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Yeah I’m kind of hoping we can’t read too much into nearly getting Dan Neil in. Would have been cheap experience but I wonder whether we’ve decided to not go relatively big money on a striker and will instead spend it on midfield instead.

What do we reckon on the Charles replacement then? Spors will have been well aware he was likely off for ages and the type of fee we’d get so he’s had plenty of time to eye up some targets. Another young with potential? Older experienced pro? Defensive Mid or more progressive? Personally I think Bragg and Downes can cover defensive positions between them so I’d like someone a bit more forward thinking. There’s not been a massive amount of links and off the top of my head there was Dan Neil, a lad from Palace and Josh Mulligan.

Ramsey Street - Australian lad.

Pretty damning indictment of Downs in that no one even considers him for third choice (not that I disagree). Just illustrates how bad a signing at 7M he was.

Surely only the referee can do that?

Haven't really seen anything of him since he moved to West Ham so hard to say. Chances are he'd probably be fine. Only thing I would say is that if you had four midfielders of Downes, Bragg, Jander and JWP then the bulk of that lot seems to prefer more deep lying roles. Jander likes to get forward and Downes does it pretty well at times but for the sake of balance, I think I'd prefer someone a bit more adventurous. We were linked with Josh Mulligan earlier in the window and I wonder whether that's something we might try. Fair bit of interest in him with Genoa the latest club to be linked so might not be feasible.

Worth reading some of the first pages of that thread where he gets a lot of praise as well. Seems like using a 19 year old kid in his first loan as first choice number 9 was probably a bit too much too soon.

Was impressed by Mubama at the start of the season and seemed quite a physical and powerful player, of the players we’ve been linked with this sounds as good as any of the others.

Surprised they haven't been in for Downs or BBD then.

You could argue that Tonda got Azaz on at exactly the right time yesterday. They were tiring and just gone a goal down so the space was starting to open up a bit. That space wasn’t there in the first half had he been on then Azaz might not have looked quite as good as he did. That said, I would probably be starting him as well.

His finishing is pretty poor but it always has been. We brought him in for assists and he did an OK job last season with that despite playing a fair chunk at RWB. Thought he put a few decent crosses in today as well and if Larin (or someone better than BBD) was on the pitch then it would be a different story. Most of the time he's playing as an inside forward though and not hugging the touchline and that's not his position. He's a winger who gets dangerous crosses in so play him that way, none of this cutting inside bollocks, just let him concentrate on what he's good at.

I imagine they were chuffed to bits when he finally showed them what he’s capable of.

Last season Preston created the third fewest chances in the championship and Ipswich the third highest. Jebbison had played slightly more minutes but not by much and scored one more goal than Azon. So if you’re worried about goals then Azon isn’t your man. By all accounts he’s a pest, can press, link up play and that kind of thing so if you’re looking for a Che Adams type but with less goal output then Azon may well float your boat, Not saying Jebbison is amazing or will be a success but probably more likely to get goals than Azon.

I mentioned his xG recently and wouldn’t say it’s great but at Preston he scored roughly equivalent to what was expected which isn’t too bad in a side that didn’t actually create much. I was only making the point when comparing him against Azon though who is the complete opposite and scores roughly half the amount of goals he should be getting and last season missed more big chances than anyone else in the division. I can’t see us going big on someone like Vipotnik so I think whoever we do sign is going to be a big gamble.

Another right back. Could provide much needed cover for Bree. Roerslev and Sugawara. Fingers crossed 🤞