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I had my tongue firmly in my cheek there MLT, but I understand you’re the bearer of the stadium expansion torch and therefore will continue to believe it will happen someday. I truly hope it happens in my lifetime, but if it does, I think it’ll be despite the City council rather than them having any kind of drive and/or financial interest in it.

We all know how well that went the last time it was muted right?! #monkeychicken #pettingzoo

Exactly. The one I remember most vividly was from many years ago when a monorail system was proposed creating jobs and huge tourism benefits for the City centre, not to mention the environmental benefits from park and rides outside town. Infighting between council factions killed the project off dead before it had room to breath. Utter morons.

To be fair Brookes would do well in the Championship and it would involve a large chunk of cash coming our way for a decent striker or ACM, so perhaps not out of the realms of possibility especially if the lad can commute to Bournemouth easy.

I’ve nothing against Dragan as such - he’s a sort of Markus-lite in my view. However, Markus made sure he had very good people looking after the club, making difficult sometimes unpopular choices (getting shot of Nigel A for example) to drive us forward. Dragan unfortunately put all his eggs into the SR basket and that has been the essence of the disaster we’ve witnessed. I like that he has the City Council on his side in terms of making the stadium and the immediate area better, however I don’t trust the Council to get anything that might improve the City over the line on-time or indeed at all. Not unless it’s related to the University and student accommodation of course. Cautiously optimistic.

I expect you’re right, but wouldn’t it be great if we were able to have a decent sub option if Fernandes was not available? Just think of the number of times he ran himself into the ground, got subbed and then we lost the game thanks to a lack of squad depth/quality. It was a very key feature of last seasons shitfest.

That’s true as Lumley has gone, although I think Solak is talking about buys that don’t require sales first. It may signal good news in that we don’t need to sell Rambo (unlikely) or conversely bad news that Baz is back as no.1 (likely).

Tyler and Kameldeen were playing on their respective wings and didn’t get their heads up enough to see a pass. Happened countless times. Neither showed enough to demonstrate their abilities, albeit in the EPL. They were not the only culprits mind. It’s not helpful IMO to try to gloss over how shit that team really were at that level. It remains to be seen whether they’re capable in the Championship under a better manager/system.

Can’t argue with that, although I think Stewart would be an ok player to hold in reserve.

Eh? I’d keep off those mushrooms if I were you pal.

He was certainly not all that in the EPL I would agree, but I’m sort of keen to know if the EFL with Still training him might unlock his potential. If only he and Dibling were not so keen on trying to beat 5 players to score a Worldy we might have had a better GD last season.

Never believe anything you read on internet right? 😉

Lord Duckhunter - he brings so much to the debate. 🙄😂

It’s a component, yes, however there are some posters I’d classify as ‘good’ who have never created a post to best of my knowledge. For the sake of clarity, my starting point for ‘good’ is - ‘understands others have differing views and can argue their own point in a respectful way’.

There’s a chance there’s few to no rumours is because there’s not a lot of transfer business going on. Why? There’s not a lot of call for players coming from the 2nd worst team in EPL history and even if there is, we’ve over-priced the players that are available. And with no sales (yet), any purchases/loans are delayed. Maybe.

Could be Armstrong, but I reckon it’s more likely to be either Fraser, Larios and/or even ABK?!? 😳

That maybe a function of the topic you’ve chosen to open a thread about, rather than ‘the goodness’ of you yourself - there’s a distinction. Not saying you’re not a popular poster, but that’s not the same as being ‘good’ in the eyes of some. For example, while good natured banter can be fun, the relentless on-line bullying dished out here on occasion is tiresome if not irritating and certainly not what I’d classify as ‘good’.

How would £10m for Sulemana yield a profit?

Yeah, I’d agree he’s not exactly set the World alight but I do wonder after the experience of many games and a pre-season with Still, he might start to actually find his way.

We got promoted because Baz got injured and we had a marginally better keeper for a good proportion of the season. Add to that the injury to his already floppy wrists and the dire games he’s had since his return from injury and it’s not hard to believe he’d be a disaster. Best not to live in the past - everything’s moved on and if Rambo goes we need a new, equally as good keeper. That’s not Bazunu.

Not for £10m - think we’d take £18m with a decent sell-on, which is still a big hit and miles from their valuation. Trouble is we got royally shafted on the original deal and £10m is nearer his true value. The thing is, would that £18m allow us to purchase a better player at Championship level? I’m not convinced.

To be honest I couldn’t give a monkeys toss whether the club saves money getting rid of the high earners - I just want the quality of the overall squad to improve substantially beyond the shitshow we witnessed last season. As a supporter it’s not in my gift to affect the salaries of individual players, so I don’t concern myself with that. If a player is the top earner and gash then I want rid or conversely if the worse player is on a low wage I want rid of said player. Having said that, if Fraser is on £40k/week that is a big indication of how broken the club has been managerially.

Sweet Mother Mary…I’ve lost far too many seconds of my life scanning through that load of toss. 😒

This guy is THE man. Yup, the REAL deal. No mistake - this means promotion is nailed on.

Got news for you - that scenario is not going to happen at any time this window. 😂