Ex Lion Tamer

Feels like people have forgotten what league we're in again. Fraser is a quality signing at this level

If Leeds have outbid us for Piroe then it's worth bearing in mind how badly they've managed their affairs in recent years, losing players for low fees this summer due to reckless contractual conditions. It's not an automatic that we should have matched them

Interesting that we've gone from assuming that we can't buy players until we sell, to assuming we're buying players because we intend to sell

Plus it's hard to see Rasmus sticking around for a cynical money making exercise. He needs visible success to fuel his management guru / Ted talk shtick

An unnamed club has bid for Nathan Wood and it may well be us

Makes me think he is on his way and we're trying to manage fan opinion?

I know some people have a low opinion of our board but they (the board) would have to be raving lunatics to look at the sales of Lavia and Tino and think, "right, the thing to do now isn't to invest in new young talent, but to try to get back the money we spent last year".

Charles is an investment where we're likely to get our money back with interest, so it's easy to justify the outlay. Plus Lavia was heavily in demand so his departure was pretty likely. Piroe is 24 and reaching his peak so his sell-on value is much more uncertain, and we may still not get an acceptable bid for Adams. So harder to push the button until we need to

Hopefully we've given Everton/Che a deadline to agree a move which leaves time for us to find a replacement. Otherwise he stays

Both players are out of contract next summer and Swansea can't afford to let them go for free. It's a waiting game but we're holding the lube

Selling players when they want to leave helps us to attract other top young players

I think this possibility is underpriced. It may well be that Che is quite happy to wait and run down his contract but the club want him out to realise some value

Had a great season in the Scottish Premiership last season but fairly dry the previous two (including one in the Belgian league where Onuachu scored a hatful). Interesting one.

Would be Che would be a better finisher if he had more confidence, not less

In fairness, if your team is losing every week then your main job is to try to keep up morale and be positive. If your team is mostly winning and scoring freely then you can afford to call out the odd bad half

This is right. It all happened quite fast but KWP had to hold back and cover the far post and needed Bednarek to recognise that the player was coming into his area

This is huge I think. Also for keeping the odd player

Looked like bednarek to me

No prizes for guessing who let go of their man for their goal

Actually most people were saying 8 and plenty said worse

Genuine question but why do we need Grimes when we have Charles, Smallbone, Downes, Armstrong and Alcaraz covering the midfield slots? We might be better off with a young kid who'll be happy with max 10 games

I'm wondering who misses out when Alcaraz, Smallbone, Downes and Charles are all available. We have really good depth in midfield at the moment

Our model is to invest for the future. It's not about paying down last season's investments, they're paying for themselves, now and in the future. Now we find more young players we can flip for a profit

Why does the world have to change 😢

I came here to say this. That parry was utterly awful, he should be putting it behind