2025/26 Nathan Patterson

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None of that works because O'Brien at RB - admittedly a step up from putting Patterson in there again - doesn't work for us.

The foundations of the win the other night were the back four. O'Brien was MOTM and Tarkowski had his best game all season because he knew what Jake was up to and vice versa.

Dont go with that back four again and we're a midden waiting to ship 2/3 goals.

If we're short in MF, btw, then look no further than Moyes allowing Armstrong to leave on loan.

Armstrong would be pretty useful right now, but wouldn't have benefitted from his development at Preston if he was in our squad, he'd not have played much.

We also still need a team for Forest, and right now (assuming Keane is still out) the options are either a makeshift RB or a makeshift CM, or... we play CM Garner at CM and RB Patterson at RB. I'd rather see Garner at RB, but the hole at CM would be a bigger problem than the hole at RB.