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Meslier is a good shout. Steele is BHA number 2 so unlikely, Woodman has just joined Liverpool, and Bettinelli hasn't played in 4 years. Ortega ambitious as you say, but he'll want a move you'd imagine.

I think he means when Johansson became available, and then in anticipation of getting relegated, not actually signing Ramsdale. Or something.

Indeed. It comes to something when. killing journalists is deemed to be better for your international reputation than allowing those journalists to report what you're about to do.

Yep. Leave France, bob about a bit, let off a flare, get picked up by a British sea ferry.

That'll come on juandy.

Was it one of them shady £40m transfer fees?

I'm not sure there's an easier job in professional sport. Perhaps 3rd pick kicker in American Football. Keep fit, travel a bit, play plenty of cards, "work" til you're about 45, never get injured, retire as fresh as a daisy. If I wasn't a dwarf, I'd have been all over that.

Now that's the rub!!

1. His contract was running down. 2. He wanted out. 3. We need the money to strengthen elsewhere.

I thought height rather than pace, but he seems short of something that Still wants. Personally I like Wood, and assuming we play a 4, he's ample alongside THB, Stephens and Quarshie.

I think we've been hedging our bets on who moves on out of the CB group. I'm not sure what's gone wrong with Edwards though, he seems a cracking prospect and did so well at QPR last season.

Good business all round imo. I genuinely think that's a good club for him at this stage. He'll play, improve, and in time get a big move. Good luck to the lad.

He made Ray Wallace look like Cafu.

Is that Joe Rothwell's summer training partner?

It's his job if they want a new first pick. They obviously don't. That said, I can't imagine there's too many top level keepers floating around wanting to come here for a season to push Baz. People on here haven't mentioned one possibility which kind of makes the point.

That highlights the point that loaning in a first pick isn't as easy as it sounds. When we're not buying one, and can't loan one, then we loan in a 3rd pick which is exactly what we've done.

Howdy Coastal.

Jeez. Who?

Pointless waste imo, and nobody has yet named a credible option to loan in as competition to Baz. Regardless, this lad will do as 3rd pick, and given the mess that our team is, GK isn't the area to focus on. We have far bigger issues to address, and I'll judge the owners on how they address those.

Don't be so correct Matthew. Our season seems to hang on this position apparently.

McCarthy wasn't number 3. Lumley wasn't trusted and when push came to shove, McCarthy played. We were never going to keep Ramsdale on our books, ditto the other two, then sign another keeper to push the starters. What has happened is what was obvious. You don't see that, I get that, but it was.

I think it depends how it goes for him imo there. If he plays second fiddle to Pope all season, why would he want to stay?

So Macca as number 3. That's not realistic. In your scenario, Macca needs a buyer, and we then need a new number 3. We then have the number 1.5 knowing he's 3 if we go up. Who'd sign in that basis? However you cut it, what you'd like wasn't realistic, and us signing a number 3 on loan is sensible and obvious.

I'm not sure what debate there is. All I can read is posters expecting us to buy a brilliant number 1 who knows that Ramsdale comes back 1 if we go up, and all while keeping Baz or Macca, or selling either to the plethora of buyers banging down the door to buy them. Crazy thinking that's happening.

Ok mate. Calm down. No point discussing with anyone who genuinely thinks we were going to loan Ramsdale, but buy a new number one, whilst having other senior keepers on the books. There's no comprehension of reality there.