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Agreed. I think he'd do well at a mid ish league 1 club, preferably one who play possession football.

I agree with that in the main, but the lad won't learn his trade on the bench. He needs minutes. If we won't give them to him, he needs a spell on loan to develop himself in men's football. He'll learn nothing more playing u21 matches.

Yep, bloody brilliant isn't it. There's been a massive reset behind the scenes too. The whole club has been shaken up from top to bottom. Long overdue.

Where? What's your statement based on?

Me too. Had a good day?!

Not sure what's the bigger gamble...a crocked bloke who's decent when fit, or someone from the Belgium league who's shit when he's fit. On balance, I reckon we'll take a punt on him.

Interesting take on it. So, if for example, we've paid half the Onuachu fee, and they want him back at half price, then they essentially want him back for free! They'd then want the fee for Paintsil, so not actually a swap at all. On the rest if it, like you, I'm not overly concerned by Tella leaving.

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Cheers...Nene Dorgeles is a forward I've not seen linked elsewhere.

Nothing would surprise me...us signing both with Bednarek and ABK leaving is as possible as anything else.

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If the £17.2m was paid over 2 years it'd essentially be the same as getting £24m over 3 years (standard as I understand it), but giving us an extra year of amortisation of what he cost us. Even if those add ons were micky mouse ones, this feels like a no brainer if he's not going to be playing for us.

They may have, who knows. Alternatively, it could that he's felt good enough for the championship, but not quite PL ready, at least not yet. Regardless, he'd be brilliant for us but I'm not sure where that leaves others - no room (or need) for all of them.

Correct, but I'm not sure why City would loan him for his last season - surely it makes sense for them to take the best offer.

Genius! Cheers

Yep... although if Sully is sulky I'd prefer to bring in another winger / utility forward.

If our players were committed, we may have stayed up.

Surely a lad making a formal transfer request is being a lot more honest than a lad angling for a move, but not willing to make the formal request as he doesn't want to lose his "loyalty" bonus?

I refer to the sensible words of Lighthouse up there ^^^ Just because you wanted him, doesn't mean that we should have got him.

But we didn't, and keep bringing it up changes nothing. Piroe is not the only capable striker out there.

He's a pure 10/second striker and just doesn't suit his current role and doesn't offer enough. I forget who it was against, but his ambling back when AA had to run back and make that tackle ok midfield was telling. I think we'll get another proper CM.

Apparently this lad is very versatile - can play well as a DM, CM and AM. If Charles is needed at CB, that only really leaves Downes as DM. I also wander where Alcaraz fits this season - he's really struggled being played as a box to box CM.

Last season we were ditched by Shields (thankfully as it happens) leaving the deals to Rasmus. This season it's being overseen by Wilcox, with Mowbray the main scout. We have new people in the boardroom, a new head of finance, a new manager, etc etc. It's staggering that people do not appreciate that different people are now running the show.

Ask yourself who wants (and needs) promotion more, SR or us...that's one reason why I'm relaxed. They fecked up last season, then fixed things behind the scenes. I'm confident they'll get this window right.

Yep, and we can't do a thing about it. We'll either have a decent squad when the window slams shut, or we won't. Regardless, we'll have shifted all or most of the poor players we've carried (but who have suddenly become god like), will have a manager who plays a decent brand of football, and a January window to come. Football is never depressing. Unless you make it.