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19 May 2022 22:19:52
Despite the penalty Beundia head and shoulders above everyone as man of the match but he'll be dropped again Sunday.

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27 Sep 2020 13:33:17
Apparently Alli is available and Chris Sutton has suggested he could come to us.
I know we were linked to him when he was at MK Dons but for me he is by far the most overrated player in the league.

He had one good season as an unknown but has been found out regularly ever since. Plays like a beemer/ merc/ audi driver who thinks they're all that because they've "made it".

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1.) 27 Sep 2020 13:46:50
Alli is a good player had a poor season last year but before that I think his stats since he joined Spurs stand comparison with anyone playing in that type of role. I think he struggles with how Mourinho wants him to play, however I am not sure he is what we need right now, I would rather we bought a wide man and moved Jack into a more central position where I think he can create more havoc.

Just as an aside, I drive a Mercedes but I certainly don’t think I have “made it“ lol 😊.


2.) 27 Sep 2020 15:30:33
We want footballers not Boxers. 😊.


3.) 27 Sep 2020 15:31:57
Joking aside, totally agree John.


4.) 27 Sep 2020 16:09:49
Agree John, no doubt he improves us, but it’s one of the last positions we need improving in.

I rate Alli, just think he’s only really played in his position for two seasons. Did pretty well, and because of that success he just kept getting pushed further forward and then out wide which just never worked. He’s a number 8, old school, box to box, from a time when centre mids were expected to do both, go forwards and backwards, that’s how he made his name and needs to get back to it to see the best of him.

There are big questions about his attitude, seems pretty childish on the all or nothing documentary.


 

 

27 Sep 2020 13:32:09
The Sun obviously have their biases but are normally clued in on transfers. The Scottish Sun claim Brighton have expressed an interest in Edouard. Maybe that makes him available for less than we thought? No way they pay the expected £40mill on a player.

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12 Sep 2020 10:15:28
I see Noel Whelan is up to his old tricks again. Claims Wilson not happening meant we panic bought our second choice.
Obviously does zero research before spouting off when Watkins was clearly our main transfer target from day 1.

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1.) 12 Sep 2020 10:36:54
The guy is an irrelevant cretin. The man is robbing a living. Every man and his dog knew Watkins was Smith’s number one target.


2.) 12 Sep 2020 11:47:43
Agree ant, the Watkins deal took at least 2 weeks to thrash out it was almost there before any bid went in for Wilson, isn’t whelan a Leeds fan? Nothing but jealousy they couldn’t even convince their manager to stay on for more than 1 year cause he knows they going to do a Norwich and go straight back down😂😂.


3.) 12 Sep 2020 12:04:46
Just for clarity Whackattack Bielsa only ever signs 1 year contracts so it’s nothing to do with his lack of faith in his team, and I for one don’t think they will go down in fact I think they are more likely to do a Wolves or Sheffield Utd. Bielsa is a class act.


4.) 12 Sep 2020 12:07:02
I can never understand why ex-pros are considered experts in the transfer market. I don’t think they have any more idea than the rest of us and clearly don’t research much, if anything.

Kevin Phillips suggests we made a massive mistake in missing out on Callum Wilson. Well, firstly the guy didn’t want to move to Villa and, secondly, he has a paltry scoring record in the EPL, managing double figures once. All the Sky and Talk Sport place the guy on a pedestal as some phenomenal goal scorer. Complete tosh.


5.) 12 Sep 2020 12:35:42
If Wilson had stayed with Bournemouth for this season, I doubt that he would have scored half the number of goals Watkins scored last season.


6.) 12 Sep 2020 14:06:06
I do agree villajohn he is a good manager I was just having a pop at Leeds, wasn’t his last contract for 2 years with option to extend by 1 year, well so say the article about him signing the extension anyways, honestly I can’t see them doing a Sheffield or wolves he’s not as good a man manager as wilder or nuno, they threw away automatic promotion last year then rubbish themselves in the playoffs, and started to slip a bit this year also into the new year, bilic was also a good manager with Fulham but it didn’t save him, 1 thing for sure I think this year’s premier league will be tougher than last years, looking through the fixtures there’s none looking to easy, my money is on West Ham Fulham Brighton West Brom and Leeds to slug it out down the bottom, what u guys think who will be in the relegation battle?


7.) 12 Sep 2020 18:32:15
Look at Bielsa’s record, wherever he has been he has had success and he plays a brand of entertaining football which is why he is such a sought after manager. I have even heard Klopp refer to him as world class so that’s good enough for me. Time will tell whether Leeds tsurvive or not it I think they will even if it’s only because there are 3 worse teams which I think will be West Ham, Fulham and Albion I also have a sneaking feeling Brighton might struggle as well.


 

 

17 May 2020 09:06:06
If we stay up and get the reported £80mill asking price for Jack who do we think we could realistically bring in?
I think our starting lineup could look like this (Dunk being less likely with the owners strategy of younger players but best option within budget imo) .
Heaton
Guilbert Dunk Mings Targett
Phillips
Rashica Mcginn Benrahma
Samatta Wesley

Subs
Nyland
Konsa
Engels
Nakamba
Trezeguet
El Ghazi
Davis

Only one cm on bench as both starting wingers could slot into that central position.

We could stick with Konsa who has been decent and look at right back instead but I'm struggling to think of any great options available less than £20mill who are significant upgrades.

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1.) 19 May 2020 14:27:37
Not a bad line up however I would take a couple of players from Utd for Jack so I would ask for Axel and Chris Smalling.

I like you I know he is outside the age bracket but it gives us some premier league experience which we have been crying out for at the back, and ask for £55 million I would also ditch Wesley Engels Trezeguet Taylor and El Ghazi And I would look to bring in Harry Wilson, Benrahma Barkley Mitrovic and Batshuayi and go 4 4 2.

I am sure there are lots of other ways we could go and it’s great to indulge in a bit of Fatasy football, but I think we can all agree that whatever we do we need to do something different next season.


2.) 19 May 2020 17:34:57
I think Wesley will grow and he has shown at times that coming short to bring people into play is his strength. Wesley deeper with Samatta running the channels could work.

Utd wouldn't give Axel and Smalling for a combined £25mill valuation and Smalling is even worse than what we have imo.
I don't think we'd get enough for the players you listed to buy all of your wish list and ditching both wingers for Benrahma and Wilson would still leave us short in that department.

While his defensive work is poor you can't argue with the fact El Ghazi has won us points at the other end so should keep him for backup/ rotation.


3.) 20 May 2020 14:25:50
Smalling available for £15 mill apparently he has had a decent season with Roma and he certainly isn’t as error strewn as Engels. In terms of cover for the wingers I would use Louie Barry and Green as cover after extending his contract . I don’t think el ghazi or tres does enough at either end of the pitch although tres works hard that isn’t enough in the prem imo. However that’s the beauty of this is it’s all about opinions.


4.) 20 May 2020 18:19:55
With you on that John.


5.) 21 May 2020 06:19:53
Barry isn't really a winger, he can play on the outside of a 3 at a push but he's a number 9 through and through.
I liked Green for us at times in the championship but it worries me he can't even get into a struggling Preston team now. May be a case of just not the right fit and his pace works better for our counter attacks but you'd have thought if he was that good they'd play him.


 

 

 

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27 Mar 2024 17:18:07
According to Sky Sports' Sam Blitz he'd choose Toney because Watkins has 'had enough chances and done nothing'.
Ollie has 11 caps, most of those for 5 or 10 minutes when the rest of the team are done for the night. He has 4 starts, at least 2 of those were with 2nd and 3rd string players, and scored 3 goals.
Remember when Sky Sports hired people who actually had a clue?

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1.) 27 Mar 2024 17:32:03
I agree, someone on TalkSPORT also said you should take Toney because if Kane isn’t fit you want someone who is more like Kane in the way he plays. So on the one hand I understand the point of view, but I would argue Kane is a one off, a once in a generation type of striker neither Toney or Ollie for that matter can match him but Toney is no nearer a Kane type centre forward than Ollie. You should go with the man in form and that’s Watkins but as we know with Southgate form counts for nothing.


2.) 27 Mar 2024 18:36:26
The only argument I accept is that Toney would be more reliable on penalties but we lost the last Euros through that exact same thinking.
Both players brought on late just to take penalties missed.


3.) 27 Mar 2024 19:47:11
RK, unfortunately it makes the decision easy for Boregate with the penalty issue, cynically Tony getting to score a penalty may well have Toney on the plane rather than Ollie, unfair, probably unfortunately the press are all in the Toney camp.Lets just hope Ollie carries on scoring until the end of the season and makes it difficult to leave him behind.The Euros are likely to be Boregates final games as England manager so he will be totally deaf to any criticism regarding team selection and style of play. good riddance.


4.) 27 Mar 2024 21:07:06
Personally I hope he picks Toney and Ollie can have a good rest without the chance of getting injured for next season.


5.) 27 Mar 2024 22:03:59
I'd just worry about what that could do to his confidence, being on a level with Haaland and Salah just to lose out to someone who will have barely played half a season and isn't in any sort of form.


 

 

17 Mar 2024 16:18:09
That's 2 experimental deviations from the system in a row and neither have worked. I'm really surprised Emery is taking these risks at this stage.
We tried 2 up top with Ings and now we've tried it with Duran. It just doesn't work for us. The midfield really struggle when they miss that 3rd player dropping in to receive the ball and to do it when we're already missing 2 of our better midfielders is confusing.
Fair play to Zaniolo, the whole game our attacking players kept going to the far post and he bucked that trend to equalise and nearly win it.
I don't believe how the most obvious of the 3 handball wasn't given though, how is Emerson's arm in a natural position all the way out there?

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1.) 17 Mar 2024 17:42:20
RK as you know I have questioned some of Emery's selections recently, some of which have cost us, why he can't see what you and me do boggles me.


 

 

10 Mar 2024 15:25:04
Outside of the officials again making a mockery of their protection of the 'big six', Emery got it wrong today.
Every week he champions playing 'our way' which has worked far more often than not. Today he switches to a back 3 forcing Bailey out of the position he has dominated for months and we can't hold onto the ball for the life of us.
Watkins had an off day and lost all confidence he recently had, Konsa looked good until he decided last second to play a ball to Tielemans shadow which led to a goal and the less said about Cash the better.

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1.) 10 Mar 2024 16:33:18
I said early on in the game our shape wasn’t good. I think he went with a cautious back 5 which really didn’t help us. That said Spurs pressed very high and we looked tired from minute one.
Better side won to be honest.
Ajax on Thursday is so important now.


 

 

02 Mar 2024 20:38:49
Macphee earns his money with the attacking set pieces but I'd like to see us improve on the defensive ones now.
Rogers made a big difference on that left hand side with good positioning and some nice touches, I'd like to see him get a run there now.
It was also nice to see Diaby take a risk with that cross to Digne, he's been in his shell for far too long.
Scoreline looks like we were in trouble, but if not for small margins, we could have had the same scoreline as City. Luton were at max intensity with a lot of help from the ref but we managed to come through it.

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1.) 02 Mar 2024 21:23:05
Sometimes I seriously question if I’ve watched the same game as others.

McPhee is a set piece coach not a player, do you expect him in there heading the ball clear and organising because I for one expect professional football players to be able to do that. I’ve watched John McGinn lose not the aerial battle to morris countless times but the will to get to the ball first from a set play. After the equaliser where it was McGinn letting Morris get the run on him I then witnessed John McGinn try and push Morris offside rather than go with him which almost resulted in a second goal.

Also the score line does suggest we were in trouble and that’s because we were in trouble, second half Luton outfought us and to be honest on a game of two halves a draw was a fair reflection. Luton were at max intensity second half and they played us off the park, I also believe the aim of the game in premier league football along with all other levels is for the players to be at maximum intensity for the duration of the game.

Just a really arrogant post deflecting the blame towards a set piece coach and that Luton were lucky.

Story is we were good for a half, poor for a half and sloppy in our own box which is a running theme for the season but won the game which is what it’s all about now.

Spurs is need to win but a must not lose as they have the game in hand. Our fixtures are far less favourable plus the Europe factor don’t help


2.) 02 Mar 2024 21:35:11
Good analysis Rk, those balls to the back post are causing us terrible trouble lately, it really seems to be our Achilles heel, especially when they head it back across the box.
Rogers looks like he has potential it’s a shame he was booked as it took the edge off him I thought, a run of games will do him the world of good.
Delighted for digne I really think he’s our best LB and we had a great run at the start of the season with him in the team. great assist for Diaby, I thought Emery left it to late but they got it done?
Watkins boy what a season he is having, most goal involvements in the league and at his age he is worth serious money.
Ref was terrible, we only had to look at a Luton player and it was a free or a yellow card but Mengi pretty much tore the jersey off Ollie’s back all game but no booking. the only thing worse than the ref was zaniolo, a headless chicken is what I would describe him as, will be great to get Buendia back instead of him.


3.) 02 Mar 2024 22:27:16
Dan, the set piece coach is literally the person that decides who stands where at a set piece. It's all well and good saying a player could do better but if the coach creates a mismatch at the far post then it's still bad tactics.
It wasn't really a game of 2 halves, they had a spell but we could easily have been out of sight at half time bar those margins I mentioned. If JJs shot was higher or lower it would likely be a goal, their keeper pulled off a worldie for Rogers shot and Watkins caught the post.
Second half they scored from 2 set pieces but for all their energy created very little else.
Any manager worth their salt knows that max energy is not sustainable for 90 minutes and most matches the opponents will have a spell when they are on top. That's where game management comes in and unfortunately we were a bit naive on the day in giving away too many free kicks and corners which increased Lutons chances of putting one away eventually.


4.) 03 Mar 2024 01:02:00
McPhee takes the plaudits when we score from set pieces so he’s got to take some responsibility when it’s not working out, of coarse it’s not all his fault but that’s where more work is needed, Emery has taught this team to do so much in his time in charge so I’m sure between him and McPhee they will sort it out, it probably doesn’t help that we are not an overly physical team and we do get bullied at times.
You are right when you say we were good for a half and poor for a half but so were Luton, the only difference being our good was better than their good and our poor wasn’t as bad as theirs, they are dangerous from set pieces and that’s about all they had, yes they threw everything at us but they didn’t create a huge amount and as soon as we made the changes they were nullified once more, my only real gripe is that Emery waited until it was 2 all to change things up when it was clear to see that he had to do something


5.) 03 Mar 2024 09:26:07
I agree with Dan, we don’t seem able to kill teams off, it wouldn’t have been un reflective had we been 4-5 up at half time and I thought we were looking at a similar result to the 5-0 beating we gave Sheffield United, however for me it’s becoming a bit of a worrying trend that we can’t put in a 90 minute performance and put sides away we really struggle when sides change how they play and in the second half when Luton pushed higher up the pitch and pressed us with more intensity we couldn’t adapt and when the second Luton goal went in it really did feel like deja vous, the one positive to come out of it was we eventually got a grip and grabbed the third. My concern is that if we play as we did in the second half against Spurs we will get beaten, and that game for me is our biggest game for a long time, if we can put them away we have a nice cushion for when we face Arsenal, Liverpool and City.


6.) 03 Mar 2024 12:05:31
LOTM, I have being banging the drum since Sheffield at home that we are not adapting to teams working our tactics and weaknesses out. That's why performances and the number of goals we are concededing is a serious issue if we want fourth.After 50 minutes things needed to change and Emery didn't react quick enough, the next twenty minutes was some of the worst i have seen this season.


 

 

24 Feb 2024 17:09:30
Barring a disaster, Fulham have helped us to be pretty much nailed on for top 5 in my opinion.
For us, Bailey was immense yet again, hopefully nobody tries to cynically take him out for the end of the season because I think he's the differencebetween Champions League and Europa.
I was impressed with Chambers considering his lack of minutes this season but it was chalk and cheese with and without Torres.
Cash nearly got some praise from me until he forgot what an offside trap was yet again. He's played under Unai long enough to know better and he can easily see across the whole line.
Not saying they had bad games but I do wish Mcginn and Luiz would try not to play like they can take on everybody sometimes. They look great with a well timed pirouette but they put us in trouble a few times today by overdoing it. I'd rather they lose it trying a worldie pass than just running into people.

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09 Mar 2024 22:41:30
I prefer Digne to Moreno but I think he's destined for a Saudi offer. Emery prefers Moreno so it won't be him making way.
We will be taking care with wages so Digne going, and Lenglet who is an expensive stop gap returning to Barca, will free up a large chunk of funds.
Those 2 are £300-350k per week combined so we could probably get 3-4 good players for that.
Kamara is very important for us if he can stay fit but is also a pretty hefty wage. If we're going to miss him for 10-20 games every year then maybe it would be shrewd to look at alternatives, but he's not going to fetch good money this summer with his ACL injury.

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30 Jan 2024 08:13:11
Papers have changed their mind to say the bid was only £7.5m.
£15m was way too high considering reports were they only wanted £10m.
Some of the inflated figures we may see will probably include any sell on percentage on top of any other clauses.
I'm not convinced he'll make much difference as the noise only seems to have come from a couple of cup matches. We do need more competition on that left side though and he's not overly expensive at anything less than £10m.

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28 Dec 2023 20:02:21
They rubbishd those rumours at the recent fan forum according to a feedback blog I read.

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01 May 2023 09:35:17
You have said multiple times you don't want him only getting 10 minutes at the end of games.
I understand your view completely but it's tunnel vision of the highest level.
He runs a lot but most of the time those runs are easily telegraphed if you add in top level defenders.
He doesn't have the strength to be effective at hold up play. To take a jab at my understanding is hypocritical when you talk about his link up play and I've been saying we need to have a team capable of controlling the middle of the pitch to get him involved.
There have been a few games where Ollie only gets a couple of chances and that is only because of how he got involved with his strength and hold up play, put Archer into those games and he doesn't get a sniff.

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01 May 2023 07:41:55
But you previously said you don't want him only getting the last end of the game and now you've moved the goalposts.
Our system is 1 out and out striker. If that 1 is Archer and not Watkins then Archer is lucky if he gets 1 chance in a lot of games.
The other thing you have to factor in is that although he might take a higher percentage of chances, the ball would be coming back at us a lot more causing the rest of the team to do a lot more running and eventually leave Archer isolated like Pukki and Norwich previously mentioned.

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27 Mar 2024 22:03:59
I'd just worry about what that could do to his confidence, being on a level with Haaland and Salah just to lose out to someone who will have barely played half a season and isn't in any sort of form.

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27 Mar 2024 18:36:26
The only argument I accept is that Toney would be more reliable on penalties but we lost the last Euros through that exact same thinking.
Both players brought on late just to take penalties missed.

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23 Mar 2024 18:51:46
I actually think England would be better with Watkins over Kane, if only for the fact that by forcing the defence backwards it provides more space for the likes of Saka, Foden, Grealish to be effective.
Kane is a good finisher and decent passer of the ball, but by coming deep so often, he squeezes the pitch and prevents the creative players from being anywhere near as effective as they can be.
Just look at Bayern, Kane is scoring a lorryload but the team as a whole are suffering. Their story is becoming the same as Spurs and England, if Kane isn't scoring then the team aren't winning.

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12 Mar 2024 15:36:38
The salary cap isn't 70%, that's the proposed end point with a gradual reduction year on year.
The current cap is 85% I think which is pretty much achievable just through Lenglet and Zaniolo returning.
Selling Digne as is rumoured gets us there comfortably although not convinced Sousa is ready to be a main back up yet.

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11 Mar 2024 22:59:43
The issue scotty, is that you'll never be happy as long as there is a level of perfection we haven't reached yet.
We could win 37 league games in a season and you'd probably keep bringing up the 1 we lost.
We had 6 months of massively overacheiving to make the ECL. We've improved the squad to one that should be challenging top 6 and that's where we are.
It would be sad to miss out on Champions League having been up there for so long but it was inevitable that we'd have an iffy patch if we picked up injuries.
We've had a couple of results that look like hammerings this season, but quite a few of those goals came past the 85th minute when we really tried chasing a result.
Overall, if this is a bad run then I'll happily take it because we're still winning more often than not.

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