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You said Leicester and Middlesbrough. I thought he was fine against Middlesbrough but not amazing. And both games we won if you mean the home game. I mentioned six games under Tonda and you also mentioned Fulham and Coventry so that's eight.

Sti think Vipotnik is a load of shit with not one credible link. He will be one of those links we get every season that never had any chance of occurring.

I'd I ago e he's the backup option. Maybe we will spunk all our money on the Charles replacement instead but Jebbison is not an automatic promotion signing imo and somewhat contradicts the Blacknore interview he's just done where he thinks Solak wa ts to go big and push the boat out this season.

What specifically about De Jong made him a rather different player from Jander (albeit a different level clearly). The players were completely different under Tonda. If you just judged THB on his performances under Still you'd be calling him overhyped too.

Also said that is the earliest and if we appeal likely to be a fair bit later. Pretty insane if you think about it but to me that makes it significantly less likely that they ban him for any significant period. Even any sort of ban would be a bit of a farce if they allow him to manage in the meantime.

He was superb against City in the cup including providing the assist for Azaz and as you said against Arsenal, probably his best performance against Charlton where he scored, was also decent against Swansea from memory because I went to that game and Preston at the end of the season. Scored against Wednesday too and I think he was pretty solid against Ipswich as well. I'm sorry I know football is subjective but you're just wrong. He's not overhyped at all and the players I mentioned play a simar role in their teams to him. How are the likes de Jong different players?

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I haven't been downbeat and negative though.

Interview on BBC sounds. Doesn't say he's heard anything but talks about the rumours and said he'd suit us very well. Not sure he'd be mentioning it if there wasn't anything in it.

Blackmore "overwhelming feeling we won't find anything until September until after the International break. Feeling the club think that too".

Interesting comments on Verpotnik by Blackmore on BBC sounds. Difficult to know if he knows anything or not.

Could you list them? Because since Tonda was in charge I cannot recall 'many other' less than impressive performances. I note you haven't responded to my previous post either highlighting the differences between Downes and Jander and showing other impressive midfielders who do similar jobs for the team without scoring.

We were also one of the top scoring teams in the league last season with Jander playing loads of games. Scoring goals was not an issue last year.

How is that negative?

Didn't Stephens play in that first game? And Manning?

Yeah it's bollocks.

If we're going to persist with anyone then surely it will be archer? We are never getting close to our money back for him so might as well see if we can okay him into some form.

I wonder when this exciting player is going to pop up out of nowhere and sign for us straight away? Probably someone we have never heard of and likely before the end of the week I reckon. Will sweeten the pill of losing Charles somewhat.

A not sure why you would be concerned about that. I would consider it incredibly unlikely that we don't bring in another striker now that Stewart is going elsewhere. Tonda has alluded to it.

Had a chat with someone about it today. It's clear that there is no written punishment for this and therefore any punishment Tonda gets is the subjective opinion of the committee. The committee will be fully aware of the timings of this, that a lengthy ban will force us to sack him immediately before or just after the start of the season. They will know presumably that we will seek to appeal and throw what we can at it and make some lives uncomfortable. I think they will want to seek some middle ground in order to prevent all that drama and a headache that they don't need. Obviously they still could do something draconian but given how long this has dragged on that really does feel like giving themselves a bit of a problem.

No he's saying that the ex Middlesbrough intern we got rid of tipped off Middlesborough that Mr Salt was going to be there. I suspect that he did but even if he did it doesn't make it entrapment let's not be ridiculous.

The key statement from Solak was that our squad would be as good or better than last season. Currently that is not the case and so we will have to get in a special couple of players in order for that to be true. Dobbin has certainly helped but we will need to replace Stewart with a replacement that is at least as good. Not sure how that will work with Charles.

I think it's also worth remembering that Charles didn't get a shot at the prem last time because he was loaned out to the Championship. I can see why he in particular would be keen to get a chance.

Jander is a ball carrier that excels at driving forward with the ball at his feet to transition between defence and attack. This contrasts with Downes who normally sits deeper as screen in front of the back 4. He's an excellent counter presser for this league. He's similar to a player like kovacic or frenkie de Jong at Barcelona who are also not defensive midfielders but who you would criticise as overhyped because they don't have good goalscoring records.

Agree. You need that positivity to start the season. Losing two or three of the big names now would be a hammer blow for the season.