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You’ve got a point here though why are we allowing our best player to go on loan ? We seem to prioritise what the player wants over what’s actually good for the team .. fair enough if they meet our asking price.. but why let it happen for a poxy loan fee and saving some wages ?

Could see this also being a forward 3 if we are using bbd and Arma wide . another thing I’d say about the way we used him last season it seemed like more of a 442 but with him stuck out completely wide and Armstrong who was also isolated and is not the type of player to hold up the ball to let bbd make runs off of him .. so we hardly played at all to his strengths really. At Sheffield utd he played off a target man so they used him very differently. if we are to use him and Armstrong as wide forwards it would make a lot more sense to play downs over archer as downs can hold the ball up allowing those two chance to make runs inside.. I think it’s hard to accommodate archer into a 3

Pretty sure he played off the left at Blackburn ? I do agree about the attributes but could see him being a bit simular to how Adam Armstrong or at a real stretch jay rod played .. I’m not a fan at all by the way I just think he probably deserves a bit more chance then 4 games last season .. the drop in level could do what it does for AA let’s see

If I was still I think I’d be starting Robinson on the left he looked good there in pre season cutting in from the left, don’t think it has to be on the right or not at all and he looks excellent pre season.. Regarding Brereton Diaz I thought he was poor too last season so don’t really wanna play devils advocate here. But after loads of people was raving about the signing everyone is now totally against him on the evidence of what ? 4 premiership starts in which he was very isolated out wide ..it’s a very small sample size to give him much of a chance and also when you look at the difference between AA in the championship compared to the premier league The gulf is so huge I think it’s not out of the question that BBD could actually be very effective when dropping down level He’s done it before with Blackburn and was even decent in the premier league with Sheffield .. I’m open to seeing if the step down could make a huge difference he’s not a lost cause yet. Edozie isn’t really a team player a lot of the time but he can give us something different he takes it on himself to try and make things happen and must be a nightmare trying to defend against sometimes I think we have a nice array or options personally at this stage

Out of everyone I’d love to keep ramsdale the most. But I guess this is good news providing we do replace him and don’t end up with bazunu in goal .. most of our squad I think is decent for this level But bazunu and I don’t mean to be horrible is a absolute liability . You need to work on replacing the weak links over anything else

Not sure what people want really . On the wings in the attacking positions we have the options of AA someone who’s scored 20 plus goals in multiple seasons there,dibling can play there he’s still here, bbd wasn’t great last season but he’s also scored 20 plus playing out wide at this level . Fraser who had excellent end product last time in this league and then you still have Robinson and edozie .. all of these look decent options at championship level ? even if we sign another in that position it’s not gonna be a given they start over that bunch

Didn’t like the look of him on the you tube videos but gotta say that was a excellent run and finish great pace and composure . Another thing that looks really good for him is he didn’t really have a huge amount of starts last year so when you look at it like that he was close to a goal a game when you look at it from starts to goals which is a much fairer way of judging things ..

Totally with you on this. We have so many top level proven championship performers yet people think they are now not good enough just because they wasn’t in the premier league? .

Well we have signed shit loads of players who barely get a game look at last season the likes of bbd, Taylor etc .. so does it really matter if we take the gamble of getting a goalkeeper in early .. also it’s not like whoever we sign is gonna also be on ramsdale type wages Main point I’m making is it would be nice if we could a johannson or someone secured rather then scratching about in the last couple of days in the windows or ending up relying on bazunu when it’s super likely ramsdale won’t be here

Don’t see the big deal really we sign downs when we have plenty of other striker options .. not to mention if ramsdale wants to go its fairly obvious he will get a move as he’s pretty much a top ten premiership keeper no chance he stays. . I’d much rather get a replacement in now then end up having bazunu in goal as we left it too late that would be an absolute disaster

Biggest concern is it’s starting to feel like we are gonna end up with bazunu in goal this season ..surely we have an idea if ramsdale wants out or not ? If so might as well get a replacement sorted now instead of dithering about waiting for him to go first and leaving everything last minute ?

Give it a couple of seasons we might be

My issue with this is if he clearly is showing certain players are not in his plans wouldn’t that weaken our bargaining position on the players that don’t make the cut ? Clubs surely more inclined to take the piss with lowball offers if they know ?

Gerard pretty much echoing what I what I was saying here .. I think number ten is his best position too but he’s got such a versatile skillset he can be used in a load of positions , some of his dribbling is even a bit winger like .. we haven’t really seen much of a him as a traditional ten but that versatility is surely worth keeping him around for

Yeah who knows .. I thought physicality was one of the things they where looking for he’s certainly strong and likes to thread a pass . . I don’t think aribo was really that bad in the pl tbh considering he was getting played out of position as a centre back or in a two man midfield with neither really being the holding player .. he still had some decent games and put a shift in