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I respect everyone has different views on how they want the game to be played but it really confuses me how so many people found Enzo’s football boring. I just don’t understand how you don’t enjoy watching your side be the superior team in pretty much every game.

Daka is good enough for the Championship, but we need another option in terms of a different profile of striker too.

The level Rodgers got out of the players when he first came in and in 19/20 shows how much Puel underachieved in 18/19 with that team.

Same as we probably will be next season…

The 19/20 pink kit looked great - hopefully this one lives up to that.

Another American player that’s also good is Diego Luna

Feel like Souttar will only really ever be a good option in a low block with his lack of pace as well, or as part of a back 3 surrounded by pace.

It’s not just about goal contributions, though. In Enzo’s system the wide players were really wide, job was to beat their man and then the goals would come a lot from overloads in central areas in the pitch. You can see Mavididi’s quality by eye. We become significantly weaker out wide without him.

Criminally underused this season. Should’ve started near enough every game he was available for.

It’s also 30 years since we had this away shirt… (listed as green/navy)

Burnley in the Championship were higher pressing than they/Everton were in the Premier League, and Rohl goes deeper and more direct against sides that are better than his Sheffield Wednesday team in the Championship.

Danny Rohl’s style of football in the Championship is the same as Dyche’s.

Gonna guess the away kit is light blue/dark blue half and half like we had years ago?

Later launch = more kit sales in July onwards? (i.e. 25/26 financial year)

Club must have hopes he can be a late bloomer. He lost roughly 2 years or so with his injury so development wise he’s probably back where someone at 19 would be.

I could have sworn Braybrooke made his debut about 3 years ago in the cup?

Jack McGlynn if Bilal goes.

How is there a world where Liverpool are bidding £113m for a player and we aren’t allowed to give Vardy a new contract

The further we get away from that season the more it becomes harder to think that it actually happened

But coaches it a lot worse and without many effective attacking patterns of play. Once Latte Lath left they became blunt in attack and he couldn’t work out ways to get them to score enough goals - the old tactic was get the ball into the box by almost any means after building out from the back and he’d put it away.

I’m convinced from some of these suggestions that people haven’t actually watched any of Middlesbrough, Southampton or Sheffield Wednesday in the last 2 years. Absolutely baffles me who the popular choices are on here.

With a 6 points deduction I’d still be expecting top 4. Ideally top 2, depends how good Southampton, Ipswich and Sheffield United are next season.

The complete opposite, in fact. I watched lots of Southampton under Martin and his style suits the current squad down to the ground in the Championship (the Premier League a completely different matter, but we need to get promoted first). We don't have a squad for direct football, and we aren't going to be playing on the counter away at Pompey and Oxford. They'll be sitting deep trying to get us to break them down. Same as those in favour of Rohl have never watched Sheffield Wednesday play under him. They see a young German manager and think exciting gegenpressing football, which couldn't be further from the truth. They've set up with 5 at the back, or two banks of 4, and lumped it up to a big man with Windass and Gassama running off of him for 90% of the season. It's been effective for them but it's not what we need (and not for several million £s, either.)

Why? There’s loads of managers out of work that won’t cost us multiple millions of pounds whilst playing a system that doesn’t suit our squad. I’d rather have a ‘lesser’ manager in the eyes of many that suits our side more.

Fatawu on the left and Bobby Reid on the right whipping balls into Ayew and Carlton Morris