hypochondriac

It's possible to give youth players a chance whilst still signing good players should the youth players not progress. I mean AOC displaced a couple of players simply because he performed better than them. The same thing could conceivably happen here.

Yes but it would be interesting to see if we sign one keeper or two.

What has changed recently that would mean that the plans are accelerated? They must have known about his ability beforehand and a couple of weeks ago we were set to sign this guy. I highly doubt we scrapped this because we suddenly decided to go with Shaw instead.

That isn't saying much. Knowing how good he is may give a clue as to whether we sign him for the future or put him up against Davis right away.

Not much info to go on though. What's he like?

Wonder if he will be our only keeper of the window?

Exactly. I highly doubt that we have fundamentally changed our transfer dealings just because of a couple of pre season games. At any rate, I would like Shaw to be brought in gradually.

Or just that they were annoyed by all the faffing about so are looking at new targets for the LB role.

What a bizarre thread.

Still not biting...

Not biting.

I disagree. I know you really rate him and he did do well last year but I think it is clear that Clyne will be first choice.

First big word I learnt to spell when I was six.

Don't be silly.

Lol. Hope you are joking.

Yeah maybe. He's clearly a good player. Fair comment.

Really good signing but I hope people don't go on and on about how United wanted him. If United were truly interested then he would have signed for them. There is no proven link that they were interested anyway save for paper talk.

Should we be challenging for Europe regularly and established in the top flight then it is potentially a sensible increase. It also gives a bit of leeway for further fans in the future should even more success be forthcoming.

Could well be the case. A sensible post.

I just told you. Cortese could have literally said we will be looking to expand the stadium to 50K in the future. No details on timing but still enough to highlight our ambitious nature and get the player excited. As regards your second sentence I agree that 50K could be a realistic expansion at some point in the future. I have never said otherwise.

Not true. Cortese could have literally just said something like we are ambitious and will be expanding the stadium in the future.

No detail on when this will happen so not relevant. I reckon it is likely we will expand at some point. Doesn't mean it is imminent in any way.

Clean sheet for forecast. Fair play son.

Lets not start going on about how Clyne turned down a top four club to come here. That's just some random person who said that on the internet. Clyne is a good signing though and I hope Buttner follows him. Just three more after that I feel and we are set (maybe four if we are greedy)

If we get that done in the next few days with Clyne then I feel like we are almost there. Just two or three more signings and we have it IMO.