Rodon vs Rodon

Now or then?

Written by: Simon Rix
Artwork by: Adam Hopkins
An illustration of Ao Tanaka and Jayden Bogle by our Adam Hopkins. Tanaka is looking forward, like a true attacking midfielder, while Jayden Bogle is looking across and wondering where the hell Junior Firpo has gone!

Was it a good transfer window? Or have the 49ers thrown Daniel Farke under a bus? Now the transfer window is over Simon Rix takes a look at the players in and out.

Archie Gray and Bill Ayling vs Jayden Bogle

Itโ€™s very hard for anyone to replace Luke Ayling and, given his performances for Middlesborough since moving up there, itโ€™s even harder to imagine that he didnโ€™t have more to offer at Leeds. That said, Archie made the position his own last season, only really struggling a couple of times with the level of wingers in the Champo and leaving us all wondering how good he was going to be in central midfield in 24/25.

That wasnโ€™t to be either, and Bogle was bought as a specialist to fill the right-back slot. Given Bogle is only 24 and with Archieโ€™s nemesis Liam Miller already dealt with once this season, Iโ€™m calling this one as a draw. One point each.

1-1

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