I agree Quicko, but he seems reluctant to play Joe at RB.
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A strange, yet beautiful moment 
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Shortage of centre defenders may play a part in that decision perhaps?
Dunno really. He’s done ok bar the injuries
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Now you’re just being silly 
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Injured player not training…
Is this what counts for news now?
Seems he was at the centre but so have Leoni and Isak been in recent weeks and its evidently if they can train on that specific day.
Aye…Taylor n Tierney The Terrible Twins…
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I missed the press conference. Video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/6Oe_eiIbSZo?si=0V9ViCX27gmeeCnQ
Seemingly Frimpong still out. I’ll find a summary later.
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Here is the BBC summary of Slot’s news conference:
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Slot confirmed Joe Gomez is available and fit to start. Jeremie Frimpong “will not be involved this weekend” but Slot said “we hope he will be involved next week if things go as planned”.
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Wataru Endo will be out “for a long time” with the injury he sustained against Sunderland but there is not yet a timescale, while Alexander Isak “has been on the pitch not with his football shoes but with his running shoes for the first time this week so it will still be a while”.
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More on Isak, who continues to recover from a broken leg: “You do know you’re in your final stages of rehab. Next step is, of course, doing work with the ball and then going into the group, but it takes a while before you’re ready to play. It’s nice that rehab has gone well- compliments to him and our medical staff. Let’s not put a timescale on it but it’s clear he will be available if things go as planned this season.”
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Asked whether the Reds needed free midweek, Slot said: “Not needed it, no. Maybe if you ask me again in a month it’s different. It was nice to have days off, but I didn’t really need it. Last season, I maybe needed it more. I’m enjoying the work I do over here - I enjoy working with the players and the staff.”
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On Dominik Szoboszlai’s position: “He played a good game in midfield [against Brighton in the FA Cup]. The week before he played a very good game at right-back, and the week before a good game in another position. A player with his quality can play in multiple positions and I have to find the best position for him and for the team.”
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On facing Vitor Pereira’s Forest after losing at 3-0 at home earlier in the season when they were manager by Sean Dyche: “Back then, it was Dyche’s third or fourth game. That makes it a little bit more difficult. We only have tonight [Forest’s Europa League match at Fenerbahce] to see if this new manager changes personnel. The good thing is they have that game, and the manager was in the Premier League last season.”
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On a recent return to goalscoring form: “We always try to press, bring the ball out from the back, and we want to entertain. We don’t always achieve that. Sometimes it’s about us and sometimes it’s the teams facing us don’t want an entertaining game. For a lot of the season, when we’ve lost or drawn, we have not deserved it. Things went a bit more back to normal recently and you can see that in performances and results.”
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Huge step forward if we win. Chelsea and Villa will probably win, United might drop points, but we just need to show we can win two games in a row, in the league
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Funny presser today, from a number of questions on Isak to again that Hungarian fella with his choice of question that gets him absolutely nowhere.
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Welcome @LovelyCushionedHead
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Welcome to the madhouse..we’re mad when we win…and mad when we loose…ya takes ya choice:rofl:
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Forest’s starting XI away against Fenerbahce tonight:
Ortega, Aina, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Sangare, Anderson, Hutchinson, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Jesus.
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Very good result for them, 0-3 win. Murillo, Jesus and Gibbs-White with the goals.
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Well as the lads have had another holiday I will be expecting some spring chickens out there on Sunday .
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We should win this one ‘easy, peasy lemon squeezy!’ 
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This is Maria’s version of ‘smash them, they’re shit!’
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Not ideal this one. Kicks off at 1am or something. Won’t be able to do the replay thing because the dreaded in-laws are here. So it’s going to be the ‘wake up and look at the phone’ routine.
Brutal!
I fear calamity.
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