Red Rocket 244 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I agree with the majority of the comments regarding Fischer. He's a good player with bags of potential and enthusiasm is fantastic. I'd like to see him feature now he's back from injury. Link to post Share on other sites
Tom 2,492 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd leave Forshaw out of the team for Downing if we're continuing with 3 in the middle, and leave him out for an attacking player if we're going back to 3 behind the striker. His displays were eye catching earlier in the season, but he doesn't offer enough going forward, or isn't as defensively solid as Clayton, De Roon or Leadbitter either. I just don't feel like he's currently bringing a lot to the party, and think Downing would have much more joy in that role. Link to post Share on other sites
BoroDave4 974 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd leave Forshaw out of the team for Downing if we're continuing with 3 in the middle, and leave him out for an attacking player if we're going back to 3 behind the striker. His displays were eye catching earlier in the season, but he doesn't offer enough going forward, or isn't as defensively solid as Clayton, De Roon or Leadbitter either. I just don't feel like he's currently bringing a lot to the party, and think Downing would have much more joy in that role. I don't know if it's tactics or situational but his presence and affect in an attacking sense generally seem to have been on a downward slope for a little while Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rocket 244 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd leave Forshaw out of the team for Downing if we're continuing with 3 in the middle, and leave him out for an attacking player if we're going back to 3 behind the striker. His displays were eye catching earlier in the season, but he doesn't offer enough going forward, or isn't as defensively solid as Clayton, De Roon or Leadbitter either. I just don't feel like he's currently bringing a lot to the party, and think Downing would have much more joy in that role. It's a fair comment and I agreed with your opinion on Friend on twitter too. De Roon has really come into his own and is currently first choice CM for me. Link to post Share on other sites
Smoggydownsouth 1,621 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sheff Wed offering 8mil + add ons according to Alan Nixon Link to post Share on other sites
Will 2,958 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sheff Wed offering 8mil + add ons according to Alan Nixon I'd take that, if true, take the loss and write it off as the price of getting us promotion. We can use that kind of money right now to strengthen them squad. Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,246 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sheff Wed offering 8mil + add ons according to Alan Nixon I know we'd like our money back, but it's looking increasingly likely that clubs won't just offer 10+ million for Rhodes and we may have to take a small hit. If Wednesday have indeed bid 8 million + add ons I'm sure we can reach a compromise at around 9 million + some add ons. If we need the money to bring in our own players we can't keep holding it off. We obviously shouldn't just cave in but the lad has no future here and another 6 months in the stands is going to cost around 1 million in wages alone. Link to post Share on other sites
Will 2,958 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd leave Forshaw out of the team for Downing if we're continuing with 3 in the middle, and leave him out for an attacking player if we're going back to 3 behind the striker. His displays were eye catching earlier in the season, but he doesn't offer enough going forward, or isn't as defensively solid as Clayton, De Roon or Leadbitter either. I just don't feel like he's currently bringing a lot to the party, and think Downing would have much more joy in that role. It's a fair comment and I agreed with your opinion on Friend on twitter too. De Roon has really come into his own and is currently first choice CM for me. Agreed here too, in fact I said on here yesterday that if I were to replace any of the midfielders at the moment it'd be Forshaw. Clayton is doing his job and doing it reasonably well, De Roons pressing from that kind of number 10 position is really good and often forces mistakes from teams. Forshaw is a bit too neat and tidy for me at the moment, yes he has fantastic passing accuracy and makes a lot of them but how many actually create a chance or even put us in a good position to make a chance? Link to post Share on other sites
Middlesborough 12 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 How could we get 5m off them for Reach but only 8m off them for Rhodes Link to post Share on other sites
starbuy 35 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd leave Forshaw out of the team for Downing if we're continuing with 3 in the middle, and leave him out for an attacking player if we're going back to 3 behind the striker. His displays were eye catching earlier in the season, but he doesn't offer enough going forward, or isn't as defensively solid as Clayton, De Roon or Leadbitter either. I just don't feel like he's currently bringing a lot to the party, and think Downing would have much more joy in that role. It's a fair comment and I agreed with your opinion on Friend on twitter too. De Roon has really come into his own and is currently first choice CM for me. Agreed here too, in fact I said on here yesterday that if I were to replace any of the midfielders at the moment it'd be Forshaw. Clayton is doing his job and doing it reasonably well, De Roons pressing from that kind of number 10 position is really good and often forces mistakes from teams. Forshaw is a bit too neat and tidy for me at the moment, yes he has fantastic passing accuracy and makes a lot of them but how many actually create a chance or even put us in a good position to make a chance? I'm inclined to agree. Forshaw has been one of our best performers this season up until the last few games, where I feel he's failing to impress as much. It may be down to the way we're playing but I think it's time for a rest of Forshaw. The problem is we've only got like for like. The only player to replace him, in the current formation, is Leadbitter who isn't up to much more than Forshaw either. For those players to be successful in that midfield they need both movement in front of them (while most of our forwards are static) and players willing to come and take the ball off them and carry further. Let's hope we get some of that in this transfer window! Link to post Share on other sites
"KM" 1,656 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sheff Wed offering 8mil + add ons according to Alan Nixon I'd take that, if true, take the loss and write it off as the price of getting us promotion. We can use that kind of money right now to strengthen them squad. I'd keep hold of him, we'll need him next season with the way things are going. Just loan him out until the end of the season. Link to post Share on other sites
Will 2,958 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sheff Wed offering 8mil + add ons according to Alan Nixon I'd take that, if true, take the loss and write it off as the price of getting us promotion. We can use that kind of money right now to strengthen them squad. I'd keep hold of him, we'll need him next season with the way things are going. Just loan him out until the end of the season. What if doing that means we can't get one of the players our manager wants? You know, to try and keep us up this season? Link to post Share on other sites
Maccarone 264 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Unfortunately Jordan seems to have no future with us, take the money and reinvest in the key areas. He's being very dignified no outburst,decent professional,good luck to him if he goes. Link to post Share on other sites
Dan1234 1,048 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sheff Wed offering 8mil + add ons according to Alan Nixon I'd take that, if true, take the loss and write it off as the price of getting us promotion. We can use that kind of money right now to strengthen them squad. I'd keep hold of him, we'll need him next season with the way things are going. Just loan him out until the end of the season. Don't think this is necessarily true anyways. I think I'd have Bamford/Gestede starting ahead of him in the championship. Link to post Share on other sites
Hendrie_7 1,068 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sheff Wed offering 8mil + add ons according to Alan Nixon I know we'd like our money back, but it's looking increasingly likely that clubs won't just offer 10+ million for Rhodes and we may have to take a small hit. If Wednesday have indeed bid 8 million + add ons I'm sure we can reach a compromise at around 9 million + some add ons. If we need the money to bring in our own players we can't keep holding it off. We obviously shouldn't just cave in but the lad has no future here and another 6 months in the stands is going to cost around 1 million in wages alone. The bids do seem to be creeping up though, 6m + add ons from Villa last week now 8m + add ons. This time next week they might be offering 10m. Link to post Share on other sites
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