Stumpy Tim
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Has our Player of the Season been sold?
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[Albion] Matt Clarke- Portsmouth defender **SIGNED and LOANED to DERBY**
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Has our Player of the Season been sold?
Matt Clarke- Portsmouth defender rumour
I’m assuming he will be for a number or reasons (not related to his quality on the pitch).
If he stays, he starts.
I’m assuming he will be for a number or reasons (not related to his quality on the pitch).
If he stays, he starts.
Stumpy Tim
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Aha. Got ya. That makes more sense! If he goes I'm pretty sure we'll be buying a bigger money replacement, and I'm not sure Balogun is going to be trusted. Wouldn't be surprised if Balogun went actually
blockhseagull
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Balogun sadly makes a mistake every time he plays, therefore is never going to be more than a back up for us.
If we are going 3 at the back we need another CB assuming no one leaves and we need someone who can play as a wing back on the right.
If we are going 3 at the back we need another CB assuming no one leaves and we need someone who can play as a wing back on the right.
midnight_rendezvous
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Schelotto is a wing back
And, depending on how we set up up-field, I also think March could make the transition to wing back.
Well, now that NSC seems to have decided that Potter won't like Duffy and will bin him off, play with a back three, and bring forward young talent whose experience is only at a lower level (albeit playing very well at that level), why not White-Dunk-Clarke?
blockhseagull
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Schelotto is a wing back
Schelotto is out till 2020 so I still think we’d need an option even if we were bringing him back
Great call re Ben White, can’t comment on Clarke....
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midnight_rendezvous
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Blimey didn’t know he was out for that long. You are, of course, correct then.
blockhseagull
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I’d heard they were looking at 9 months as had full ACL reconstruct in April.
Even then I’m not sure he’d be up to Prem levels without a loan to pick up match fitness
Neither can I, as I'd never heard of him before he cropped up on NSC! I was just going along with the thread by including him.
blue-shifted
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You also have to consider that Schelloto relies on a marauding energetic style of play. Given the injury is one year plus, and the fact he's not a young player, it's entirely possible he never will be the player he was before the injury (in the same way CMS and Lua Lua never really got back to how they were).
I'd be surprised to see him in the stripes again
Well two or more clubs interested means the price will tend to go up... supply and demand and all that...
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Uncle C
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I am sure they said this about Dunk once.
blockhseagull
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Probably true, but he was young, inexperienced and we had the luxury of playing at a lower level.
None of these are true currently about Balogun or the level we are playing at.
I’m not suggesting we get rid or that he isn’t any good .... I’m just stating he makes a mistake every game that has cost us a goal.
Whitechapel
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I am also sure they didn’t say it about Dunk when he was in his 30’s.
blockhseagull
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Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Yeah, when Dunk was about 20, not as a 30 year old international with 7 professional clubs under his belt.
Hmmm... you don’t think we are already chatting with Pompey then?
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