I heard something today about simms that may or may not have been from the mouth himself .
Would I be correct in thinking there's something potentially going on / relocation
"We have a strong negotiating position for just about all our players because they’re all contracted for another 2 years"....alternatively we are stuck with contracted players, some quite expensive, that we don't want but are unable to sell.
Yes but what was said Evo!!! You teaseI'm not really ITK but a couple lads i know were chatting to ellis yesterday and if what they are telling me is true then more was said than youd imagine a player would normally be happy to say .
They mentioned about a relocation to london too
Frustration from the playoffs ? Who knows
What was intimated? Not happy?, looking to leave, won’t be living there anymore?I'm not really ITK but a couple lads i know were chatting to ellis yesterday and if what they are telling me is true then more was said than youd imagine a player would normally be happy to say .
They mentioned about a relocation to london too
Frustration from the playoffs ? Who knows
Frustration, tension , relocationYes but what was said Evo!!! You tease
Isnt that a rumour someone made up on X earlier based on nothing?I have heard if Ellis played another game it would trigger another payment to Everton..anyone else heard this?..
Makes zero sense .I have heard if Ellis played another game it would trigger another payment to Everton..anyone else heard this?..
Hardie instead of wright? Hahahaha fuck me that’s laughablePeople wanting to get rid of Wright and bring in Hardie from Plymouth? I know Wrights been off it but that is mental.
Would rather sign LaurelHardie instead of wright? Hahahaha fuck me that’s laughable
Hardie instead of wright? Hahahaha fuck me that’s laughable
Like with half of the forum wanting us to basically sign a new team, we’ve got to 5th in the league all we need is a few extra quality players in and a couple of good loans. I’ll be glad the club doesn’t take advice from the ‘experts’ from the world famous forum that is skybluestalkIf this forum was in charge of recruitment, we’d be fucked.
Refer to posts about signing Morris/Moore over Simms when both had a worse non-penalty MPG and less headed goals than him.
Hardie and Morris for Wright and Simms… lol.
I’m guessing it would be a team in our league. So you’re looking at Watford, Millwall or QPR?I'm not really ITK but a couple lads i know were chatting to ellis yesterday and if what they are telling me is true then more was said than youd imagine a player would normally be happy to say .
They mentioned about a relocation to london too
Frustration from the playoffs ? Who knows
Like with half of the forum wanting us to basically sign a new team, we’ve got to 5th in the league all we need is a few extra quality players in and a couple of good loans. I’ll be glad the club doesn’t take advice from the ‘experts’ from the world famous forum that is skybluestalk
....or alternatively "we scraped into the play off places with a record low total of points and miles behind the 3rd place team with little expectation of winning at Wembley. The next level is to be clearly the best in the play offs or else it is a lottery longshot each year. As we saw" And shouldn't the aim to be in the automatics? For obvious reasons. We are miles off that.Well this squad was good enough to get in the play offs this year so if we kept entirely the same squad ( which we won’t ) there is no reason to believe it couldn’t next.
Frustration, tension , relocation
*allegedly*
....or alternatively "we scraped into the play off places with a record low total of points and miles behind the 3rd place team with little expectation of winning at Wembley. The next level is to be clearly the best in the play offs or else it is a lottery longshot each year. As we saw" And shouldn't the aim to be in the automatics? For obvious reasons. We are miles off that.
Strange how in most years the season ends and the glass is actually half empty. The profit is most likely in the players we want to keep. Nicking a few quid for BTA or Eccles barely counts.Half glass empty as always. Besides, my comment was made in response to Saddles’ statement ‘anyone we don’t want to lose will go’.
There’s a lot of profit in this squad.
Strange how in most years the season ends and the glass is actually half empty. The profit is most likely in the players we want to keep. Nicking a few quid for BTA or Eccles barely counts.
In the Championship there was the width of Bobby Thomas's haircut between finishing 10-11th and finishing 5th. Our squad as it stands is safely in that bracket, and if it gets the rub of the green (Ogilvy mistimes his jump?) it gets in the play offs. But let's not kid ourselves.
There is a small pot so more emphasis should be placed elsewhere other than transfers. I want to see some of the things that are "free"
- Players with obvious potential being coached so that they kick on in the way Rudoni has - EMC, Simms, Thomas and maybe Tats . I've given up on Bassette. We need more of that.
- Greater tactical awareness from Frank. Less of the rigid 433 and subs at 70 mins. Other teams have worked us out - which is part of the Wright problem - they know what he does
We finished 5th and despite finishing on less points than 22/23, relied less on results going against us that season. We were in the driving seat from March onwards and the win over WBA all but confirmed we’d finish 6th at least.
Why would Dunne, a regular starter in this league, come to us to be backup?Jimmy Dunne as cover for MVE or Thomas or he could play RCB in a 3 with Thomas & Kitching if FL sometimes wants to play that way.
He's out of contract & it is more of a squad game now & it is up to players to show they are worthy of a place in the starting XI. Whoever we sign may end up being a starter or a backup & if MVE leaves he may end up as 1st choice RBWhy would Dunne, a regular starter in this league, come to us to be backup?
I'm coming around to the idea now that if we strengthen at the back and bring in a top top keeper that will probably add 15 points to our tally atleast next seasonWe weren’t good enough in 22/23 without Hamer and we weren’t good enough this year. Unless we’re signing a cheat code again we need better than both to get promoted.
We also didn’t get going until the end of Dec… with a half decent first qtr we would have cruised into the play offs....or alternatively "we scraped into the play off places with a record low total of points and miles behind the 3rd place team with little expectation of winning at Wembley. The next level is to be clearly the best in the play offs or else it is a lottery longshot each year. As we saw" And shouldn't the aim to be in the automatics? For obvious reasons. We are miles off that.
He's out of contract & it is more of a squad game now & it is up to players to show they are worthy of a place in the starting XI. Whoever we sign may end up being a starter or a backup & if MVE leaves he may end up as 1st choice RB
I'd be shocked if we aren't sniffing around for Bundu. Out of contract, he can play all across the front (LW, ST, RW) so is ideal to switch in and out. Scored 10 when his expected goals were 5.58, meaning he can sniff out goals when there's no chances coming. Aside from Wright, our strikers are scoring less than their expected goals.
I'd be shocked if we aren't sniffing around for Bundu. Out of contract, he can play all across the front (LW, ST, RW) so is ideal to switch in and out. Scored 10 when his expected goals were 5.58, meaning he can sniff out goals when there's no chances coming. Aside from Wright, our strikers are scoring less than their expected goals.
We weren’t good enough in 22/23 without Hamer and we weren’t good enough this year. Unless we’re signing a cheat code again we need better than both to get promoted.
He'll be 29 next season too . I would hope we are looking at betterBe careful of statistical outliers. If he usually scores around his xG, and the next season he outperforms that… you have to be sceptical.
This time last year, people said the same thing about Sakamoto and he scored less goals in more games this season. To demonstrate:
- 2024/25 - 4 goals from 3.27 xG (42 matches)
2023/24 - 7 goals from 3.23 xG (29 matches)
I don’t know his game well enough, but I’d err on the side that he’s just had a good year and probably won’t replicate it this year.
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