hypochondriac

To be fair, I don't think you can really have a go at any fan writing off almost any player in our squad given the shit show that was last year. Hopefully a few of the lesser performing ones will give us a nice surprise. Personally I'm hoping that Adam Armstrong can find some form and also that Edozie will be decent in the championship.

Agreed. Even if we dint go up, it woukd be nice to be competitive in every game and watch some nice football with the chance of some goals.

Yep that's where I'm at. I've been a fan too long to get suckered in by someone who can talk a good game without backing it up on the pitch but at the very least I can listen to him without wanting to smash my phone in anger. Nathan Jones was just so wrong for the club and it was immediately obvious a couple of weeks in. I have confidence that that will not be the case this time even if he's ultimately unsuccessful.

I think also we could bring players in but we have to give the manager enough time to work with the team. A bad start could be suicidal and would be criminal really given how much longer we've had than other teams.

I think if Sulemana leaves I'll be pissed off. I don't feel he received enough of a chance last year and was criminally mismanaged. He could be superb eventually in the prem let alone the championship.

I think a new signing or two will do wonders for making us view this as a fresh start and a new challenge. Until we get that it's just the same old bunch of failures. The club need to give us something to be excited about.

Yes but I was talking about the starting 11. I'm happy for Stephens and maybe this Peterborough cb to start the season but you're right we probably need another one as backup.

If true then IMO we shouldn't sell him even if Newcastle bid what we were asking. If we get Manning in we will have the best full backs in the league with Tino, Manning and Larios and Bree (and this new bloke) as backup. If we can persuade Jack Stephens to stay and bring in this bloke from Peterborough then that is the defence sorted early in the window which is a great base to build from.

Will have to agree to disagree then. Personally I think he's worth his place in the team when he isn't the main striker being relied on for goals. Doubt it matters anyway as he is most likely off and will do a reasonable job for one of the teams lower down in the prem.

I hope that is what they do. I can't really blame the club if there haven't been rivals making sensible bids for our players then we can't be expected to sell them.

I have a feeling we will see a few ins and outs this week. I'm hoping we get Lavia out the door to get us some guaranteed money or I'm going to start getting concerned that we won't be bringing anyone in until the last minute. Hopefully we get Manning in which if we don't sell Tino we need just one cb and that's the defence sorted.

He was great providing support for Ings. If we had a decent ings type striker last year I would have played Adams alongside them all day long.

He's a support striker. I was told by someone who knows him that he never wanted to lead the line and knew he wasn't very good at it.

I was expecting him to be sold as he will suit a number of teams. He's a good player but we can replace him.

If any of our players are worth 50 million it's Lavia. I expect he will be world class so will probably at least treble his value over time.

If we sell them JWP you'd have to think that would put us in the driving seat.

Oh no! Whatever will we do? Newcastle are threatening to walk away! Never mind.

Cheers never seen that before. Bizarre. I suppose we do want to keep this thread free for serious lgbtq+ discussion

Didn't you get beaten up by your wife?

Hold on @Lord Duckhunteryour post seems to have disappeared as does the one from @Turkishand myself. Either a mod got drunk with power and removed them of their own accord or soggy went crying to the mods demanding their removal. Either is pathetic.

I think there's a fair bit of evidence to support that analysis. He's previously mentioned he was psychologically abused by his wife. Something like that over a sustained period is bound to have an adverse effect on a man and lead to him acting out little fantasies in the virtual world to compensate for his feelings of inadequacy.

Homosexuality doesn't involve chopping off your genetalia, sterilisation, atrophy, menopause at a young age, increased cancer risk, lifelong medical treatment etc etc.

" I think they know what is going on with themselves better than you" So do we apply that to anorexics? Or individuals with phantom limb syndrome? "I'd like to prevent you front starvation or from chopping off your hand but I suppose you know what is going on with yourself better than me so I'll just help you starve and get the cleaver out"

Very bizarre comment to make.

Much too early to tell.