I highly doubt it. Crazy as it may sound but he would be a great fit for somebody like dortmund Oyeh because Dai has a record of letting our most promising players go. Plus would be fairly stupid from Olise to leave at this stage when next year he could well be playing guaranteed Prem football as i...
xG can be good, but needs context. For example if a team often goes behind in a game they will take more shots than the average team trying to equal, and if a team sits back a lot after going ahead they won't take many shots, which will result in a lower xG (e.g. Us). It also more takes into account...
Joao had the vibe of a schoolteacher getting involved with the year 8's breaktime kick about. He just bullies defenders all day, while being clear minded enough to assist Meite and to not snap at shots but rather to time them. Excellent work rate as well. Made a few crucial interventions in our own ...
Wonder what Birmingham fans make of Morrison looking so good. I mean they practically gave him to us. They were gutted he left, rated him really highly. Yep, even at the time they were in despair at letting him go. Our recruitment post-Gournlay has been incredible. Joao, Ejaria, Laurent, Morrison, ...
Joao is incredible when fit. Semedo seems to not quite be match fit but seems to be very decent and had a great performance tonight. Esteves is the best 18 year old RM in this league, this country and very potentially Europe. He isn't bad at RB. Swift, Ejaria, Semedo fighting over that one CM positi...
Blackburn forum is funny, some of them very reasonable, others supremely confident because they managed to beat up 3 of the 4 worst sides in this division. 1 goal v Watford (Lost) 0 goals v Forest (Lost) 0 goals v Cardiff (Drew) They will be a tough challenge but there's no reason why we shouldn't s...
That'll be a fun (and very short) negotiation. Even when we were shite with no immediate prospect of promotion the Dai's weren't exactly prone to flogging our best players.
Since Gourlay left our record at bringing people in, in the transfer market has been excellent. Winter 18/19 (all loans): Ovie, Miazga, Martinez, Baker, Oliveria Oliveira is the closest you could get to a 'failure' out of those five, and he scored 3 goals in 10 games. 19/20: Puscas (£6.75m), Joao (£...
Looking at it, I can't think of a club besides Fulham or West Brom where he'd have a chance of starting. Cynic in me wonders, after Blackett's comments yesterday, if this could be his agent looking for an escape route. What has Blackett said? The former Manchester United defender says one of the at...
You can have a play around with this to see yourself. https://www.transfermarkt.com/championship/saisonstarts/wettbewerb/GB2/plus/?sortierung=beste&sortField=pkt&saisonIdVon=2004&saisonIdBis=2020&spieltag=7&eingrenzung=alle QPR 10/11 (19pts, 17GD) - Champions Wolves 08/09 (19pts,...
Well quest is shit. I mean we all new that anyway, but I was expecting (foolishly) a little more analysis on our game. Can't wait for us to surpass 106 points, at which point they'll give us a whole two minutes of highlights and analysis squeezed between 20 minutes covering Norwich beating Coventry...
Does noone remember our promotion season under Brian MCDemott? Its all about confidence, momentum with a bit of skill and luck Long may it continue The one where we came straight back down as we won promotion on the back of massive confidence and keeping a run going rather than actually being all t...
We shouldn't lose any of the next 4 games, 8-12 points is the realistic range, gives us a nice lead before the brutal late November schedule drags us back down to earth a bit. Get to 26-28 off of 10, and then using the usual ~90 for promotion, ~73 for 6th we would need 1.278 PPG for 6th (ie. 1/3rd w...
Esteves in for Holmes. Holmes in for Moore if injured. Puscas for Meite. A win would be great. Bournemouth play Cardiff then Watford (6th) Bristol (3rd) play Swansea (4th) There's a very strong chance that 2nd place will be on 14/15 points come the end of Sunday. This league is all about getting the...
Given that Joao now has two/three men on him the entire time, maybe we should start Puscas over Meite, he would do well in the extra space. Can't believe that I'm saying it, but we need to see more of Aluko.