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Boro vs Sunderland 2-3 (Burgzorg, Hackney)
p_mards replied to Humpty's topic in Match Day Threads 2024/25 Season
A random one... When the advertisement fabric blew onto the pitch and the two ball boys in the North Stand were too meek and shy to get it off the pitch, the older man who has sat beside me for the last 10 years complained how the ball boys were "woke"... 😂 I know people on the right of politics use it as a catch-all for everything they don't like nowadays, but come on, that's surely stretching it? -
While Doak’s injury for a few weeks is obviously bad news we’re really fortunate that we signed Whittaker just beforehand.
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WBA have supposedly accepted a £10 million bid from Everton for Tom Fellows. That's a great deal for Everton given his potential. They're selling their GK Palmer to Ipswich for £2 million also.
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I'm not surprised as he was obviously pushing for a move, anticipating PL interest, so we planned for life beyond him and had new signings ready to sign with his fee. Maybe he'll regret how he handled it in time. Though, I'm sure his huge wages at Atlanta United will be a nice comfort at least!
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Moussa Sylla looks ideal for us so hopefully he's the striker target. I fear he'll possibly be a bit too expensive though. It looks like Iling Junior is one of the 4 or 5, but the rest seem a mystery.
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It's been linked with another general threat about Mumba so the initial link has stopped working: https://pasoti.co.uk/threads/bali-mumba-to-leeds-united-or-boro.131188/page-18. The latest he said is that "I’ve been told he wants to go to boro, Boro want him and will go."
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After the news of Mumba being on the bench there's a new topic on the main Plymouth forum titled "Bali Mumba to Middlesbrough": https://pasoti.co.uk/threads/bali-mumba-to-middlesbrough.131567/. If we're looking for a RB then he's got to be at the top end of our target list. The opening poster has followed it up saying that "Mumba is leaving before the deadline, Middlesbrough have enquired". I'll monitor it incase anyone reliable says anything more about it.
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The Dijksteel to Millwall link makes far more sense after the news has broke about Lath getting sold. We'll likely be targeting an improvement at RB along with other areas like CB, CM and a striker.
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Our squad has had a malaise, complacency and mental fragility about it all season so I really don't see anything positive within the team spirit that we could disrupt by selling fringe players to make room for players that we think are improvement. Something isn't right in the dressing room so I see the departures of fringe players as an opportunity to refresh the squad and add more quality to areas where we lack it - with starting 11 signings like Whittaker, Giles and Travers already signed - so I'm really excited about what more we can add with a war chest from selling Lath. That money will help us sign top targets in multiple positions.
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After Scott arrived at the start of the 2021/22 season our strongest line up was (4-3-3): Lumley; Dijksteel, McNair, Fry ,Bola; Howson, Crooks, Tavernier; Jones, Ikpeazu, Watmore. Our bench was: Daniels; Peltier, Bamba, Hall, Morsy, Lea Siliki (loan), Payero, Hernandez (loan), Olusanya, Sporar (loan) & Coburn. Yes, it really was that awful... However, we did have Spence and Akpom out on loan because Warnock didn't rate them. And let's not forget quite how painful the football was to watch and the regular transfer disappointment due to us being backwards club that no young player with potential would want to join. Our strongest squad now in my opinion is (4-2-3-1): Dieng; Ayling, Berg, Fry, Giles (loan); Doak (loan), Morris, Hackney, Azaz; Whittaker, Lath. Our bench is: Brynn, Dijksteel, Edmundson, Borges, Barlaser, Howson, McGree, Forss, Burgzorg, Gilbert & Conway. With Coburn, Hamilton & Silvera out on loan. Long-term injuries to Lenihan, Smith and Bangura too. A lot of the bench options would walk into the 2021/22 team. There's only Tavernier in the 2021/22 team that would get into our current team - and he came through our academy so we didn't even buy him. Other than Tavernier, this team absolutely wipes the floor with that team in terms of quality and also style of play. We're now a transformed club that plays attack-mined football and is the most attractive club for young players to develop at outside of the parachute payment clubs, so we're in a very good place under Scott. If there's any criticism to be directed at anyone it's at Carrick for not making the most of the players available to him - but that's a different issue. The period of 2017/18 to 2020/21 was a downward spiral due to Gibson making the decisions. Whereas since Scott got his hands on the levers of power we've implemented a much better style of play and considerably built up our squad quality and value . Scott has been the greatest thing to happen to the club since we were last relegated in my opinion. He's made mistakes yes, but that's football. He's still done a really good job and he's the single biggest asset to the football club, aside of Gibson's unwavering financial commitment.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see us replace Clarke with a young defender in the mold of Rav van den Berg. Since Man City have signed two expensive young CB's, it wouldn't surprise me if Jahmai Simpson-Pusey is available since his pathway to the first-team is really congested. Fry and Edmundson are both 27 year old and Berg is 20 year old, so I suspect that we're looking for a young player to be our 4th choice CB. Hunt has huge potential but he's nowhere near ready to be our 4th choice CB. Ayling and Howson would rightly be preferred ahead of him at CB if we had an injury crisis at CB.
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The Burnley v Leeds match is boring me to tears... The prospect of Lath staying here and potentially front-loading some of our FFP/PSR budget into this season has led me to looking at the historic probabilities of promotion based upon league position, as it's not set out in a clear format through a standard Google search. * 3rd place (4 out of ten): Luton in 22/23, Brentford in 20/21, Fulham in 17/18 and Norwich in 14/15 * 4th place (4 out of ten): Southampton in 23/24, Nottingham Forest in 21/22, Fulham in 19/20 and Hull City in 15/16 * 5th place (2 out of ten): Aston Villa in 18/19 and Huddersfield in 16/17 * 6th place (0 out of ten) The main takeaway if we didn't know it already is that we need to start challenging the 3rd and 4th positions, even if we don't challenge 2nd place for the automatic spots.
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In the warm up goalkeeping drills on Tuesday night Dieng looked disinterested and bored with his hands behind his back watching Glover. He usually isn't like that so something was off. As a contrast Connor (3rd choice GK) was copying Fettis who was applauding and encouraging Glover when he did things well.
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As he'd only joined Shalke 04 after joining them in the summer for 2.5 million Euros and scored 11 in 18 games I initially assumed he was out of the question, but after looking at the league table they're sat in 13th so that makes it more likely - as they might want to make a quick profit to rebuild with.
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I'll throw a random name forward who plays in 2 Bundesliga. Rayan Philippe from Eintracht Braunschweig is a young French version of Michu who has 9 goals in 18 games for a team that's second bottom, which is very impressive. CrazyL heard about two weeks ago that we were after a French striker too. He's a very different to Archer and Lath though so wouldn't be like-for-like.