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Our problem has been, on so many occasions, that we created the perfect storm of buying very ordinary players and putting them on ridiculous contracts, lumbering ourselves with said highly paid duffers for the entirety of their contracts as we slide down into mediocrity. I mean who signs Bertrand, Vestergaard or Wout Faes when you're chasing Champion's League? If we had pushed the boat out to sign top quality players with the lure of high wages that would have been a different scenario.

Exactly! The lack of patience we show for developing talent is really saddening.

You sound delighted. He's not doing me any favours this week after I've just been defending him, but he is a class act, as all the evidence and stats prove, albeit one that needs to improve his distribution.

What do you mean? That is basically the job description.

James did. They're out there, I'm sure.

I thought in the summer that it wouldnt be possible to find a striker worse than Daka and Ayew, yet we did it. I should never have doubted you Rudders.

Mistakes leading to goals would drag those stats down. Double down on it if you don't mind looking foolish, but Jakub is one of the best performing keepers in the division and one of the few areas of the team that isn't a problem.

Provably nonsense. What a drama queen. Stolarcyk has the highest prevented goals conceded to xg in the division, Begovic reckons him the best in the division, third in the division for save percentage (75.7%) and ranked 5th of 24 here:https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/efl-championship-clubs-main-goalkeeper-ranked-from-worst-to-best/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOn0i9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeg0UR67BIus1t92yCxVbjHHlDV3zoJ5XIRIjjRFdquXmPLVKW50xXVYjwl0o_aem_bTJ0iaHbnGRB18EhgjwWVQ and only going to get better. But to your expert eye he is "league one at best".

I've come to the conclusion that this forum isn't very good at appraising goalkeepers. We certainly couldn't afford better and norcwould they come. Stick with Jakub as he develops. He is going to be a top keeper.

More tactical cowardice. Do the hard work and go in to the break with a lead and then deliberately decide to stop playing. Hand the initiative to the opposition, bend over and invite the inevitable.

Haven't watched the game, maybe he didn't have a good night but guess which keeper has prevented most goals out of all keepers in this division? That'll be Jakub Most Goals Prevented: Jakub Stolarczyk (Leicester City) has the highest "goals prevented" statistic, a metric that quantifies how many goals a goalkeeper has saved compared to the expected goals (xG) they faced. I keep saying it (and the stats appear to back me up) but he is going to be an outstanding keeper.

I would argue that we have. It's the other 40 halves that are the problem.

How can you make such an emphatic statement when there are so many to choose from?

Bold prediction. You're really sticking your neck out there.

Surely not 90k in the Championship?

Fatawu. How does it feel you won the war? Stolar-cyka you and I know.... Can you hear the drums Aluko?

Those stats are largely due to the fact that we gifted Derby the initiative by choice in the second half and played the last half hour in our own half when the game was won. I hate the tactic and we got away with it, but we outclassed Derby until we decided to declare.

Defensive subs. Marti no.

Here we go

Great tackle from Skipp. What's going on?

Nice from SKipp. Where did this running in behind come from?

Someone take Lurch to the glue factory!

Pathetic clearance attempt

Lol. How did he miss

This is beautiful!