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MikeyBoro

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  1. Agree. We need a Rodri-type, and against the stronger sides go 4-3-3, with a DM behind Hackney and Barlaser.
  2. Crooks is our Marouane Fellaini. Great at getting a crucial goal, and decent enough at linking up the play in the midfield, but never in a million years a striker.
  3. Sat in the pub with a Coventry fan. Thinks 2-0 is harsh on us and we haven’t been that bad. Said Rogers looks class.
  4. We look like relegation candidates here, worrying
  5. If we’re going anywhere this season we need a proper number 10 to replace Akpom. Every attacking play is breaking down with Crooks and Rogers.
  6. We need Engel and Lath is in as soon as possible.
  7. I wonder if it’s going to be 4-3-3 with Crooks in the right-central midfield role, we know how well he links up with Jones on that side from when he used to play there for Wilder. Coventry won the midfield battle in the playoffs so it could be an attempt to swing it in our favour. Jones also did well at their ground in the first leg, so makes sense to start him.
  8. Amdouni reportedly cost Burnley upwards of £15m with a similar record in the Swiss League, albeit across more than one season and a couple of years younger, but seems a fair price to me.
  9. Also I don’t think we NEED to score the same amount of goals as last season to get promoted. We only scored 63 when we went up in 15/16. Play styles and tactics change, maybe we will be more defensively solid this season. I don’t understand the fixation of needing to ‘replace’ a certain number of goals from last season, it’s a points target we need to go for, not goals. We scored 84 goals last season and didn’t go up, so why do we need to try and replicate last season exactly? In my opinion we need to get over this idea that we’ve ‘lost’ a certain number of guaranteed goals from thi
  10. It’s not 70+, but Brentford lost 53 goal contributions from the previous season from just two players (Watkins and Benrahma) in 2019/20. Not sure if their other sales amounted to 70+. Guess what happened the next season 😄
  11. Archer was playing in a much more attacking team though. I’d be interested to see how many 2014/15 Bamford would’ve scored for us last season - certainly more than 17 in my opinion.
  12. Something I noticed whilst watching the Burnley vs City game… Was just thinking their striker, Amdouni, has looked lively so decided to look at his previous record/where they’d signed him from. He had a very similar scoring record to Latte Lath last season in the same league: Latte Lath 31(21) games played, 14G 3A Amdouni 32(23) games played, 12G 4A Obviously goals aren’t everything but might give us a bit of an indication as to the quality of player we are getting - Kompany obviously trusts Amdouni to play in the PL, so let’s hope Latte Lath is of similar quality.
  13. Selling Akpom feels like the right thing to do for the club. He was brilliant for us last year, gave the fans renewed optimism, no doubt made the club loads of extra money in ticket sales by contributing to the attacking football we played last season. And now we are going to make a fairly substantial profit on a player we would’ve happily let go for a minimal fee last Summer. It’s now time to reinvest the cash we will bring in to try and find the next Akpom (unless he’s already here - Silvera/Rogers?). It’s something we’re going to have to get used to as a fan base. I’m personally just g
  14. The positive we can take is that (hopefully) only one of the the back five will be part of our regular defence this season. Glover McNair Lenihan VDB Coulson vs Dieng Smith Lenihan Fry New LB
  15. Team for Coventry: Dieng McNair Lenihan Fry Coulson Howson Hackney Jones McGree Silvera Forss but think Carrick will have Rogers in instead of Jones, with Forss on the right. Maybe with Barlaser staying in.
  16. I think the risk we have in following the Brentford and Brighton model is that unlike both of those clubs, we have had a moderately successful last 25-30 years in comparison, with plenty of top flight seasons, European football, some world class players and silverware. This places an expectation in many fans minds as they are desperate for us to once again reach that perceived baseline of premiership football. Therefore, there is probably a lack of patience and long term vision from the fan’s perspectives - simply being a top half championship club and challenging for the play offs every
  17. To be clear, who you think we are signing, not who you want us to sign !! 🙂
  18. Let’s take bets on who the medical was today. Im going Alfredo Morelos, free agent and been linked with championship move in the last few days.
  19. I think we need to stop giving so much weight to player’s goal scoring records at previous clubs. Time and time again it has been shown to mean very little in this division. Reminder that Viktor Gyokeres scored 3 goals in 30 games in his first Championship season. Players who have the right attributes (which I believe King does) will score goals if played in a good team with a good system (which we have). I won’t use the Chuba example again but he really isn’t the outlier in terms of players with previously unremarkable goal scoring records going on to have fantastic championship se
  20. I don’t know loads about Stewart so if I’m way off the mark here apologies - but could he be the replacement for the Akpom role rather than as striker, if Akpom leaves? Akpom was never really a classic number 10, does Stewart have similar attributes? If we could get somewhere between £12-18m for Akpom and sign Stewart for £3m + bonuses that is surely good business and fits the new model?
  21. Dieng is probably a top 10 keeper too, and I’m not sure you’d find 10 right backs in the league better than Smith.
  22. There seems to be some real quality coming over to the Championship from the Eredivise at the moment. Millwall signed Zian Flemmimg for a low fee last season who did really well, now Coventry signing Van Ewijk, and they obviously signed Gustavo Hamer from the Eredivise a few seasons ago. Lets hope that Van Den Berg and Bangura live up to expectations.
  23. Barlaser and Hackney were class against Real Betis, definitely our starting pair this season.
  24. I completely agree, watching Hackney and Barlaser dominate a midfield involving Portuguese international and Euro winner William Carvalho was an absolute joy yesterday. They didn’t keep it up for the whole game but before Smith’s injury we were all over them in midfield. Anyone feeling pessimistic about next season should focus on the real quality, like Hackney, McGree, Lenihan, Barlaser and Forss, we already have at the club. Hackney in particular will thrive under Carrick this season. He could be a £15-20 million player this time next year, particularly if he breaks into the Scotland s
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