Matthew Le God

Damion Downs has never played for Hamburg. Hamburg are in the Bundesliga this season. Downs played for FC Koln in 2.Bundesliga.

Not confirmed. The link on the Pink un says...

They also spent a lot of money on Sulemana, Onuachu etc but sold them at a loss.

Will be a long wait with him needing to return from Torino! 😉

You said he hadn't scored Championship goals and wasn't any good at finishing one on ones. He has 19 goals in the Championship, including a goal this season. His lack of goals this season is because he is backup to the best goalscorer in the league and due to that is restricted largely to cameos. It is harder to score in cameos than when starting games. I think he'd look very different if starting games on our team in their current form.

19 Championship goals

What context is missing from this direct quote of what you said?

You did. You said... You then switched happy to content. So that is you saying he is content to spend most of his time in the treatment room.

Pretty easy to make a good case for Armstrong being the best goalscorer in the league. So he doesn't need an upgrade for this season and would be expensive to do so. The time we need an upgrade for Armstrong is if/when we are back in the Premier League, as he struggles at that level. It would also be significantly easier to both attract and afford someone who is a big upgrade on Armstrong as a PL club. Archer and injury prone Stewart are both capable of scoring in this league. If Archer was needed to start games I think he'd score goals in the current setup under Eckert with their confidence levels.

Why would he be content to be injured?

Utter bullshit

What profile of striker do you think would be happy to play 2nd fiddle to Armstrong and sit on the bench instead of Archer and Stewart?

They are our worst fullbacks and we don't use a system that uses fulbacks.

I'd be amazed if Bragg moved up the pecking order above Romeu and Downes

Archer has shown he can do that in the Championship, so has Stewart (who is due back soon). We do not need an upgrade on Armstrong while we are in the Championship for the lone striker role. So what profile of striker do you think would be happy to pay 2nd fiddle to Armstrong and sit on the bench instead of Archer and Stewart? Next summer if we are promoted is the time for a striker upgrade on Armstrong. Not now.

A striker to do what? Be a capable back up to Armstrong? Archer meets that brief.

Perhaps not if we have been promoted.

He went off last night with concussion, so is not allowed to play for a week and misses the Saints game.

Even if true, it doesn't mean they view him as being first choice after a promotion. We will need three keepers each season.

Scottish

Nice to see the players looking so confident on the ball. They just look like they know they can with ease pass out through a press. Been a long time since we've had that.

Not really, of the 8 outfield players 4 are defenders/DMs and 4 are attacking players

BBC weather currently says only 13mph winds and no rain during the game time. So not particularly testing conditions. https://share.google/PZwJv2WgqNr8jtZsm

We wouldn't as they are currently 9 points ahead of us

Oriol Romeu now at Saints...