We sold JWP and Lavia by the end of August so you can hardly call them part of the last promotion team. Lavia didn’t play a single minute for us in the Championship.
The question was whether we have a stronger squad now than in our last promotion season. I think we do. Clearly some players will leave but then again we will also make a couple of (hopefully decent) signings, so I have no idea where we’ll fall in comparison come the start of September.
I’d rather have Archer, BBD, Ramsdale, Fernandes and Dibling in the squad than Adams, KWP, Rothwell, Stu and Brooks. As of right now, I’d say the team was stronger than it was two years ago.
I can't for the life of me understand getting a shirt with a players name on the back at the start of July. TBH if I managed the club shop, I'd ban player names from being printed at all, until the window closes. Just have personal printing only.
If you’re going to sign a has been with big club experience, Walker is a hundred times better shout than us signing Lallana last season. They’ll be hoping he can do what Zabaleta did for the Hammers.
Stewards enquiry into the use of the word ‘developing’ please. Surely you do have to actually develop in order to be ‘developing’, rather than just being consistently sh*te, whilst under the age of 25.
Ah right. Apologies I don’t really follow Glastonbury so I missed all the ‘death to Hamas’, ‘death to Hezbollah’ and ‘death to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’ chants.
54/3 on a wicket prepared by your own ground staff, against the worst team in the division, on a weekend when every other team in the country is hitting tennis balls for 600 is really quite something.
I vaguely remember it being about £10-12m for him and Larios, combined, on deadline day, so sounds about right. Adjusted for transfer inflation he was probably cheaper than Mayuka as a bit of a punt, so hardly a financial disaster.
If it came to it, we could comfortably make our money back on him IMO.