Saint_clark

Just over a month between this game and the start of the season. I would hope the players will train right through to try and keep this momentum strong for best season.

Based on what? He's been terrible for us generally.

Remember one of those fan forum things where they talked about always wanting to siphon a few hundred thousand to the youth recruitment whenever possible and used Targett as an example, surplus to requirements and not good enough for us but brought in a big chunk of money for very little outlay.

Bednarek and Stephens at CB or is one still carrying an injury?

I'll never forget seeing him sing the Barnard chant right next to him and at the "he's wanted by Scotland yard" bit, Barnard looking at him like he was a dead man.

Yeah, imagine him showing his medals to his grandkids one day and them going "oh wow! How many goals did you score that season? Oh...did you play in the final? Oh.......did you play at all?"

Some brilliant articles there and the Davis comparisons aren't without merit, but so far Armstrong is proving possibly an even stronger influence on the pitch.

What on earth is happening with the away kit?

What a fucking embarrassment that interview is.

Because their games have had more injury time than ours have.

The worry for me is if they're letting people into the grounds, what will happen with games being in TV?

Sounds to me like Forster, Sims and possibly Elyounoussi will be given chances to impress next season and the rest are being pushed to other clubs.

Nowhere else to post this, but it's vaguely transfer window related...Birmingham City have retired the number 22 shirt in honour of 17 year old Jude Bellingham who has signed for Dortmund after making a whole 40-something appearances for them. What on earth.

Indeed. Salisu, according to Whoscored, struggles with his passing and concentration. Sounds like a direct replacement for Vestergard 😂

Malang Sarr looks very interesting. Whoscored rates him highly - using his stats - at holding onto the ball, passing and intercepting. As a free agent could be an efficient use of funds as well, freeing up the transfer budget elsewhere.

They knew how that would be taken so must be something in it. That really would be a great way to head into the transfer window.

The new prices are still too high to tempt me back, even though my finances are now sorted (only gave it up because I found myself skint unexpectedly).

LeG, can you at least let us know the timeframe of when we can expect announcements. Before the last game, in the week after it or beyond? Surely they want to announce them sooner and get some more season ticket sales or shirts with names on the back if one is really good.

Wonder if we're due any extra from the Mane or Van Dijk deals now they've won the league

Sims has made an impact more often than not. Definitely warrants another chance. Writing him off because he was subbed off at half time in one game last season is mental.

Sims will be back, we don't need another winger/attacking mid.

What's the Djenepo chant? Been so long since I've seen him play...

Indeed, a player who has scored more open play goals than any other in Europe this season.

In fact if you go through our transfer fees since we got promoted we've spent quite a bit more than we've brought in. This idea that we don't invest is nonsense, we just haven't invested particularly well. If Carrillo was a 20 goal a season striker, Lemina was too class and Vestergard unbeatable, we wouldn't be talking about a lack of investment.

Let's hope our board can stand firm and not lower our valuation to the market one then.