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Summer Transfer Rumours 2020 (DEADLINE DAY from pg.258)

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  • Gunter is a big unit. I wonder if he could play as a 3 at the back? Doughty as left wing back so just the RWB to sort.
    Maybe he could in a 3 at the back.

    But he's not a specialist CB and that's what we really need.


  • edited October 2020
    Oggy Red said:
    Gunter is a big unit. I wonder if he could play as a 3 at the back? Doughty as left wing back so just the RWB to sort.
    Maybe he could in a 3 at the back.

    But he's not a specialist CB and that's what we really need.
    Could work...  But ruins the rest of the team...

    Amos 
    Gunter | Pearce | Famewo
    Lapslie?           |           Doughty
    Gilbey | Watson | Maddsn
    Aneke | Washtn


    Unless you want to risk all our defence at once:

    Amos 
    Gunter | Pearce | Famewo
    Oshilaja         Watson    Purrington
    Maddison | Gilbey | Doughty
     Washington
  • People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Sure Bowyer had a dose of this with Sarr and Pearce when Bauer was injured midway through 18/19 season - we was pretty dreadful so can see why he’s not keen on it

  • Bowyer said, “The way we like to play, and the way we’re going to play, [Gunter] is going to bring a lot in the final third.” So, he’s intending to play him as a RB/RWB and I infer that the diamond/narrow midfield is quite likely to continue. 
  • Bubble said:
    People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Sure Bowyer had a dose of this with Sarr and Pearce when Bauer was injured midway through 18/19 season - we was pretty dreadful so can see why he’s not keen on it
    In my opinion, it was because both Sarr and Pearce were almost completely only able to play on the left side of defence. Pearce at RCB gave away a lot of fouls. 
  • People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Agree with the two right footers thing.

    but i would suggest that the game is different with the level of pressing increasing significantly in the last 5 years.

    The ability to naturally distribute on the left and the right and not get caught in possession when playing out from the back maybe where this new "voodoo" comes from.

  • edited October 2020
    Currently I can see us lining up like this in our next game if we don't get a striker deal done, but once positions are filled we'll be back to 4-4-2 diamond for sure.

    Amos 
    Gunter | Oshilaja | Famewo | Purrington
    Maddison | Watson | F.Caskey | Doughty
    Williams
     Washington
  • People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Thats because if you're a leftie, you never play in the right whereas righties will have experience of playing on the left.  On Famewo, he looked very comfortable on his right foot tbf
    That makes sense. As right footers are so much more common, they're more used to playing on the "wrong" side, where left footers are less likely to have to play as right CB

    Similarly I imagine that right footers playing at LB are far more common than left footers playing at RB
  • edited October 2020
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  • DOUCHER said:
    Leuth said:
    DOUCHER said:
    famewo and pearce r first choice now - we need another who is at least as good / ready - barker and oshilaja should be stop gaps this season, nothing more  
    Pratley really is pretty good for a L1 centre-back

    couldn't disagree more - he gets thrown around like a rag doll when he comes up against a proper striker - he's another who shouldn't be a first choice player if we are to go up
    Disagree with this, I see him as a starting 11 player. I’m not sure we would have won the Doncaster home play off without him that night, and he was our most consistent player last season (except Dillon).  
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  • People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Thats because if you're a leftie, you never play in the right whereas righties will have experience of playing on the left.  On Famewo, he looked very comfortable on his right foot tbf
    That makes sense. As right footers are so much more common, they're more used to playing on the "wrong" side, where left footers are less likely to have to play as right CB

    Similarly I imagine that right footers playing at LB are far more common than left footers playing at RB
    Anthony Barness, Mark Bowen and Harry Cripps were all right footed left backs.


  • Dazzler21 said:
    Currently I can see us lining up like this in our next game if we don't get a striker deal done, but once positions are filled we'll be back to 4-4-2 diamond for sure.

    Amos 
    Gunter | Oshilaja | Famewo | Purrington
    Maddison | Watson | F.Caskey | Doughty
    Williams
     Washington
    I would have thought Pearce would be fit, he started training last week, so should be nearly ready
  • Richard J said:
    People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Thats because if you're a leftie, you never play in the right whereas righties will have experience of playing on the left.  On Famewo, he looked very comfortable on his right foot tbf
    That makes sense. As right footers are so much more common, they're more used to playing on the "wrong" side, where left footers are less likely to have to play as right CB

    Similarly I imagine that right footers playing at LB are far more common than left footers playing at RB
    Anthony Barness, Mark Bowen and Harry Cripps were all right footed left backs.


    Bowen is one of the most underrated players in my time supporting.

    bearing in mind he was 34 when he joined he must have been a cracking player in his Norwich days 
  • ross1 said:
    Dazzler21 said:
    Currently I can see us lining up like this in our next game if we don't get a striker deal done, but once positions are filled we'll be back to 4-4-2 diamond for sure.

    Amos 
    Gunter | Oshilaja | Famewo | Purrington
    Maddison | Watson | F.Caskey | Doughty
    Williams
     Washington
    I would have thought Pearce would be fit, he started training last week, so should be nearly ready
    Didn't he have a set back in return to training?
  • Richard J said:
    People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Thats because if you're a leftie, you never play in the right whereas righties will have experience of playing on the left.  On Famewo, he looked very comfortable on his right foot tbf
    That makes sense. As right footers are so much more common, they're more used to playing on the "wrong" side, where left footers are less likely to have to play as right CB

    Similarly I imagine that right footers playing at LB are far more common than left footers playing at RB
    Anthony Barness, Mark Bowen and Harry Cripps were all right footed left backs.


    Phil Neville was a right footed left back for England...

    Struggling to think of left footed right backs
  • Dazzler21 said:
    Oggy Red said:
    Gunter is a big unit. I wonder if he could play as a 3 at the back? Doughty as left wing back so just the RWB to sort.
    Maybe he could in a 3 at the back.

    But he's not a specialist CB and that's what we really need.
    Could work...  But ruins the rest of the team...

    Amos 
    Gunter | Pearce | Famewo
    Lapslie?           |           Doughty
    Gilbey | Watson | Maddsn
    Aneke | Washtn


    Unless you want to risk all our defence at once:

    Amos 
    Gunter | Pearce | Famewo
    Oshilaja         Watson    Purrington
    Maddison | Gilbey | Doughty
     Washington

    don't ever want to see Washington play up front on his own again - waste of time
  • Richard J said:
    People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Thats because if you're a leftie, you never play in the right whereas righties will have experience of playing on the left.  On Famewo, he looked very comfortable on his right foot tbf
    That makes sense. As right footers are so much more common, they're more used to playing on the "wrong" side, where left footers are less likely to have to play as right CB

    Similarly I imagine that right footers playing at LB are far more common than left footers playing at RB
    Anthony Barness, Mark Bowen and Harry Cripps were all right footed left backs.


    Phil Neville was a right footed left back for England...

    Struggling to think of left footed right backs
    Dennis Irwin was right footed, I think. 
  • DOUCHER said:
    Dazzler21 said:
    Oggy Red said:
    Gunter is a big unit. I wonder if he could play as a 3 at the back? Doughty as left wing back so just the RWB to sort.
    Maybe he could in a 3 at the back.

    But he's not a specialist CB and that's what we really need.
    Could work...  But ruins the rest of the team...

    Amos 
    Gunter | Pearce | Famewo
    Lapslie?           |           Doughty
    Gilbey | Watson | Maddsn
    Aneke | Washtn


    Unless you want to risk all our defence at once:

    Amos 
    Gunter | Pearce | Famewo
    Oshilaja         Watson    Purrington
    Maddison | Gilbey | Doughty
     Washington

    don't ever want to see Washington play up front on his own again - waste of time
    I don't disagree, but that formation easily transforms to 3-4-3 with Doughty and Maddison alongside Washington and Gilbey in the CAM position behind. 
  • Washington plays in a 2 up top or doesn't play for me
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  • edited October 2020
    Don’t get people posting these possible teams. We’re likely to be five players better off soon and the team will look completely different.
    "Currently I can see us lining up like this in our next game if we don't get a striker deal done, but once positions are filled we'll be back to 4-4-2 diamond for sure."

    I just think it's interesting to see how our options change as we move towards the end of the window.

    It's obviously only supposition and with 1 full week remaining to get in 4/5 players according to Bowyer I hope it's read as such...

    Without any leaks it all has to be guess work. 
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Richard J said:
    People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Thats because if you're a leftie, you never play in the right whereas righties will have experience of playing on the left.  On Famewo, he looked very comfortable on his right foot tbf
    That makes sense. As right footers are so much more common, they're more used to playing on the "wrong" side, where left footers are less likely to have to play as right CB

    Similarly I imagine that right footers playing at LB are far more common than left footers playing at RB
    Anthony Barness, Mark Bowen and Harry Cripps were all right footed left backs.


    Phil Neville was a right footed left back for England...

    Struggling to think of left footed right backs
    Dennis Irwin was right footed, I think. 
    He was right footed as evidenced by the fact that he took all his penalties with that foot as well as free kicks. He started at right back too but, to be fair, unlike a lot of modern day footballers, you wouldn't know that he wasn't predominantly left footed if you saw him using it. 
  • Paolo Maldini was one of the best left backs of all time and right footed.
  • I can remember Konchesky playing right back a couple of times, but it was very much as an emergency. 
  • edited October 2020
    mendonca said:
    JFC in your 1st 11. Really?
    Not mine. What I expect. 

    Somehow Bow keeps playing him... Levitt isn't exactly setting the world alight yet either. 
  • Richard J said:
    People are weird (I don't mean on here, in the general footballing world) about having two left footed centre halves. If you look at the history of teams, ours and those all over the world it's really common to have two right footed centre halves, and no-one cares. Vidic and Ferdinand, Terry and Carvalho, Toure and Campbell, Hummel and Boateng, Puyol and Pique. All right footers. Bowyer very specifically likes to have a right and left footer at the back, and there tends to be much more of a fear of having two lefties across football. It's strange
    Thats because if you're a leftie, you never play in the right whereas righties will have experience of playing on the left.  On Famewo, he looked very comfortable on his right foot tbf
    That makes sense. As right footers are so much more common, they're more used to playing on the "wrong" side, where left footers are less likely to have to play as right CB

    Similarly I imagine that right footers playing at LB are far more common than left footers playing at RB
    Anthony Barness, Mark Bowen and Harry Cripps were all right footed left backs.


    Bowen is one of the most underrated players in my time supporting.

    bearing in mind he was 34 when he joined he must have been a cracking player in his Norwich days 
    TBF Bowen had an effective left foot. 

    The reason I know he was right footed was his penalty at Wembley. 
  • Signing today apparently 
    Sauce? Or ITK?
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