hypochondriac

Just so long as we accept that the original tactic of immediately folding and giving them what they ask for wasn't worthy of much praise given that it didn't actually solve the problem and simply postponed it for a year whilst making them realise that Labour will basically give them what they want if they make enough noise. Presumably you will want to avoid strikes and industrial action again this year so do we give in to the latest demands? What about the year after that?

Some people were pointing out the flaw of immediately caving last time while others were praising their negotiating tactic. Didn't you also consider it a myth that all those high net worth individuals were going to leave the UK and that it was scaremongering from the right wing media?

That went well then. No consequences to "caving in" at all...

Plus the club will definitely have life insurance which means most or all of that cost will be covered.

He was absolutely fucking shite and I couldn't be more delighted that he has left.

Of course they don't but they are perfectly entitled to give an initial opinion based on the available evidence.

Yep. It's for the club to come up with options not some random supporter on a Web forum and Google.

Although I'm not big on conspiracies in general, it does seem extremely suspect that the FBI have now concluded that there was no client list from Epstein. That just seems like an outright lie.

My opinion on losing some of these players has a lot to do with if we can keep Fernandes for a season or not. I'd happily junk almost all the players if it meant we managed to do that. It's obviously more like that we do sell Fernandes and then this extra money from the likes of Edozie had best be put to good use to get one of the best AM in the division as well as adequate replacements for positions like Edozie where we are a bit light.

I made a follow up post just below that one.

Having said that, this is all fine if losing all these fringe players for decent fees helps us to keep some of the big four.

Hmm. Losing Sulemana, Edozie and SAA in a year isn't great. We'd really need a top quality winger to compensate.

As a striker?

Sainz will be in the prem. I'd have liked Sargent but we haven't been linked.

I'm not sure we can view Downs as a negative yet until he's actually shown what he can do. He hasn't proven himself yet but he hasn't disproven himself either.

Indeed and it's a good point worth mentioning. Maybe we won't have the same level of control that we had in some matches either but hopefully we will score a few more and overwhelm teams in a manner that we didn't under tippy tappy.

The last time we got promoted our forward line was Mara and Adams

Personally I'm hoping it's Stewart, Downs, Archer and maybe Ballard.

You're right I wouldn't be mentioning BBD and I doubt he will be here. For me, Charles of 2025 is better than two years ago. Add Ramsdale, Dibling, Fernandes and Archer and that is clearly preferable to last time. The problem is it's not really a fair comparison because we are obviously going to lose two or three of them. However, I'd expect us to get a better keeper in than Bazunu. We will most likely end up weaker at rb and possibly in AM but hopefully with a stronger midfield overall, more depth at CB, stronger at lb and maybe with a comparable attack.

I don't care about your crappy league comparisons. Their championship goal scoring records are comparable.

Getting him off the books is the most important thing. He's still quite young and lots of potential as you say. We should get a few million at least.

So he is comparable with Adams then. That's actually a better goalscoring rate in the league we are actually in.

I wouldn't say that's too outlandish. Archer and Adams are probably comparable. Certainly Ramsdale, Dibling and Fernandes are a cut above everyone else in that list. I expect they will all leave though.

Reckon we could get 7 million for ABK? Would represent decent business at this point.

Still.