Left back should be the absolute main priority now.

Thread title change? I think a bit is understating it now

How anyone can watch the last 2 games and believe that Phillips is a suitable 4th choice Championship centre half is beyond me, especially when one of the 3 in front of him is a well known crock and the other 2 don’t have the best injury records. It would just be gross negligence and not fair on the boy (yes, boy).

Aye

Do your eyes not work?

Reading away this time was worse than Reading away last season, that’s not even a debate.

Fulham were one of the best sides I’ve seen in the Championship and we had 10 men for most of the game. Reading are not. Last night was worse.

JDT served up a bigger pile of rubbish last night than Mowbray ever served up, I think we should hold off from calling him the second coming just yet.

If Pickering and/or Phillips play on Saturday, we get beat. It’s that simple for me.

He’s far from an average Championship left back, he’s playing at least a level above himself right now.

Didn’t take a genius did it

Yep

Wrong team for me. I hope I’m wrong.

Stinks of clickbait. In my opinion it’s no coincidence that ‘exclusive’ happens mere hours after Spurs fans’ interest in Phillips was piqued.

It goes to a tribunal if we can’t agree a fee, no idea where your 250k figure has come from.

The initial outlay on Brereton and his salary/bonuses are a sunk cost and shouldn’t be factored into whether we sell him this summer or let him go for free next summer.

He’s never going to be ready to start if he doesn’t start, no better chance to give him a go than against Reading when a lot of our players will be exhausted after yesterday. Dolan is okay as a sub when some energy is needed but he shouldn’t be a starter at this level, which I believe Tomasson has already realised.

Dack for Sammy will be the only change I reckon, I don’t think you’ll see the two of them on the pitch at the same time much this season.

Yes. Beautifully weighted.

Say what you want about Chaddy but he’s (probably one of) the first to mention Travis’s performance today, one of the best of his career, absolutely relentless. He was fucked after 80 minutes but somehow pulled together a second wind for the last 21(!!).

If Phillips does play, which I’m sure the vast majority on here would rather happen than Pickering being played there, would he play on the left or the right? Does anyone who’s watched the youth teams know if Phillips has played on the left before?

I’d have thought the last thing Tomasson would want to do today is throw a 17 year old in for his proper debut!

Turns out starting the season with only two senior centre halves was a mistake, who’d have thought it?

Because he’s on around 5k per week now and if we offer say 30k on a 4 year deal, he’ll be earning 25k more per week until the end of the season and has 4 years’ financial security in case of injury/loss of form etc., along with the benefit of going for a reduced fee at the end of the season. He’d have to think about it at least.

You don’t half talk some nonsense