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djr8369

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,411
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Being honest Allen is not what we need in that part of the pitch either. What concerns me is there's yet another parallel with England in having a defensive manager in charge of a group that's imbalanced in favour of attacking players.
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Yeah that’s an interesting observation
 

BlueSkiesForever

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,412
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
We’re not going to play 4-4-2. Nobody in the modern game does.

you negate MVE to a purely defensive Role. The central midfield gets overrun by 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1.

the wide players are seen as more deeper - so again you’re negating the attacking prowess of Wright and whoever is in the right.

further to that as there’s nobody behind the strikers there’s a massive gap in attacking midfield that is usually mopped up by a DM. The strikers would be totally isolated
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Disagree completely, if teams aren’t expecting a 4-4-2 because “it’s not the modern way” then maybe we’ll provide a challenge they’ve not trained for or expected. Also I believe we should play to our strengths rather than conform to what other teams are doing, if we have a lack of quality in midfield but have a plethora of wingers then we should use a formation that utilises wingers more than central midfielders.

I still think MVE will provide a good attacking outlet from deep, either by beating the odd player or crossing a ball in from deep. We shouldn’t be in the position where we’re relying on him to be so attacking anyway, it’s only because our midfield is so wank at moving forward that we need him. As for the gap behind the strikers, we have that already, a lack of connection to the strikers, so I don’t think going 4-4-2 will make anything worse in that department.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,413
3/10 window
 
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Deity

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,414
Ccfcisparks said:
3/10 window
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Are you feeling ok ? Genuine question.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,415
Deity said:
Despite the opinions on here of Nixon he got 100 transfers right this summer. Seems to compare pretty well to the accuracy of our ITK’s
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The octopus from the World Cup compares well with our in the knows
 
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CCFCMember

Active Member
  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,416
Could Ghoddos be a good signing. Still a free agent got experience and a centre mid?
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,417
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Being honest Allen is not what we need in that part of the pitch either. What concerns me is there's yet another parallel with England in having a defensive manager in charge of a group that's imbalanced in favour of attacking players.
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Hope we achieve their success
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,418
Deity said:
Are you feeling ok ? Genuine question.
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No
 
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,419
Brighton Sky Blue said:
What concerns me is there's yet another parallel with England in having a defensive manager in charge of a group that's imbalanced in favour of attacking players.
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I was literally just thinking this the other day but didn’t want to say anything for fear of being witch-hunted with Robins-shaped pitchforks

Don’t have a go at me personally if you think I’m wrong, I’m purely speculating, but to me it feels like Robins is very defensive and yet our squad is very attack-minded. Something about the combo just feels off to me, and I’m not saying “Robins out”, I just think the squad has the weird indescribable feeling about it, like it’s sort of out of kilter with the way it wants to be run
 
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Otis

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,420
Perennial Lurker said:
Rudoni is key for me and getting the best out of Torp
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Yeah. I do really like the look of Torp, but he needs to have bigger impacts on games than he has been having so far. We have seen glimpses of how good he can be.
 
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,421
Ccfcisparks said:
No
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Don’t worry mate things will get better, especially after we’ve won 3-1 today, and I’m rarely optimistic when it comes to our scorelines
 
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Williescar

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,422
Sky Blue Pete said:
Such a huge amount of bollox on here
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Certainly is
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,423
We are still joint 4th favourite to win the league behind Leeds, Burnley and weirdly Boro
 

fatso

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,424
CCFCMember said:
Could Ghoddos be a good signing. Still a free agent got experience and a centre mid?
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Definitely worth a punt, if only on a short term contract.

He's got bags of experience, and would replace KP in the squad.
He'd be a relatively low risk free signing, and we now have Palmers wage available.
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,425
We will be fine.
 
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Cally Fedora

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,426
As soon as Dovin and Rudoni walked in and Wright, Simms, Ewijk and Saka didn’t walk out this was an excellent window. The others are a bonus. I don’t get the clamour just to sign anyone. They would eat up budget. It’s far better to wait until you can get who you want. If I was King and was faced with fans who believe the window has been poor I’d be severely disappointed
 
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Tea & Busquets

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,427
Reggie cannon is available as mentioned previously. would be great RB/CB cover.
 
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Balli001

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,428
Tea & Busquets said:
Reggie cannon is available as mentioned previously. would be great RB/CB cover.
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I mentioned him. Sure we were linked to him previously
 

AFCCOVENTRY

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,429
Cally Fedora said:
As soon as Dovin and Rudoni walked in and Wright, Simms, Ewijk and Saka didn’t walk out this was an excellent window. The others are a bonus. I don’t get the clamour just to sign anyone. They would eat up budget. It’s far better to wait until you can get who you want. If I was King and was faced with fans who believe the window has been poor I’d be severely disappointed
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We’ve kept all our star players in this window. Which is a bonus. I think this is the first summer we haven’t sold a star player(s) to fund transfers in a very long time.
 
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AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,430
Clarkey_CCFC said:
Very temperamental apparently
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Can blow up at anytime
 
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Balli001

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,431
Clarkey_CCFC said:
Very temperamental apparently
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We had Palmer for 2 years
 

SIR ERNIE

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,432
Liquid Gold said:
Sunderland gone absolutely mental signing players since the window closed. Looks like 3 with another to be done.

One of them is a DCM that played 6 times in the Champions League last year ffs.
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Interesting that the DCM, Salis Samed is a Ghana international on a loan from Lens, named in 2023 as best CM in French football by a French sports news outlet.

Given we were looking for a CM and he played in the WC under Boateng, I wonder whether he was on our radar.
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,433
SIR ERNIE said:
Interesting that the DCM, Salis Samed is a Ghana international on a loan from Lens, named in 2023 as best CM in French football by a French sports news outlet.

Given we were looking for a CM and he played in the WC under Boateng, I wonder whether he was on our radar.
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Probably not as we obviously are ignoring the loan market
 

Great_Expectations

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,434
This was a cheerful read this morning.

Yep, it’s massively frustrating we didn’t get another CM in, but the squad is more than good enough. Some of the over the top doomsday predictions are embarrassing.

I also wouldn’t be surprised to see us revert to a flatter three (6 and two 8’s) in midfield once Sheaf if fit, which will better suit the players we have.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,435
Great_Expectations said:
This was a cheerful read this morning.

Yep, it’s massively frustrating we didn’t get another CM in, but the squad is more than good enough. Some of the over the top doomsday predictions are embarrassing.

I also wouldn’t be surprised to see us revert to a flatter three (6 and two 8’s) in midfield once Sheaf if fit, which will better suit the players we have.
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6 plus x2 , 8's =22
 
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Diogenes

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,436
Great_Expectations said:
This was a cheerful read this morning.

Yep, it’s massively frustrating we didn’t get another CM in, but the squad is more than good enough. Some of the over the top doomsday predictions are embarrassing.

I also wouldn’t be surprised to see us revert to a flatter three (6 and two 8’s) in midfield once Sheaf if fit, which will better suit the players we have.
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Good enough for what?

A top 10 finish with a chance at the playoffs - certainly, but it could have been much better. The imbalance is frustrating, most of our forwards would walk into any of our rivals first 11 yet only 1 of our midfielders would, and yet despite having 3 windows since the PO final we have failed in that task.

As I've said before, this season is (in my opinion) our best shot at promotion in DKs 5 year plan. Looking back it may have been better to sell Sheaf early this summer and use those funds to strengthen midfield, knowing that next summer we will still need to sort out CM and more than likely need to replace at least a couple of MVE, Wright, Simms and the whole process starts again.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,437
Sky Blue Pete said:
Hope we achieve their success
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They ultimately won nothing.
 
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Old Warwickshire lad

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,438
Seems that a large majority on here,think that Eccles and Torp are both poor players. Only fit for bottom end championship teams.
I can’t wait for them to prove you all wrong.
Hope you’re there later to give them your full support,as they strive to get three points for your team.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,439
Tea & Busquets said:
Reggie cannon is available as mentioned previously. would be great RB/CB cover.
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He’s just been released by QPR - surely Latibeudiere is far better cover
 
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Deity

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,440
Diogenes said:
Good enough for what?

A top 10 finish with a chance at the playoffs - certainly, but it could have been much better. The imbalance is frustrating, most of our forwards would walk into any of our rivals first 11 yet only 1 of our midfielders would, and yet despite having 3 windows since the PO final we have failed in that task.

As I've said before, this season is (in my opinion) our best shot at promotion in DKs 5 year plan. Looking back it may have been better to sell Sheaf early this summer and use those funds to strengthen midfield, knowing that next summer we will still need to sort out CM and more than likely need to replace at least a couple of MVE, Wright, Simms and the whole process starts again.
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What is happening in the championship in the 2 seasons after this one then that will make it harder ??
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,441
Deity said:
What is happening in the championship in the 2 seasons after this one then that will make it harder ??
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Our best players being sold and rebuilding, again.
 
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Deity

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,442
Sick Boy said:
Our best players being sold and rebuilding, again.
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That’s football.

We will replace with better and he stronger ourselves.
 

ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,443
Tea & Busquets said:
Reggie cannon is available as mentioned previously. would be great RB/CB cover.
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Had his contract terminated by mutual consent, a year into a 4 year contract. Had previous strife with Boavista about wages, got sent off twice in the league for them.

Strikes me as a player who hasn’t settled in Europe.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,444
Deity said:
That’s football.

We will replace with better and he stronger ourselves.
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Well not quite. Lots of squad turnover with high potential but lower initial ability players.
 
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Deity

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  • Aug 31, 2024
  • #11,445
It depends who you replace with and how you spend the investment ….

We lost Gykores and are better for it. The same with Hamer.
 
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