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What do you mean spend less? it's a one year contract not a five year contract, so no resale value and its a sizeable wage. He's a good player granted, but it would rip our squad apart knowing one player was on twice as much money as everyone else. Just because Tzolis wasn't an instant success at 19 doesn't mean he is rubbish or that his career here is done.

He was dynamite at West Ham on loan. He is the missing piece that confirms they have more than enough to survive now. If they do then it’s money we’ll spent.

Why aren't we Forest?

What are these beliefs based on?

The coopers arms has new ownership and is good now. Chicken George is the stuff of legends. Seen Hitchin play once only. I have small children so I have little spare time for leisure 😬 I’ll be at the beer festival too hopefully.

Half moon is one I frequent. Bricklayers down the road is my local.

It would send a hell of a message to the squad if Hugill did start. Shows that it is a meritocracy. Make a number of fringe players hungry and a number of players nervous about their places.

Ha I’m now in Hitchin. The rain was disappointingly short

It’s the first half of a preseason friendly. Last game we beat Marseille 3-0. We can’t put that victory down as ‘just a run out’ and then read too much into this game a few days later.

He’s playing btw in the very match he is moaning about.

https://thecelticstar.com/celtic-seal-mooy-and-jenz-transfers-but-are-more-needed/ Mooy not coming to Carrow rd.

No Gibson either

Is it 4-4-2? Damn you Smith you Luddite!!!

Steiperman and Vrancic were fan favourites but limited, even at this level. They had good seasons for one season. Cantwell and Dowell have much more consistent evidence of achievement at this level. Sinani had a good season in a good team last season. Rashica hasn't played at this level before so we don't know. We aren't even talking about Lees-Meleu, Tzolis who have all the attributes to be a success. TBH I don't give a s**t if Pukki scores 25 goals or not as long as the team score goals. It will be much healthier for goals to come from a host of sources rather than just two who could get injured at any time. We don't need to replace Buendia, we just need to replace his contributions, which can be across a number of players at different times in the season.

We know Omobamidele is good enough, it's the injuries that are the problem. I suppose we could wait until January and see if big Andy can stay injury free. I'm relaxed with Tomkinson being 4th / 5th choice, especially with Byram in the squad.

Steiperman hardly played last time round. Vrancic lost his place to Dowell. Cantwell played way more of a part in that Championship win than Vrancic and Steipermann put together. You have to got back to 2018/19 for both those players to have made a solid contribution. Dowell is a good player, Cantwell is a good player, Sinani is a good player, Rashica is a good player. Can we not give them a bit of a chance before concluding that Pukki won't be able to score goals this season.

I personally think it is healthier to have a generally better group of players than rely on 3-4 top players. In a parallel universe 2 of Buendia, Skipp, Pukki get bad injuries or long covid and we don't make the play offs last time round. If Rashica and Cantwell get injured then there are many more options. Love Farkeball but I think Smith will be a lot more adaptive in games and he has such a varied squad he can do that with ease.

Svensson seemed to score important goals from what I remember. Equalisers and winners. It’s not just how many that makes a striker.

He’s had a good stint. Been good for his international career, his medal drawer and his bank account. Good luck to him. He’ll be 33 when he leaves. He was never going to play here that much longer. Might even get a bumper contract in America to see things out.

Tbh, he says the commentator is ‘usually fair’ which doesn’t mean he thinks they are fair in this case. I agree with you on this one.

He’ll definitely move on for free in my opinion. Let’s hope Idah has a good season.

Maybe it’s a really bad translation but the point about playing him in a friendly and him getting tackled is so weird. I wouldn’t personally quote someone with such a pathetic point of view. He signed a contract, it’s such a warped but regular point made by journalists that if you have the audacity to hold a player to a contract you are oppressing him. The player expects his contract paid in full every month, why shouldn’t a club also expect it honoured? If you quote someone as an interesting insight, you are at least saying it’s a valid point of view, this quote is beyond ludicrous and thus reflects badly on him finding it news worthy.

This is beyond ridiculous. First off, we played him in a friendly and we ‘let him’ get tackled. Such a weird understanding of football. Secondly, he is a prisoner? Most prisoners don’t freely sign a contract to be in prison and then get paid 40k a week to be in prison. Shame on Gary Gowers for even quoting this nonsense.

Yes he means Tzolis, the thread Is specifically about him 😂. Sargent might be better in a three, as the link up man. I think Idah is better suited however.

It depends how we are set up. Putting my football manager hat on, if we play 433 then he could operate as an inside forward and be the main goal threat with someone like Sargent in the middle as a foil and someone else on the other side doing something similar. As people have pointed out, Liverpool score most goals from Salah and Mane in a 433.