Ken Tone

I notice Brereton Diaz is often referred to as a winger. Is he another of these half winger, half striker players? Or is he really a 'proper' striker?

Can someone please explain how sending him to goztepe helps with the work permit? Will a year there mean he somehow then becomes eligible for a permit?

With Kylie, it's all about the bottom line.

Re Ings ... Rumour has it west ham offered to pay some of his wages, so we could maybe afford the risk of taking him to begin with but .... He only has 1 year left on his contract so I suspect he/his agent want us to guarantee a contract of several years, continuing after the first year with a wage much closer to his current £125k(?) than we can afford. Which would explain why he has reportedly turned down a move to us. As with virtually many, if not most, rumoured transfer, it's more about wages than transfer fee. Ditto Oxlade-Chamberlain. ... what wage?

In a sense it's every other ST holder who should vote. It's us that will have to look at it. Those in the Northam won't see a thing!

Is he insured whilst he has no contract? Better not slip on the soap! 😉

I imagine his agent will encourage him to wait until near the end of the window when teams panic and offer silly money contracts.

Distant elderly relative is a lifelong Peterborough fan. He really rates Edwards.

Yes but success not guaranteed--- eg Elyounoussi. Scottish football is such low quality that it's not a very good guide to how good a player is.

Thing is.....it's not a transfer fee of 5 or 6 million. It's the wages. West Ham want to offload his £120k a week. I imagine we'd only sign him if they paid say half(?) of that for at least the rest of his contract there. Because we'll not pay that much and I very doubt he'd take a pay cut.

It's nearly always wages that are the issue, not the transfer fee. Can't see us matching Arsenal wages.

I understand he's been signed to improve the skin condition of the under-18s. Moisture kid! Can't see him being much of an asset in thr first team, apart from an occasional cameo.

Although of course any fee from the buying club will reflect what the selling one has had to pay up. Players (and agents even more so) are draining huge sums of money out of the game --- effectively the money we fans pay!

Might not be allowing *new* STs there, though I hadn't heard that personally, but they are allowing renewals. Some block 29 neighbours of ours chose not to move because they don't walk well and couldn't find any seats together in 32 or 33 that weren't too high up the steps, so have renewed in 29.

Exactly. In effect we couldn't afford not to sell JWP, as we also couldn't afford not to offload the wages of many of the loaned out players such as ABK. Similar to when Surman left for example---- but not similar to when lallana left!

It was always bound to be difficult and disruptive. That's why I was against this move. But it's happened so we just have to live with it. For those of you that want to sit next to the away fans, block 29 presumably looks pretty sold out at present because there were a lot of ST holders there, but I know many were trying to move into the relatively few vacant seats in block 32 or 33. So it's likely there will be quite a few empty seats in 29 after 1st July.

Am I misremembering how Lallana left then? I thought (a) he was our captain and (b) had recently signed a new bigger contract, saying stuff like he could stay here all his career, then made a big fuss and insisted on going as soon as Liverpool looked interested. Worse than Ings. It felt like a betrayal at the time, especially from a player we'd seen develop from a youngster over the years. Ings, on the other hand we'd let go as a young player and hadn't been back with is for all that long. Having said that, Ings as he is now as opposed to how he was, not a good signing.

Hope the journey home wasn't too bad for most? Consternation on our jubilee line tube when the driver announced one stop before that we wouldn't be stopping at Waterloo because of congested platforms !

A3 at Tolworth now fully reopened, so no delay for anyone driving in this way.

If anyone is planning to drive into London on thr A3 to catch train/tube to Wembley, beware ....major hold ups at the Tolworth junction. Hour + delays yesterday evening.

Just looked at the stadium regs. Bags no bigger than an A4 piece of paper 297 x210 x210 mm. Blimey! Where will I carry my picnic basket and blanket? 😱

Lived in Yorkshire for a few years. Watched Hull, Doncaster, Sheffield, York. Leeds fans were the most unpleasant in the area. Entitled...."we're a really big club", gobby, etc. In effect the Portsmouth of the North!

Yes it's popular with those who want to go into the Northam. It's those of us who are being forced to move from where we've sat for many years in the Kingsland, or who will be messed about by the away fans' new route to the ground etc, who are unhappy. But it's a done deal now, so people like me just have to decide whether to put up with trying to find a suitable seat without my neighbours somewhere else, or whether this is the final straw and it's time to give up, after decades.

Brooks ..... people say he's talented and he is highly rated, but he just hasn't delivered for us. Martin said he wanted a left footed right winger who'd come in from wide and shoot on goal. I don't recall him doing that once? He just seem to wander into the middle then look lost. All his signing seems to have done is push Adam Armstrong on to the left wing and squeeze Fraser/Edozie/SAA out of the team. He' ok, but really, is he better than all of those 3?

Fraser for for Brooks surely?