The College Dropout

Yeh agreed. It also doesn’t look great.

Best time es strategically for BB1 would be GW1 or the GW after wildcard. Dont want a fat bench so much early in the season though.

What absolute shite. Everyone remembers how shit Drogba and Karim Benzema were after 30. And yeh Wissa is as African as Benzema or 75% of the French national team.

It’s a shame you need about 19 players in a squad not 7 or 8. It’s the major reason why they’ve finished above us 2 years in a row.

No issues with him as a finisher. He seems to have it all - left foot, right foot, headers. Even Isak is super right foot dominant

Name me a world class attacker who is his teams best player in his mid 20s that gets rotated or regularly subbed at 60 mins You’re right there’s time to make the window a success. But equally - it hasn’t been a great window so far. The first PL game is in 3 weeks and we’ve landed 1 of 5 players we need. Every other fanbase in our position is having the same feeling and it’s not a positive one. As I’ve said. There’s time to make this window a success, but that time is running out. Ideal world you want all major signings by start of pre season or brought in to play some pre season. Then you want the players in before the season starts. Then you just want them in the window.

Undoubtedly he’s a bagsman. Some lovely finishes too.

Not really. Isak plays like a 9. At times he drops deep to link but you wouldn’t confuse him for a 10 or a false 9. I don’t watch him play for Sweden but i believe he plays a more withdrawn role for them and his goal scoring record isn’t near what it is for us. Similar to Wissa - Wissa got those 19 goals playing as a 9. Not a winger or a 10.

Don’t think it makes sense to change your best players role personally. Let him do what makes him the best. I’ve only ever seen him play ST or LW. I hope he can play play AM, would make a lot more sense.

I’ve long said - Isak starts 98% of league games. Yeh maybe a promoted side. I do think we want to play 2 up top at times. But that requires someone to drop deep, I didn’t think that’s Wissa’s game either.

3 of the 5 positions we’ve needed to fill, we’ve known about it for 2 years. The season starting in about 3 weeks and we’ve only landed 1 of them, a multi season chase at that - its bad. Ever since Staveley left we’ve really struggled to land our targets. With her we would sometimes miss out on our top target but we would get the next. I try to go back to this transfer window. We missed out on our top targets but by 1August we landed 2 players that would transform our fortunes. We are pushing up against those timelines already. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/1437354.stm

I think Wissa is a great player. And he’s too good to be sitting on the bench. Which he will be doing lots of unless there’s something I’ve missed. Strategically - I just don’t really get it. At this point I just want us to get deals done.

No idea. I guess that’s what we are doing. I always thought any striking option would play with Isak. Or if not the player would be cheap. I'm not sure Wissa fits that profile. I’m trying to be patient and not knee jerking. But with the lack of leadership at the club and missing out on so many players - it’s starting to look like a shitshow. Praying we pull off a smart moves.

Aye 2 or 3 times - you might get gazumped. But 5, 6 times we just aren’t doing the right pre work. It wasn’t like this the last time we had some money to spend either. We got deals done.

I’ll be honest - this makes less sense than some of the others. This is a legit backup option right? I like Wissa. But our transfer approach this summer has been awful. Can we even agree terms?

The strategy was wrong. Which is why it hasn’t worked.

Yeh for those that don’t know - all chips are now 2x a season like the wildcard. First 19 games you get a bench boost, TC, FH, wildcard then you get them all again 20-38. and everyone gets 5 subs the week AFCON starts.

You cared enough to make a post about it.

The defensive one is a small change imo.

Btw when you’ve won the league you are forever ‘champ’ like a boxer. So I will continue to use that prefix this season. Im likely to go bench boost GW1.

There was an Isak one and it was as bad if not worse.

Nah. His trajectory is similar to Mbeumo’s. Year on year improvement. It’s the same for all Brentford attackers. Output improves year on year. Cisse just hit a hot streak. His level was consistently a decent poacher otherwise.

Toney not staying in the PL doesn’t help with seeing what Frank players look like outside the Brentford setup. 19 league goals no penalties is usually golden boot winner level output. Salah had 20, Haaland and Isak had 19. It’s really elite level output. It’s top 10 in Europe. Better than Harry Kane. funnily enough Ayoze might have the best non-penalty goals to games ratio in Europe last season. 19 in 30. Isak had 19 in 34, Haaland 19 in 31.

Brentford’s attackers score a lot of goals. Schade scored 11. Wissa 19. Mbeumo 20 (some of which were pens). I think Wissa has the same number of open lay goals as Isak. Thats how much of a bagsman he was. im unsure how much of it is them and how much of it is the system. all clearly talented players that have improved. We’ve not seen any Frank players in the PL go on to play for other PL teams to have a good indication. Brentford did have Watkins and a few others so their data led modelling does seem to get them undervalued players that can go on to improve.