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What this highlights is how screwed we are if we have to rely on any of these losers. If jwp and Adams go we best hope we have the replacements jn quickly!

Actually unbelievable that Jones thought fit to bring him in as his statement of intent on the big stage. Moron.

Hardly!

I wouldn't be unhappy if McCarthy, Perraud, Lyanco, Bree, Djenepo and Mara never played for us again.

Yes I could go along with that. Romeu was a huge loss for a few reasons though.

Bollocks did we. The Jones managerial appointment is what fucked us along with losing Romeu and not bringing in some decent experienced heads alongside our youth. We would have most likely stayed up with Ralph without more signings.

Arguably sentiment caused our relegation. It was certainly a big factor. You say to jwp that we won't be selling you in this window but if we fail to up you can go next year with our blessing. Absolutely fair and reasonable.

If there's a chance we are going to sell jwp then we would be silly to cup tie him unnecessarily. Even if the chance is small. Him not being in the squad really doesn't tell you either way about the likelihood of him being sold.

Alcaraz and Bednarek aren't in the squad. They must be off.

I don't want that to be a factor in our decision. There isn't room for sentiment now.

Why tella and not jwp? Both could wreck morale in that case. I don't think someone like jwp woukd be anything other than professional and try his absolute best for the club.

When Lavia goes, I genuinely don't know why the club would accept 35 million for jwp. We've made ab absolute shed load from sales and should have more than enough to keep him for a season and tell him that he's staying. If he goes it will be a big blow to morale on top of a blow to the team to lose someone of his ability. If we get to the end of the window and he's still here, the lift would be huge and coukd carry us to promotion which is worth a lot more than 35 million. If we really don't have to sell for financial reasons then that is what we should do imo.

Newcaslte kept a load of their players when they went down, same with West ham. I'm sure they owuld get over it if we keep being successful. I'm not sure it will happen anyway I'm just saying I think we could make it work.

Personally I'd sell Lavia and then say that's it for sales for this window other than the smaller guys like Lyanco, McCarthy etc. ABK, JWP, KWP, Sulemana, Tella, Alcaraz and Adams would be an unbelievable collection of players in the championship. I expect a few more will go but I do wonder what would happen if we just refused any more sales.

Yes it's a sad reality but much better to have a level of acceptance about where we are in the footballing hierarchy. I lost a fair bit of passion after we did so well and then saw the team systematically dismantled by bigger teams and we just couldn't keep it going. Our best chance of success is to do what we have done with Tino and make a shed load of money which will hopefully allow us to buy two or three more Tinos and repeat the process. It's tough but that's what we have to do at least until the big boys feck off to the super league and we can attempt something of a more level playing field.

When he signed for such a tiny amount, I remember thinking this guy is going to make us so much money and he's certainly lived up to that. There is a scenario where he never recovers from his acl injury so it's actually brilliant that a club in our position can extract such good value

Tino was completely professional throughout and seems like a really nice lad. I hope he does really well. At least another 25 million for us here without significantly weakening the team is good business. I wonder if we will get Aarons in now or if we will also look to sell KWP (that would be a bit of a more painful loss IMO.)

Although it's sad to lose him, we didn't actually need him like we do some of the others. Very likely IMO he would have gone next year even if we had gone up so not a huge loss. Lots of other players I'd rather keep given the choice.

Agreed. A bit like umpires call in cricket. If it's really tight then you stick with the decision on the field which has the added bonus of not undermining the referee and giving more confidence to use his judgement rather than just letting play continue all the time and then using VAR as a crutch.

I'd love it if we rejected it again!

I think most people would be resigned if he went to Spurs. It's a clear step up and we may have struggled to keep him even if we'd stayed up. Just such a shame to lose him when he would be incredible at this level.

Here's a good clue. He has been the Co-commentator on bbc radio Devon. Lets leave it there as its quite off topic.

That's actually a cracking guess and very close but he never played for Bournemouth and certainly not 5 foot 10. Not going to reply now though in case you get it!

Spurs it is then.

Not that good (or tall!)never played for the first team but a decent lower league player. Still mates with some of the Bournemouth players and has a few stories to tell.