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Wow, probably England's greatest ever right back, you've got to be excited about that. Would be a massive boost to the players, just in case they need one.

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I think the problem is that because PL teams are so much stronger than they were 5, 10, 15 years ago the promoted teams need to spend a lot more money to have anywhere near enough quality to stay up. But that means signing loads of new players, disrupting the team who won promotion and expecting new...

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Don't blame him. Strasbourg will be in Europe next season, maybe even Champions League, nice part of the world and he won't be getting battered most weeks (not a slight on us, just the nature of the PL these days).

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Maybe if Andres Iraola, Marco Silva, Thomas Frank and Oliver Glasner all reject Spurs they might consider Parker. Not very likely though is it.

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He hasn't been pulling up trees recently but Broja would give us some presence up front. Maybe Lokonga as well.

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No. I'm a firm believer that these things even themselves out over the course of a season.

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If we're going to talk statistics his pass completion rate was 87.5% against Wednesday, which is decent. No need to slate the guy.

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Very harsh decision. Still got one of the lowest wage bills in the division, I doubt anyone else will take them higher than midtable.

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For comparison 12 points from the next 8 games would get us to the same total Kompany had at that point. So for me anything over 15 would be fantastic.

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burnley007 wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 29, 2024 2:58 pm
Why the loans????

Maybe it's some weird accounting trick. Defer the payment until next year and the books look different. I don't know if it applies to us but sometimes clubs do it to meet FFP rules.

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So many drama queens on this site. We're going to end this window with one of the 2 strongest squads in the division so what are you all worrying about? Just relax and enjoy being one of the big boys in the league, we won't always have it this good.

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Thanks, nice extra digging. I wonder why it calls out League One and Two clubs and not Championship, where it mentions the summer transfer window? And then I question why the PL didn’t have him as homegrown last season. Probably just an oversight. In the PL you only need 8 home grown players in the...

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Reckon I’ve figured it out, he signed for Bristol City on 5th August, they’d already played a game (the day before) by that point, so technically it’s not the ‘entire season’! According to the EFL Handbook: ‘Home Grown Player’ shall mean a Player who irrespective of his nationality or age, has been...

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Pickford
TAA Stones Guehi Gomez/Konsa
Mainoo Rice
Saka Foden Gordon
Kane

Swap the fullbacks, Walker looks knackered and Trippier is a bad fit at left back. Drop Bellingham, he's been awful the last two games and I'm not sure him and Foden can play together.

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I'd ditch the 4231 and go back to the 433 we played in Qatar with Bellingham playing deeper and Gallagher playing the Henderson role. Then bring in Gordon for Foden to keep the width.

Pickford
Walker Stones Guehi Trippier
Bellingham Rice Gallagher
Saka Kane Gordon

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We're going to have one of the two best squads in the division along with Leeds, so as long as we appoint a decent manager our chances of finishing top two or winning the play-offs are pretty good. I'd say promotion is more likely than not.

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Keep as much of the squad as possible, other than those whose contracts are ending. Hopefully not much chopping and changing this time.

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I have a feeling Sheff Utd might get something. Just relegated teams often get weird results, once the pressure's off.

I fancy Forest to beat Chelsea at home the week after though.

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He’d do incredibly well at a side like Brighton, his coaching is made for better technical players. Not easy getting some of our awful technical players to play football, you can lead a horse to water and all that… Did anyone think Lewis Dunk or Solly March were technically brilliant before De Zerb...

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Foster and Amdouni?

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He's not suited to a team who have loads of possession. Play on the counter and give him balls to run onto and he'll do alright but he's never going to be the kind of striker who drops deep and recycles possession.

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I'm pretty sure we had 10 English starters a few times during Dyche's first PL season, with just Arfield or Vokes being the exception.

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People on this thread singling out Trafford, Vitinho, Ekdal, Berge, Brownhill, Ramsey and Amdouni... a sure sign that the manager's to blame, not the players.

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Firstly, the season still has 17 games left. Second, Norwich under Farke? Burnley under Dyche? Just two examples off the top of my head. Ask Norwich fans if they wish they’d kept Farke. We didn't do anywhere near this badly under Dyche. What was it, 33 points? Farke fair enough he won promotion aga...

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I’d much rather we had another crack at the Championship with a manager that has got us promoted already, to one that hasn’t. Fair enough but you should be prepared for it to fail. You can't have a season as bad as ours without losing the dressing room to some extent. Faith in Kompany's methods wil...

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If only Kompany had a track record of turning things around at Burnley before. Totally different situation. A new manager turning things around happens all the time. An existing manager turning things around after a season as bad as ours is almost unheard of, I can't think of a single example of it...

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Yep, Kompany is out of his depth and anyone who thinks he's going to turn things around at Burnley is kidding themselves. The only question is whether he gets sacked now, in a few weeks/months, or when we're struggling in the Championship next season.

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A great journalist in lots of ways but his views on Putin, Assad and Milosevic were questionable, to put it mildly.

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We currently have 11 points from 19 games. There have been 17 times a PL team has had that many points or less at this stage. Here's how they finished: 93-94 Swindon 20th 95-96 Bolton 20th 99-00 Watford 20th 99-00 Sheff Wed 19th 04-05 West Brom 17th 05-06 Sunderland 20th 06-07 Watford 20th 07-08 Der...

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Massive win and also one of our most Dychian performance under Kompany. 34% possession, 0.51 xg, only 7 shots, more of this please.

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Impossible to say but they won't be for long if we don't start winning games. When the manager is saying "keep doing x and the results will come" and it doesn't happen the players will inevitably lose a bit of faith.

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gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:13 pm
We won’t go down with sub 20 points

On current form we would. But even if we make it to 25 points when has any team ever done that badly, kept the manager and bounced straight back? It doesn't happen. You can't lose that many games without also losing the dressing room.

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"I think fans who expect us to walk the championship again are going to be in for a nasty shock" why? Because no PL team has ever gone down with sub-20 points, kept the same manager and been promoted, nevermind walked the league. You can't lose 75% of your games one season, change nothing and then ...

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"we still managed to create chances"

Not particularly. 0.9 xG at home, compared to 1.5 xg for Everton. They had the better chances and deserved to win.

"the game was decided by the set plays"

And the first set play came after we gave the ball away playing out from the back. Again.

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It's sad to say this but things aren't going to get better with Kompany in charge. His style of play fundamentally doesn't work with these players in the PL. You can't expect to score every goal with a short passing move, starting in defence and ending with a tap in in the opposition box. We're not ...

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I'd have him back in a second. If anything our defence would be under less pressure with him in the side because we'd give the ball away less.

Unfortunately can't see him being interested while we're deep in the relegation zone.

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I imagine they're thinking can we attract a decent manager while bottom of the league, and if not how bad do things have to get before we give Bellamy or Jackson a go.

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No such thing. If we hadn't been promoted we would have had to sell Benson, Brownhill and/or Zaroury and would have been even further from PL ready. The sooner the better, always.

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A point a game from now on would give us 30 points. I think that's doable, can't see us getting any more than that.

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Trafford
Roberts O'Shea Beyer Taylor
Berge Brownhill JBG
Redmond Rodriguez Amdouni

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I think his best position is fairly deep but with the freedom to get forward a lot. Similar to Yaya Toure or Pogba.

In the PL that probably means playing him in a midfield three with two other players who can cover for him.

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From the BBC: "Former Belgium and Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini, 35, is a free agent after leaving Chinese club Shandong Taishan."

40 goals in 114 games in China. Knows Kompany. Doesn't suit out style at all. Make it happen!

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No Muric is a shame but apart from that I don't hate it. A midfield three of Brownhill/Berge/JBG could work with Brownhill as a ball-winner and the other two getting further forward. And having Rodriguez to play off might help get the best out of Amdouni. Cautiously optimistic.

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Muric
Vitinho O'Shea Al-Dakhil Taylor
Brownhill Cork Cullen
Redmond Foster Zaroury

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Good article. The saving grace for me is that we look like doing the hard bit - scoring in the Premier League most games. Many teams put in shocking displays and don’t have a sniff. We have the second lowest XG in the league and are averaging less than a goal a game. We don't create anywhere near e...

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The only point that matters is that we stuck with a manager through his first PL season and it wasn't the end of the world. We've got a good thing going with Kompany, and it'd be foolish to give that up. I think it depends how you go down. Under Dyche we gave it a good go, fought hard and went down...

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We've been in this exact situation with Dyche and a few years after it we got in Europe. Not to say it'll happen again, but we have recent memory of why the word 'failing' might not be the best word to use here. Sure but by Dec 2nd we'll have played 14 games, at which point Dyche was level on point...

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I'd give him five games (until after Sheffield Utd on 2nd Dec) and if he's not within 3 points of safety I'd make the change.

I don't believe for a second it will come to that but if it does there's no point sticking with a failing manager because of what he did in the Championship.

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We're still trying to be a passing team, we're just not good enough to do it in the PL where teams are more physical and press us rather than sit back.

Watch the first half today and we were clearly trying to pass it out from the back, it just didn't work at all.

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