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Interesting to see how they get on. Lots of championship experience there. We seem to be going for gems from abroad in the belief that they represent better value. Ipswich spent last summer buying the best of the championship and on the face of it have a team stacked with championship all stars. We have some players remaining with decent championship records but a bit of a question mark over some of them given recent form. I wonder how these different approaches will work out?

Well we seemingly aren't going down the road of keeping any of our premier league players so there aren't many other roads to go down. We will utilise the loan market and possibly not bother buying those loans if we get promoted.

I am though starting to think that staying up after gaining promotion is an almost insurmountable task. Short of hitting on a goldmine of world ie youth players after promotion, there's just too much to do in one summer to get the squad to the required standard. Selling all of our prem quality players just means they will all need replacing again next year if we get promoted alongside trying to raise the overall quality of the squad. I'm not sure it's possible to do even with the world's best scouting etc.

I'm not concerned about selling all the players- that's not overly surprising. I am concerned at the possibility of doing this all before next week and how that's going to badly impact our start to the season. No doubt we will replace these players it's just how that's going to impact our start to the season and subsequently the rest of the year.

Indeed it does and it also includes how well players fit into a particular system. Recent history has the likes of BBD and Armstrong with underwhelming recent performances in the championship.

I'd probably play Aribo in place of Smallbone in that scenario but yes our attack is shit.

I thought he was linked to athletic and juventus yesterday?

I know he had more of a track record but didn't we get that for Lavia?

Hell of a risk to sell virtually all our good players and replace them all with players from foreign markets. Let's hope it pays off.

What's do you reckon? THB Dibling Fernandes Ramsdale All gone?

If true then 50 million is a possibility imo.

30 million and jwp I would take for fernandes personally.

Unlikely to happen but if we are looking for characters in the squad that's got to be about the best thing we could do.

We do. No one is seriously suggesting we will be spending everything we get in. I think I said I expected a further spend of 20-30 million.

He said we're looking to make 100 million. We will be quite close to that if we do sell Dibling.

That's just bollocks.

Football Martin bloke said as much this evening. Pretty sure he has some club contacts (or he's just spoken to Alfie house who he is friendly with).

I will just repeat what I've posted on here many times before but completely ending all Hamas infrastructure and creating some sort of buffer zone between Palestinians and Israel is how it will most likely end up. It will make it much more difficult for Israel to be attacked as easily in the future. Probably ongoing administration of Palestine to prevent Hamas being armed by the likes of Iran too.

I expect there's been some war crimes committed as there is in every war ever. I support full investigations into those and consequences for those involved in them.

I said that it felt like it. It had been ages since we got relegated last time and my expectation was that we would keep quite a few more than we did. This time I was pretty sure we'd lose most of not all of them so I'm not as bothered even though it's a shame when the club gives us a bit of hope some might stay.

I have always had that expectation. Still disappointing when it happens. There's always a small part that thinks you can buck the trend and keep one of them at least. The good news is I'm much less disappointed than I was the last time we got relegated where it felt like we were being decimated.

35 with addons I'd probably take. Unfortunately does mean we are quite close to the scenario where the big four may all be off this summer. Ramsdale and Dibling possibly going, Fernandes definitely off and just THB to go.

It's not about what I want. Your claim was that "if Hamas are taken out of the equation" then there can be no reasonable objection to recognising a Palestinian state. My point was that simply stating that Hamas should not be involved in a new government of Palestine is not taking Hamas out of the equation. Clearly Israel are taking steps to attempt to prevent ongoing threats to their safety in the future as much as they possibly can. I'd be supportive of a Palestinian state in principle if Israel manage to achieve that to some degree.

Working now.

He's right. You would have thought they'd thought about this likely scenario last year.