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morninbob wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 7:07 am
We now have the midfield personal to play 433

Cullen Luis Les
Loum Lyle Anthony

Agreed. There seems to be a numbers of posters obsessed that we need to play a ‘10’. There are other teams that play 3 in midfield without a ‘10’.

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If we were linked with Mikautadze, you’ve got to think that we’re in for another forward….

Centre half, midfielder (hopefully Luis) and another forward/number 10 required - 3 players. All need to be better than we currently have. No need for squad fillers - we’ve got a big enough squad already!

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If we sign Luis, I think Hannibal will be the one for the chop from our starting 11. I love how he gets opponents backs up and that will come in useful over the season, but I expect we'll play Ugochuckwu further forward with Cullen and Luiz sitting. As I’ve cited on another thread, they can all pla...

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We were awful in the first half - second half we were good. In fact, we improved immeasurably when Hannibal went off. Some of the high scores for attacking players are baffling when they literally did nothing for half the game… Dubravka 8 Walker 5 Ekdal 6 Esteve 7 Hartman 5 Cullen 7 Ugochukwu 7 Hann...

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Beckm0 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 29, 2025 9:31 am
And 3 years ago, we were first linked in Kompany's first window. He's been a repeated target for a number of years.

3 years ago for €4m…….

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Murger wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:16 pm
If we sign Luis, where does he fit in if our starting midfield is Big Les and Cullen?

Why can’t all 3 of them play together? Look at Newcastle, for example. Their midfield 3 are considered ‘number 8’ but they all play in the same team.

Also could play a 5-3-2 with Anthony taking the RWB role.

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Weiss 6

Sonne 6
Worrall 7
Humphreys 6
Pires 7

Edwards 5
Laurent 6
Ramsey 6
Tchouna 7

Flemming 5
Broja 5

Tuanzebe 5
Barnes 6
Banel 7

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Very important psychologically to be outside of the bottom three after spending ALL season there last time. And being mid table having shown we can win at this level (albeit v a promoted team) should help to encourage new signings this week. Fingers crossed we can bring the 2-3 quality players in th...

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The food offering is quite appalling - especially when you compare it to other clubs. Why they can’t offer something as simple chips/french fries and big pizza slices, for example, is ridiculous. The awkward 12pm-2pm kick off slots (of which there’ll be many this season) are surely the times when mo...

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Dubravka 7 Walker 8 Ekdal 8 Esteve 7 Hartman 7 Cullen 8 Ugochukwu 7 Hannibal 7 JBL 6 Anthony 8 Foster 7 Sonne 6 Laurent 6 Special mention to Worrall for his cameo today. Another who has been written by many…. He showed fantastic leadership and helped to marshal the defence through at the death. He’s...

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Will be interesting to see how he does. Hopefully he gets a lot f game time and someone can coach some sort of improvement.

No doubt he will get better each passing week with some on here during his time away when we’ll undoubtedly be struggling but personally I don’t think we’ll miss him at all.

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Genuine question: how long does Parker get if we go on a significant winless run? Based on last time around in the PL and the owners learning from previous mistakes which has been mentioned a few times. (This is not me suggesting we sack Parker before anyone replies with that - just after some thoug...

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Our lads were struggling as a team to keep the ball when playing out from the back. Probably a mixture of a lack of being drilled to where they should be and a lack of fitness. They couldn’t keep the ball after they equalised and the result was they couldn’t get out of their own third retaining poss...

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Yes. I'd also be tempted with Foster and Broja up top. We need to score goals and occupy defenders. Yes, agreed…. Said this to my dad earlier. When Dyche played 442 he said he liked to play two up front because it’s unusual for defenders to have to play up against two forwards and it changed the fe...

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For large parts today the team didn’t look well enough drilled in this shape and some layers looked a little lost and confused as to where they needed to be. Too many weren’t involved enough and completely ineffective. Hopefully a back four next week.

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Dubravka was steady today. There are other members of that starting XI who’s position should be questioned before him.

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Poor officiating today. Reminded me what it’s like with officials at this level when we come up against bigger clubs…. He doesn’t want to upset them.

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Dubravka 6

Sonne 4
Walker 6
Ekdal 5
Esteve 5
Hartman 5

Cullen 6
Laurent 4
Hannibal 4
Anthony 6

Foster 6

Ugochukwu 6
JBL 6

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Ric_C wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 10, 2025 3:48 pm
Bournemouth spending £35 million on a player

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/195 ... Jl60w&s=19

Direct replacement for the lad, Zarbarnyi, who is off to PSG for £45m.

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 09, 2025 4:37 pm
Our set pieces have been disgusting.

Says everything when we have Cullen and Pires taking our set pieces. We’ve not had anyone to deliver a ball since JBG left us. Only person who has come close to having a good dead ball delivery in his fleeting appearances is actually Tresor.

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So because Ekdal played a poor pass to Hannibal (who wasn't in a position to receive the ball, while better options were available to Ekdal) its Hannibals fault. Come on now... As for Hannibal not trying to get his team mate out of the ****, it was Hannibal that tackled back and left a Lazio player...

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How can you say Hannibal culpable, it was an uncharacteristically shocking pass by Ekdal sold Hannibal short, then Ekdal showed his lack of reaction and speed to get back and blatantly pushed the lazio player. I think that passage of play highlights where Ekdal may struggle this season. He's usuall...

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Saved!!

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Terrible play from us, that. Ekdal and Hannibal culpable.

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First half ok. We are very pedestrian, though. Lazio much better at retaining the ball than we are. We can sometimes make it look like it’s quite hard work to keep the ball.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 09, 2025 3:51 pm
No goals but enjoyed that half. Thought we looked well coached. Foster showing his talent, Hartman impressive. Swap Ugochukwu for Laurent, and Dubravka for Hladky, and that’s the 11 for Spurs, I’d say.

I wouldn’t have Sonne near the starting XI next week.

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Hedontplayforyou wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 08, 2025 8:49 pm
Pretty sure CT alluded to a kit being in the Wolves mould a few weeks back.

It’s definitely nothing like a Wolves kit.

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What’s not to like is the squad size and that area of the pitch, his strongest position (I don’t think he’s anywhere near as effective on the left) in particular, has 3 players, who just signed, already. Broja also plays there for country, so possibly 4. I think it would be absolutely mental adding...

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Can someone tell me which of Edwards, Larsen and Tchaouna you’d ship out, for Tella? Assuming we’d sign him, his position is inside right wing / forward like those above, and you’d think he’d have to play… so who goes? Obviously having 4 players for 1 position would be very silly, like it was last ...

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Clough, one of the worst for telling stories about others when he was on the after dinner circuit. When I saw him he absolutely tore into Gary Birtles and, in particular, Justin Fashanu while launching an attack on our former chairman Bob Lord who had only weeks before passed away. I think there’s ...

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I wonder if Tella could be an achievable loan deal…..

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I’m assuming (and hoping) there’ll be a regular video stream for those that either don’t own a VR headset or choose not to watch in this way.

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All made up and over-exaggerated. It’ll make him a few more quid when doing his after-dinner speaking. A bit like Dean Saunders who sadly adds parts to stories about Brian Clough during his battle with alcoholism to make the story ‘funnier’.

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Just pulling your leg…. You were critical of our medical and recruitment teams with regard injured players. I’m all good with that, DC….but not sure if you’re getting me mixed up with someone else? I’m happy to be corrected but can’t think of a time where I have posted anything critical on this mes...

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DCWat wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:33 pm
Hope you’re alright, Jakub, wherever you are. I know that you’ll be struggling with this, based on his medical record

All good, thanks DC. You’ve lost me a little…..?

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:13 pm
Sky sports.

Ah, thanks. I don’t have access to SSN where I am at the moment.

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Where are you getting those figures for Broja from?

The only figure that’s been out there up until now is ‘£20m deal’. I appreciate that’s the overall package but haven’t seen anything on social media quoting the £10m or £15m mentioned above.

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I’d imagine they’d be an option/desire to extend beyond a year if both sides are keen at some point. I wouldn’t be too confident of Dubravka’s desire to extend. He was on the verge of a move to Saudi just over 6 months ago with huge, life-changing wages. If there’s a similar option on the table for...

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I wouldn't have wanted any longer, we've already signed the long term keeper, who now has a season to develop I think a keeper brought in with medium term thinking wouldn’t have been a bad thing. It’s all very much reliant on Weiss kicking on. If he doesn’t, it will have to be addressed again in 12...

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Experienced, better with his feet than Trafford and ultimately won’t let us down. A smart signing. But very short term…

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GetIntoEm wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 06, 2025 11:43 am
We don't need Mee, let it go.

Broja will be announced by end of the week. I heard all done and dusted. Medical done

If all done and dusted why the end of the week?

Is this from the same source that told you Egan-Riley had signed?

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Brownhill could be trusted to knuckle down in the Champ and lead the squad. Hamer definitely can't. We'd probably be stuck with a sulker on high wages if we went down. No thanks Hamer came across as a pretty good leader/talisman for Sheff Utd last season and had a great season. His goal return wasn...

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randomclaret2 wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 05, 2025 12:24 pm
Just my opinion, but I dont think Hamer is Premier League quality. Outstanding in the Championship certainly but we have enough who fall into that bracket in our squad already.

Could be a good Brownhill replacement then.

Grafts, presses well and can play. He wouldn’t be a terrible signing.

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Not sure about that. I’d say we are much stronger defensively now which is the basic foundation on which any form of successful season (for us) would be built on. We had a more flair and a better attacking set-up last time, but that was always likely to be exposed in a league several levels above. ...

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The prevailing wisdom on this board seems to be that 2 years ago Kompany 'ripped apart' the team that won promotion, thus ensuring our relegation before a ball had been kicked. Over the corse of this summer I think I've seen every one of our players other than Estève being dismissed as not being go...

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I still think we could do with more creativity/pace. Edwards and Anthony are quick but not lightening fast. A Tella or Doak from Liverpool type signing would fill this void. Also another midfielder who likes to have possession. A Berge type. There’s going to be numerous outgoings and it wouldn’t sur...

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Pearcey wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 05, 2025 11:29 am
Wasn’t there a PSR problem? Needed to sell Trafford to be able to buy?

No, I don’t think that was the case.

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Would love this to be Mason Mount but not sure there was much substance to those rumours Mount would be insane…but I think he’s levels above us still unfortunately and if he left Man Utd would end up at a better team than Burnley. There are some good creative footballers out there though and we sti...

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Bacchus wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 04, 2025 12:50 pm
Maybe some of us have watched him play instead of trying to form a opinion based purely on stats?

Oooh….be careful saying things like that. Some posters don’t like “the old ‘I’ll base my opinions on actually watching rather than stats’ view”

I completely agree with you though btw.

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Based on the 4-3-3 we played against Stoke, Hannibal isn’t a number 10, especially in the prem. we have the 6/8 sorted now but I think we are crying out for a creative 10 I agree. If not specifically a ‘no 10’ the certainly a ball playing midfielder who can make things happen. Still have two domest...

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