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At least his appointment as Assistant Manager clears up the role of Ten Rouwelaar - he obviously is just an Assistant / Goalkeeping Coach. Presumably Alcock has gone.

He was Manager of Rochdale for 2 years before Man City. He was in charge when they were relegated to League 2 and left (to go to the Etihad) with only a 31% win record.

I'd love to know if Alcock has gone. All the reports say that Jelle has come in as 'Assistant / Goalkeeping Coach'. I don't know if that means Assistant MANAGER AND Goalkeeping Coach (surely we won't have 2 Coaches). It is rubbish that we can't get our act into gear to update the Staff section on the website.

With 1 place available in the squad, can we still sign this guy (or any Out of Contract player), anytime before January?

Arsenal to reject any bid from Galatasaray, so there is still a chance we can LET Soumare go (with great sorrow of course)! Turkish window closes on Friday - so watch this space. https://onefootball.com/en/news/report-arsenal-reject-galatasarays-interest-in-midfielder-40009845

https://sportwitness.co.uk/leicester-city-hope-to-reach-agreement-quickly-for-free-agent-everton-and-bournemouth-also-in-picture/ Sport Witness saying we are, "particularly interested in him" and "have opened talks with his entourage, hoping to reach an agreement quickly".

Galatasaray now looking at Jorginho! https://onefootball.com/en/news/galatasaray-want-to-sign-arsenal-star-after-casemiro-rejects-them-40006085

Us and Fulham competing with West Ham, being interested in signing Matip, who's out of contract. https://www.londonworld.com/sport/football/west-ham/fulham-and-leicester-city-plot-to-hijack-wonderful-west-ham-free-transfer-4771055

Great minds, Stuhill!

Or perhaps Wymsey IS Nixon!

I see Tete is playing alongside Ioannidis tonight - if there was any chance we'd sign him, I'm sure Tete would put the mockers on it, given how well he got on at the KP!

That's a big yes from me. He would be a major 'upgrade' for us.

Perhaps some sort of 'exchange' (we keep getting told clubs don't do swaps now) for Tammy Abraham?! I'd be (very) keen.

If we really are interested, we should be in the driving seat for this - we're playing Lens soon. I wonder if the match is tied up with the transfer.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-transfer-news-jorgensen-b1172299.html Chelsea looking at Jorgensen at Villareal now. Hopefully, that will take them off our backs.

Well it should be 2 others in - Maresca took 6 with him, Cooper has only brought 4 in so far.

I'm pretty sure we'll have gone for him, as Maresca would have wanted him. All the scouting on him would have been done last season - and probably the deal would have been lined up, before Maresca left.

This has all gone very quiet. Cooper will be on his todd on Monday!

If he does come to us, it must be as Assistant Manager. 7 years as Robins' Assistant, there must be a very good reason to leave.

Why is no one talking about Colwill. Plaskin said him and Hutchinson were two we told Chelsea we really wanted.

Waiting until 1 July, so we don't have any more spending this financial year.

I thought it strange that Cooper's job title is Head Coach (have we had one before ?), rather than Manager - made me think we might be considering appointing a Technical (or Sporting) Director. I don't know what Rudders would think of that though - he might worry his job's under threat !

Interesting that Sky are reporting that Cooper has agreed a deal to become HEAD COACH, not Manager. Is that significant - are we looking to appoint a (new) Director of Football, to oversee the Head Coach. A 'redesignation' for Rudkin - surely nothing else?!

Cooper, 4/6 on Bet Victor now!

A bit of money now going on Corberan again - 2/1 with one Bookie, 5/2 with others.