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Doubt it, that deal probably sailed away weeks ago.

Not sure on the cries for Grealish myself. You've got Mount and Foden who are very similar players and both on a much higher level than him. Would be pointless to include 3 players of the same ilk.

So Reed and Lemina going will mean all go on a new midfielder, I imagine. There will be a nice chunk of wages saved and a loan fee for Lemina, and a nice £8-10m for Reed. Although we may need to use that money to help pay for the kit sponsor debacle....who knows how that will impact us.

Reports today that he's close to sealing his Fulham move. He wasn't given a squad number, so I don't expect him to stay.

Exactly that, there is also that massive outlay too. That won't be free. LD Sports are still showing our content all over their page - https://www.ldsports.uk/ A very strange and peculiar situation all round. I wonder if the club are trying to get that removed, but you'd think any viable company would have done it themselves. Such a shambles, really want to see how on earth this got through the door last year. I'd love to see who pushed it. It needs some sort of investigation tbh, but I'm a bit scared about what murky stuff it would show re: our ownership and if that would end up with us getting peanlised.

Potentially we'll have £8m from Reed shortly, then maybe a couple of mill on a loan fee for Lemina. Then we may have enough scraped enough together to put a bid together for a player in the 10-15m bracket! I think we're hamstrung on the wages, but I don't think we have much free cash to play with either IMO. If we're honest our model has always been sell and buy, even under Koeman - we got lucky with the amount we got that window. But one or two poor transfer windows and that entire model comes crashing down like a pack of cards, as we have no one to sell to raise the funds, and lots of poor players on big money. It's a bit different at other clubs who have owners willing to invest a little though, but we don't have that and haven't really had that since Markus.

I think he'll cost a bit too much. Going by the media reports Mangala is around 10-15m, Ntcham is more in the £20m ballpark. We like our 10-15m signings, so Mangala could fit that bill.

Absolute joke to play the racist card.

I wonder if we'll see our interest in Mangala step up now? Certainly a more agile and technical midfielder than Weston. Either were/are a good option imo. But we're hamstrung until we shift who we need, I reckon any 3rd signing is prob going to happen in Oct.

Reckon the club has legal grounds to sue them? As Martin said, they have almost zero communication from them, even after trying to make contact frequently. He did not sound best pleased. But I'm not surprised really, I'm surprised they had any contact last year either, as they're a fake company.

I'd be very surprised if we let PEH and Reed go without replacing. I reckon we'll see movement on the CM front once Reed leaves (which looks inventible now)

Is it just me, or is it getting even worse than it was? I've been having some problems my side, everything else looks ok now, but this just seems even worse.

Messi CDAJFU. Good backup to Redmond on the left IMO.

Harry Maguire found guilty, so he's out.

I don't think he's joined up with the club yet @trousers. Training on his own, but it makes you wonder why.

It's a strange situation, but I find it hard to believe he wouldn't have been involved in this in some way. Surely people as switched on as Martin and co would have done the same due diligence as us last year? A few random fans on an internet forum found a company that didn't really exist, had no real purpose, lots of lies on their website and random made up people (and let's not forget the squirrel). If it flagged so many red flags for us, then how did that get through the club? The person owning 80% stake calling the shots and shoehorning it through for his own benifit...? Just putting it out there.

I guess you have to think - what is more terrible? No sponsor and no income, or a sponsor for 1 year to tide us over so we can sort out longer term next year? There would have been very few viable sponsors out there willing to take us on at such short notice, just saying. The crux is that the terrible decision stems back to a year ago when the club thought LD Sports was a viable business back then, they never were. I'm really surprised that someone as switched on as Martin didn't flag that a year ago.

Good to see JWP and Ings in there, no brainer on either really. Southgate knows JWP really well, he was his captain for the U21's, so I reckon he has a chance to nail down a place. Winks/Rice/Phillips - pretty much the same player, just different names. Mount and Foden forward thinking attacking midfielders, but JWP can play that deeper playmaker role without a problem. Obviously a bit of club bias from me there, but even Spurs fans don't particularly rate Winks.

Yep, agreed. But let's not open that can of worms...(hence why I think he should be the one paying us the lost revenue)

Even a betting company is better than that charade. It seems as if the club have tried to get confirmation of their viability, but have struggled. It beggars belief as to why no one tried to get confirmation of their viability last summer to be honest.

If Ings doesn't get a call up, then there is absolutely no point.

I think what happens is that the 'credit' you have is automatically deducted from your third payment. It's something the club do automatically I believe and you won't see it. So you'd pay full price for the first two instalments, then the third instalment would be cheaper and with your credit deducted.

Yeah possibly, I guess there's no need for any advance notice anyway. We may have one 'proper' friendly I guess, but it's quite a condensed pre-season so everything will be a tad different.

They probably will, no point in telling fans though as we wouldn't be able to attend. Probably lots of behind closed doors/non advertised friendlies.

I'll happily donate to any charity if it's discovered that Gao has nothing to do with 'LD Sports' and 'Lander Developments (i.e LD)' are not linked to 'LD Sports'. Sadly we'll never find out, but it seems fairly obvious to me.