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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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gspotgaz said:
Let’s hope bidwell stays fit because I think left back is our biggest glaring weakness at the moment outfield
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Exactly, if you're serious about Promotion you can't go into the season with only one first team Left Back.

Jay Dasilva is a Wing Back, not a Full Back. 🤔
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Deleted member 9744 said:
First I believe the quality of your best player in each position is very important as they will play most matches barring injury.

Second I don't agree with your views on strength in depth. For example, are Simms and Wright weaker than Bidwell and Dasilva? For right back are van Ewijk and Eccles/Latibeaudiere weaker, or in midfield Eccles, Torp, Rudoni, Sheaf and Allen? I would argue Binks and Kitching is stronger too and Thomas and Latibeaudiere.

Other than goalkeeper left back is our weakest position with regard to quality of the first choice and strength in depth.
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Wright isn’t backup for Simms. He’s got his own spot. At RB yes they are, ditto in CM. I don’t think LB is an urgent position. It’s a nice to have but I can see why we’re prioritising other areas of the squad. The expectation seems to be an improvement from Dasilva and one more year from Bidwell I’m fine with that unless someone exceptional comes up. But I’m more concerned at what we’d do if we lost Simms or MvE or who is partnering Sheaf.
 
BlueSkiesForever

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shmmeee said:
Wright isn’t backup for Simms. He’s got his own spot. At RB yes they are, ditto in CM. I don’t think LB is an urgent position. It’s a nice to have but I can see why we’re prioritising other areas of the squad. The expectation seems to be an improvement from Dasilva and one more year from Bidwell I’m fine with that unless someone exceptional comes up. But I’m more concerned at what we’d do if we lost Simms or MvE or who is partnering Sheaf.
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Yeah I agree the future RB spot is pretty important, I imagine that Van Ewijk will be off next window if a decent offer comes in for him. I hope we sign that Camara geezer, or someone like that, in preparation for losing Van Ewijk (I’m resigned to the idea that he’s too good not to be in the prem).
 
lord_garrincha

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AFCCOVENTRY said:
Alfie May off to Huddersfield for £750k. Paves the way for Godden to Charlton now.

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Rudoni cash used for May.
May cash used for Godden.
CASHBACK!!!
saga alan GIF
 
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shmmeee said:
Wright isn’t backup for Simms. He’s got his own spot. At RB yes they are, ditto in CM. I don’t think LB is an urgent position. It’s a nice to have but I can see why we’re prioritising other areas of the squad. The expectation seems to be an improvement from Dasilva and one more year from Bidwell I’m fine with that unless someone exceptional comes up. But I’m more concerned at what we’d do if we lost Simms or MvE or who is partnering Sheaf.
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If Simms got injured surely Wright would move across and I am sure Robins has even said the long term plan was to play Wright as a central striker. Mason-Clark would come in in the left. We paid £4.5 million for him and some even think he will start ahead of Wright. I am sure he hasn't been bought not to play much.

No way is Bidwell better than van Ewijk. That's just silly, and it's not even close. I am not sure Dasilva is really a left back although he might be developed into one and Latibeaudiere/Eccles is at least as strong.

Who is partnering Sheaf? Take your choice from Eccles, Torp, Rudoni or Allen. Pretty strong I'd say.
 
BlueSkiesForever

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Deleted member 9744 said:
Who is partnering Sheaf? Take your choice from Eccles, Torp, Rudoni or Allen. Pretty strong I'd say.
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I know it’s another very unpopular take but I’d love to see a better Sheaf-partner than Eccles. Great squad player, of course we should keep him, but it’d be nice to see us mix up our midfield once in a while, keep oppositions guessing what team we’ll put out or what formation we’ll be rocking.

It’s good to have those steady players but I feel Eccles qualities are becoming very much like Sheaf’s and it’d be good to have someone that can go long, turn a player, create space, dribble a bit etc. I don’t think we can fully trust Rudoni to do all of that on his own.
 
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BlueSkiesForever said:
I know it’s another very unpopular take but I’d love to see a better Sheaf-partner than Eccles. Great squad player, of course we should keep him, but it’d be nice to see us mix up our midfield once in a while, keep oppositions guessing what team we’ll put out or what formation we’ll be rocking.

It’s good to have those steady players but I feel Eccles qualities are becoming very much like Sheaf’s and it’d be good to have someone that can go long, turn a player, create space, dribble a bit etc. I don’t think we can fully trust Rudoni to do all of that on his own.
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I don't think you've mentioned it before mate
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Deleted member 9744 said:
If Simms got injured surely Wright would move across and I am sure Robins has even said the long term plan was to play Wright as a central striker. Mason-Clark would come in in the left. We paid £4.5 million for him and some even think he will start ahead of Wright. I am sure he hasn't been bought not to play much.

No way is Bidwell better than van Ewijk. That's just silly, and it's not even close. I am not sure Dasilva is really a left back although he might be developed into one and Latibeaudiere/Eccles is at least as strong.

Who is partnering Sheaf? Take your choice from Eccles, Torp, Rudoni or Allen. Pretty strong I'd say.
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No one has said Bidwell is better than MvE. I’d be more concerned with playing Eccles or Lats at RB than Dasilva at LB.

and I disagree about midfield. None of those mentioned have shown they can boss a championship midfield yet.
 
Saddlebrains

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BlueSkiesForever said:
Not much time left for these “incoming signings” from twitter, bet it’s all just shit-stirring.
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Can't believe I of all people am saying this, but be patient

Godden to Charlton is done, as I say we needed to start getting people out aswell as in, FFP is a thing in this league and I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't far off breaching it

I'd expect to see confirmation of ins after July 1st
 
BlueSkiesForever

BlueSkiesForever

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Saddlebrains said:
Can't believe I of all people am saying this, but be patient

Godden to Charlton is done, as I say we needed to start getting people out aswell as in, FFP is a thing in this league and I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't far off breaching it

I'd expect to see confirmation of ins after July 1st
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True, you must be much more level-headed than me, I just want to see signing after signing, it’s quite addictive tbf 😂
 
Balli001

Balli001

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Saddlebrains said:
Can't believe I of all people am saying this, but be patient

Godden to Charlton is done, as I say we needed to start getting people out aswell as in, FFP is a thing in this league and I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't far off breaching it

I'd expect to see confirmation of ins after July 1st
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Wilson the only other expected departure?
 
BlueSkiesForever

BlueSkiesForever

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Talking of twitter and signing-addiction, I just saw us linked with LB Clement Akpa (?) on twitter, translation reads: “Coventry and Norwich (Championship), as well as FC Augsburg (Bundesliga) have already expressed their interest.”
 
TomRad85

TomRad85

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Saddlebrains said:
Can't believe I of all people am saying this, but be patient

Godden to Charlton is done, as I say we needed to start getting people out aswell as in, FFP is a thing in this league and I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't far off breaching it

I'd expect to see confirmation of ins after July 1st
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Yeh I could believe we aren't far off. Need the dead wood gone really don't we... obviously Gyokeres moving would really help too.

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Deity

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Saddlebrains said:
Can't believe I of all people am saying this, but be patient

Godden to Charlton is done, as I say we needed to start getting people out aswell as in, FFP is a thing in this league and I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't far off breaching it

I'd expect to see confirmation of ins after July 1st
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I would be very surprised if we were close to FFP breach. We had an huge influx of cash last season and King has been pretty critical of clubs who have breached ….
 
JSL

JSL

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Saddlebrains said:
Can't believe I of all people am saying this, but be patient

Godden to Charlton is done, as I say we needed to start getting people out aswell as in, FFP is a thing in this league and I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't far off breaching it

I'd expect to see confirmation of ins after July 1st
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June now written off and I'm trying to be patient until Monday at least then
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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Saddlebrains said:
Can't believe I of all people am saying this, but be patient

Godden to Charlton is done, as I say we needed to start getting people out aswell as in, FFP is a thing in this league and I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't far off breaching it

I'd expect to see confirmation of ins after July 1st
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Aren’t we going to have the same thing as the prem - wright for instance will be 7.5m over 4 years and Simms - 3.5 over 4 years whilst we brought in 35m in profit?

for the purposes of accounting will be in profit - isn’t it something like losses over 3 years
 
Saddlebrains

Saddlebrains

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Deity said:
I would be very surprised if we were close to FFP breach. We had an huge influx of cash last season and King has been pretty critical of clubs who have breached ….
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We did, but a fair bit of that went on Ryton, a good couple of million has been invested there. Apparently it's a lovely little place now
 
larry_david

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Saddlebrains said:
At the moment yes. Tavares on a L1 loan few clubs interested but he of course got injured
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New injury? Or the fa cup semi final injury where he ripped apart 100 mill worth of defenders, got hacked down as they couldn't handle it, carried on and made it worse.

Just checking
 
blunted

blunted

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TomRad85 said:
I've lived in London over a decade and I've met 1 Palace fan and 1 Charlton fan in all my time. I assume they are very local to their areas but its still strange not to come across any. I've come across way more Coventry fans actually, we seem to get everywhere.

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One City fan running a stall at Glasto.
 
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