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Ah, that makes sense. Before a ceremonial tearing-up of final year of contract.

Seemingly. Weird.

It all looks perfectly positioned for Levy to come in with a lower offer than Everton’s on deadline day and get his man.

Agreed. And also don't have unrealistic expectations on Robinson to be our most creative force this season - he's only 18, and will do well to play 1/3 of the time (and even better if he plays well for 50% of that time....)

Aren't we allowed 5 loans? I'd imagine we'll use most if not all of them and (remarkably) we used the loan market quite effectively last Championship season. If THB, Dibling and Fernandes go for say £80-90m, that would be 9 out & c.£120-130m in (Paul, Sulemana, KWP off wages, Ramsdale loan + wages, Edozie, Bednarek). £10m out so far on 2 players. If we lose those three plus say another couple (11 out), we'd only need 4 or 5 replacements (7 in in total), i.e. mainly loans? Maybe one or two permanents, but can't see many more than that. £100m player trading profit, younger profile squad. Spors' CV will never have looked so good.

He may or may not be, but presumably both the buying and selling club will use previous transaction prices to value him. What would you value him at, and by comparison to whose sale?

Re valuations, what are comparative fees re age / experience? Minteh £33m Archie Gray £35m Omari Hutchinson £35m I’d imagine it will end up around there too?

He wasn't a bad or unsensible signing aged 21 for £5m. He didn't progress beyond that signing value, i.e. 3rd or 4th choice cover was his ceiling level. Sadly he ended up being first choice, which tells us all about the declining standards at the club during his time here. I wish him well but not sorry to see him go.

One down, about 20 more to go…..

It'll be interesting to see how Edozie and Robinson (i.e. wingers) compare and contrast to BBD and AA playing the wide front roles.

good cross from BBD for the own goal

Front 3, BBD, Archer, Armstrong. Fraser playing as AM behind them.

Edwards is at RB. Pitch poor quality. Not much structure to the game in first ten.

Simon Charlton (Heston)

Craig David

Lloyd James.

All red home kit, and an away kit in the colours of Ukraine. We are blessed to be in the hands of visionaries who understand the full gamut of global desires when it comes to kits. And Puma are lucky to have us.

I would imagine that once Puma realise that our catchment area includes Bath and half of the Isle of Wight, we'll get at least an equal deal as City's.

I'd prefer him to spell his name Damien, as in Thorn.

The new Eric Black

An excellent watch, thank you. They really did have to put their laces through those pig bladders.

Agree wholeheartedly re physical attributes. Rudoni would be absolutely excellent.

...and debt.

Assuming the sticky is correct, 11 out of contract next summer: McCarthy Stephens Aribo Smallbone Stewart Bree Fraser Taylor Ounachu Dibling Bella-Kotchap Assuming Dibling doesn't renew, it's hard to imagine any of the others getting an extension? 2027 ones are: Manning Armstrong Sulemana Edozie Larios Bazunu Bednarek Charles Assuming they don't renew, offers would be considered for all, with extensions feasible for Sulemana & Charles?

I hadn't realised he's out of contract June 2026 (well, according to the sticky on the forum page) in which case we might be lucky to get £3m......