Morgan isn't a Grealish replacement though, he'd be going as a de Bruyne understudy. In a side like City's where he'd have a bit more space, and where the players around him would be making better and more consistent runs, I can see him absolutely shining. I think he has the talent and the temperament to make it all the way.
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I'm not so sure. The best of MGW is when we are on the break. He can carry the ball 10-15 yards and play some defence splitting passes. Like at Brighton for our equaliser. Does he have the skillset to play the number 10 role in a team that is camped on the edge of the opposition box for 90 minutes? I honestly don't know. Maybe.
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If he stays in the UK, the obvious move for me would to replace the ageing (although still superb) van Dijk whose contract is up at the end of this season.
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If he moved to a big 6 side (and I'm not sure he's quite good enough) Gibbs-White would likely end up as an 8, similar to the role Odegaard plays at Arsenal or Silva at City.
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Giminez, the striker we wanted, is out for around 3 months.
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Ok. But if he was at Forest he wouldn't be. As he wouldn't even have been on the pitch where it happened. He would be fine. Or dead from a shooting in the Meadows. Or top scorer in the PL with 20 goals. Who fucking knows. Life/reality doesn't work like this.
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Haven't you seen Sliding Doors or Final Destination?
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A Forest version of that might be quite watchable.
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Like it…what would be the best Forest Sliding Door moments over the last 30 years?
- Selling Bohinen in 1995?
- Selling Campbell in 1997?
- Des’ own goal in 2003?
- VAR penalty decision(s) in play off final?
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slightly outside the 30 years but Gazza getting sent off in the FA Cup final, or Clough stumping up the cash for Collymore when he had the chance
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If I can stretch it to 35 years (ish) I'd say being pipped to the signing of Dean Saunders by the Bin Dippers. We were one proper striker away from winning the league back then...
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We had a very decent season in 1989/90 but can't help feeling it would have been even better with Neil Webb still around.
But the fuck-up in the summer of 1998, as Guru points out, is still the obvious one for me. With only a couple of solid additions I think we'd have comfortably stayed up (providing Van Hooijdonk and Campbell stayed fit). Instead our promotion team was broken up - Cooper as big a loss as Campbell arguably - and we were in the third division within six fairly miserable seasons.
I agree the Gazza one from 1991 is a good shout.
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One that effected Forest but out of our control was English teams getting banned from Europe, how many European campaigns would we have had back then
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Without a doubt Campbell and Cooper leaving in summer 1998 would have changed things an awful lot.
At the other end of the spectrum.....
If JJ got broken just before Newcastle came a-swooping. Just how fucked would we have been we financially had that deal not happened?
Or if Fawaz hadn't have come in for is when he did.
And what if Nigel Doughty hadn't have, t'know, pegged it. Would we just be Bristol City forevermore? Destined to finish between 10th and 15th in the Championship, never in trouble and never challenging for anything?
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I mean that's backing up my point isn't it? A small change at one moment and reality in those films can take a totally different course. It doesn't all stay exactly the same apart from that one moment.
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Joining in .... yes. The Campbell and Cooper sales I think. Keep them and we might have been in the PL the last 20 years.
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Or conversely, just for a another 2 or 3 years and eventually gone down anyway with Wimbledon and Coventry instead of Bradford(?)./ Charlton that year.
Or even stayed up and actually become Charlton by 2006 ish having decided a few consecutive top half finishes was old hat and hounding out the.manager before spending the better part of 20 years hence dreaming of the giddy heights of 21st in the Championship.
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Yeah, while I'd love to believe keeping Cooper and Campbell (the former wanted to go "home" anyway and wasn't really a Bassett centre half, so was less avoidable) would have led to us being permanent premier league members, the unstable nature of the Soar/Scholar/Wray ownership would almost certainly have fucked us up before very long anyway.
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We've done this before, but Guru's list had the correct number 1 position - selling Super Lars Bohinen was the one.
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I'm not sure he "wanted" to go home, until it was made clear (by Bassett agreeing to sell him to West Ham) that he wasn't wanted. AIUI, he told the club, he would only leave for Middlesbrough, and sure enough a deal was agreed with them within a few weeks.
As you say, he wasn't a Bassett centre half at all (we started the promotion season with Chettle and Hjelde as the CB and Cooper didn't play in defence until late September, after Hjelde got injured, having initially been picked in midfield)
