I didn't have any such worries. I like Taiwo and what he does for us, but I don't think he's quite up to the level of playing for a top 6/8 club.
It definitely makes centre forward our number one need come Jan 1st though.
-
Ordinarily I would agree, but a few teams have vacancies and I can see why trying to get Taiwo for, say, £30m, might feel like a worthy punt when the alternative is spending 2-3 times that on Ivan Toney or someone from forrin who’s got a high chance of flopping.
He’s given some very good defences a very hard time and hugely progressed since coming into the league. If he didn’t look like a guy who gets injured too often, I think he’d be on a lot of shortlists.
-
Would we sell him for 30M though? Replacing him with cover is already hard enough. Replacing him with better would be even harder.
-
I don’t know what relevant clubs (including us) would value him at. But, generally, all it takes is someone to show serious interest and if he reciprocates then, at the very least, it’s a situation.. and not one we want in January.
-
So 1 in 4 chance of an extended argument about whether the Brian Clough Trophy is at stake when our under 21s play Derby's first team. (It shouldn't be.)
-
When is the draw?
-
Clearly not. Although it is an opportunity for their first team to qualify for us, to send them to Wycombe for a season long loan.
-
The question is, which clubs who might be interested would Taiwo want to leave us for, especially when he's a nailed-on starter for us?
-
BC Trophy is at stake if we won but not if we were to lose
-
Donny, so doesn’t arise.
-
Re: Murillo:
“I remember him putting in some great performances,” Vergueiro tells The Athletic, “particularly during his final year at under-20 level. There was one game, away to Flamengo in the semi-final of the Campeonato Brasileiro… Flamengo had some good chances at the start of the first half and Murillo cleared one shot off the line. He later scored the winning goal for us. We joked that by preventing one and scoring another, it was a two-goal performance.”
I wouldn't open with it.
-
Hwang scores for Norwich.
-
The Norwich Hwang, etc.
-
Percy: New - #nffc owner Evangelos Marinakis growing increasingly frustrated over club's delay in appointing a specialist set-piece coach. Marinakis regards the position as crucial - just one goal from dead-ball situations so far this season
This seems like positive news.
