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Scout73 said:
Passing accuracy is flawed, someone could play every single pass backwards and have 100% accuracy but that's rubbish for a CDM

Your point about not watching others as much could be used to argue your point tho, you are only seeing a small sample of those players

The eye test is how you judge players nit on data - when I'm scouting players i dint reccomend players to my club based on stats, I base it on the eye test on what I've seen


God I keep getting roped into this debate lol
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its quite hard not to when there seems to be an intrinsic difference in how each side of our fanbase views him, im surprised that after years of George Dobson, Max Power, Josh Scowen that people can't appreicate just how intelligent (just on the pitch) and well rounded Neil is as a midfielder.
 
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Johno808 said:
i would take anything over 15 million

Has been decent last 4 weeks but has been prone to poor spells, would not be the end of the world and of the big hitters (Ballard - Patto - Rigg - Jobe - Neil) him leaving would impact us the least imo
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You have to be on the wind up <laugh> It would be a sickener to lose Neil. A lot more than Ballard and Patterson, as you’ve named
 
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WorkyTicketFTM said:
Exactly my point, you’re ignoring the metrics and you think he’s better cos “you said so with the eye test” but you watch Neil every week and watch the others once a blue moon.

Data is going to be skewed because players for worse teams are obviously going to get more Interceptions, tackles etc so you can’t really judge too much off that because he’s obviously going to below some of the others but even his overall rating this season is below 10-15 other DM’s. His passing accuracy at 84% is also shocking for a DM.
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I could say the same for you but I watch A LOT of football
 
MadMackem77 said:
I could say the same for you but I watch A LOT of football
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Overall rating, total passes, passing accuracy, progressive passes, tackles, successful dribbles, interceptions.. compared to the other DM’s. We all know data doesn’t determine how good a player is because it’s relevant to the teams style of play etc but those are the metrics you’re asking for. Your opinion is based on watching Neil every week and snippets of the others so I’m unsure how you can dismiss mine as not being logical and yours as being right but whatever you say mate :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
Could be massively wrong but I'm quite confident we keep Neil this window. Club has shown a load of times they are reluctant to sell key players. They sold Stewart (with a major injury) for £10m-£12m with a year left on his deal at 27 to another Championship club, so will be confident of a substantial fee for a young home grown talent with stable premier league club interest.

I think they will be looking at two scenarios, if not promoted, he will be sold in the summer for a fee in excess of £15m. If promoted, he will sign a new long term deal. Fingers crossed he stays, been our best performer in the past 6-8 weeks imo.
 
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I have a sneaky suspicion that we might not do as much business in the remainder of this window than many would like.

I think with the emergence of Hjelde recently, the return of Seelt and with O'Nien demonstrating he can fill in on either side, quells a bit of need for another fullback. I think the club will act if they feel they can bring in something significantly better than Cirkin or Hume to displace them, otherwise I suspect we'll go with what we have.

As for the striker, Rusyn has to go first I would imagine and with Abdullahi back, it also reduces the urgency for another body uptop, I think there are two likelihoods should we recruit, first a filler striker who will mostly sit on the bench and is expected to be back up to Wilson, probably a loan. Secondly, an actual good striker to displace or seriously compete with Wilson, likely to cost us a decent wedge (Frigan £12.6m, Cannon £13m etc).
 
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Scout73 said:
It's all about opinions and what people see in my opinion. Data doesn't determine what player is better, data can always been used to back up your argument whatever the point being made is

Football is all about opinions, be boring if we saw it the same

Anyway I said I wasn't going to get anymore involved in the debate so def bowing out this time lol
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Once I get in from work I will pick up the batton mate <laugh>

Selling Neil now would be like letting half the air out of our balloon.
 
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Hudson92 said:
Apologies if I’m wrong but I’m sure @Scout73 had mentioned this lad before
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He moved to Montpellier summer before last and was beyond us at the time. Was getting linked to one or two of the more flush champ clubs before he got his move. Definitely a different type of striker to what we have. Was being linked to Milan a short while ago.
 
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