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Not if the truth is something that could jeopardise our chances of selling him in the summer. Clearly there is some reason two different managers have done what we're doing. I can only hope the bloke f**ks off in summer and is never seen here again.

Five or six decent players in the region of £15-25m, plus a couple of decent loans, would have been far, far better than the absolute dross we ended up signing.

Clearly there is some reason why we put him on the bench but I can’t for the life of me figure it out. Maybe it’s a shop window thing trying to show that he is fit, who knows. Maybe he’s just one of those great lads to have in the changing room, that I keep hearing so much about.

That would be 19 players, plus two loans and the remaining four slots being filled by Edozie, Bazunu and a couple more like Fernandes in the £10-15m price range.

If you factor out the own goals, goalkeeping howlers and fluke deflections which have gone our way recently, I don’t think we particularly look like a goal scoring team. It’s no surprise that we drew a blank against a team which defends as well as Burnley. Shame really, a bit of a cup run would have given us some mild interest in the second half of this season.

How is it not part of the discussion, it's literally the thing it was brought in to try and prevent. People get so caught up in hating VAR that they forget some of the absolutely batsh*t nonsense that preceeded it.

Not that exact situation but I'm sure Vydra was always a bit like that. Constantly being signed and loaned between Watford, Burnley and West Brom as they were going up and down but only ever doing it in the Championship.

The bloke is off his tits. It’ll be interesting to see if he can make it through a full four years and in what state.

Summer ‘24 was the worst. Summer ‘22 and January ‘23 I can at least forgive SR for being bold and going with unknowns in the hope that they might work. Last summer though, we just signed a bunch of known Championship quality players and Lallana, who’s absolutely done as a professional footballer. There wasn’t even a sense that I wasn’t sure about our signings in summer, I knew they were no good because they’d already proven it for other clubs.

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What are you actually asking for there? A half-decent PL goal scorer who, for some unknown reason, another club is willing to loan out mid-season. We sure as hell aren’t getting one on a permanent deal because they’d probably cost over £30m and they’d never come here anyway, knowing we’re going down. Even if, by some miracle, we signed a striker who went on to score 10 PL goals for us, it still wouldn’t keep us up. We need 25-30 points from 14 games.

TBH I’m actually alright with the business we’ve done. Welly looks a tidy player, Gronbaek is a risk free loan, we’ve sent the useless Cornet back, loaned BBD out for Championship game time and got a half decent cheque for Sam Amo. Nothing we did was really going to make a difference; we’ll beat Derby’s total fairly comfortably but still be solidly on the bottom of the table come May.

Given that he’s trotting around Stamford Bridge as we speak, I’d say it was never likely.

Yes but we won’t know for certain until Crook says it’s definitely going ahead.

We’ve brought in some very poor players but so far I’ve seen nothing to suggest we’re naive when it comes to actually seeing a deal through. It would seem Sylla had a range of options on the table and has chosen Parma. It happens.

I’d have thought that the deals would be separate, I can’t see why you’d include clauses which are based on a different deal for a different player. In the unlikely event that there were some concessions, they’d surely be predicated on a deal being completed, not just the fact that you’ve made an offer.

What makes you so certain it’s our fault?

Odds of it hitting Fratton?

The vibrations help to break down compacted wax.

Deadline Day just isn’t the same without Jim and Natalie.

Hopefully he’ll stop us conceding a lorra lorra goals.

You’re being tipped over the edge by losing a player who has made four ten minute sub appearances for us and one start, where he looked out of his depth against against a poor Championship side? Between the coaches who see him every day and two managers with completely different styles, nobody seems to rate him particularly highly. Some people need to accept that most of our 18 year olds end up in League 1 and 2. People were similarly upset about losing the likes of Sims, Hesketh, Gallagher, Vokins, Thompson, White, Hatch and Jankewitz at one point, where are they all now?

Two goals in just shy of two years, I’ll pass thanks.

That’s literally the reason he’s an avatar for our crap recruitment. The fact that a player as substandard as Bednarek has played so many games shows how useless we’ve been at finding anyone better.