hypochondriac

Exactly. I'm not saying it's necessarily the club's fault. I do think it's really unfortunate that we haven't managed to get an attacker and cb in at least. I really want it to feel like a fresh start and a new team but at the moment I'm worried that we will have some of the same issues from last year.

I just remain sceptical that the players who put on some of the performances they did last year will be able to perform a 180 degree turn in such a short amount of time. The likes of Bazunu, Bednarek, Adams, Armstrong x2 and Edozie will have to show remarkable turnarounds.

I'll be honest. I thought one of the few positives of relegation was the chance to dump some of these players and refresh the squad. I'm sure that will still happen by the end of the window, but I can't help but feel a little disappointed that we start on Friday with most of the same squad and presumably some of the same issues including mental fragility that plagued us last season. At best we will have 5 starting who are newish but the rest are hangovers. You can just imagine us struggling to score, someone fecking up and us conceding off someone's arse and losing 1-0, having all of the possession and no killer instinct at all.

I think he does but we don't actually know do we.

I'm genuinely surprised that no one on here has been able to have a quiet off the record chat with James this summer to see definitively if he is off or not. I'm assuming he is but surprised it isn't more widely known.

I think this one gets done. But of a shame really as I thought he could have given us a season but if his heart isn't in it probably best for all parties that he moves on. Presume he will start Friday though which could be his farewell appearance.

That we know of.

It's not the same thing though is it.

We might want to be careful that he doesn't go on strike or something.

Maybe Lavia should be asking why Liverpool don't want him enough to pay the asking price.

I can understand if someone wants to quibble over some of our other valuations, but Lavia is cheap at 50. Not a chance is he worth less. You can see how good he is by how many top clubs have been interested. The fact we were relegated is an irrelevance because we don't need to sell for financial reasons.

Could well be true. I think if we were seriously interested you'd have seen a few solid links by now.

Whoever sent you a DM is likely to get exposed.

At least it looks like we will have him for Friday. Would be nice if he scored.

First one to give us 60 million for Lavia can have him.

We've found an imposter. The C-O-T never mentioned JWP values. In fact that was a red herring planted to expose those stepping outside the C-O-T. Someone is going to get kicked out.

Well that would be the unknown from abroad then. It's a fair bit of a gamble that it will work out in the championship. If we don't go for Piroe, you'd hope it would be because he doesn't want to come here rather than us not trying.

I still haven't seen any solid links to him. My guess is we will get some unknown from abroad or a youngster (probably from city.)

Maybe I just have good self control.

You would imagine if he's open to moving to another championship team then we'd be front of the queue. Shit out of luck if his heart is set on Italy though.

According to them they haven't had any bids yet. I'd lodge a 15 million pound bid once Salisu and Lavia have gone and test their resolve.

It will pave the way for someone to get him that's for sure.

I went to Exeter City away when we were in league one and stood in the home end. Had a great time.

I see that Swansea signed a striker...

I hope we hurry up and sell Lavia so we might entertain the possibility of bringing in one or two players.