hypochondriac

It's more than that for preschool children.

True but 12 million for Azaz and then BBD going the other way for 5 million effectively makes it 7.

Agree but I didn't consider that transfer particularly likely.

7 million and BBD to Middlesbrough would be excellent business.

Of course you want the best players possible but I expect we have a limited budget for players this summer and I'd rather we spend the bulk of it on attacking players given the choice.

Love that he says we just have to win. Puts pressure on himself to get results rather than simply to play well or in a particular way. I like when managers back their own ability.

There's a couple on here saying they aren't happy with the signing and a few more suggesting that people are getting really excited about it when that isn't the case. It's not a sexy signing or overly ambitious, just a realistic sensible addition that can probably do a job for us in a higher league if the time comes.

I'm not sure we would be expecting a comfortable mid table finish immediately after promotion. 17th or just above that will be the achievable aim and this bloke in the squad seems like someone who could help accomplish that.

Maybe they don't see him as a high enough calibre for a team in their position? That being a team that fits nished comfortably mid table last season and with significant strength in the right back area.

Of course we will have more of an opinion of him when he's actually played for us but is it not normal to give initial reactions on a thread about a player signing? I haven't seen anyone liking this player solely because Romano didn't tweet about him other than the fact it's a pleasant surprise to sign a player who no one knew about beforehand. Wolfsburg are miles better than us in a superior league.

Is someone a little short on attention again?

Reject? Some of our fans are clinically retarded.

Thank goodness. I was worried for a moment.

Plus it's a right back. Even someone vaguely competent who can attack a bit is going to be better than Sugawara and Bree and it's not like it's the most important position on the pitch. This guy has quite a bit of Prem experience and championship experience!

Not a chance Stephens isn't starting.

Genuinely at a bit of a loss as to why someone would consider this a poor signing.

What sort of signing would you call it then? The reason Brentford were prepared to let him go is the same reason that man city were prepared to let THB go or West ham were prepared to let Downes go - because they are established Premier league teams and are thus much better than us and have established Premier league players in most positions.

Anyone know roughly how much we paid for this signing?

Let's agree to disagree. I already said we can quibble over the extent of it.

I'm not sure anyone has argued that there are not other factors at play.

Pretty rich given that you frequently fail to answer questions posed to you on a number of threads.

National insurance and minimum wage increases have undoubtedly pushed up food price inflation. The retail industry has highlighted the fact that tighter business costs have been passed onto consumers particularly on groceries. The rise in real wages and investment in public services are politically popular but contribute to this so called sticky inflation - particularly in services. Labour-market reforms aren't the sole driver of inflation but their impact on cost-push pressures are clear and has contributed to the inflationary rise. Clearly.

Supposedly fiscal policy has had no clear impact on the divergence.

The media team are milking this one and it's pretty funny I have to say. Fair play for keeping it under the radar.

I disagree that fiscal policy doesn't have a clear impact on levels of inflation much higher than comparable neighbours. We can quibble over what extent it's had an impact but it clearly has had one.