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Or did we play better today as we struggle against route one merchants like a Lincoln side raising their game at the start of the season? Were Larin and Scienza more effective as they weren't burnt out from playing the full 90 at Lincoln? Feel free to make wild statements based off of an outcome rather than a process. For me, Tonda excels when there is an opposition structure to counteract with, and struggles to use tactical acumen to beat a physical contest that our players to date haven't been able to match. If you discount Watford as a bad day at the office with two big individual errors, we have largely been excellent and were inches from Scienza putting us two up at Lincoln and game over. We were purring last night, and barring an injury crisis which would derail any of our rivals (Bowen, Lankshear, Fer Lopez, Larin) we will be in the top 2 hunt come May.

JWP Assist. Some of you dont know ball 🤫😂

Reality is less fun. I think the consensus is mostly spot on - a great squad that is one of the favourites for promotion, but one with flaws that could (should?) have been addressed. I presume a calculated risk that the promoted teams last season had Oshea/Greaves, Thomas / Kitching, Egan / Hughes as their starting CBs, so not unreasonable not to have £10m plus on CBs. Larin is scoring around a goal per game, so let's hope he plays 35 plus games this year and we should be okay. Cover is light and worries me, but look how much Hirst cost. We have got stuck with a load of surplus players over the past 5 years, so a slimmer squad will help Spors buy more Azaz/Scienza/Larin/Janders in Jan and next summer. A good window purely on larin/peretz and keeping Scienza/Jander/Azaz/Downes.

Abbott in as Bree cover and to replace stephens (wood?) from next summer if it works out Falchener as THB replacement 3rd choice keeper from the national league Wildcard forward / winger Dragan special like scienza Reality - the kid and the lower league keeper !

Wonder what they are doing with the money instead .... I was against Abbott, but hes consistently been on forests bench and rotated in their European games, so might be a gem. Spors has earned the right to make this call

West Ham have been trying with limiited success to sell a large 'bomb squad' of players (Alvarez, Todibo, Fullkrug,JWP). They are now accepting loans and more favourable (for the buyers) terms, which i imagine we could have been waiting for. JWP is in the last year of a chunky wage, I would guess we want a loan on subsidised wages ahead of signing him on a free next summer - or a free transfer now if JWP wants the security of a multi year deal

His book value will be £10m amortisation cost, which means a fee above that minus the City sell on % will be profit on this year's accounts. Hypothetically speaking, a £20m fee would be £10m profit. In a vacuum that would be 2 players signed for £20m on 4 year contracts at (£10m amortisation combined per year). In reality that would need £10m profit each year to fund those 2 players amortisation each year for those 4 years so we wont do that. We can however reinvest the £20m plus received for a decent level of replacement (£10m -£12m over 4 years would be £2.5-3m a year) and book the rest to cover minor outlays. I imagine the Charles fee accounts for the full lost income in parachute payment drops and the THB sale would fund two decent replacements for each at the above £10-12m mark (like Jander, Scienza, stretch to an Azaz, were). Dobbin was probably the £10m the owner can invest each year under the nrw SCR rules. Clearing out the unused players will reduce the wage bill, and let us do more in the future by reducing our losses on salary (BBD, Sugawara, Ramsdale, Baz etc.). If we weren't to sell THB, we are probably waiting to get rid of the hangers on to release the amortisation to replace Charles less riskily.

We expecting: Long Roerslav Quarshie Stephens Welington Bragg Downes Akachukwu (Archer) Dobbin Edozie Mubama

https://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=192618&start=25720 This paints a very similar picture to this thread. Reality is on another day they cruise yesterday and it's all HMS piss the league. Fans are quite similar everywhere, and top end championship clubs either overpay (through add ons, obligation on promotion or sell on %) or wait for a deal last week of the window.

I can't believe that people think we can't have targets and plans for this eventuality, as noone could have predicted this was likely to happen.

That's not how football accounting works, Sheffield will have 'banked' the book profit on him when they sold him, so regardless of actual cash flow they would still show a incoming expenditure on this year's accounts.

https://x.com/JacobsBen/status/2088576185483616517?s=20 setting our stall out at 30m plus sell on. Seems reasonable, if disappointing.

If we beat Colchester then first game back after the 10 games would be Pompey... August and September banned.

West Ham have to make money before they can think of spending, their wage bill is significantly more than ours was when we first went down - plus they owe millions in transfer fees. Reportedly needed 150m to stay afloat, with no money for outgoings (which they roughly have done admittedly). Look at fernandes, 85m looks a lot for us, but half of that they had already paid us! That brings it down to 40m or so which we got for dibling. Similar for sommersville who they paid 30m for - £65m becomes £35m profit or fernanded territory. Amazing business, but it had to be by necessity of the fees they spunk on players (Fullkrug 30m, todibo 30m, Pablo 20m, tasty 20m, kilman 40m, JWP 30m.. plus all are on over 100k weekly, of which JWP was the only near for us)