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Minor injury combined with not being that deserving of a large enough financial package to warrant a move will stop it, however.

THB isn't going anywhere with his knock. Whilst I completely agree that replacing Bazunu is a no brainer, I've made peace with the fact that we're definitely not doing it. Got a shit load of strikers already and therefore I'd imagine the only remaining incomers will be midfielders, whether holding midfield cover, attacking midfield or wide player(s). Buonanotte, Encisco, Esse, Echeverri and maybe Fabio Carvalho are some of the higher end options coming to mind who may become available for a loan? Perhaps Nyoni at Liverpool who has seemingly had a good preseason as well. Rudoni would be my absolute number one target right now if we've got the capability for a permanent deal.

Our four Summer loans in 23/24 all took place in the final 10 days of the window. I wouldn't be too surprised to see that be all we do for the rest of this year. It was three games into the season before we signed any of them. Two/three central midfielders and one/two wide players would be my guess. Harwood Bellis: 1st September Fraser: 25th August Holgate: 25th August Downes: 21st August

Wellington is absolutely miles better than Manning. Not really sure why he's not an automatic first choice?

Didn't for one second think we'd keep any of Ramsdale, Fernandes or Dibling. Also would've hope that the foresight of it obviously happening would've meant that a week out our replacements weren't Shit Existing GK, Nobody and Nobody. It'll be Armstrong, Fraser, Brereton Diaz; Archer on the opening day as it has been in preseason. Absolutely dying for a #10 and a left-winger unless we're willing to put a load of trust in Robinson.

Interesting one where apparently Ajax nearly signed Spertsyan but their board blocked the signing due to "moral concerns about dealing with a Russian club".

Ah right, my bad. Well if he was as poor getting down to the bottom corners as he was before that, I dread to imagine that part of his game now.

We got promoted in spite of him, and actually got carried over the line by a 50 year old McCarthy who looked better than Gav. There's nothing to suggest an ACL injury and a terrible loan move in Belgium has done anything to believe he's improved.

Apparently it's likely to be a significant fee loan + option anyway. Good news that we have a good level Goalkeeper available if we come back up and the option isn't picked up. Bad news that we're significantly less likely to go up with Bazunu and having Ramsdale still technically on our books makes buying another 1st choice basically impossible.

Good move for him. A better Goalkeeper than the relegation merry go round he's found himself in. Hopefully it gets sorted ASAP and we have a month to bring somebody else in to be the starter, although unfortunately I imagine another giant oversight where we sign another Lumley 3rd choice and trust Bazunu once more.

Can't really make much of a case for Robinson not to start ahead of Brereton-Diaz/Fraser.

Downes/Dibling in for Fraser/BBD and that's probably the Wrexham team if nobody leaves before that date? This current lineup is very dull without Fernandes further up and Dibling able to beat a man out wide.

No issue with Stephens being our 4th choice CB in the Championship. Anything other than those circumstances is always a bit of a worry. Absolutely echo that the biggest problem is if the club deem Bazunu a good enough option next year.

Three weeks to go and feels like there's absolute mountains still to be done. Of our current "best team" you'd imagine about half of them would still be off.

Jay Robinson looks seriously good doesn't he? Hope we don't fuck this one up like Amo-Ameyaw...

Almost forgot we were shit for a while!

Couple more links to Lennon Miller of Motherwell this morning. Can't say I've ever seen him myself but I know a Rangers fan who seems to think he's the next big player from Scotland.

One has played about 2 games since and the other had an ACL injury followed by a shit loan in Belgium. Not much need for trying to be clever this time, don't you think?

Not a bad fee in the end, but still another pretty reasonable loss. Absolutely bewildering that a Premier League team signed off on his transfer.

That was probably Stewart's sharpest game, if anyone wants to try and draw some sort of positive from that load of shit

It's funny to think that despite all of his huge flaws, Martin actually had this team competing in a number of games this season Fair play to Rusk for stopping us breaking/equalling the record, but from manager to manager we have got more and more unwatchable to the point now that I actually don't see how we could be any worse No shots, no effort and just a complete waste of time. Why aren't we giving it a bit of a go today with literally nothing on the line?

Are people forgetting we're a Championship club? Time to lower your expectations a little bit. Happy enough with this.

I'd imagine Sainz is out of our league, but he's exactly the kind of player we need. Dibling and Fernandes are the only two in the squad capable of taking the ball and driving with it, similar to what Stu did for us last year. I doubt either will be here so creativity has to be a massive focus. If you create Arma 50 chances he will probably score 20 in this league. I doubt anyone wants to take a risk on Archer again like we did and he's also seemingly pretty capable at the level. Archer Edozie - ? - Armstrong Charles - Downes Hopefully we nail a loan signing again. We did do a good job at that last time around.

Good going seeing as he’s only been there since Jan. THB/Bednarek/Edwards/Wood/Stephens for next season looks pretty strong, even if one of the first two head off.

Not before the end of this season right? Don't want his reputation to start getting lumbered in with this group of idiots. Having him in the door right after the season ends would be great though.