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*£5m

Thankfully European clubs can't buy English-based players until they're 18.

El Khannouss gets 2 assists from set-pieces last week, but Ayew is taking corners 🙈

I feel like he is. Also his best season in senior football came during the lockdown season in 20/21 with Lille, when they beat PSG to the league title. He clearly just can't perform in front of crowds. Maybe he needs a sports psychologist 😂

Just announced

This article is from 2024??

0 goals, and 0 assists in 17 Championship games last season 😳

A quick Google search suggests Brownhill turned down a new contract at Burnley, and is linked with Fiorentina, Everton, and West Ham. So basically we stand no chance.

Vestergaard bombing down the wing

Souttar maybe you're thinking of?

He's a good signing. We need at least one keeper (two, if we sell Hermansen), and he's a free agent. We're not gonna find a 25 year old Prem level keeper on a free, who's willing to come to a Championship club.

I agree. He inevitably becomes a short-term, one-year appointment, no matter what happens. Either we fail to get promoted, and he gets sacked. Or we get promoted under him, and then he's the wrong man for the task of staying in the Prem. In which case, we'd need to sack him before the new season starts anyway. If we kept him for the PL, the style of play would see us in Southampton's position. On for the record low-points, top of statistics like 'Errors Leading to Chances', 'Errors Leading to Goals'. The possession game can work when you have better players than your opponent. But now every team presses as a team, it just doesn't work when you have lower-quality players.

I'd prefer a manager who can change the style of play, depending on the opposition. But saying that. If the only options are managers who are wedded to a specific style, then getting a more direct manager is the way forward, for a club in our position. Rather than a possession-oriented manager. Russell Martin may very well be able to get us promoted, but we would 100%, no doubt, with all certainty, be coming straight back down with him.

People say the style of play under Enzo would've led to the same results. But look at what happened when we played Southampton twice under Enzo, a team who wanted to dominate the ball against us. We hit them on the break for the entirety of both games, and scored 9 goals. Surely we would've seen more of that kind of tactical flexibility this season under Enzo? And people said, at the time, that the players ignored Enzo to play on the counter in those games. If that was the case, why haven't the players ignored Cooper and Ruud this season to play on the counter? We're like 20th for 'Fast Breaks' in the Prem this season.

Monga isn't on our U21 list for the Premier League, presumably because he's too young. So could only have played in the FA Cup. Would love to see Evans given a chance though!

Miles offside

It's just the one player actually

Liverpool.

Could probably do with an exorcist now 😂

I think RVN doesn't trust Facundo to defend as a RM. So he will only play him as a 10, joining the striker in a 4-4-2 defensive shape. So he's preferred El Khannouss there, with Mavididi staying wide on the left-side, and Ayew drifting infield as second 10. I maybe would've preferred El Khannouss on the left, with FB as the 10. It does mean McAteer is our only option on the right, but we could have Choudhury sitting behind him at right-back. At the moment, Justin is our only option as an attacking right-back, with Fatawu and Ricardo out injured, which isn't ideal.

Please sub off Ward Ruud 🙏

We were quite literally en-titled in 2016. By the PL, after getting more points than anyone else.

It will be. I think it's also on Radio 5 Live.

It's on the 'Sky Sports' App

El Khannouss on for Ricardo. Fatawu as the right-back. It worked against Southampton.