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35 minutes for Jamaica across 3 games in June and 2 games for West Ham u21s in August - fit as a fiddle

Why try and pass to our forward line in fairness, he's had two shots from the halfway line or greater and came incredibly close to scoring both. Ayew, Daka and Carranza have 5 goals between them in 27 nineties

I don't even think he'll get that - if we sign him he'll probably be fit enough in February and possibly never sharp enough. Football age curves typically look like this: Now let's throw in a broken femur sustained in a car crash at 35 and voila!

We can’t give the club the benefit of doubt. Probably negotiated him down from £45k to £35k and we think it’s a win. It also means we have 4 ST options whose deals expire at the end of the season, meaning we’ll extend at least one out of laziness. Just put the money towards a striker in the summer

£10m and a 3 year deal has quietly gone under the radar as very, very dumb. 3 years without an option to extend has left us completely exposed to losing another player on a free (not that Rudkinbana would have sold him anyway). We shouldn’t spend significant sums at all because there’a always about a 50% chance the player leaves on a free. We have a great academy and the occasional gem we sell to fund idiocy.

If we anchor everything to the 10th percentile for anything - it all starts to look rosey. Genius

He’s going to spend half of his6 month contract getting fit. He’ll be another Carranza in that he’s just miles off it.

An asset in attracting first team, academy players, staff. It's worth doing

I agree but at 70 yards rather than 50 yards I think it can be forgiven. It's not a leisurely lob (sounds like a wank) a la Beckham, he's megged someone and struck it whilst running

Admittedly only been twice and both occasions were in December but the Bath Inn, Nottingham is always heaving. Great decor though

“Thunderbastard”

We’ve seen some promising centre backs and aside from Fofana he looks the next best. Super player and he should absolutely have started the first game onwards. It’s almost like we should trust the academy and let this be a lesson with Evans, Aluko, Cartwright, Braybrooke, Bruggs, JJ, Hutchinson et al

Fatawu’s goal is way better. I think it might be the furthest proper goal (i.e. not a Pressman or Begovic lump) I’ve seen. He was really unlucky with the Swansea effort - he deserves it for his ingenuity. Even during this ‘bad run’ he’s set a few up, incredible player and the idiots that have unfairly badmouthed him will rue it when he leaves

Seagrave incurs greater direct costs, whereas the ground expansion would have generated more revenue. In a sense the expansion could have helped fund Seagrave. Ground expansion was more time sensitive too. Capitalising on the fan demand and increased commercial interest would have made sense.

Seagrave is a huge asset still and it’s good we did it, but we should have expanded the ground first.

He’s made a career out of his physical attributes, he’s nearly 36 and he was involved in a terrible car accident. It’s going to take him an age to be match fit and regain his sharpness - which he might not do at all. He’s not going to come here for 5k a week either. This exactly the sort of decision making that leads us to signing him and extending Vestergaard’s deal.

This London pub talk has made me pine for one in the Hole In The Wall

We should have built a shit training facility for £120m. Vichai facilitated it, the decline started as Top began to take the reigns which was incidental to moving to Seagrave.

Wouldn’t want him even If he hadn’t bashed his legs to bits. It’s going to take an age to get match fit. Put the wages towards a fee and cheaper player who isn’t closer to 40 than 30.

I don't rate him particularly - the post was stating that's who we have contracted long term. We have 4 CMs that have started more than 3 senior games, Winks and Soumare's deals are up in the summer. So literally we have Skipp and Choudhury going into next season as it stands.

I think most on here don’t know what the average championship keeper is like.

He's only started 8 games there

He’d have 4 goals if he was still here. It’d be tragic watching him isolated in a shit championship team playing for a dogmatic, slow build up manager. He left at the right time.

No goals and an assist. They've only scored 20 in 19 games though and he's more of a deep lying playmaker anyway.

Our long term CM options are Skipp, Choudhury and Page. Integrate him now, even if he only turns out to be depth that's a hell of a lot better than using our limited budget on packing out the squad in the summer. He's better than that anyway, I think James will enjoy playing with him as he's more progressive with his passing and carrying than the others. Mavididi ST Fatawu Braybrooke James Skipp/Choudhury Aluko/LT Nelson Souttar Pereira/Aluko JS Is the best we cobble together with a mind on trying to get into the play offs and having a long term outlook.