roversfan99

Surely its better from our point of view that he doesnt play. Rest him up and although I appreciate the days of players being signed based off good tournaments are much less common seeing as all games are available, less awareness as to how good he is to reduce the likelihood of bids.

He has, but it has no relevance to whether Dykes would be good for us or how good a player Dykes is.

But he has been churning out trophy after trophy in that time. Palmer himself forced the exit. Players that with regular game time elsewhere turn into stars are just collateral damage. Rogers has taken years of regular football to get to where he is now. The player that joined Boro was miles away.

Watched Newcastle last night against a poor United side, and theyve been on a few times this season. If Gordon is England's first choice left winger then its a problem. Quick but so poor in the final third, has been all season.

They wouldnt have played, especially Rogers. The Rogers that left and went to Boro (?) would not have had a sniff around Foden, KDB etc. So he wouldnt have come on as he has done going elsewhere. Even Palmer would have been slower getting into a team with such quality so wouldnt have come on as much.

Obviously the correct treatment is to not include them. My point is, you and others are pointing out his good man management and the great team spirit. I dont see how there is any evidence or foundation to use that as a positive specifically to attribute to Ismael. In fact, players within the squad not training properly, not giving 100% in games or being questioned outside of football would if anything be red flags. The main barometer for any manager is results. Ismael's overall have been poor. Obviously with him being currently employed by the club, besides a very brief blip last season, you will go on full unequivocal propaganda mode.

For a start, he isnt very good in the air. Even when he wins it, it isnt particularly accurate. I dont think hes good enough to be the main central defender. I think he is more suited to the left side.

And subsequently they wouldnt have been the players they are today had they stayed. People often mention it as if they let current day Rogers and Palmer leave. Not quite the same but there are similarities with Raya here. He was let go on the cheap but had be stayed, he certainly wouldnt have developed into who he is today, after 7 or 8 years in the Premier League, training with top class players and coaches etc.

Im not sure he has fully united the dressing room. I think youd have to go back to the Murphy/Etuhu days where it was clear that 100% wasnt being put in. But we have had problems of players not training properly this season according to Ismael himself, seemingly wasters like Gueye and Tavares. Also Kargbo not bothering to track back leading to a goal, public comments about Carter's preparation. There have definitely been performances full of grit and real character but also ones showing a real fragility. I certainly wouldnt be able to commit to bigging up Ismael's man management as a positive. There is certainly a lot of merit to the argument that he has been left with a poor and imbalanced squad, even if he has seemingly played a big part in endorsing the players hes been left with. And he isnt in the Kean and Coyle category. But I certainly havent been impressed with or warmed to his management overall.

He has never scored more than 2 goals in a single season. Any screamers were very much the exception so are a strange area to focus on. I think Travis was a good player and has been missed but he isnt this all rounder you suggest. He cannot protect the defence or read the game as well as Tronstad and isnt as good on the ball. Travis was more athletic and got about the pitch more although he isnt the same type of player. You suggest that the stats back you up, what stats? Tronstad does a very specific role, he sits in front of the defence, he keeps the play ticking, he reads the game really well and he is essentially the glue in our team. We play much better and do better when he plays. 2 players of a similar style (obviously elite players) are Busquets and Makelele, neither ran all over the pitch and neither made it to 20 career goals. Did they hold their teams back as limited and peripheral players?

If we were stupid enough to repeat the mistake of putting any reliance on Carter and Wharton then we deserve the inevitable spell of being short that will occur. We are short not only of regularly available numbers but of quality and balance. We need someone to slot into the middle of the back 3, essentially (I know we played a different formation, but in terms of quality) a massively overdue Hyam replacement.

Im not twisting anything. Youve dominated the thread doing everything you can to deflect and divert blame away from the club. I also find your consistent desire to know whether I am attending every game when its totally irrelevant to be a little strange. But no, I am not going.

But how is it relevant to us? We wouldnt be signing Kyogo. Dykes is behind him, Duksch and Stansfield in the pecking order. If you are using a failed signing who has scored 0 goals as a benchmark to prove that an alternative is good, then that would be incredibly low standards. My opinion on Dykes spans across a career of an inability to score many goals. We were linked a couple of years ago (was more Nixon bullshit) and I was against it then. He hasnt done anything since to change my mind.

Because I have seen it happen time and time again. And like many, I feel like I have enough historical evidence to predict the most likely outcome of the upcoming transfer window. If you choose to keep your head in the sand and refuse to predict, thats fine, but theres no reason to try and stop me from sharing my opinion. If you dont see any point predicting, fine, just scroll past. Unsure as to why you are so fixated on a random signing from another Championship club, yes Kyogo has been a crap signing, youve mentioned it a few times with little context or links to current discussion. Dykes has not scored many goals across his entire career.

Its a starter that we need, to play in the middle, after losing Hyam. We would then have McLaughlin and Pratt on the left, someone new in the centre, Miller on the right with O'Riordan covering and pushig them both. Which would at least give us more quality and balance.