The player ratings thread 25/26

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10/08/2025, 11:08 PM
pineapple stu

The player ratings thread 25/26

With the start of a new season, might be worth looking at bringing this back from a year or two ago. Ratings for the Irish players as per whoscored.com, which should at least be consistent and impartial, even if you can argue about how accurate or relevant it is. Seems to be a fairly good indicator though.

Think I might leave out League One as there's nobody there who would really be threatening the senior setup. Callum Robinson might be about the only interesting name, and he's unlikely to be called up in September given he's starting on the bench for Cardiff there.

Championship
Birmingham 1-1 Ipswich - Cashin an unused sub; O'Shea 6.9, Ogbene 6.1, Taylor 6.6, Szmodics 6.3
Charlton 1-0 Watford - Coventry 6.6, Abankwah 6.9
Coventry 0-0 Hull - McCarthy and Egan unused subs
Southampton 2-1 Wrexham - Bazunu 6.4, Manning 7.8 (last 20 minutes only, but scored), McClean 5.9 (last 5 only), O'Connell an unused sub
Boro 1-0 Swansea - Gilbert an unused sub
Norwich 1-2 Millwall - Emakhu 6.2 (last 5 only)
Oxford 0-1 Portsmouth - Goodrham 6.0, Shaughnessy 7.4
Stoke 3-1 Derby - Lawal 6.5, Bonham an unused sub
WBA 1-0 Blackburn - Molumby 7.2, McLoughlin 7.0, Johnston an unused sub
Sheffield United 1-4 Bristol City - Cannon 6.1 (last 30 only), Knight 6.9, Armstrong 6.2 (last 10 only), Sykes 6.1 (last 15 only), Murphy an unused sub
Leicester 2-1 Wednesday - McAteer 6.2 (last 15 only), Otegbayo 5.9

SPL - first two weeks here
Killie 2-2 Livi - Carey 6.1 (taken off at half-time), Blaney an unused sub
Dundee 1-2 Hibs - O'Hora 6.3, McGrath 7.0 (last 35 only)
Celtic 1-0 St Mirren - Scales 8.5 (man of the match), Idah 6.1, Kenny 6.1 (last 15 only), Phillips 6.5, Idowo 6.2, Sobowale 6.2 (last 10 only)
Hearts 2-0 Aberdeen - McEntee 7.7
Livi 3-1 Falkirk - Carey 6.4, Blaney 7.9 (came on after 15 minutes)
St Mirren 0-0 Motherwell - Phillips 6.6, Idowu 6.0 (taken off at half-time), Sobowale 6.1 (replaced Idowu)
Aberdeen 0-2 Celtic - Molloy and Kenny unused subs, Scales 7.0, Idah 6.5
Hibs 2-2 Killie - O'Hora 6.2, McGrath 7.7 (one assist)
Dundee United 2-3 Hearts - McEntee 6.7

Other leagues
AZ 4-1 Groningen - Parrott 9.0 (scored twice)
PEC 1-0 Zwolle - MacNulty 7.6
Braga 3-0 Tondela - Hodge 6.2
Then Serie A hasn't started yet, Istanbul Basaksehir's game was postponed, Finn is in the second tier after Lyon's relegation was overturned and Afolabi is in the Belgian second tier. I think that's the foreign contingent - getting harder to keep track of them all!

So very good weeks (8.5+) for Scales, Parrott
Good weeks (7.5-8.4) for Manning, McGrath, McEntee, MacNulty
Poor weeks (5.5-6.2) for Ogbene, Otegbayo, Idowu x 2, O'Hora, Carey, Idah, Hodge
And very poor weeks (<5.5) for no-one

So a couple of bright spots, but overall nothing really special I think.
10/08/2025, 11:23 PM
Eirambler

Good to see this back. Also positive that we're close to completely moving on from picking League 1 players in squads, it's only couple of years since we'd regularly have had half a dozen or more of them involved.

The one club down there that might be the exception could be Luton, who are a bit unfortunate to be there to start with and will expect to bounce straight back. They have McGuinness, Alli and Keeley and some good form could get any of those three into our squad I think.

In terms of the continental based players the other ones that may still be of interest would be Omobamidele in Ligue 1 and O'Dowda in Hungary.
10/08/2025, 11:28 PM
elatedscum

Quote:

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

With the start of a new season, might be worth looking at bringing this back from a year or two ago. Ratings for the Irish players as per whoscored.com, which should at least be consistent and impartial, even if you can argue about how accurate or relevant it is. Seems to be a fairly good indicator though.

Think I might leave out League One as there's nobody there who would really be threatening the senior setup. Callum Robinson might be about the only interesting name, and he's unlikely to be called up in September given he's starting on the bench for Cardiff there.

Championship
Birmingham 1-1 Ipswich - Cashin an unused sub; O'Shea 6.9, Ogbene 6.1, Taylor 6.6, Szmodics 6.3
Charlton 1-0 Watford - Coventry 6.6, Abankwah 6.9
Coventry 0-0 Hull - McCarthy and Egan unused subs
Southampton 2-1 Wrexham - Bazunu 6.4, Manning 7.8 (last 20 minutes only, but scored), McClean 5.9 (last 5 only), O'Connell an unused sub
Boro 1-0 Swansea - Gilbert an unused sub
Norwich 1-2 Millwall - Emakhu 6.2 (last 5 only)
Oxford 0-1 Portsmouth - Goodrham 6.0, Shaughnessy 7.4
Stoke 3-1 Derby - Lawal 6.5, Bonham an unused sub
WBA 1-0 Blackburn - Molumby 7.2, McLoughlin 7.0, Johnston an unused sub
Sheffield United 1-4 Bristol City - Cannon 6.1 (last 30 only), Knight 6.9, Armstrong 6.2 (last 10 only), Sykes 6.1 (last 15 only), Murphy an unused sub
Leicester 2-1 Wednesday - McAteer 6.2 (last 15 only), Otegbayo 5.9

SPL - first two weeks here
Killie 2-2 Livi - Carey 6.1 (taken off at half-time), Blaney an unused sub
Dundee 1-2 Hibs - O'Hora 6.3, McGrath 7.0 (last 35 only)
Celtic 1-0 St Mirren - Scales 8.5 (man of the match), Idah 6.1, Kenny 6.1 (last 15 only), Phillips 6.5, Idowo 6.2, Sobowale 6.2 (last 10 only)
Hearts 2-0 Aberdeen - McEntee 7.7
Livi 3-1 Falkirk - Carey 6.4, Blaney 7.9 (came on after 15 minutes)
St Mirren 0-0 Motherwell - Phillips 6.6, Idowu 6.0 (taken off at half-time), Sobowale 6.1 (replaced Idowu)
Aberdeen 0-2 Celtic - Molloy and Kenny unused subs, Scales 7.0, Idah 6.5
Hibs 2-2 Killie - O'Hora 6.2, McGrath 7.7 (one assist)
Dundee United 2-3 Hearts - McEntee 6.7

Other leagues
AZ 4-1 Groningen - Parrott 9.0 (scored twice)
PEC 1-0 Zwolle - MacNulty 7.6
Braga 3-0 Tondela - Hodge 6.2
Then Serie A hasn't started yet, Istanbul Basaksehir's game was postponed, Finn is in the second tier after Lyon's relegation was overturned and Afolabi is in the Belgian second tier. I think that's the foreign contingent - getting harder to keep track of them all!

So very good weeks (8.5+) for Scales, Parrott
Good weeks (7.5-8.4) for Manning, McGrath, McEntee, MacNulty
Poor weeks (5.5-6.2) for Ogbene, Otegbayo, Idowu x 2, O'Hora, Carey, Idah, Hodge
And very poor weeks (<5.5) for no-one

So a couple of bright spots, but overall nothing really special I think.

Honestly in League 1, you've got 7 lads who have been called up not that long ago: Mark McGuinness, Callum Robinson, Josh Keeley, Aaron Connolly, Marcus Harness, CJ Hamilton, Luca Connell

And I'd say another 7 interesting senior players due to our lack of depth at left back and in midfield primarily and a few just because they're interesting: Mellenic Alli, Sean Roughan, Tayo Adaramola, Baba Adeeko, Jack Moylan, Neil Farrugia, Andy Lyons...
10/08/2025, 11:36 PM
pineapple stu

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eirambler

In terms of the continental based players the other ones that may still be of interest would be Omobamidele in Ligue 1 and O'Dowda in Hungary.

Good spots! There's no ratings for the Hungarian league games though so O'Dowda won't feature here.

There's more League One players of interest than I'd realised! The last time it seemed to be mostly ex-LoI players, a couple of guys on the way down, and Cashing standing out

But will leave it out all the same. The player threads can cover them