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I'm a bit worried about Trafford give how badly Bazanu got on at Southampton. Hopefully Muric stays and there can be some healthy competition between them.

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That being said, he will limit us at premier league level in a Kompany side, he just does not have enough mastery in any one area. He is a jack of all trades in the nicest possible way. Which I think is fine in a good system. You could say the same about Milner, Henderson, Mason Mount... or even So...

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£15 million would be very reasonable compared to some other Championship signings. 2017 - Chris Wood £15 million 2017 - Britt Assombalonga £15 million 2018 - Adama Traoré £18 million 2019 - Che Adams £15 million 2019 - Oli McBurnie £17 million 2019 - Neal Maupay £20 million 2020 - Jarrod Bowen £22 m...

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"I'm told they don't really want to sell him to Burnley. So, unless Burnley can force them to reconsider that passage of thought, I think he's more likely to remain at Saints."

So Saints don't really want to sell him. Hardly news is it? Still a good chance he ends up here imo.

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Yeah I find him a bit annoying. Talks far too much and barely lets his co-commentator get a word in edgeways.

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Daft thread. If we wrote off every young full-back who made a few defensive mistakes the likes of Roberto Carlos, Marcelo, Kyle Walker, Alexander-Arnold etc. never would have made it.

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We've been linked to Bristol City's Alex Scott in recent days so I guess we're already looking at CMs.

https://www.bristolworld.com/sport/foot ... nd-4064098

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Rest as many as possible imo. FA Cup quarter finals don't come around often.

Muric
Vitinho Al-Dakhil Beyer Taylor
Cork Bastien
Dervisoglu Twine
Obafemi Foster

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Surely is Southampton go down they will nearly 100% keep him? Why sell a player that’s just scored 20 goals at this level. They have plenty of other sellable assets they can get rid of before Tella. They made a loss of £120 million in the summer, I think you're underestimating the financial pressur...

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If Southampton go down I'd be amazed if we didn't sign Tella.Their net spend in the summer was £120 million, they'll have to sell players. And Kompany will be desperate to keep him.

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They'll have all the possession but with Zaroury and Tella playing (and maybe a Benson cameo) we should have more chances than we did under Dyche. We can score a goal or two and who knows, that might be enough.

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Maybe Roberts in centre mid and Vitinho at right back?

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Starting players who aren't up to speed is exactly how teams lose to lower league opposition. Which is not to say we shouldn't start Foster but it will be a risk. No risk with Obafemi, he's clearly ready.

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BPF
Vitinho Al-Dakhil Beyer Taylor
Brownhill Cullen
Tella Twine Zaroury
Obafemi

Six changes but still a very strong team. I imagine a few or all of Bastien, Churlinov and Foster will start though.

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The problem there is absolutely no way of knowing that they won anything because of financial cheating. I agree that there may well be a connection and very probably is but I think anyone would have a hell of a time actually proving it. Probably does cut it in law. I don't think you need to prove i...

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:58 am
Muric is already ours

Huh, for some reason I thought he was on loan.

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I wouldn't have thought THB or Maatsen will be available for transfer. The next step for City/Chelsea will be to give them a loan in the PL to see whether they're up to it. I reckon Southampton will want to give Tella a go in the first team squad so he's probably off the cards unless they get relega...

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The problem with Dwight is nobody knows what his best position is. Playing on the left worked at first but defenders worked him out. Playing on the right never worked, too predictable that he was going to cut inside. Probably doesn't have the pace or finishing to play in a PL front three. I still th...

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England 2022>England 2021>England 2018.

With the next Euros only 18 months away we might as well see if Southgate can keep improving the side.

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It's a decent squad. My only issue is that Shaw is the only left-back. Not a fan of Trippier playing there. Saka can play wing-back I guess but he's much better further forward.

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Darthlaw wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:32 pm
No, you missed that Germany (who had just lost to North Macedonia, drawn with Denmark and drawn with Hungary) weren’t decent opposition at that time, as evidenced by their non performance against England.

They'd also just beaten Portugal 4-2. Funny how you missed that one out.

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Darthlaw wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:40 am
Standard Southgate tournament coming up, regardless.

Smash Iran, narrowly beat Wales and draw with USA. Beat Senegal at a canter to reach the quarters then be knocked out by Argentina.

How is reaching the quarter finals a standard Southgate tournament? His record is one semi and one final!

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No international manager is going to drop players who performed for them at the previous tournament. Joachim Low kept picking Schweinsteiger and Podolski long after they'd stopped performing at club level. Deschamps still picks Griezmann despite him struggling for his clubs. Maguire has had two exce...

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We don't create enough chances for the amount of possession we have. It's a bit sterile at times. We need a creator further up the pitch, either Twine operating as number 10 or Dervisoglu as a striker coming deep. I think we'll come good but the setup isn't quite right yet.

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ClaretLoup wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 21, 2022 4:49 pm
Conversely the opposition have had 30% possession and scored as many goals and taken as many points as Burnley.

But statistically that's unlikely to happen over the course of a whole season. If we can average 60%+ possession over 46 games history says we're very likely to finish top 6.

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I'm just enjoying it. You can't expect instant results when so much has changed but there are far more positive than negatives. We've averaged 70.6% possession so far. In the last six seasons only nine teams have averaged 60% or more and all but one have finished top six. The stats are very much on ...

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One interesting thing from yesterday was we only had 0.49 xg compared to 1.06 for Luton. While that might improve with a better striker making runs and pulling defenders out if position I think we will struggle to create chances with Brownhill and Basten in the attacking midfield roles. We miss a pr...

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Hennessey

Roberts McNally THB Taylor

Brownhill Cullen Bastien

Twine

Cornet Rodriguez

Harsh on McNeill but he could come into the side if either Brownhill or Cornet leave.

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Lets look at the Whoscored stats for last season (central midfielders, minimum 15 appearances, out of 38 players) 18th for average rating 12th for tackles per game 13th for least times dribbled past 1st for interceptions per game 7th for shots blocked per game 14th for key passes per game 19th for u...

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I wouldn't be surprised if Cornet stays. If anyone was that keen to sign him they would have already met the release clause. Maybe he'll be someone's backup option later in the window but by that point he'll be training with Kompany (who speaks French btw) and the new players so who knows what he'll...

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The Championship. If I was to guess I'd say West Brom or Bristol City.

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One factor is that clubs don't want to get stuck with a Mezut Ozil or Gareth Bale ie. an ageing player on huge wages who you can't get rid of. So players in their late twenties/early thirties aren't getting offered the big contracts they want.

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The club statement says "He was also responsible for a number of disgraceful anti-Semitic statements which were condemned by Jews at the time." What were the other statements? If he consistently made anti-semitic comments then change the name. It's only a stand. But if it's just the one incident fif...

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I heard Andy Brassell (European football pundit) talking about Kompany's time at Anderlecht. Took over at a time of total crisis for the club - haemhorraging money, selling their best players, hadn't qualified for European football for the first time in 55 years. Did an OK job in that context, finis...

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Arsenal win hopefully. Anything less and their top 4 hopes are all but over, which makes it more likely they'll capitulate v Everton on the final day.

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If they were that bothered about Leeds they wouldn't have left.

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Not exactly horrible but outclassed in the first half, pressed hard and physically dominated. But even then you could see what we were trying to do, we just didn't get enough time and space on the ball. We kept going and came back into it when Watford dropped off a bit.

Nothing to worry about.

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One more win will be enough... unless it isn't.

We just won three in a row with our u-23s manager, who's to say Everton can't go on a winning run too. Weird things happen at this time of the season.

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I think we'd probably keep everyone other than Tarks. You rarely get post-relegation fire sales these days and we don't have many players PL clubs will want to shell out for. Assuming we can get a midfielder or two in top 6 easily.

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1 goal in 37 during his last two PL seasons, so on those numbers we can expect him to contribute half a goal to our relegation fight. Sign him up!

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I don't think you can blame Dyche for targeting old pros. It was all we could afford. A young, British, prem-quality player from the Championship will cost you £20 million plus.

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I put 95% of the blame on recruitment and barely 5% on Dyche. No other manager would do any better with our limited, ageing, slow squad. He should stay until the end of the season. But if we go down with a whimper he should go. You can't win 3 or 4 games a season (if we're lucky) and then expect to ...

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92 league clubs, organised by points per game in 2021. Burnley are... 92nd

https://experimental361.com/2021/12/30/ ... gue-table/

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It's worth noting he scored 5 goals from 1.19xg which means he's scored a lot of screamers out of nowhere. Very impressive but he probably won't keep up this rate of goals.

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Looking at the stats his successful dribbles and successful tackles per game are way up on any previous season. Interceptions also up as well. Good stuff.

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Cup win definitely. Barring some miraculously shrewd transfer business over the next few seasons we're going to get relegated anyway. If it's not this season it'll be the one after that or the one after that.

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Awayfromburnley wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 29, 2021 11:45 am
Though concerned by some comments on twitter by some Lyon fans, they weren't the most complimentary

I wouldn't worry about that. Lyon were playing in the Champions League semi final last year and have France and Brazil internationals in their squad. They're operating at a different level.

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Great signing. From what I can tell he's pacy, works hard and is a decent finisher - perfect for this team.

Presumably he'll start on the right but I wonder if he'll get a chance up front at some point. Barnes and JRod look done so maybe you could play him behind Wood.

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bobinho wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:33 am
Our of respect for what?

The players for a start. They've explained why they take the knee and why they don't like the booing. Given everything that Ben Mee has given to this club why not do him a simple courtesy and stfu?

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I don't think the owners care as long as he makes the Champions League. It's all about the money.

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