hypochondriac

Exactly. It's also clear that if he can stay fit that the club intend to use him a lot this year.

I find it odd that he got elected and then junked a lot of the stuff he said prior to getting elected (that's not odd loads of them do that) but then when he wasn't getting the desired results, he got a new chief of staff and then started saying a load of right of centre stuff. I'm not sure who he's trying to appeal to. He's never going to get people on the right to vote for him by being diet Tory or Reform Lite, he's only going to succeed in driving those on the left towards the lib dems and greens. This will only get worse if Corbyn starts a political party. He's also gone out of his way to piss off farmers, people who go to private schools, pensioners and now the disabled. A quote from a Labour MP said something like "the public rolled the dice with Brexit, rolled the dice with Labour and then if we don't deliver why would anyone be surprised if they rolled the dice with Reform?"

Max Johnston but latest was he might have turned us down.

Not sure about that. Tories were a lot more disappointing whereas I expected a lot of shit from Labour. Admittedly they have been slightly worse than I expected. I'm not sure what kind of politician Starmer is. He isn't charasmatic or likable, not a conviction politician, seems to be led by his chief of staff into saying whatever he thinks is popular with focus groups and flip flops on the economy all the time.

We've all been there

Havent we been linked to the Scottish youngster with one cap from abroad?

I don't imagine he would be a starter if we don't sell the others. Could be wrong though.

That's a better team than last season for my money if we get the RB and striker signings correct. If we also managed to shift Ramsdale, ABK, Bednarek, maybe Armstrong then that's potentially over 60 million including Sulemana and Onuachu. I'm not saying that's what we will do at all but if we did it would be the best chance we had of returning to the prem and then having a better chance of survival.

I know it's incredibly unlikely but just imagine if we lined up with New GK New RB THB Edwards Wellington Charles Downes Dibling Fernandes Edozie Stewart/New Striker We can dream.

Even his most ardent supporters surely admit this isn't a good way to run things.

Maybe Sulemana will come good and be brilliant. Doesn't change the fact that he's been pretty underwhelming for us so far and that amount of money is massive for someone who has failed so far. Pretty much impossible to turn that down even if he does suddenly get good more consistently.

Yes I don't entirely disagree. I think THB and Downes fitted that criteria last time out. I expect we can sign a few players to get us up and then make them either squad players next year or loan them out if needed. We can't afford too many signings that are likely to be good enough for the prem.

I personally think on a better team THB and Downes would have been alright in the prem. This season I'd like a mix of players good enough for the prem and then decent championship players that we will discard immediately if we go up.

True. I just really hope our transfer strategy is half decent. I'll be honest I have never heard of any of the players we have signed or are linked with. Hopefully it's a rabbit or two out of the bag.

I know we are going with a slightly different strategy but it's a real shame if we don't look at established championship performers to sign. Downes and THB were proven last time along with Armstrong and arguably Stewart although he didn't work out obviously. Getting all our signings from abroad is a bit of a risk. I'd like to see us linked with a few of the top players from the league already.

I'm not sure in midfield or attack we are stronger at the moment. Assuming we lose Aribo, Fernandes maybe, Dibling, Onuachu and Sulemana. To surpass the championship quality of Aribo, Stuart Armstrong and even Che Adams will be a challenge if we want to say with confidence that we have a stronger team than last season.

I personally don't think we'd get anywhere near that amount for him. Much more likely to be 6-7 million imo. You'd have to question if it's worth selling to the championship for that money. Maybe abroad?

Will still teams play with proper wingers. Where would Armstrong fit in?

The right thing to say when you're returning to the club but I bet he wished he had done things a bit differently. He could be remembered in the same way as some of our other greats.

Agree with that. The best you can say is you can't really blame him for last year. I wonder if he ever regrets the manner that he left last time as he could have been really highly thought of here had he done things in the right way.

People who deny the efficacy of vaccines or that overall the good they do outweighs rare side effects by orders of magnitude have the IQ of amoebas as far I'm concerned. It's not even worth engaging with.

Correct. It's why Armstrong probably has to go but I'd prefer him to go somewhere that isn't the championship if we can.

Has Jan koller signed yet?

I'm not sure I'd mark them as sensible! Like I said in an earlier post, I do think there are people who just want to argue on here. No one seriously advocates for a nuclear armed Iranian regime.

Thought you'd stumbled off to watch the telly? Run along now.