honeybradger

I hate to bang on the xG, xA drum but he massively outperformed in both last season. Say he reverts to 9 goals 3 assists next season would our fans be happy with that output? Only slightly better than Ndidi was for us last time in the championship and that's not even his natural game. There are just so many better, younger, cheaper players available that this transfer just doesnt make sense to me.

Sheaf is coming back from an injury. If he was available we should be all over him but he will be a starter at Coventry when fit and likely costs too much

I remember when Ryan Fraser got 7 goals 14 assists at PL level and our fans were raving about him due to his stats, ignoring everything else about him. Unsurprisingly he never reached those heights again. This is a similar situation, yes Browhill's numbers are good but the player himself is not particularly good. There's a good chance that he never recreates those numbers he got last season in the championship again, he just doesnt have the record for it. Especially considering he will be at a new club as well I just cannot see him maintaining those numbers.

Kristiansen out and Keita Kosugi in and we're laughing. Even with just Kristiansen out and we're still laughing honestly.

Case and point even Charlton who were in league 1 last season have a better 6 in Conor Coventry. Winks is seriously average and replaceable.

To get Celtic/Charlotte FC to pay up or give a better contract?

Winks and Soumare shouldnt be used as a measuring stick for any wages going forwards, their contracts are horrific. £50k a week for a known injury prone player like Stengs is still a lot.

This was always the fear when we started making good sales was that we weren't going to be any better at buying. In the short term this transfer can backfire so easily when we really can not afford for it to backfire and in the long term he is guaranteed to be injured at some point.

With Nico Paz rejecting Spurs i can see them buying El Khannouss for our asking price. Not sure who their alternative would be.

Anselmo Macnulty's contract runs out at the end of season and has started the season strongly. Would be a good purchase if we can get Faes out the door.

Conor Coventry was impressive the other day. He's the kind of midfielder we need, both comfortable on the ball and strong defensively. Technique on the shot against Stolarczyk was excellent as well. Think there's a Prem standard midfielder in there.

Stengs isnt the right option for us. 1. Injury prone 2. Not a natural 10 - with our weakness in midfield we cant have 3 wingers and Jordan Ayew in front of them. We need a 10 who can help the CMs control the game and also carry their weight in terms winning the ball back. Stengs does not offer that. Ideally we would go for someone like Titraoui or Joao Rego, natural midfielders who can stay fit and support our weak centre midfielders.

Generally it's best to leave injury prone players alone. Hopefully he ends up going to Celtic.

Our midfield are this team's biggest weakness in my opinion. Our backline has been under massive pressure in the first half of the Wednesday game, the Preston game and the Charlton game all because Soumare, Winks and Skipp do not do enough work to protect it. If i could pick two priority positions to replace it would be the two CMs actually, even ahead of striker because at least our wingers will bring goals.

Kristiansen and Faes next hopefully. Not holding out hope for one of Winks/Soumare to go but if they do this will be a very good window in terms of outgoings. Gives us a strong platform to begin the rebuild.

After them screwing us with Ayew and Edouard last season I really hope Spurs come in over the top. Although Spurs need a bit of karma as well for Winks and Skipp.

In isolation getting £10mil for Justin is a great piece of business on our end. Whether we spend it well if at all is another question.

Looks like this is moving For those saying we cant afford tk lose our 'best defender' selling Wout Faes is addition by subtraction. We will only improve by getting attitudes like his out of the team.

Gueye was one of Everton's best players last season so think they will probably want to keep him. Also at 35 and high wages this is the sort of transfer we should be avoiding.

I saw Page try it a few times and Fatawu ignored him for some reason 🤷‍♂️

Maybe it was by instruction. Very worrying if it was because we had no midfielders covering the space in front of our defence. I think he still needs to see the danger as it's happening though and reacted far too late.

I agree he did ok covering the space but we need a midfielder who wins the ball back and cuts out attacks before they become threatening.

Almost lost us the game by not tracking his man at 80 minutes, luckily Okoli was there to block it. The run down the wing was exciting but the problem with Winks is that he doesnt work hard enough off the ball. We need better than him and Skipp if we are to go up.

0 tackles, 0 interceptions, 0 blocks today.

He might be a write off sadly. Says it all when the only way to justify his ability is that he had a good loan 5 years ago.