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Inventible really, based on the start it's just a matter of how many. Could be a long one, we just haven't got the defenders to deal with this sort of quality.

God forbid your armpit strays offside.

Over half of the league didn't offer 'traditional season tickets' to start with. Of the ones that did, they offered a 'fixed payment' to secure a seat so they can be put into a ballot to pay additional for the games they wanted to attend (if it happens). In my opinion we shouldn't have sold season tickets in their traditional form, the 'expectation' that we'd have fans back inside stadiums from October was flawed from the outset. Unis went back in Sept/Aug, schools back in Sept...up tick in cases during late sept, October. Winter months etc. There is no chance of there being any fans inside any stadium in this country before January. They can't go around shutting down pubs and then deeming stadiums are ok for attendance, for any number, as that would create outrage. So we'll have to get used to no fans for a long time to come. I will say that I've never really believed the 'government' and authority responses/reactions matches the virus it's self, but let's not get into that debate on here.

We had to cobble together loose change to sign Theo on loan, no chance we'll get anyone.

This is the deadline for the EFL window. We can still sell and buy from EFL clubs, and EFL can still get from Prem clubs.

Salisu still 'weeks away' apparently. WTF is wrong with him? Had he never seen a football before he came here or something? What does he have to get used to that he didn't get in Spain? We signed him back at the end of July (we delayed the announcement for 3 weeks for some reason) and he still hasn't played a min of first team or b team football. No media unveiling, no pictures of his first day etc - very much in the Trousers camp of this entire WTF situation.

Cheers for the updates Shroppie. You've got to wonder why there are still 'return' plans being assessed though? They should prob be spending time working out how to refund everyone 50% of their ticket now, in effect everyone would have half season tickets then. Then see how it goes next year, as we certainly won't be seeing fans inside stadiums before Christmas in this country.

Moussa is infuriating, you've got to wonder if he's ever going to be able to settle into the side here. I'm starting to wonder. Loan for next year?

So many calls for him to play here/be in the team etc, but I think the fact he's going to Doncaster says it all. He's not a top level player and never will be.

Good, 3 sneaky bastards caught out trying to push their own interests through. And I'm fairly sure Rick Parry still has his links with Liverpool too, all very suss and I'm glad everyone saw sense in the end. It was a non-starter.

Tbf, it will just be added to the list of things they've failed at this year, so don't be surprised.

How about they all piss off and create a 'big 6 league' somewhere, and let the rest of us battle it out in a proper even playing field? As people have said, this is a scandalous power grab and is only looking after the interests of a select few, it's being wrapped up in an 'EFL' finance support package in the hope that most people don't see what it is. It's also another example of an industry using 'COVID' to shoehorn something else through that they'd have had no hope of doing otherwise. It would be the death of football.

I'd expect guys like Sims, Hesketh and Slattery to leave on loan. Will probably try to sort something out for Gunn as well. Certainly no incomings.

This entire thing makes me feel incredibly uneasy. Kat isn't going to throw us up the river again, is she?

10 quid for BT Sport? Try £27.99 p/m! then another £25 ish for Sky Sports. No way do they need more money.

That price is crazy expensive. Maybe 8 quid or something along those lines? Those are the old Prem Plus prices, and that never worked because of the extortionate prices. For fans who are paying around £50 p/m for BT Sport and Sky Sports shouldn't be expected to pay another £15 to watch additional matches, IMO. Even more so when fans have already paid for season tickets and won't receive those refunds until after the event.

You've always had a problem with Davis and it's very odd. Pretty much 99.9% of people you ask, with any decent level of football understanding, will appreciate what a good pro and a technically gifted player he is/was. Massive for us in those 14/15 15/16 seasons.

Didn't he start against Inter Milan at home? He did have good potential at one point, but he drifted and then got a very bad injury (and another I think) He will prob have to settle for lower if not non-league now.

Can't complain about that what so ever. Like a freebie shot really.

Is it being streamed anywhere?

He's an odd player, like you say he's very skilful, probably the most skilful player at the club. But he was lacking other attributes. I'd agree with you that his awareness and general football brain was poor, that can't be coached and that's what you're born with really. He's what I'd call a luxury player, someone you can throw on and let the showboats come out - but you need time and space to do that and this league doesn't really afford that luxury. The lack of suitors says it all really. He's ended up at Angers because whilst he's talented, he lacks other key ingredients to be a top level player.

Exactly, there's no way you could find similar experience in a position we needed to improve for that fee. I think Everton helped us out a lot there with the wages, they probably wanted a much bigger contribution. There's prob a loan fee involved as well I reckon, maybe 1m? So yeah, 2.5m for 8 months. Would struggle to find anyone else with the experience he has for that. I reckon he'll work out cheaper than Boufal over the 8 months too, I'm sure I read Boufal was on something like 60-65k here.

Blimey, this feels a bit early! But then you think, it's only 10 or so weeks away. Let's see how we go is my answer at the mo. Looking at the squad as a whole at the moment we look fairly balanced in most places, two full backs either side, 4 centre backs, way too many goal keepers, nice options in CM. Attacking options look interesting too. I guess it depends on form and injury really, that'll dictate what we do. My main concern has always been what do we do if Ings gets injured? I feel we shouldn't have renewed Longs contract and used that space to get another CF, but it's not always that easy. I don't think we urgently need anything right now though, which I guess makes the last window a success - one of the first ones in many a year where I feel we haven't left a glaring hole in an obvious area, which is pretty good going given that we've had to do that with little to no money.

We must be paying something like 2.5m for the 8 months? (If his Salary is 50k as reported). What else could we have got for £2.5m? That is probably the maximum we had available to play with, so loaning Theo didn't stop us spending funds on a starter - as we don't have enough for that. It's a cheap loan for 8 months, he's an experienced international, champions league and premier league player. There's a lot of sentimental stuff and PR drive around this move, for sure, but for what we had to spend this is probably a very good outcome.

In and around 10th-13th I imagine. Unless we have a season with no injuries and Ings has another freak year, then maybe top 8.