Southampton making another £17m on transferring out Salisu, still waiting on £40m+ for Lavia and £30m+ for Ward Prowse, so getting on for £100m, Leicester making the same in transfer fees, yet Leeds making fk all thanks to the loan contract fk ups. We need to start making some cash on Gnonto, Summerville, Harrison Meslier otherwise we are trading in the bargain bucket again. No chance of promotion
If the transfer window shut today, we'd go up as champions, we have a great championship squad already
You are correct as usual Aski. The intention is to look at the quality of the chances the team creates, not to factor in the ability of the finisher. Ie it measures who ‘should have won’ if the strikers performed averagely. On Paddy… as Jambo says he’s very one-footed, and I’d suggest that one of his issues is always trying to take an extra touch to get the ball onto his left to shoot. Not alone in that though.
Latest bs is if we sold anyone we wouldn’t be able to sign anyone due to ffp. Bet it doesn’t affect Southampton I’ll bet
That’s it 100% not instinctive enough. His best goals are when he has no chance to think, but not enough of them.
Still proven as a top Championship striker though. If he's fit then he'll score and miss loads of goals...at least 16 I'd say...err of both
I just think his attitude stinks. You're probably right though and he could do better in this League.
Spot on re his attitude and a broken toe nail would rule him out for a month. Far better suited to being an accountant or banker
Who would I sign? There are plenty of options out there. You're telling me that Piroe isn't an option but he is. He's available. Swansea are open to selling. 41 goals last two seasons for a middling Championship side. Middlesbrough activated a 1 year extension for last seasons Championship top scorer Akpom. He's another whose contract expires next season. 28 goals in 40 apps last season. Villa, depending on their signings, might be open to Cam Archer going back out on loan. 22 games, 11 goals and 6 assists last year in the Championship. There is alot of time left in the window and we will be feeding from the scraps of the PL. If a PL side buy a new striker then it opens up opportunities for the other strikers to maybe go out on loan or be sold. A bit like Sam Surridge. I wouldn't want Surridge but he has been allowed to leave Forest on the cheap due to new signings. There'll be a few opportunities to snap up over the next month. Patience.
It’s Impossible to say for sure whether paddy helped or hindered us in the champ. Visually the side played better with him in it. But he missed stacks of chances. Are there guys who are better finishers around who would have taken more of his chances… certainly in my view. Would those guys have helped the team to the extent paddy did…to say we would create the same amount of chances? Likely not… it would depend on the player. With Most players you’re compromising on something… with paddy it’s finishing. Unfortunately, that’s kind of a key skill for a striker.
Piroe has apparently said he’s staying at Swansea, he’s wanting the free transfer next season. Boro activated an extension on Akpom so how does that mean they’d sell him, they’ll fancy their chances of going up. I’m hoping we get someone like Piroe, I’m hoping it’s false news regarding an intention to stay
Money talks. We're the big dicks in this league with parachute payments. The 49ers themselves have said they will be aggressive regarding wages so even if Piroe is wanting a free transfer I'm sure if we doubled his wages with a release clause if we don't go up we could get him in. Once the fee is agreed with Swansea it's up to our negotiators to persuade players to come. So far we have pinched Darlow from Bournemouth for a cut price fee and Ampadu really shouldn't be playing Championship football.
While on the subject of Bamford, for those not on Twitter and social media, his cupping of the ears after scoring in a friendly against Forest was done towards the Forest fans who had been giving him grief. As usual a few clickbait sites wanted to make a story out of nothing cleverly cropping the images to make it look like he was possibly doing it towards Leeds fans
Just to give everyone an idea of what's required from our squad of players next season here is a list of those that made 20 (inc subs) or more appearances last time we were promoted. Kiko 38 (app) Ayling 37 White 46 Cooper 38 Dallas 45 Beradi 22 Klich 44 Phillips 37 Alioski 39 Pablo 36 Shackleton 22 Harrison 46 Costa 43 Roberts 23 Bamford 45 So 15 core players with 12 of them playing roughly 80% or more of the games which shows staying fit and available is key.
