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We’ve spent the best part of £60mil because you’re choosing to ignore THB and Downes

Used to think this guy had good sources but he was all over the shop with the Lavia saga of last summer, and some others since.

His career seems to be following a similar pattern to fellow very tall striker Alexander Sorloth. Both had success at Midtjylland before eventually ending up at low end PL clubs - Palace in Sorloth’s case. Neither scored a goal and both were loaned to Trabzonspor where they resumed their prolific goal scoring. Sorloth then got sold to RB Leipzig and has now found his way to Atletico Madrid via Villarreal. Tall Paul doesn’t seem to be getting the RB Leipzig-esque move but perhaps there’s a second chance for him here instead…

Charley in an Old Firm would be worth a watch

Was he? He completely hindered us in several games, particularly Hull at home, i’d say we would be better using somebody already at the club even if they’re playing out of position.

Why do I keep seeing people using Rothwell as a player we are worse off without? He was absolutely crap apart from about 5 minutes of the season when he scored two against Huddersfield and one against Sunderland. If we hadn’t gone up and we’d signed him i’m pretty sure everyone would’ve been disappointed.

You are right, albeit Mcginn’s quotes were mid-season, but yes appreciate you can’t always rely on fans’ opinions especially when a player is departing.

According to Villa fans and McGinn seemingly - suggestions of being a bit of a nightmare round the place as well as ‘liking’ content on social media about him moving to Chelsea a few months back. Looks a good player though.

Complete helmet by all accounts, so not sure he fits our normal approach character wise

We need a back up to Downes whether Shea Charles is here or not. Russell clearly doesn’t trust him, which I can’t say I disagree with based on last season, and the drop off when Flynn is out is enormous. If Flynn gets any significant lay-off next season then we might as well forfeit the games and save our fitness, if we haven’t brought in a suitable backup.

Anyone know if we lost last night? Presume we must have as everyone is now shit again 😂

Do we know when the squad numbers will be confirmed? Don’t want to buy a shirt with a number that then gets re-allocated!

What makes something a ‘lazy link’? He’s not a player that’s been mentioned anywhere, there’s no tie to our club or anyone at our club that stands out. Surely a ‘lazy link’ is more like Danny Ings being linked because he played for us previously…

Easy to forget he’s only 38, he’s still relatively new to management, so i think it is noticeable at times that he is still learning. But learning is good, and the last 4 games we’ve done something different and it’s worked brilliantly. Tactically he has outclassed Farke 3 times this season, and Farke is a good Championship manager, hopefully we might have a good Premier League manager on our hands instead.

We really need to sign Downes, but equally we really need to sign a backup to Downes. The drop-off between him and any alternative this season was frightening, that position for me is an absolute priority by a mile.

I imagine the two arrests for pitch invading were the ones who did it after the first goal, rather than post match

Phenomenal player at this level, love watching him play

Being able to buy a membership at this point is the worst tbh, they allowed that for the League Cup final years ago. I’m sure more recently they put a cut-off point in for membership purchases, maybe for the FA Cup semi-final? Lets down everyone who committed to a membership at the start of the season imo.

Do we think there may be financial reasons for Lumley being on the bench all season ahead of McCarthy? But when push really comes to shove, McCarthy seen as the safer pair of hands. Can’t think of any other reason for putting him in ahead of Lumley.

Also has the third best minutes to goals ratio from what I could see too, would be top scorer for Leicester and Ipswich, and two away from being Leeds’. Not bad for someone so mediocre.

A huge call from Russell to throw on Mara for our top scorer when the game was in the balance. It paid off completely and should give Mara a huge boost of confidence that he had that trust from the manager, and delivered.

Bristol City have been rubbish though too

He’s fantastic, we are so much better with him in the team

It’s only one bloke trying to look like he’s clever, don’t worry

Are Brighton giving loads of their academy players game time? I can only think recently Jack Hinshelwood, and Evan Ferguson but they signed him at 16, which is essentially what we’ve been doing with Tino, Lavia, Edozie, Larios. All the other young players they’ve been using have been bought in from abroad for money.