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No Stephens or Stewart either.

Adam Armstrong is in his final year as well.

Why is anyone even watching this shite?

I miss Hummel.

Yeah, I really don't know what people are in Sulemana, I really don't. £20m and did absolutely fuck all in the Championship. Complete waste of time and money.

They're feeding on our scraps (ie. Rothwell)

Seemingly only ever pop up with articles about us when they have something negative to write. You couldn't pay me to read that trash.

Ballard back scoring already. Still pisses me off we persisted with Mara and sent Ballard out on loan.

Yet we offer the Tottenham lads (SAA and Meghoma) at 16 for more than we offered our own talents ... Not to mention when, I think it was Kraft, openly saying there's a lack of talent in the academy at one of the fan events. They care little for the academy, and would rather spend on other clubs young talents. All the main academy staff driving it have left since SR have come in, that's telling in itself.

Alex Stepien-Iwumene had joined Derby after being released in the summer.

All because we offered him less wages than what we offered the last intake of players. Yet happy to pay SAA and Meghoma near professional wages when they signed.

I mean, if I was in the academy, and saw talent like Dibling & Ballard being blocked out by utter dross like Mara or Sulemana, I'd ponder if there was an academy pathway there at all.

Only cos he was recovering from injury. Not sure he can use that excuse again (actually, it's ABK, he probably could)

Um, why?

Absolute bullshit all this digital-only "through the app" nonsense.

I thought he was waiting for Matty Holland to finish his medical?

That's a good move for him. Always thought he was a talent, albeit overlooked slightly by the likes of Ballard, Morgan and Doyle.

Would Downes count as an ex-saint right now? 🤣

True; though I do very much disagree with what we're rumoured to pay SAA and Meghoma vs what we're prepared to pay for our own talents. The rumours I heard were some of our top talents wanted parity with the spurs lads and we weren't prepared to do so.

Bit of an overreaction there, mate. Who says I'm losing sleep, or need my priorities sorting? All I said was its pointless having an academy when all the top talents are nicked before they've had the chance to make it worthwhile for us ... literally exactly the same as what you went on to say about it being frustrating. You're right in that it's all about the payday, though. Should very much be a wage cap on these young lads, who, let's not forget, aren't even an adult.

Gomes & Miles are off. Miles off to Man City & Gomes exercising his right to speak to other clubs. Whats the point in having an academy?

Supposedly it's a pink 3rd away kit.

Going back to the PL with McCarthy still the starting goalkeeper, despite not being deemed good enough last time we were there. One summer, we might actually make a good, decisive decision regarding our goalkeepers. He was fantastic in the play offs, dont get me wrong, but the club spent the past 2 years trying to shift him.

That's not Romano specificially, that's all the wannabe twitter journalists all scrabbling to be the first to break news. Plenty of them pretty close to home.

Sounds about right. They'll just throw out some negative articles on us every couple of months, I expect.