Saint Mikey

It is a business though, and it should be looking to maximise its revenue within reason. The club owes nothing to fans or season ticket holders. If you bought a ticket you got to see a game, if you bought a season ticket you had the opportunity to see 23. The CoL isn't the club's concern. Should the Mayflower, Take That or Taylor Swift give reduced tickets because of the CoL?

I've done in depth analysis on our rivals fixtures lists and looked back at 5 years worth of Championship data. Taking into account trend analysis, I've come to the conclusion that the two teams with the most points and/or better goal difference after 46 games will be automatically promoted.

Save Chip! Don't let Sarah win...

Exactly. There's always so much guesswork with these figures. Probably taken from Champ Man and/or Transfrmarkt who are both guessing.

Like Francis Lee?

When they identified 700 odd people who were apparently falsifying accounts and on the take, did no-one say 'hang on a minute, could it be the system that's wrong?'.

Ungrateful.

We would have been in a stronger position to keep him had we stayed up, no doubt. However, who's to say he wouldn't have wanted to leave and we wouldn't have sold him anyway? The last few seasons were desperate, if I was a player I wouldn't have wanted to stick around for 5,6,7 wins a season. It's bad enough as a fan, it must be truly shite as a player and if you've got suitors you'd be off.

Wouldn't we be looking to loan Mara out too? Hasn't happened for him here and may benefit from a loan to France. Would rather a perm, but can realistically only see a loan. Provided we could get replacement squad player, may be best for both parties.

If Argentina are digging into the second-tier talent pool, they must be scratching around. Don't get me wrong, I rate Alcaraz, and I think he's gonna be a solid player for us, but he's not quite cut from the same cloth as the legendary Argentina No 10s like Ortega, Veron, Aimar, and Pompey hero Riquelme (not to mention the top two guns in that list).

True. Only Tall Paul, maybe he's in a group of his own - basketball training?!

Interesting to see the following training in the main group for varying reasons: ABK, Kamaldeen, Larios, Che.

I think Stewart would be a good signing. Is a proper 'No 9' and a real focal point - would be the closest to Lambert/Pelle that we've seen for a while. Caveat that there's a concern on fitness, but that's what a medical is for, surely?

If it hasn't been already, surely it's time to resurrect the Rasiak chant based on KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up? Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na now! Charly Alcaraz - Alcaraz - Charly Alcaraz PS - I have heard he fucking hates Pompey, but unsure how to work it in.

I've no idea why Chelsea are pursuing Caicedo given that Brighton want £100m (and have already rejected £70m) when £50m would more than likely would get Lavia. Caicedo is a bit further ahead in terms of consistency and level of performance, but on the other hand played in a much better team and is a couple of years older - he's certainly not twice as good as Lavia. Don't get why some of these clubs haven't gone straight in and bought him. £50m is a bargain! It's clear he's going to be a top player for the next 10 years. As others have said hope we can get a sell-on clause included.