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He didn't jump at the chance to play. He spent most of the season on the bench. Those were his thoughts. He chose bench for Newcastle over trying to help us get back up. On the other hand, Peretz wanted to sign permanently after his loan despite what happened at the end of last season and us not getting promoted.

Peretz is better and actually wants to play for the club.

Hello again PTSD, old friend.

Not even sure he was better on paper. He only looked good when the other team stood off him and gave him space or the ball dropped to him and his first time shot went in. 4 out of his last 8 penalties scored tells a story of its own. His greatest strength was shooting on sight which was also a huge weakness. He rarely stretched play or beat his man and the ball rarely stuck to him when competing for it - he was not an out ball. One thing in his favour was work rate but after Elyounnoussi I didn't want another attacker who was good without the ball. Throw in the alleged team dynamics issues and Wolves are welcome to him. I hope he's happy and successful there. Just not against us obviously.

No. We immediately improved when Armstrong left.

Peretz made an incredible difference to the team when he came in. He organised the defence, gave it confidence and made saves. I think we were conceding the same number of shots at goal a game but the number of goals we conceded per game halved or somesuch in the stats shown before the Arsenal game. The confidence that bred made an enormous difference. That's not to say that Tonda didn't organise the team well. We were playing really high paced attacking football which was a dream to watch for the latter stages even as we were running out of puff due to fixture pile up. The big thing for me is we played 3 premier league teams, beat two of them and competed with the other. That's something we weren't doing before even when we were a premier league team which is why I'm ok with us taking this chance. At the start of last season we had a team of individual teapots standing with hands on hips. By the end of it we had a team that wanted to win together.

Not sure I can cope with another summer of "he's fine for the Championship". While bringing in a striker is a priority we also need to ship some players out for good to reduce the wage bill - eg Ramsdale, Bazunu, BBD, Sugawara. And some on loan if they're not going to get first team minutes - eg Sesay, Quarshie

Thank god the FA came down on Chelsea like a ton of bricks. That suspended transfer ban is really going to hurt. Not to mention advocating for no sporting sanction whatsoever. Otherwise they might decide to make an example out of Eckert to show they take things seriously.

"no one could have succeeded with those players"

That's a relief. For a while I was worried that Martin was going to beat himself up over how he did at Saints.

Let's just put Karen FC in the play off final now for next year. Saves all the unnecessary legal wrangling and media campaign at the end of the regular season.

It has already been referenced in the EFL ruling against us. It all depends on how hard the FA want to kick us.

The problem is FIFA dished out a 12 month ban for spying at the Olympics. The FA may decide to align with that. We've already been hit with the upper end of punishments by the EFL and there's nothing an official likes more than beating down someone who can't fight back (ie not one of the big boys)

A ban was always a possibility. We gambled by keeping him on now we have to see how it plays out. Let's face it, it was an understandable gamble given our recent managerial appointments.

It would depend on what the manager ate the night before.

I didn't know honey badgers made jewellery

Same as every summer. A striker.

You selfish bastard. Just take a damp cloth and clear it up. It's not like Baz is able to stop himself spilling things.

As someone who snapped their Achilles tendon six months ago, just reading that made me wince.

Talking about strikers. How come I haven't read that Ross Stewart has a club yet? The World Cup has been over for Scotland for, what feels like, months. And, after his 5 minute cameo I would've thought he'd have been snapped up by now.

Given the loyalty we've shown him, I would be disappointed if Baz wound up leaving us for Derby. I always imagined he'd be walking into a top six team or possibly one of the European heavyweights after his time with us. So to settle for another team in the Championship seems perplexing. Derby are pulling our pants down with this one.

I think there's a difference between a participant seeking to gain and advantage and getting caught breaking the rules and the owners of those rules actively colluding to circumvent them for their pals.

He only needs 106 votes from FIFA members to get re-elected. And he has 111 from South America, Asia and Africa due to funneling of money into their organisations. The only way anything happens is if UEFA walks away. In the meantime he'll toady up to Trump, fix things so that Saudi Arabia can host a World Cup and organise more and more stupid summer club tournaments and nothing happens. It's the same in Formula 1. You need a representative from each continents motoring organisation to support you to be able to run for president except South America has one (who just happens to be the wife of the former owner of F1, Bernie Ecclestone and who supports the incumbent) so it's impossible for anyone to challenge someone who is obviously not up to the job. Trump himself is trying to do the same thing with the Save America Act which is aimed at stopping people who might vote for someone else to have the ability to vote at all.

Methinks the baldie doth protest too much.