Ex Lion Tamer

Salisu has substantial experience in La Liga and won't be staying on the bench for another year. Our strategy is (often) to grow players so that after a year or so they are ready to step up when first teamers leave

We effectively replaced Vest last summer when we signed Salisu. And now we're signing Simeu to hopefully become a regular in 22/23

Looks like he's got a nice long pass on him

This does sound plausible but correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't our strategy at one stage to have two left footers and two right footers covering centre back? This leaves us just with Salisu

Which of our potential signings would you go without to generate funds for another keeper?

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I don't know the answer to your question but as far as I'm aware he hasn't pulled up any trees at Newcastle so perhaps there's something deeper there

I find it amusing how right wingers will talk forever about governments needing to cut spending and make sacrifices so we live within our means but the same doesn't seem to apply to football clubs

If we don't have any money then what are we supposed to do? Magic some up? Put the club at risk by getting in unaffordable debt? It seems very unlikely that we are blind to the issues at GK

I can think of players who were denied a move by their club and so underperformed, but not ones who were just running down their contracts?

This surely ought to be what the club's financial loan is for. If Ings leaves now or next summer, or even if he signs a new contract, we're going to need to sign a striker at some stage, so let's do it now. It's also an investment in that we may well get a transfer fee for him in the future if he's any good.

I'm sure we could afford Williams' loan fee, we just don't think it's fair value

I read it that we're not going to place any more bids until later in the window when Blackburn will have to drop their asking price

I think we have to sign Armstrong this summer and then see if Ings stays or goes

If we replaced Ings with Armstrong would we definitely go down? If not then it would be good business as we'd have Armstrong for years to come rather than Ings for just a season

Football is in a sad place when mid table clubs like Palace and Newcastle are scrapping to loan a Chelsea youngster

The owner doesn't have money to invest, and the Chinese government wouldn't let him even if he did. Ambition is irrelevant

The point is that they are spending more than us, so they can afford to keep players like Grealish (for longer, at least). It really is that simple

They probably will be, as ambitious people who want to do a great job, but they may equally reflect that White simply didn't show enough to justify keeping him on, and they couldn't have known how he would kick on. Indeed no other Premier League team saw fit to take him on at that time

Is it possible to get every academy decision right? Seems like quite a high bar and I'm sure every club makes mistakes

I just disagree that policing racism is inevitably the thin end of the wedge. It is perfectly possible to draft a sensible law on online hate in the UK without turning us into China. We live in a democracy for a start, which acts as some protection from that sort of abuse of power. We already police child pornography online, so it's not like the internet is totally free anyway. We can make sensible laws on online behaviour just like in any other aspect of society. What we should be worried about is the government's plans to clamp down on peaceful protest - now that really is authoritarian

All laws are based on what a portion of voters think. You never have absolute consensus

Reasonable people can be complicit in turning a blind eye to abuse. If they realise the extent of the problem and demand action then the government feels obliged to do something. Johnson has already said he wants to ban racists from football stadiums, doesn't that vindicate the campaigners?

When you say policy, you mean Matt Crocker said it in an interview once?

Whataboutery of the highest order. Stopping racism doesn't have any disbenefits to other people like these examples (arguably) do. Being outright offensive to people isn't tolerated in society; it's not a freedom of speech issue. We already have laws against inciting racial hatred and racial hate crimes