Lighthouse

Stephens, for all his faults, isn’t a player I associate with getting bullied. If anything he is more prone to losing his discipline, like he did with Cucurella, and just generally having terrible brain farts

Yes, I did read it. You said we wouldn’t be relying on Stephens and Wood, which means somebody will be replacing THB as most people would have assumed. The fact that we’re after this German fella implies that one of the other three is also likely to be off, most likely JQ who doesn’t seem to be in Tonda’s plans, even for cup games.

I think most of us had figured out that we weren’t just going to sell THB and rely on the three that were left but tell your mate thanks anyway.

I don’t think you can accuse Solak of that, when we announced we were sticking with Tonda it raised more eyebrows than a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. It was certainly a brave decision, which caught me by surprise. I thought he had to go and TBH I’m still not entirely convinced keeping him was the right decision. Maybe with two or three signings in key areas we will be rejuvenated and start looking like we did last year but right now it’s all a bit Will Still.

Incidentally this fixture was the last league game in which Wood started and we kept a clean sheet, back in January, so there’s that.

We've just signed three strikers, we're not getting two more. Maybe one if DD, BBD and Archer all leave but even then it wouldn't be a given. I'd reasonably expect a CM, CB (two if JQ leaves), a backup goalkeeper and not much more else.

I think I'll just file this under 'glad I was working this evening' and leave it at that.

The Inbetweeners 2 was utterly abysmal, couldn’t get through it.

THB stuff moved to the THB thread

I don’t think Edozie is crap by any stretch of the imagination but I wouldn’t lose sleep over this.

I have no idea upon which planet this isn’t a foul, but it’s not Earth.

The point being that you’d say this when we’re selling players but wouldn’t expect us to pay ridiculous money when signing players. Football is a business, we buy and sell players for what we think is a reasonable price, depending on the specific conditions.

Should we have paid £40m each for Scienza and Azaz, in your opinion?

Shawshank, Jaws, Jurassic Park, the LOTR trilogy, Gladiator, Master and Commander, The Dark Knight, Saving Private Ryan, Inside Man and for me you can’t beat Hot Fuzz.

Which will be about £10-15m next summer and £0 the summer after. We aren’t going to let a player run down his contract and lose up to £25m, especially if he doesn’t even want to be here. £10m should buy us a very good replacement for Championship level, with a net surplus of £15m.