Davefevs

I don’t want them high and wide….I want them fluid, playing close to the striker at times, playing close to their respective full-back team-mate at others, filling the whole left by the channel-running striker, etc, etc. I grew up playing 433 in junior football where the RW and LW played wide and were never closer than 30 yards from the CF. I don’t want to see that at City. I think we already see that with whoever plays wide (bar Adelakun and Palmer), and it is so easy to stifle.

Please tell me you’re writing that left to right (looking up the pitch)! ? And if you’re not, why not? ???

Or is it just reality that if a prem club comes knocking there’s not a lot you can do about it. Had it been a straight choice that Eliasson would sign a new contract if you sold Fam, I’d have been all over it like a rash. But it wasn’t. As it happens neither player wanted to sign a contract, we managed to get £2.25m for Eliasson and saved a year’s wages. In Fam’s case we blew £800k in wages and any transfer fee we might’ve got. In terms of Eliasson’s output (very good number of assists - understatement?), in terms of the influence of results when he played versus when he didn’t was no different. He didn’t make the 19/20 side better nor worse. From my point if view we played more one dimensional with him in the team that without…especially when he played RW, cutting in on his left. Statistically he assisted more per game playing LW than he did RW….I’m not sure why he continually played RW? Having said all that, I wouldn’t mind having him back. LW in a 4231….I quite fancy that.

Firstly, lots of good arguments for and against both the value and his ability / potential. 1) because some of us worry that potential might not be achieved, nor do we honestly know where the ceiling is either. 2) PL can take a punt, even at £3-5m. Of course, drive for more if you can….although according to Kid, City value him at £5m! For me it’s not his lack of goals, nor his potential, it’s more a fit to a system. He’s an off the cuff type of player. In the right team that might be perfect, but in another team it might not be. That’s where some of my concerns are. I don’t think he’s a natural wide player. He plays best between the full-back and the centre-back, and I’m not sure that’s a good fit…..with what we’ve seen from an NP system so far. That might change. Pearson has started him 7 times, used him from bench 7 times (post Boro, where he was subbed on). Re recruitment, he isn’t gonna say they’re crap either, playing Devil’s advocate? It’s obvious that “recruitment” needs to be much more than a group of data / video analysts reporting into a CEO. The data / video analysts might be shit-hot in technical skills. My big question has always been - can they interpret the requirements of the football manager to find the right players, or evaluate a player recommended as being a good fit for the system the manager wants to employ. You need more than “coding” skills to do that. In a non-football world, that’s what I do as a day job. Kinda what I’ve written above.

If we play 4231, Wilks is a player who’d fit really well. In my League One “Forwards” list on the transfer sub-forum. Different market these days. Kelly an u21 international too.

Danni was more of a “keeper” for me. ???

Yep, know what’s you mean. He’s one of those players isn’t he? Raw, oodles of potential…..but what if this is him near peak? I don’t think we are in a position to turn it down with a rebuild needed. It could mean we can hold out on bids for Bentley for example, or go that extra yard to get another player over the line. Bigger picture at play.

The worst kind ?

@Kid in the Riotyouve gone very early this window. Haven’t even had the released list yet. ???

You make a good point about the unknown market. I do expect the lack of fees paid last summer and January to continue outside of the PP clubs. Could fund 5 free transfers on £20k p.w. That will give us an advantage over some clubs we’d be competing with for the players we need to improve us.

I think both clubs are in the right ball-park, he’s in that £3-5m range imho. Few appearance based add-ons and a sell-on and I think you have to take it. I think there are players out there that will suit Nige’s team system better.

FA WSL Rules re ineligible player. What was the result of the game in question?

We signing JCH?

Who cares whether it’s an admin error? Rules are rules. When I was at Odd Down we had a lad on loan from Bath City. He played 3 games, Bath City failed to inform us of something important in the registration, and we got deducted 9 points. Plus he was crap in the games he did play. I’m guessing Birmingham have better goal difference, because ours is shocking!

The Man Utd frontline just needed to time their runs....the amount of offsides!!! I think they would’ve won 3 or 4-0 if they had. Our girls really struggled to get hold of the ball second half.

FA Player app....free

Blimey. Tough watch this.

0-0 at ht

Fordy or Robbored

13-8-5 in Lg1.....still a good record though. I said that when took over, playoffs was minimum expectation, and I’m pretty sure he will deliver that. Tick in the box. But I bet he had sights on autos after the good run. Still on, but bit of nerves....and playoffs, they are there to be shot at.

I find it hard to believe / understand how this didn’t warrant an investigation when they submitted predicted accounts last March.

Thanks.

I read some stuff recently that COVID losses re impairment was more around you sold a player for £2m that would’ve been worth £6m pre-COVID, and that you had to prove you’d had a £6m offer pre-COVID. However it comes as no surprise that clubs might try to use for impairment in the amortisation area. However I’d question the validity when Stoke’s accounts are for summer 2020, when COVID impacts were much less, were expecting revenues to be restored this season etc etc. It seems as if they’re trying to pull a fast one. I suspect some of the asset value is COVID, but I suspect the larger part is a sustained spell in this division and players proving they weren’t as good as the transfer fee (and therefore amortisation profile) they paid.