S-Clarke

P&O cruises and ferries are distinctly different companies. What P&O Ferries did to their staff has no connection what so ever with P&O cruises, as they are separately owned companies without any connection to one an other. P&O Cruises is thoroughly embedded into Carnival as their overall owner. It's kinda like kicking up a fuss if Microsoft took us over, because you didn't like what Apple had done. P&O Cruises are the proper boats which leave Southampton and go all over Europe and the world, P&O ferries are the noddy lot who base themselves out of skatesville.

I think it's the right strategy for clubs like ourselves, enough of the focus on tippy tappy players, more of a focus on genuine power, strength and pace. That's what will get us success longer term, it shouldn't be about focusing on having a higher average possession percentage. I'll always stand by that! I'm much more comfortable with this profile of player as they've already got a bigger chance of being able to succeed at PL level due to their physical profiles.

Juric was the only manager who kinda put 100% in him, playing him every week, and he still didn't really do anything for us. I guess he looks at a player like him as a great 'get out' option for how he approaches the game, at the end of the day his teams are built on defensive stability in low blocks and fast breaks. What we got for him $$ wise is a great deal, funds Downs with change to spare.

In the old days, maybe, but £6m is relatively loose change in the modern world of football. I think you have to be able to spend those levels to even be competitive in the Championship nowadays. We're in a time where Birmingham City put down £18m for Jay Stansfield as a League 1 club.

To counter that, I'd say that if Armstrong, BBD and Archer were Championship players last season and we were targeting them on the back of goal-scoring campaigns, that would fill that void you state. They'd certainly be valued at that as well. Last season BBD looked like a carthorse, but he can and has scored goals at this level. Ditto Armstrong, and ditto Archer. On paper we have 'Championship proven goal scorers' in the door already, so we somewhat have a risk free move available for an 'up and coming' sort. If we sell BBD/Armstrong/Archer then it's a different story however.

Reads like a massive guess-work article to me.

Yes, that's quite scary. Let's hope he's nowhere near involved come August!

I think that's a very fair assessment. I don't have a problem with Solak personally, more so the morons he put to run the show and then the subsequent show they spun up. I guess the proof will be in the pudding now though, we need to see an uplift now he's fully involved. He could have been a worse owner, that's for sure. At least our players are paid.

This one is clearly a Spors driven signing, him and Quarshie have both been targeted and moved on pretty quickly by Spors and the new Chief Scout. Our new Chief Scout has obviously got some knowledge of both of these, especially Quarshie as he was at Hoffenheim Yep, they're young, somewhat unknown and we've all been here before so I get the apprehension. I think we'll still target some more proven players though, we'd be nuts not to. The problem comes when your strategy is based on just young and up and coming, as we've all seen.

I'm with you, I think Brooks is a very classy player. Technically gifted, similar in ways to Dibling in his playing style. Not particularly quick, but a good brain and close control. I felt we should have got more out of him when we had him, I saw it as a huge coup when we got him on loan. I didn't think our rigid retain the ball approach helped him, he's more of a maverick - much in the same way as Charly was, you need to let them express themselves and not tie them int a rigid ''keep the ball at all costs, and pass backwards'' approach. Whoever gets him in the Championship will undeniably be getting one of the most technically gifted players in the league.

We've done well to get over 50% of our money back on this one, the guy never did it for us - either Champ or Prem. Lots of pace, undeniable attribute, but he never seemed to know what to do with it. Lots of blind ally's run into. To get £15m+ for him is a fantastic start and provides us with a bit of a bonus income, that we probably didn't expect to generate. This is the sort of transfer I expected to rumble on and turn into a loan, ditto Onuachu, so it's good to get these two done nice and early. I wonder if we'll get any takers for ABK? That would be another bonus, even £5m at this point.

Where is the proof that the club confirmed it to the Echo? Have you seen the official OS release stating our interest? Until that point it's a rumour. #MLGMode (sorry, couldn't resist)

I've not seen any links to this guy, this is the first one. I've always thought he's out of our range, and even after that post...I'm probably still inclined to believe he's out of our range. He's being talked about at upwards of £15-20m, clearly a really good player but destined for better than us. The club already have Bree and Suguwara at RB, so we don't have a gap to fill as it stands. (which feels weird to say as we've just lost KWP). I'd hope Suguwara will be top at Championship level.

The transfer fee and his freed up wages will be much more useful to us than any on pitch output we 'may' have got. I'm not sure why people are sad to see him go, he was utter dog shite.

Probably the most unrealistic shout yet. It's not like Everton didn't want him to stay. He's injury prone for sure, but he's certainly upper PL quality and we're not on his radar, neither is he on ours. Cheap would also equate to more than Ramsdale is getting paid. He'll get picked up by a prem team without breaking much sweat.

I'd say that level is probably as far as he'll ever progress, just doesn't have the physical attributes to handle the rigours of top level football.

I personally thought that one was one of our worst efforts. Wasn't a fan of the black, never have been on our klits.

I don't really care about Rohl anymore - I'm over that. Let them get on with it. I don't think there are such things as first/second choices either, it's whoever fits best at the moment. Rohl didn't. I'm perfectly content with how we've ended up at this point. I'd be more nervous if we were in July and still had no manager in post. Leicester have a lot of work and a lot of uncertainties to move through before they can start prepping for next season, whilst we're already at that stage.

He doesn't have a choice with the built in extension clause, it's baked into his current deal that we reserve the right to execute a 1 year extension whenever we want. There's nothing stopping us doing that, he can't reject that. My guess is that the club are trying to negotiate an entirely new deal, but we do still have that 1 year extension up our sleeve if he doesn't which we can execute at any point and still retain value on him.

Thank goodness, feels one of the longest sagas. He was a weird player, some uncharacteristic moments of skill in some games, but if we're honest he was a truly horrendous footballer and will almost certainly not be missed.

I think Delap, Tuanzebe and Burgess were all expected (later two because of their contracts). If I was Burnley, I wouldn't be exactly ecstatic with that calibre of signing though. They're only going one way with Parker at the helm to boot!

He's got one heck of a chip on his shoulder, that's for sure.

Got to hand it to them, £25m back from Onuachu and Sulemena is like winning the lottery, twice. That is some big funds, unexpected, in our laps. We haven't even made our 'easy' sales yet. If this is the level we've got for those, you can certainly expect us to hold out for mental fees for Fernandes and Dibling.

All these 'Heat' or 'Cold' weather alerts do is provide the NHS with a level of protection when they miss targets or can't deal with overcrowded a&es. Trusts avoid the normal 'fines' they'd get for target missing as we're under a 'alert'. Similar happens when Hospitals declare major incidents, it's just to protect themselves and enable extra funds for more resources and such. These aren't anything for us to pay attention to really.

Looked shocking, it clearly out of control - so something was off, everyone seems to be saying jammed accelerator. If that is the case, the driver has done well to avoid hitting anything substantial. That could have been so much worse, could have careered head on into other cars if it was at a busier time of day, into buildings or took out pedestrians. That girl on that video - if she was a few mins later to wherever she was off to, she'd have been walking on the stretch it drove over.