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I think Smallbone will start but other than that I'd imagine you're spot on. Do agree that it'd be nice to see Charles get some proper minutes in midfield.

Sulemana(?), S. Armstrong, Mara, Aribo, Bednarek and DCC all out Saturday. Squad the same other than that outside of JWP being back.

Quite happy with the Awe signing. Looks like Leicester fans have been hoping he'd join for the past few weeks as well. It really is going to be Lyanco for Sheffield Wednesday though isn't it?

Easy to get swayed by words but it's definitely a good interview. I wonder what would've happened last year if he'd have joined right when SR did.

We're going to go from having two of the best wingers in the league a week before the start of the season, to suddenly having no genuine week-in week-out starters at the position. I don't think Tella is worth £20m, but we'd be absolutely ridiculous to sell him for any less. Similar to Sulemana, he hasn't proven his £22m fee yet, but selling at a lower price than that would be baffling to me.

There was a link of a return to Genk last night, which basically said both parties are interested but they wouldn't want to pay anything near what we're looking for. Their record transfer fee is about a third of what we paid for him 6 months ago.

Bazunu Tino - Bednarek - Stephens - Manning Smallbone JWP - Alcaraz Tella - Adams - A. Armstrong McCarthy, Lyanco, Bree, Charles, S. Armstrong, Edozie, SAA, Djenepo, Mara

No idea on the source but DCC apparently going for 5m euros. Would imagine we'd need to ship one of Lyanco/Salisu as well before bringing somebody new in.

No issue with that, LW is definitely the tough one to predict at the moment.

Played well in the second half. Other than potential sales, the team for AZ at the weekend and then Sheffield Wednesday pretty much picks itself for me at this point. Bazunu Livramento - Bednarek - Stephens - KWP JWP - Smallbone - Alcaraz Tella - Adams - A. Armstrong Subs: McCarthy, DCC, Manning, Bree, Charles, Stu, Edozie, Amo-Ameyaw, Mara This is going on the assumption that Lavia is either gone or not touching the field again after his performance today, and Sulemana is also gone considering his lack of presence so far this pre-season.

Smallbone has been excellent since he came on. Comfortably our best performer in pre-season and a borderline lock to start against Sheff Weds at this stage.

Lovely finish from Stu Armstrong to make it 2-2. This position/system seems perfect for the player he was 18 months ago, wonder if he can get anywhere close to that again. If he stays, of course.

McCarthy Livramento - DCC - Stephens - KWP Charles Smallbone - Stu Djenepo - Adams - Meghoma Current set-up for the last 30 minutes.

I cannot quite believe we gave Djenepo a further 3 year deal.

Excellent from Smallbone. Terrible from McCarthy.

Bree has been worse than I remembered. Hopefully Newcastle leave Tino alone. Djenepo and Lyanco poor as expected. Lavia doesn't seem to give a shit what's going on.

Manning to Charles! Great header.

If that. I'd imagine if nobody goes out the door by next Friday, it'd still probably just be Alcaraz who starts from todays lineup.

There were 8 posts on the previous page about how poor Lavia and Djenepo are playing.

Manning looking good and very active, him and Amo-Ameyaw probably the only decent performers as of yet.

This feels like a really pointless home friendly, especially given the weakened team put out. Should've just kept it for Saturday, where we should have somewhat of a team resembling the Sheff Weds one out.

2-0. Bloody hell.

McCarthy Bree - Lyanco - Charles - Manning Lavia Amo-Ameyaw - Alcaraz Djenepo - Adams - Edozie Appears to be the shape.

Should've probably waited until the line-ups came out before spending £5 to watch McCarthy and Lyanco against Bournemouth's strongest team. They'll love this one.

Charles as a CB again. Amo-Ameyaw as a 10? Not too sure how this would look with the 433 we've been using? 4231 with Alcaraz playing deeper perhaps? McCarthy starting and captain, RM looking elsewhere already?