’s in the Championship. They come up...

Watching MOTD on Monday morning and their ground was empty, a far cry to the days when they filled it out in the L1 days! Sacking Cooper was a disaster for them.

Anything less than 5 points would dent our hopes. They’ll required run rate is hovering around 1.5 PPG at the minute. 18-21 points out of 36 potentially gives us a big margin of error.

Has Bassette ever had a consequential impact on the game coming as a sub? Bassette has potential but he was playing in the Belgian league with a 1 in 5 record last season. Impressive for his age but as you point out, he’s not at the level required and he struggled to pin his place down after...

Hypothetically, blind test would you take their points tally after 46 games right now, or our total points tally?

In terms of form, we’re in a better position than Sunderland even. They’re almost guaranteed a place in the playoffs but their early season form has petered out and personally wouldn’t back them to win the playoffs.

Since Lampard has come in, we’ve been the 4th best team in the league. Nov-Dec was a bedding in period because the games come and go so quickly. As soon as his team got more time with the players, we’ve gone from strength to strength. EMC was on Sky/EFL podcast were he name checked Lampard and...

Selfishly, I’d like it to be moved to Friday or Monday. I’m in Germany that weekend. Missing Sheff U because I left holiday planning to the other half… I gave dates for the week before during the international break… 🙄