🌞Summer Silly Season Transfer thread 2026

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What's the difference between playing two right footed centre backs or two left footed centre backs? Not entirely sure but two left footed centre backs personally feels cumbersome? Possibly you won't see that very often either?
It's not ideal and hope it's not a case of throwing in the towel for the first game?

Professional footballers on thousands of pounds a week can't use both feet, a bloody disgrace they should be ashamed what are the coaches at youth level doing? picking their noses!

Fully Agree and there are average players earning a fortune. At Ajax from their Academy upwards they use to coach right footed players to play on the left side, and left footed players on the right side in training in practice and in friendlies.
That is why they produced so many players who felt comfortable on the ball with both feet and strengthened their first touch no matter how they received the ball.
It was called total football.
These days players get money for old rope, for diving, pretending to be injured, time wasting and attempting to get an opponent sent off or booked.
No wonder the game at the highest level is in turmoil.

1961 - my first day at Grammar school and the sports master asks those of us who are right footed to put our hands up and most did. Then asks those who are left footed to put their hands up and some did. Then he says we have all given the wrong answer as we should be able to play with both feet ! Never forgotten that and so spent hours working on the left foot. Managed some improvement but still rather sh1t unfortunately.
It really is a sad indictment of the modern footballer that some are so one footed

[SimonDaviesEnjoyer]

Sorry but Robinson a couple of seasons ago was being touted for a big money move. He was being called the best left back in the league by some pundits.

He wasn't being called that five or six years ago.

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1961 - my first day at Grammar school and the sports master asks those of us who are right footed to put our hands up and most did. Then asks those who are left footed to put their hands up and some did. Then he says we have all given the wrong answer as we should be able to play with both feet ! Never forgotten that and so spent hours working on the left foot. Managed some improvement but still rather sh1t unfortunately.
It really is a sad indictment of the modern footballer that some are so one footed

It annoys me, too, watching modern forwards squander chances by shuffling the ball on to their 'comfortable' foot. I am led to believe that modern coaching theory holds that players are not coached to use their 'wrong' foot, possibly for the strange reason that it may diminish the skills of their 'natural' one.
I recall George Best getting rather annoyed (unusual for the normally affable George) with an  interviewer who suggested that he was lucky to be naturally two-footed. George pointed out strongly that he was not naturally two-footed and that he worked for many hours after training (this was obviously in the days before George found other things to do after, and indeed sometimes instead of training) to make both feet equally efficient.
I had the pleasue and privelege to watch Haynes for many years, it was well after his reirement when I read his comment that his right-foot was better...but you would never have guessed it.