Smirking_Saint

Thanks captain obvious

Are you being serious 🤣

People losing their minds over a loan we basically all knew was coming Ramsdale had an agreement that he could go if we were relegated, not sure any of the promoted teams interested him much, but we can’t deny him a move to Newcastle 4m fee with wages covered is a decent deal, if they buy him at the end of the year great… if they don’t we have a PL keeper returning

Good move for him, came in and had a real resurgence after his villa move, definitely repaired some bridges in my mind. Was arguably our best defender over the last couple of years, which shows how badly we’ve fallen off really. Good deal for us, good deal for him, good to see the squad trimming continue 28m for him, Onuachu and Sulemana is mad business, well done Spoors/Rasmus and long may it continue

But you’re basing their creativity from a Prem season where effectively nobody came away with much credit, it was almost impossible for any of them to look particularly ‘creative’ I will say though, both Dibling and Fernandes were the only two that looked like they could affect premier quality opposition, so I find it difficult to believe they wouldn’t be a huge cut above in the Championship. For me, a front 4 of Robinson, Fernandes, Dibling and hopefully a striker with ability and confidence is too much for this level, throw in a firing AA somehow and its more than capable

Who can get that will potentially offers more than those two in this division?

Just the whole release clause activated then the club throwing toys out the prams just odd

That whole saga was very weird

Dibling has never played there and Matsuki is injured

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All of thats fair, Id like to think Baz has matured a bit over last year, I still think there’s a better keeper in there than we saw under Martin, and RM had a knack of piling undue pressure on GKs and backlines… but all that said its hard to argue it’ll be one of our weakest positions I just feel both are, good enough, as long as the rest of the squad is more cohesive and less risk taking, atleast in our own box, then the last time we relied on either Of course the best thing to happen would be that Ramsdale stays, unfortunately I doubt it

All of thats fair, Id like to think Baz has matured a bit over last year, I still think there’s a better keeper in there than we saw under Martin, and RM had a knack of piling undue pressure on GKs and backlines… but all that said its hard to argue it’ll be one of our weakest positions I just feel both are, good enough, as long as the rest of the squad is more cohesive and less risk taking, atleast in our own box, then the last time we relied on either Of course the best thing to happen would be that Ramsdale stays, unfortunately I doubt it

Im not massively worried yet… pre season friendlies, especially on camps are purely for conditioning abd assessing the condition of the squad My thoughts are that we just don’t have anyone to play there outside of Fernandes

But my point is, if we replace Ramsdale this year, its likely we’ll have to replace again next year.. unless we get lucky… and that’s fine, if we somehow manage to find a player good enough to carry through unto the prem then go for it, but I ‘feel’ like we would be better spending on a winger, No.10 and perhaps a CB or ST first

I agree, but also not sure GKs are the issue they’re made out to be in the Championship IF we are a team looking to win it Realistically I think the club needs more surgery in other areas, AND replacing McCarthy or Baz this year means we’ll be stuck with a below par GK if we get promoted So.. to clarify, I don’t think McCarthy ir Baz are good enough, but in the absence of a manager intent on putting our own backline under pressure for 90 mins I don’t think its as much of an issue

Wages mainly, pretty sure he is our highest earner, so I do see a situation where he moves to either a neely promoted team or a team that suddenly needs a keeper (injury ?)

It has more to do with the fact that most clubs have a first team keeper sorted, and those that don’t probably have issues with PSR and as such 25m for Ramsdale is probably a lot Id imagine he’ll go out on loan towards the end of the TW

Its not We sent a team last week

I mean… to move on you need people that want you, none of the managers have wanted to bring him with them away from Soton either And FWIW, he wasnt really getting any game time previous to Hasenhuttl who, also moved him out on loan to Bournemouth, who coincidentally didn’t take him on So yeah… bit of a moot point

I still don’t buy the leadership bollocks, @stevegrant summed it up better than I could on the latest pod (can’t remember exact statement but) - If he was the leader in what has been our most rudderless period its fairly damning on him Besides, ive both played and coached at a reasonable level… a leader in sport needs to have an aptitude at that level, as well as the qualities needed to lead, or else a rot sets in and ‘better’ players lose motivation If it was a year or two extension… fine… but 3 years puts the current DoF under the same scrutiny as his predecessors by burdening us with mediocrity

FM26 is gonna be a breeze

It was at Lens

Is he though ? Really didn’t show it last season, or so far in pre season Besides Still plays very much with classic type wingers, and not really any of the players listed are of that skillset, do he either adapts his tactics, or, we need quality out wide Fraser and BBD I doubt are reliable this season anyway

Ben Brereton Diaz is…. Quality out wide now is he ?

In fairness, Bednarek has been our best defender for the past two years (shows how bad our progression in recruitment has got), so I didn’t mind the extension at the time Do agree with you around rewarding mediocrity though… giving JS a 3 year deal is criminal