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Even if (Big IF) we wanted to bring back Grant we cannot, as its classed as an overseas loan and has to be for the full season.
Apparently Wallace was much better when played in his best position out on the right yesterday. Let's keep him there please CC
I don't want to move this conversation too far away from Conor, but I was looking back through our full backs from recent seasons, and there aren't many good ones, or least, few that have universally been appreciated.
Before Townsend and Furlong we had:
Gibbs - some would say lightweight in the tackle and injury prone
Ferguson - generally well rated, but left under a cloud
O'Shea - out of position and didn't offer much going forward
Holgate - generally well rated
Nyom - very up and down
Tosin Adarabiyo - out of position and not rated
Dawson - played out of position by Pulis, not good going forward
Brunt - played of position by Pulis, not enough pace
Gamboa - not played a lot
Pocognoli - not played a lot
Lescott - out of position by Pulis, a lot of ups and downs
Ridgewell - very up and down
Going back further you have the likes.of Billy Jones who people used to criticise for being a poor defender
I suppose the point is, either we have had fairly poor full backs for a long time, or, fans expect too much from full backs, including the likes of Townsend.
or certain players have a physical make-up which makes them more prone to certain types of injury.
I was told today by someone who is well connected in the game that a Nigerian billionaire is one of the parties looking at us. Apparently he has been sniffing around to buy a club for a while and has been advised that we would be one of the better bets. He could well be the other party that Lepkowski and Goldberg were referring to as a tyre kicker and it has echoes of a plot out of Ted Lasso but just thought I'd share what I'd been told.
Well he got Huddersfield into the play offs !
True but to be expected as all come down after multiple seasons in PL.
Rest of EFL getting worse and worse
For anyone who doesn't know and wants to we're currently 20th in the xg f/a table and not 7th as in the real one. Southampton are currently top with 'Valerian Ismael's Watford' in second.
https://footystats.org/england/championship/xg
Could be an interesting season for them. Pau Torres isn't a like-for-like replacement for Ming's. They don't have that aerial presence without him
Kaminski signed for Luton tonight
Swift created the most chances of any player in the league (99). Wallace created 65 chances which was the 7th highest in the league. They didn't do as badly as being made out. It's not their fault the chances they created weren't converted.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/championship/top-scorers/assists
I'd actually forgotten about Rogic...he was terrible, but he made sense as cover for Swift. We also needed to get a winger/wide midfielder be able to cover for Wallace/Phillips/Diangana so Albrighton made sense in that context. The injuries to Phillips and Diangana meant Albrighton played a lot more than was ideal.