Farmer Saint

Akin to us losing ABK or Sully...

Because the Championship has more stringent rules - it's points deductions rather than fines, which is far more serious for those that break it.

As said before, I would expect the money issue to be around FFP - we spent so much last year and now with a huge drop of revenue, which reduces our ability to stay within the FFP regs, we cannot and will not be able to spend much money over the next 3 years or so. That spending last year has hamstrung us hugely.

That's because 20 virgins probably wouldn't go down well.

The funniest thing is those same people who are bemoaning Tella leaving at 24, probably wrote him off at 19 or 20.

So hang on, there are some actual ITKs on this site, outside of the COT? I think the COT would do well to get Guan into the Circle - we need to be 100% sure who we can trust as there are many false prophets creating a lot of noise.

The CoT have spoken - cheers for the info. For me, that's a huge risk not bringing in anyone to replace him.

We brought in: - Gaston - J Rod - Clyne - Yoshida - Davis - Boruc We also had Luke Shaw and JWP come through the youth team, and then we brought in Pochettino half way through. We also released loads of players who had helped us up on free transfers or on loans (Harding, Sharp, Hammond, Barnard, Chaplow, Butterfield etc). We finished 14th on 41 points with 9 wins.

More of a spine than the majority of posters on here, that's for sure.

Not sure what your point is here? Leeds have new, very rich, owners. The take-over has been in the offing since May. I would assume that he is on a very long contract and they have convinced him to stay due to that, and the lack of any decent offers from the Prem. That article also says Leeds have a price set at £30m that Everton couldn't meet?

He did, he refused to play. Leeds haven't got an acceptable offer yet, that's all - the only one they got was from the paupers at Goodison.

Or an Air Fryer! But seriously, have you got an air fryer? They're incredible.

One thing to really take into account is that last week we won away at a half decent Plymouth team, despite losing JWP, who has been a constant for so long and an incredibly important player. Smallbone also went off injured and Alcaraz unavailable. Then this week we've lost Tella and Adams, and no Smallbone from the start, and beaten another decent side. There has been a huge amount of chopping and changing, and how we've managed to get to 10 points from a possible 12 is really impressive to me. Much kudos has to go to RM and team.

No, I'm not missing the point. The point is that RM said he was very similar to AA, so why do we need two similar players. What you or I think is irrelevant.

Thats your opinion, Martin feels differently (as shown in his interview in July where he compares the two) @Fabrice29dug it out a couple of days ago.

We were told what happened yesterday if you like to believe a lot of the rubbish in X - we had no guaranteed buyer for Adams due to Everton's inability to pay for than £1 a year for the next 15m years, so couldn't bring him in, or we weren't interested due to him being too similar to AA in style. Either one not on SR in my opinion.

Listened to the interview, and yes it's an interview, but doesn't seem the knobber that he's made out to be.

This post wins the thread.

To be fair, if I were them I'd be protecting my investment. Not popular, but money ain't free, and add in relegation and we're probably looking at circa £200m shortfall with last year's shit transfers. Add to that FFP, and it'd be interesting to see if we CAN'T spend right now as would lead to future problems that we won't be able to deal with.

Oh well, if a team like Leverkusen come knocking we're not keeping him, however hard you try.

But what circumstances have changed? Nowt. If we keep 3 of those players then we should be fine. Embarrassing pal.

Unfortunately, you've backed yourself into a corner, and are trying to weasel your way out of what you've said previously, and changing the goalposts. It's fine to say "Do you know what, I was wrong when I said that", or that you've "re-evaluate" what you said. You'd garner far more respect than the rather embarrassing backwards shuffle you seem to be doing now 🤣

And certainly Amo-Ameyew. Edozie is nearly 4 years younger, and SAA 7(!) years younger. So if we sell Tella (which if Leverkusen are in for they are a much more attractive proposition for him), we will have Edozie, Sulemana, SAA, Fraser, maybe Adam Armstrong to play in those wide positions. Honestly, I'd take that. I think we just need to wait and see, there is a clear deadline from when we can judge the squad we have for the rest of the season. I realise that being reactionary and premature when judging the team probably mirrors your life, but just calm it down everyone.

And yet its also been reported that we never bid for him, so which is it? I'm assuming it's the one that fits your agenda.

Why is everyone ignoring Fabrice29's post from yesterday? Russell Martin compared Piroe to AA, and how they had the same qualities. Why would we sign someone with the same qualities as a player we already have? From what I can tell we were never in for Piroe since it was clear AA was staying. It's not a missed target if we never wanted him.