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Signing Peretz before the Ramsdale situation is sorted seems bold. Newcastle announced a few days ago that he was returning to us. I guess that doesn't mean he couldn't still sign on a permanent deal, but you'd think there'd be a little more positive noise if they were.

Yes, I'll give them to you tomorrow.

Hang on, it could be Chris Long, Charlie Goode and Fred Friday.

I assume Peretz has already signed and it will be announced today. Like last summer, we obviously want to fill the most glaring holes early. A little easier to do this time around.

Fellows and Matsuki are not playing on the left, so let's leave them out of the discussion. No problem with either - different styles and thats a good thing. Was Robinson injured? He was possibly our best player under Still, Scienza apart, but is a different type of player to Scienza and is he really a left winger or is he better suited as an Azaz understudy? Edozie as second choice...maybe that's OK. He's a different type to Robinson, so that is good, but I was so disappointed in his performance against Boro. He looked out of his depth IMO.

Excellent. We are signing George Long, Curtis Good and er, Robin Friday.

I'm not convinced Edozie is ever going to become the player we hoped. Should Scienza depart I think we would need to reinvest in that position.

I've posted about him several times, Olabade Aluko is the guy I'd go for.

Great. Hopefully that means they sign him because IMO he's shite. Our problem (and most clubs to be fair) is when a player doesn't work out, they are very difficult to shift. I'd happy see him go, along with Roerslev, who I never fancied. There are quality players out there - you just need a space in the squad (and available wages) to get the chance to bring them in.

What position did he play for Derby? He looked totally ill-equipped to play left wing at any level IMO. Not sure he can be a target man, so wondering where he fits in? I personally think Edozie is never going to cut it, so that left side is a position that needs reinforcing assuming Jay Robinson can't fill it.

I find it hard to believe there wasn't any info we wanted for any of the other 40 odd games. Did we admit to spying on Oxford and Ipswich because evidence had been presented about both, so we couldn't really deny it, or did we give that information voluntarily?

If posters don't have the ability to articulate themselves correctly, then perhaps it would be wise not to draw such comparisons.

He's got two more years on his contract, so he certainly wont be released. If we can offload him again on loan or better still permanently, I'm sure we will.

Did he? I thought he was crap from minute one. Very poor first touch, passing and decision making. Never good enough for the PL. The drop down a division would have given him more time and space, but if we can get rid we should.

Won't happen for multiple reasons, but I'd be testing Leicester resolve with an offer for Olabade Aluko. He looks an exciting prospect to be. Obviously everyone wants to see Bree return, but I wasn't impressed by Mads Roerslev or Elias Jelert and I've never rated Sugawara. If we can ship them out, I would.

Obviously if we can find someone better we should, but that isn't easy at this level. With Larin and Ross both involved in the WC, you would imagine their agents will advise them to sit tight and see if a better offer arrives. A goal or two in the WC and they may get some interest. Having only one year of parachute money left will restrict what we can offer. Both are very interesting cases. Larin really isn't wanted at Mallorca, but having scored goals they wont give him away. I would imagine he wont have an issue playing for us in the championship if he is being paid decent championship wages. I always thought Stewart would get over his injury jinx, but it has to be said that after the initial error of overplaying him earlier in the season and him getting injured the club managed his time very well. Having Larin playing well enabled that. Without it, who knows what might have happened. The club will be fully aware of the availability limitations going forward, assuming he can only really play one game a week. But other than that Stewart has everything we need pace, height, goals...so its just a case of finding the same ground contract wise.

parachute payment type wages.

If Boro get promoted, then they, especially the board, owner and bank manager, won't give a fuck if it's seen as 'tainted' in some people's eyes. Their balance sheet will come of it very well indeed.

he's too busy calculating how much of his annual salary he has to pay Ricky Gervais for stealing his jokes.

When Pires dived and UEFA did fuck all, choosing not to punish retrospectively, on field cheating was effectively deemed 'OK'.

Could be the start of a while new line of litigation in football. Maybe the club should sue the players that got us relegated for not performing and causing a loss of income for the club? How about players suing the club because they were not been picked and thus preventing them staving the club from relegation causing a 40% loss of income at not fault of their own? How about Will Still suing the club for loss of reputation due to our failure to sign the right players in the summer to help him win games?

You could argue spending time watching football is a complete waste of time, full stop. It was a great night though. Glad to have experienced it.

Maybe if it was the EFL making the decision, City would have bene punished by now? Maybe if we had spent as much money as City have on lawyers, the 2026 play off final would be in 2029.

Have they? Pretty difficult circumstances, in terms of the lack of time available, created by us alone. Personally. I thought the whole thing was a bit of a storm in a tea cup and the "crime" of spying was pretty small fry, but I guess I was completely mistaken. The punishment seems pretty harsh in comparison to Leeds. I thought we'd get a fine and maybe a pints deduction (suspended). That said, I also feel that the EFL have shown fucking balls for chucking us out. With the likes of UEFA and FIFA showing absolutely no regard for the game over the last few decades, it's refreshing that a governing body has done something to protect the game rather than just make money. Shame we are the ones to cop it, but that's life.

EFL could just say, "yeah sure, you go ahead and take 14 days to prepare matey, in the mean time, we'll get the play final done and dusted".