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Refuse to get invested in this as he would actually be quite a "ridiculous" signing for us in the champ. Someone i've thought was a very talented player for a few years now and couldn't believe no one had moved for him - never did i consider we'd be getting him in the 2nd tier. If we do sign him, enjoy him whilst we have him, it won't be for long.

(If not already clear from previous posts, I would be absolutely buzzing with this signing).

I can think of another player where people said similar...

Still isn't inexperienced, and his track record at every club he's been at is one of success and improvement.

Just seen Stephens' howler for the goal. FFS - surely he has to be more of a 4th-5th choice CB rather than a captain and starter?!?! Sanda is an absolute monster of a unit, and JQ looks good from what i've seen - lots of passion and effort for the friendlies as well.

This isn't the great argument you think it is. We conceded 17goals in that 22game unbeaten run, with 9 clean sheets... Only two games in that period entailed more than 1goal against, which we won 5-3 vs Huddersfield (home) and drew 2-2 with Preston away. A very significant portion of our goals against in the championship came at the start of the season when we were transitioning to Martin's style whilst simultaneously managing huge player turnover - We conceded 13 goals in just 3 of our first 6 league matches - 20% of our tally for the season, and 16 total over those first 6 matches (25%). A better argument would be to say that we lost automatic promotion either side of our unbeaten run - with the initial change and unsettled squad coinciding with the home defeats to Ipswich and Leicester early on, and the draw with Norwich. Its a warning if anything - we have Sheffield united, Ipswich and Boro all within the first 8 games so a fairly similar start - Hopefully something similar doesn't happen this time around (i.e., lost points to a fundamental change of style and lots of late window squad changes).

If we've genuinely had a chance to sign eduard spertsyan and missed out on it then its a real bugger. He's one of the best players we've been seriously linked with since the days of picking up the younger/lesser known VVD and Mane imo.

Not to go down this rabbit hole... but Blue Playstation controllers were made. Yellow ones weren't... https://console-test-universe.jimdoweb.com/sony/sony-playstation/sony-playstation-controller-variations/ Really is schoolboy stuff from the marketing team 😅

Good point MLG, its far more than 5-6 of our best 11 that could be on the way out... Ramsdale, THB, Bednarek, Fernandes, Edozie, Aribo, Dibling, Armstrong have all been linked with exits.

Those are both PlayStation ones? Shit job cropping the wires as well. All this time to announce a kit leak ages ago and this is the slop we get from the marketing team. Heads should roll IMHO...

Absolute bloody shambles from the club I'm afraid... They've had all this time to release the kit, they get a yellow controller for Fernandes (good move)... And then they don't also go and get a blue controller for the 2nd one. Schoolboy stuff, amateur hour 🤦🤣. Nice kit otherwise 😍

Whilst its a valid point ofc, the club will obviously be aware of it and you have to assume they've got strategies and options in place for those eventualities. It doesn't feel like we "have" to sell from a PSR perspective this year, so hopefully that puts us in a strong position re late sales.

No news is good news at this point - the reality is that it will most likely be centred around some of Ramsdale, THB, Dibling, and Fernandes leaving. If that doesn't happen then the starting 11 stays at it is and Dibling signs a new contract = cheat code activated.

Which should make little difference to a playoff charge with their current squad and new manager, and which therefore means they remain a serious threat to us next season. What i think we also need is for this year's PSR constraints to really impact they're player trading / squad quality.

When you look at our squad and likely "goings" - the only way i can see that being particularly busy is if we're losing the players we'd actually prefer to keep, which is a shame. Wonder if the strategy this year is to built a "best of" the (German) 2nd tier.

Got to give the big clubs every chance possible to hoover them up on the cheap...

Can't see him leaving the Portuguese top flight to play in the French non league.

Just another example of SR pissing about with Strikers and refusing to just stump up the required amount to get the deal done!!! And now look, gazumped by the dippers!! 😡

Whilst i understand the analogy, i would say offering Stephens that contract extension would be more akin to flushing a fishing lure and then reeling it back in...

For me, it implies THB is off if we sign another CB.

Current CBs: Bednarek ABK THB Edwards Quarshie Woods Sanda We clearly have too many cbs at the moment. My working assumption has always been that ABK and Bednarek will both be off, leaving us with 5. If bednarek doesn't leave then I think we have to assume that THB is off.

Keiran Maguire recently described QPR as the best run club in the championship - because they've been ticking a long with "f'all" spend. It seems pretty obvious Leicester have money issues given the delayed sacking of rvn, and the fact that the new manager has to pay his own release clause at QPR. He would be the perfect fit for a club who have no money to spend... Proven track record of delivering on a shoestring at this level. None of that paints a picture of Leicester being able to afford our players if we want to hold on to them.

Haven't kept up with him as the russian league has totally and utterly dropped off my radar. But about 2-3 years ago he was a fantastic player in the russian league a very good prospect for bigger things - he was certainly one of those I was expecting to have made the move to a champions league / top Europa league club. Encouraging if that is at least the standard of player we're looking at, even if it's a shame we won't be getting him.

The hate for him certainly feels misplaced. Was incredible for us in the last promotion season.