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He'll go probably late in the window because SR is all about pound signs and not about developing a decent football team.

Nobody thinks it's an easy no-brainer signing but I'd like us to show interest in him, have a go, see if he's interested, explore the option but it won't happen with this mob in charge because they have zero ambition other than to turn a quick profit on a gamble.

Well if Brum get him that's one up to them against us because he's a very good player. Not one who might develop or could make an impact - he's the finished article. For whatever reason SR don't seem to want players like that and prefer to clog up the squad with absolute dross that they then can't get rid of.

Oh dear, that's a worry.

We seem to be good at collecting those.

I guess the question we should want answered is, 'Was George Long the best available 3rd choice keeper we could get for the money available on wages?' If he was then fair enough but there must be some really poor goalkeepers out there.

Why are the two blokes either side of him smiling?

We were in the Championship when Bazunu did his achilles. Happened in warm up before the game. Ok we won promotion and would have been signing Johansson for Premier league - some fans may have kicked off but it would have proved to be a shrewd signing.

This is what three and a half years of SR has done to us.

Don't know but you have justified the bed wetting 🙂

At the time of Bazunu's achilles injury we could have signed Johansson in Apr 2024 for £900k and low wages. How much did we pay for Ramsdale and what was his annual wage? Do you think not signing Johansson when we had the opportunity then panic buying Ramsdale was good business sense by SR?

It feels bad but seeing it laid out in chronological order it looks absolutely horrendous. Almost wish you hadn't shared these details 🙂

Bazunu ruptured his achilles on 19 Apr 2024, Stoke signed Johansson from Rotherham on 18 May 2024. Just saying.

Of course it's 20% of the profit otherwise we'd be getting an extra 20% of the £36m we've already had 🙂

Yes, anyone can.

All 3 are equally important - this is the spine of the team. We are weak in all 3 positions.

Not under SR we won't 🙂

Only Spors and his recruitment team.

By the snake-oil salesman.

If you only got 12 points you clearly have to 🙂

I wonder who is to blame for that....hmm.

The point I'm making is that Johansson was available to us at that time - we could have signed him for not much money.

I get that but we all watched Johansson play superbly against us for Rotherham and he's now at Stoke while we have inferior Bazunu as our first choice.

Agree. It's this attitude towards recruitment that has us on a downward spiral under SR.

Not based on past record.