Kieran Trippier: has a chance to play against Everton (Howe)

[Mahoneys Tache]

52 minutes ago, Donut said:

Hopefully he stays for this season. Tino is the future but Trippier is still miles ahead of him as of right now. 

Someone forgot to download the updates for his software, what with him being a soulless and emotionless android and all that, and immune to

the human frailties that the rest of us endure 

[Displayname]

2 hours ago, Donut said:

Hopefully he stays for this season. Tino is the future but Trippier is still miles ahead of him as of right now. 

Thought Tino was much better last season.

[Joelinton7]

Back from signing for Saudi.

[TheBrownBottle]

On 03/08/2024 at 23:41, Displayname said:

Thought Tino was much better last season.

Other than that shaky spell, I didn’t.  

[Fatwax]

His arm looks tiny.

 

Wasting away.

[Coffee_Johnny]

50 minutes ago, Fatwax said:

His arm looks tiny.

 

Wasting away.

Or fit as a lop and strong as a bull!

[STM]

Would be a strange one.

 

 

[80]

Floating an idea - a deal linked to Bowen coming the other way?

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, 80 said:

Floating an idea - a deal linked to Bowen coming the other way?

Can’t see how West Ham would agree to that tbh. Don’t think Bowen would leave London either.

[Ben]

39 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Can’t see how West Ham would agree to that tbh. Don’t think Bowen would leave London either.

 

Plus he's 28, fuck that, Wor Eddie's not running a retirement home

[Yorkie]

Would absolutely hate to see Trippier turning out for another PL club now. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

We shouldn't be selling him IMO, important to the squad and could still end up our starting RB this season. 

[timeEd32]

14 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

We shouldn't be selling him IMO, important to the squad and could still end up our starting RB this season. 

 

The counterpoints are he'd free up a lot of money and, if we think Tino is ready, he's blocking the path of a young player.

 

I'm kind of neutral on selling him - depends on the deal.

[kingxlnc]

I’d be up for giving Trippier plus 60m for Kudus

 

Doubling their money plus fixing their RB issue

[BoSelecta]

I’m in the ‘it’s good business’ camp if Tripps is off to Saudi and we pump the fee up by a couple of million but seeing him playing for Wham sounds aaaful.

[Coffee_Johnny]

8 hours ago, Ben said:

 

Plus he's 28, fuck that, Wor Eddie's not running a retirement home

Well we’re all delighted he was when he signed Tripps. Plus some players are at their career best in late 20s-early 30s. I think Murphy is going to be one, for example, and I think Trippier is/has been a case in point too. 

[Geogaddi]

I don't mind Trippier staying as our second choice right back but he's clearly on the decline defensively based on last season and Tino should be our first choice right back this season.

 

If it helps with PRS and we can get 10 million or so for him then I don't think it's a bad deal.
 

My worry is we keep him and he remains first choice despite struggling defensively.

 

 

Edited August 8, 2024 by Geogaddi

[Rich]

He had a few stinkers but he was still one of our better players last season, I reckon. The thing is that Tino was easily as good, arguably better, albeit mostly at left-back.

 

In an ideal world I’d still keep Trippier, but he doesn’t seem the type who’d be happy not playing at this stage of his career. He’s one of our top earners, too, so that’s hardly ideal if he’s no longer seen as one of the first names on the team sheet.

 

The amount of times I’ve been told him going to Saudi was a ‘done deal’ btw .

[SUPERTOON]

My only concern with letting him go is that we then have to rely on Krafth as back up. Tino doesn’t have a great injury record and Krafth isn’t good enough to play a decent amount of games for us imo.

[Sibierski]

Tino injury record is fine. It’s just been an ACL and a freak ankle injury. If it was muscle injuries based on how he plays, then I would be concerned, but freak injuries you can brush off. 

 

Krafth and Murphy as emergency RBs should be fine for a season. You don’t anticipate they will start more than 10% of league games, and you can’t go into seasons assuming your main starters are going to be injured for 50%+ of it. If a reasonable RB option comes available, I’m sure we’ll move, but it’s not a necessity this summer and better to plan and scout longer term now Mitchell is in.

[NUFC91]

Some of the comments in this thread are baffling... He played out of position for England and had a few bad performances Dec/Jan but he got 10 assists last season and since signing has been one of our most creative players. 

 

As it stands he is still in our best 11. 

[arnonel]

Leader. Our best RB. One of our most creative outlets. 
Hope he stays

[Geogaddi]

8 minutes ago, NUFC91 said:

Some of the comments in this thread are baffling... He played out of position for England and had a few bad performances Dec/Jan but he got 10 assists last season and since signing has been one of our most creative players. 

 

As it stands he is still in our best 11. 

The 10 assists look good on paper but when you look at them in more detail he got 6 of them in a four game spell during September and October with 3 of them coming against Sheff United and 1 against Burnley during that time.
 

After October he got 4 during the rest of the season and looked suspect defensively on a number of occasions.

 

I like him and what he has done for us, he's clearly a good leader in the dressing room but it's easy to see he's on the decline and shouldn't be our first choice right back this season especially as Tino looked better than him last season when he played . If we need funds for PRS then he's one of the few we can still actually get a bit of money for .

[Checko]

Just play him RW, Beckham style. No dribbling, all elite passy passy. Plus he can fill in at rb when tino goes a-wanderin'.

[Stottie]

With Tonali back and Hall emerging, I think we should be better placed for dead ball threat than last season. Lots of potential takers, come to think of it. I would also hope the RW we all want to come in can cross it better than Almiron.

 

With Hall, its possible that we could alternate or even switch to attacking down the left and having the RB stay home. Gordon-Willock-Hall could reprise what we did so successfully on the right side with Almiron-Bruno-Trippier.

 

Trippier has been a fantastic servant but the team is evolving into something less dependent on what he has given us.