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The bookies have boro 4th favourites for promotion. Presumably they know how many shots at it they will be allowed. Sheff Utd look surprisingly high in the lists, but I guess they will be solid at worst.

Like many people, I'm struggling to work out what boro's issue actually is now. I guess like the skates they don't need an actual issue though....

45 goals in 144 games at Blackburn.

BBD has shown that he has enough to offer as a squad member at least. We could easily do worse than keep him for what we will get for him and have to pay for a replacement , if one is needed.

The big BBC report failed to mention anything about his time with us, which included his best ever goal tally for a season. It was poor journalism .

Disgraceful stuff. They could have mentioned that KK had his best ever goal scoring season when a Saints player.

Have we not had the punishment for that ?

Tuchel must have noted Saints getting away with the same thing v WBA last season and decided it was the way to go……the problem being that Saints had a 3 goal lead …..

That’s petit pois I would say.

For a team that is running out of parachute payments, and that certainly has some expensive players that we want to move on, we do seem to be spending big .

FWIW his decision making in key attacking moments is good IMO. But he makes quite a few poor decisions in less pressured moments that might prove really costly against PL opposition. He’d be useful in the PL no doubt, and has enough to worry the best defenders, but I don’t see anybody except perhaps the bottom few taking him on as a first choice option .

Just wait till Polly Toynbee and Jonathan Friedland find out about Spygate.

The Norway goal was a fluke.

The french referee bit.

When his decision is made, these posts will all be rendered redundant.

He’ll be useful helping us get good aggregate scores in two leg cup ties.

We didn’t prosper. While others who also cheat did.

The world caught them up on skill some time ago. But they will always have strong squads, and I thought there was just a touch of the old swagger in the second half. But they really are just in the mix with the other top sides these days.

Presumably our sales and recruitment this summer have one eye on 2027/28 when our budget will be very constrained should we fail to go up this season.

In terms of " Embeddedness" we just have to move one CM on hopefully, leaving three established and a new signing to integrate, so that would be fine. Depends if Jander is pushing hard for a move though.

MAGIC !!

I think any new CB would need to be a potential first choice, seen as an upgrade on JS/Wood. But yes, that looks a squad capable of competing for top 2.

That's how football works, right ?

Most players go if Man Utd come calling TBF. He would be a great signing for them . Bit annoying if it funds a WHU promotion drive, but so it goes.