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I was thinking the squad we have (before we make it any worse in the last few days if window ) is actually much better then our promotion season in my opinion ok we had kwp Adam’s and brooks but Adam’s wasn’t as good as AA anyway we had a midfield trio of downes aribo and smallbone . now we have a much better keeper in peretz Charles and jander are better then the midfielders we had that year azaz fellows and scienza obviously better too . Really do think it’s a better squad and we could really make a late push for the playoffs the teams above us are nothing special absolutely crucial we don’t make a mess of the striker situation.we started the season with AA downs Stewart and archer without knowing who’s coming in this could be down to just a made of glass Stewart soon. If we sell both AA and archer one replacement is not enough

A lot more to do with replacing bazunu with a decent keeper finally and playing a back 4. With manning also getting dropped we now looking a lot more solid . But just as things are starting to come together we will probably go and sell AA which is utterly stupid we cannot be relying on Stewart with his injury history

I get you but downes is probably the best defensive mid we have and Charles very good carrying the ball and probably our best midfielder by a mile when fit ..who would you leave out ?

Possibly our best eleven ? Peretz bree. Thb. Stephens. Wellin Downes. Charles Azaz Armstrong. Stewart. Scienza little bit harsh to leave out fellows but as said in the transfer thread arma can give you goals and assists from wide whilst fellows doesn’t score .. you could put in fellows still but feels like we actually getting close to full strength now in a formation that suits

Totally agree with this actually I think AA is better wide right then he is through the middle .. he was awesome and had close to 40 goal contributions in the promotion season fellows is a good dribbler but doesn’t seem to have goals in him a forward line of scienza. Big cf signing. AA would look superb

I guess you could argue his stats could be down due the dysfunctional football we where playing under still at the start of the season, since tonda has been here he’s on about 7 goals in 16 games so just under a goal every other game . it’s all good listing a few high scoring championship strikers but with sports republics record of recruitment you gotta say it’s a lot more likely replacing Armstrong would weaken us then strengthen us, seems more a case of worrying about player trading values then actually worrying about the results on the pitch as usual

But as a team trying to get promoted back to the premier league he is a hugely important player for us, our last full season in the championship he had around 40 goal contributions and also scored in the play off final we also spent 15 m ourselves on azaz Whilst he plays some great through balls I’d argue Armstrong is a better player at this level and also his pace and runs gets the best out of azaz. think people are drinking the fickle juice for wanting AA sold when you think of the strikers we have signed under sports republic mara (for the premier league) archer (premier league ). onuachu (premier league Stewart BBD ( premier league ). damion downs Is it really a good idea to sell a proven 20 goal a season striker to championship rivals trusting the guys who made these signings to get a better striker then Adam Armstrong ? What could possibly go wrong ?

Doubt they would drop the 15m all on a striker anyway it would just weaken us and be a total gamble as to whether they replaced him properly .. we already sold onuachu and replaced hm with Damion downs and he would have been the perfect big man everyone wants us to sign at this level.Paul is way better then Stewart and we could have really done with him in the championship

Is 15m really that much money for a 20 goal a season championship striker ? AA is pretty much guaranteed goals at this level and is versatile enough to play wide too and still score 20 a season from there .. it’s a new level of stupid if we let him go and would be writing off the season for a poxy 15 million

I think archer is actually a lot better then what we have seen of him. His finishing and technique is better then AA. His spell at boro showed he can be prolific at championship level but with us he just gets the odd start here n there or his minutes are coming from the bench . If he was at a club that’s starting him every week he will score goals

With all the doom and gloom of late 4 points from those two games is a start, charles is a big player for us .. providing tonda doesn’t mess around with the back four I think the team will start to look good

Bree and wellington look really solid and big upgrades at fullback. with Charles coming back into the reckoning and azaz and fellows now being freed up I to play their proper positions I think we could see another run of good form

Referee was definitely letting a lot go and it was turning into a pretty vicious match with rash tackles flying in everywhere at 1-0 up I guess you just want to see it out and not end up with players out injured. Not a tonda fan at all but don’t think he did much wrong today tbh without the freak equaliser there wasn’t much to moan about

That means nothing really though as the majority of the other managers where managing in the premier league which obviously would bring the win percent right down

Think there was pretty much zero chance they was ever gonna exercise the option to buy . 8 million for a keeper would be super expensive for stoke and when you factor in how shit bazunu is it’s not like he was ever gonna be worth that .. we should have just lowered the price and got him gone or with obligation to buy at a lower price

Thought we look a lot more secure with him in goal. Very important upgrade might actually stop leaking goals at every chance for the opposition now

Na they are probably just waiting around until other deals get done so others materialise . We are never quick in transfer windows we always wait right until the end trying to look for value

Isn’t he not even training with the first team now though? I wouldn’t say no chance it’s totally the sort of thing we would do and they might be more open to it towards the end of the window if nothing else materialises

Have a feeling we will bring back ward prowse in another Walcott lallana Roseau way .. wouldn’t even want him back personally he doesn’t even score free kicks any more

Spors was meant to be dragons attempt to clean up the mess from previous mistakes but his head should be rolling already. So many idiotic decisions that just don’t make sense, there’s chatter about the ex Martin players being toxic yet the first thing he dioes is reward jack with a new contract, the others are still played regularly by tonda so nothing being done about that The manager choices have been a absolute mess and after already making one bad appointment with will still why would you go and take a crazy gamble on a manager with zero experience ? This really isn’t the fucking time to mess about with experiments these decisions needed to be correct it doesn’t seem to matter how sports republic shuffle the boardroom deckchairs the decisions remain consistently terrible

It’s actually weird to me why the fans wouldn’t want to fully protest .. surely you can miss one game for the greater cause? If we want change we must do what we can

A lot of the better performances under him was decent counter attacking with quick breaks. It seems a combination of teams not letting that happen to them and sussing that out and now we are doing the total opposite and it’s back to the slow passing around he backline. I’m not sure tonda really has much of a plan at all though tbh even when we where looking good a lot of it was more inspired by scienza being in killer form

Sports republic preparing a new 4 year deal as we speak

That good period was muchdown to cortese his decisions his appointments, when the club is run well from the top the rest follows .. even the Koeman period which some tend to discredit cortese with cos we improved, a hell of a lot of carry over was obviously still there the likes of Mitchell’s scouting combined with Koeman, les reed a great squad and decent assets all remained. Yes we did a goodjob replacing the likes of lallana lambert and pochettino. But its at least oartly still down to the cortese men left standing making those decisions I wouldn’t give much credit to kat and Krueger at all and since that we have just had one bunch of unambitious jokers after the other

Think it would probably be in our interests to offer him a new contract to be honest . He’s a guaranteed goal scorer at this level and even if we go up would then be better resale value if we wanted to cash in there is always gonna be a market value for such a prolific championship striker as long as he has time on his contract