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I think Cantwell is a busted flush and Winks would be our new Westwood.

No thanks to both.

4 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

The pass to Shaw meant he didn't need to break stride and could whip in the cross perfectly for the opener.

If the pass is slightly under or over hit England dont score because the cross wouldn't have been possible at the angle which allowed sterling to score. 

Genius.

He jinked to play it inside for the first goal, took the RB out of it and then Shaw could run in and cross to Sterling.

The Raheem to Kane and Kane to Jack were just one-twos. Jack made the first goal with the perfectly weighted pass to Shaw.

Make no mistake Jack did the hard part for both goals.

So Beakys tactics was to tire the oppo out with Saka (rather than Foden) rather and then send Jack on for the killer punch with no credit.

We were poor before Jack came on and I guess the chant should be ‘Boring, boring England……oh no Jack’s now coming on….it Super Jack, Super Jack, He’s one of our own’.

9 minutes ago, WHY said:

In the the last 3 games he’s started he has literally had a hand in all the 3 goals we have scored. 

I think literally it would have been a foot, not a hand.

2 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said:

He's a TW4T

I think we need a bit of that nastiness / desire to win / taking the game to its edge…..whatever you want to call it.

I don’t understand the reaction towards Maupay…..it’s baffling.

Last season he was 10th in the Prem for Strikers/Forwards in the Xgoal stats.

https://understat.com/league/Premier League

He was on 13.77 Xg. Watkins 6th on 16.28.

Maupay was ahead of Wilson, Werner, Wood, Lacazette…….

If we’re allegedly willing to pay £40m for Tammy, have paid £33m for Beundia - even though I would like to take a punt on Alvarez - how about a £30m bid for Maupay given he can play up front or AM?

I think we missed out on him in 2019/20 when we chose to go for Wes and DS knows him well.

1 minute ago, sparrow1988 said:

19 year old footballer in a new country struggles in a struggling team (they were relegated that season weren't they?). I'd say flop is a bit much. He was probably described as such in the press to make a headline and the tag stuck to him.

You’re right but the experience may have scarred him enough not to want to come back to Blighty.

One or two bad games and all the flop talk would be straight back there.

39 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

Because it's not 1996 anymore  

And you really think that’s a reason?

Why don’t we just play 4-4-2 with Tammy and Ollie up front. Jack and Beundia wide. SJM and Luiz central. You can still play overlapping wingbacks and inverted wingers.

5 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said:

another pointless GIF for you.

or try this.

2 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said:

So you only communicate in pointless gifs? Let’s try this one for you.

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4 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

I disagree that Buendia is a "punt". Strengthening the midfield is more of a priority than strengthening our strikers, to which we already have 3 when we only play with 1.  So spending a huge amount of our transfer budget on a striker seems illogical to me. 

He’s a £33m punt vs Tammy for £40m.

3 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said:

I’m Pleased you didn’t understand the irony.

Just now, Lord Willard said:

We aren't spending £40m on a back up striker. Buendia was needed, we lacked creativity.

I don’t know whether we will or not but apparently you do.

Of course we lacked creativity but you could argue we’ll need more when Jack goes because we don’t sign players like Tammy.

1 minute ago, CarryOnVilla said:

Brains please……

So Matt Hancock didn’t resign for being effing useless (BJs words).

He also didn’t resign for shagging and old flame from University he employed as an aide.

He resigned because he failed to keep 2 meters from someone.

I mean you just can’t make this up.

13 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

I'd take Tammy on a season long loan with a view to buy if he does well. Wouldn't spend £40m on him now tho. 

So we take a punt on Beundia for £33m plus add ons and yet £40m for Tammy who is massively more proven in the Prem but he’s not worth it?

I mean really? At what pint did you decide to ignore logic?

Nick76, genuinely no issue at all, I completely agree with you about Tammy. You’ll have seen that from my posts.

How would you play both Tammy and Ollie.

3 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said:

More funny.

Just now, Phil Silvers said:

You realise that makes no sense and really isn’t funny.

1 minute ago, bose said:

There is no way we are in for Tammy.

Well Jack then is probably off because it’s going to take Tammy like singings for Jack to stay.

1 minute ago, The Other Mat said:

No no no, you just don’t know that. 

Haha, fair point. But do you think he would of?

1 minute ago, Philosopher said:

Are you really going down this road? You are making an assumption with absolutely nothing to back it up. There isn't any kind of observation you can you use to back this up.

If Watkins was a Chelsea he would have worked harder than anyone else in training and eventually established himself as their number one striker. As he is better than Tammy and better suited to the premier league than Werner.

 Mate you are the one making assumptions.

9 minutes ago, Philosopher said:

And now after a season of watching Tammy and a season of watching Ollie I can say with confidence Ollie is a better striker. I can also say that Ollie isn't a great dribbler and his best assets are his workrate, movement, finishing, and tenacity. All perfect for his current pressing forward role. 

People's love for Tammy and the role he played in our promotion is clouding people's judgement.

Watkins would have started less games games for Chelsea this season than Abraham.