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jlup1980

No there not the same player because Tella made the clever runs, received the ball and.scored the goals. Your arguement is that Twine made the runs but we don't have any midfielders, wingers or strikers that can spot that pass despite finishing top scorers and scoring lots of goals from clever runs...

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Cov fans are amongst the most deluded online bunch I have seen. Surprised they didn't suggest Twine, McNally, Peacock-Farrell and Benson + £8 mill for him. Would that be a bad deal for us? BPF isn't going to play and McNally / Twine didn't pull up any trees last season for us. They're both promisin...

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Also strange that Chelsea sold Ruben Loftus-Cheek for £15m to Milan and apparently only want £15m for Callum Hudson-Odoi. Not sure where they get £20-25m for Maatsen. Zero logic when compared to the above two players. Chelsea are over-valuing all their players but they need to claw back some money ...

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I'm glad he's back. *I thought he was a good player first time round, trying to play football in a hoof ball team.* I'm not interested in any player fallouts, no team has a group of 20 - 30 players where they all like each other. We need extra bodies and he sort of fits the bill. If VK plays him , ...

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Steven and Dixon are before my time. I can remember them for other clubs and for England, but I never saw them in a Burnley shirt. Drinkwater was the last player I put in. I was desperate to think of a left back but couldn't come up with an answer.

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I don't know where this came from, probably the lack of live football, but I started thinking about some of the players we've had over the years who either had great success before or after they were with us. It ended with me trying to come up with a Burnley 11 based solely on players career success...

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Same reactions every single season 😂 logo is crap logo is to big collar to big collar to small not claret enough to claret I'm usually a bit of a happy clapper where kits are concerned. White shorts, Blue shorts, White socks, Hooped socks... don't really care. HOWEVER, that sponsor ruins the shirt ...

jlup1980

I hope W8 paid a lot of money to get that abomination on our shirt. What a shame.

jlup1980

McNally is worth 7 million to everyone other than Coventry They're an odd bunch. They seem to vastly over-inflate the value of all their players. As it stands they likely think McNally isn't worth anything more than we paid for him last summer. If he's a Coventry player this time next week he'll be...

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Absolutely, just because clubs pay such excessive fees doesn't mean the player is actually worth that much. He's worth what a club is willing to pay for him and I can't see him moving on for anything less than £25m in the current market. We all know it's crazy, we all know it's not sustainable, but...

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I say his real value is closer to £10 million, but with Liverpool wanting to replace him with Lavia for £50 million, then Jones is way out of our budget thankfully. We're about to complete a £19m deal for a U21 GK without a single game of league experience above League One and you think Curtis Jone...

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I'm pretty sure that VK has identified that we need to be much physically stronger in defence and midfield. I think VK sees O'Shea as an upgrade on Connor Roberts, and I expect him to start wearing the No. 2 shirt against City THB could still come on loan. IMO Roberts was our best player post-World...

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beddie wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 30, 2023 11:56 am
So ‘e’ has.

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jlup1980

Sorry to sound like a stuck record, but we were paying £700 pcm in 1990! We're currently paying the least we've ever paid for a mortgage. We've been up at £850 pcm previously. The reason for the current reduced monthly cost is clearly due to recent interest rates - bonus! The issue isn't just the m...

jlup1980

Surprised by O'Shea but he's only 24 and has both PL and International experience. Having Beyer, Al-Dakhil, Ekdal and O'Shea to choose from doesn't look bad on paper. All young with time to develop and improve. Roll on the VK revolution!!

jlup1980

IMF bailouts and begging Europe to let us join their club. Like the 1970s all over again. This is exactly where we're heading. It's going to be one hell of a "I told you so" when we rejoin the EU on worse terms than we departed. I avoided Brexit in my previous post but all roads lead back to it unf...

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There's going to be a whole lot of people having sleepless nights over their impending remortgages and I don't envy them one bit. Nobody has a crystal ball and if you fixed 2, 3 or 5 years ago there's no way anyone could have imagined what was going to happen during that term. The BoE base rate was ...

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Bit of a strange one. Pedro has a lot of pedigree, he certainly suits the type of forward Brighton like. (Quick, excellent dribbler, potential). Without knowing the terms of that deal, i suspect a large portion of it is based on performance type add ons. I think it’s fair to say Pedro probably has ...

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I'd be surprised if he was available for a low as 15m, more like that plus add ons. I agree with this, especially with Joao Pedro moving from Watford to Brighton for £30m. Is he twice the player Tella is? Pedro has 20 goals in 73 Championship appearances, Tella has 17 in 39. Pedro is a couple of ye...

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How is he still only 19 - it feels like he's been around for ages already?! What a talent this boy is. We should be building the England team around him - he's that good! I can't understand anyone saying he's average... that's just baffling. Had we pulled off his signature I would have happily said ...

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I suspect the premium membership is an attempt to bridge the gap between those with or without enough loyalty points to access away tickets. I'm struggling to see what else it could be... and if we're really asking people to part with £250 for the "chance" to get away tickets I'd say it's ill-advised!

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Anyone who watched his first few appearances and genuinely thought he'd be the success he has ended up being is lying to themselves. He looked like he was going to be physically dominated in the Championship. I remember him simply missing the ball when trying to use his right foot a couple times. He...

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To build on my above post - Clarke has already spoken publicly about his regret at jumping to the PL too soon when Spurs signed him for £10m four years ago and basically forgot about him. He's spoken about how he wished he had more football under his belt. He might think he has enough now, but its ...

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I'd be quite happy if we started with a few of the top 6 early on so we get them out of the way whilst the team is bedding in. It took a couple of months before we really started to click in the Championship and I expect it'll be the same in the PL.

jlup1980

I like Maatsen as much as the next fan but £20m is pie in the sky. Move on unless Chelsea are willing to be realistic. Mind you, this is the club that spend nearly £90m on Mudryk. Their valuations might be a little off - either that or they're desperate to recoup as much as they can for this seasons...

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I don't see him being brought back into the VK set up. However, stranger things have happened. He would clearly need to prove his commitment to the team and the fans though. If he proves that his attitude is right he could be the perfect replacement for Barnes. He's a Dutch International and he has ...

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I don't buy the argument that they dominate simply because they have the most money. Look at the top transfer fees paid in the PL history and you'll note how many "flops" they've bought - not many! City seem to do their due diligence better than anyone. Of the top 20 fees paid, City only appear 3 ti...

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Incredibly hard to choose an 11, especially singling out a GK... Beresford, Heaton and Pope were all unbelievable for us. "Ooh ahh Beresford" probably has it as he was GK in my teens. He was by far the best GK at the level we were playing at back then. Beresford Trippier Davis Mee Taylor Little Defo...

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I don’t particularly buy that argument at all. The game continues to be ever increasingly more professional - players are fitter, stronger and the game is more tactical. We have some really good players - don’t forget we blew Bournemouth away in the cup and that there were 3 champ teams in the FA c...

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We scored 87; the most in the league. We conceded 35; the least in the league. It's hard to criticise any element of our game this season. As VK said yesterday, we've been the best in the the Championship this season and the stats back that up. You can only beat what's in front of you and we've done...

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It's a sad state of affairs when anyone needs to take drugs at a football match. There's a time and a place for these things and it's certainly not in the CFS. The police should be taking the strongest action they can. It's much more of a family game these days and that needs to be considered. I lik...

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It's funny how some have blinkers for certain players and choose to be overly critical of others. McNeil was a very good player for us. I never understood the "lazy" label as he always put a shift in and regardless of what some think, he also had a desire to get forward. His biggest issue was our se...

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A dreadful appointment which goes against everything Leeds have tried to become under Bielsa and Marsch. As people have said though, there are four extremely poor teams fighting for two positions and one win could be enough at this stage. In the perfect world I'd like Everton and Leeds to drop as I ...

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I think it's hilarious and incredibly disrespectful of anyone to suggest that SD is failing at Everton. They can't score for toffee and there's a damn good reason for that. It's not the tactics, it's the players. They couldn't score under Lampard either! People need to remember they barely stayed up...

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I too thought he was outstanding last night and agree that he's currently above THB in the pecking order. I think he offers a bit more physicality and that's never a bad thing for a CB! I'm not sure VK will play three at the back next season but he might look to deploy Beyer in the Jack Cork role an...

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warksclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:45 am
Been out since early Jan I believe-does he not need some gametime with the U-21's before being thrown in

I'd love to see him on the bench vs Rovers, even if he's only 70% fit. In the perfect world we're 2-0 in front with 10 minutes to go and he gets an Ewood cameo we can all enjoy.

jlup1980

We can’t win every game . Reading wasn’t the best game but important in the unbeaten run Personally 26 games unbeaten 100+ points Beating the **** twice Will do for me No need to be greedy This post highlights how incredible this season has been. Imagine asking for these things at the start of the ...

jlup1980

Win the league. That's the only thing I'm bothered about. It would be a real shame to drop off in the last 8 games... not that I think we will. Obviously it would be nice to beat Rovers again but I wouldn't be concerned if we draw against them. We just need to keep the unbeaten run going. Win 4 (Rea...

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If we manage to sign the lads currently on loan then I suspect we'll focus on CM. Maybe Pep will do us a deal for Kalvin Phillips haha, him and Ward Prowse wouldn't be bad!! Harvey Barnes as well please... sorry, I've dropped into Championship Manager mode!!

jlup1980

In what way do you think it was the wrong line up? Before the game, my view was that it was a very good line up. Before the game started I questioned starting Benson, Tella and Zaroury in a 4231. You need one of the attacking three to come deeper and drop into CM and help dictate the game. For all ...

jlup1980

We will need to be much better in the next two or we could quicker be on the receiving end of two defeats. It was just the wrong line up tonight though - VK will sort it for next week.

jlup1980

Cullen wrestled their lad to the floor and the Maatsen tackle was a yellow all day long. However, he allowed them to be as physical as they wanted to be without any reprimand at all. The tackle on Tella in the 1st half looked awful from the stand. There were one or two borderline ones on Benson and ...

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Muric 6 Roberts 7 THB 4 Beyer 7 Maatsen 5 Cullen 6 Brownhill 5 Benson 5 Tella 5 Zaroury 5 Barnes 5 A very poor performance overall. VK hasn't got much wrong this season but he got it wrong tonight. I can't understand why Ekdal was dropped, unless he has a knock from International duty? JBG should ha...

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There are only positives to promotion this season, especially under VK. We might find we are received slightly differently by the likes of Klopp and Arteta now we have Kompany in charge. Our approach to games will be very different to what we saw under Dyche. We used to frustrate me at times so it's...

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I finally gave in and ordered the Deco S7 a couple of weeks ago and it's been great so far. We have Virgin broadband and it was forever dropping out when multiple devices were connected. Not had a single issue since setting these up. I'd recommend, especially at the current price. https://www.amazon...

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I’m not sure where he fits and for that kind of money I’m really not sure he is worth it. Tella has a better record and I suspect he will be cheaper than Gykores. We paid what 12m for Cornet who is considerably better. Two very different players. Cornet stood out in a rigid, almost lifeless Dyche t...

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Don’t think it’s ridiculous at all, it’s purely a list of players who could leave not necessarily saying they all will. Kompany is shown he’s capable of high turnover so I wouldn’t rule it out. You also have to factor in players could also ask for moves, peacock-Farrell and Taylor with 12 months le...

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Maatsen has been so much better defensively recently but we still need: Back up keeper / one to push muric Left back 2 cms Winger/10 Striker Players to leave Peacock-Farrell Franchi Taylor Thomas Bastien McNally (loan or sale to Coventry) Twine (loan Churlinov Jay rod Barnes (undecided if he’s warr...

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Lets be honest, we're already up. I honestly think we'd still be ok if we lost every remaining game (not a theory I'd like to test out though!!). If Boro and Luton continue at the average points per game they've had this season to date (1.73 Boro and 1.70 for Luton) then they'll end up on 80 and 78 ...

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But do we really want to foster a spirit of "you're not good enough, these lot are better, we can't win so let's not try"? If we rest the better players for City, there is every chance they'll be upset about not getting the chance which might affect their league form anyway. It's a toss up between ...

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