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Nobody's arguing that. The assumption you're making is that Abbott must be the replacement for THB specifically. It's a squad game and overall we're no worse off at CB than last year.

We signed Abbott and Kev to replace THB and Quarshie. I don’t think we’re any worse off overall, and more importantly we’re a net £20m+ better off from the whole thing. Let’s not get too bogged down in guessing which players are replacing which others, specifically.

The fact that he was being kept out of a L2 team by some guy called Ryan Graydon six months ago isn’t much of an endorsement. Between that and the manager who currently watches him every day in training not playing him, I don’t think we’re missing out on much.

Abbott isn't a 'panic' just because he wasn't our first choice signing. We went for Falchener, who's now playing CL football, and that mush at Fulham whose name escapes me and worked our way down our list of targets. Abbott is highly rated by Forest, it's not like we've dragged Claus out of retirement.

Last season he scored once in 25 appearances in League 2. I've no idea why people think he can't be worse than Dobbin and Mubama. He quite clearly can be and almost certainly is.

Erm… you’re in for a rude surprise next summer, if we don’t go up.

Probably worth pointing out that our ‘best manager since Koeman’ does actually need to deliver promotion before any Bundesliga giants try and tear him away from us. Finishing the season 5th-8th behind a couple of teams like Stoke and West Brom ain’t gonna cut it.

Their football team or what they’re doing to the gene pool?

We shouldn't have beaten Arsenal but that's football. Wrexham were about 19th when they beat Boro in their last game, West Ham lost at home to Charlton, who are currently 21st.

He's got a wonderful career behind him, no doubt about it.

No it isn't. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyp7v2d67ko They aren't selling their star striker in the middle of the season, unless they get offered silly money, which we don't have. He'll most likely stay put and move to the PL in summer.

You think a 6’2", 24 year old striker with eight league goals in eleven games and a long contract remaining ‘won’t be much more’ than €2.2m?

I think some people are overestimating the amount of money we are willing and/or able to spend in January. Part of the reason we went for Mubama is that he’s low cost and therefore low risk, any replacement is very likely to be the same, rather than a £10m+ signing.

Looking at the airlines targeted so far, Iran wouldn’t really make much sense. Europe has quite wisely kept their nose out of that mess, I struggle to see what beef Iran would have with Ireland, for example. Perhaps there’s some sort of branding copyright issue between the IRCG and the IRA.