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I wouldn't pay that kinda money but thats sexy.

He's not got the football intelligence for that role, even at this level. It's not all about the physical attributes. The Ball winning midfielder needs to be able to read the game and predict what's coming so they can be where they need to be and he's never had this ability. That's why he is always caught out and commits silly fouls. Because he's always playing catch up.

Cracking on FM the last couple of years but so is Okoli, so....

Depends. If the clause insisted on all the money up front. A team may well pay more than the clause if the structure of the payments are more favourable. This is what PSR regulations have done.

It's pretty clear that everyone is for sale and with a handful of exceptions, I don't have a problem with it. The big question is what we plan to do when the swamp is dry. Are we seeing who we are left with and going to make a frantic end to the window to replace them or like some suspect, are we really in a worse financial place than first thought and are planning on limping on with what we have? I suspect it might be somewhere in between the two and we will sell who we can, see what we have left and make 4/5 loan signings in the last few days of the window and although it's not ideal, I can see the sense of it. As long as the loans are good enough it makes sense. Bring in as much money as possible, cut the wage bill significantly with more being cut at the end of the year with contracts expiring and get players in without risk, leaving us in a much healthier position next year for a rebuild. Unfortunately, unless the loan signings are excellent, we will be rebuilding for another year in the championship.

Everyone. We need everyone. LW and GK are probably the only two positions I don't think could do with improvement in some form or other.

I don't even care about being out of the cup. I'm far more worried about how bad we were. Also, a bit of a reality check about managing our expectations on some of the youngster. We cant judge them off one game but it's a reminder that the likes of Nelson and Alves are a long way off being dependable for an entire season.

Big Jakub!

I don't think so. Something is going on there. He played just a few minutes in pre season and missing tonight. There is something we aren't seeing.

Page coming on.

Pointing out that he's having a s**t game isn't writing him off.

Nelson is having a rough one.

Genuine question, is Bobby Decordova-Reid dead? Not that I'm complaining but the guy has just straight uo disappeared.

I would hope so but I will grant you, that hope is dwindling. Rapidly.

Well, potentially we were thinking, if we were gonna lose him we should try and ensure it happens by a certain date to give us time to replace him so we leaked that his releas clause ended 2 weeks before deadline day. Purely speculation of course.

TBF though, Percy also named Newcastle as being interested and thats looking more and more like a tactic to get the Jacob Ramsey move done. Percy passes on what he hears but what he hears may sometimes have alterior motives behind it from the person he heard it from.

If Marti had any intention of playing Woyo at all this season, he would have featured more in pre season. I mean what did he get? 5 minutes of playing time combined? I don't know what the situation is but he's certainly not in the plans. ....and Joseph didn't get a squad number so I'm not sure he is either.

....and we miss out on the fee we could have gotten for him not to mention being out his wages for the year.

The rage i felt building up before noticing the source. Don't do that to me.

The thing that bothers me is not if Bilal goes. If his clause is met and he wants to go, there is nothing we can do. It's more that we SHOULD already have a few options to replace him in mind. We should have put the feelers out to see what they would cost and what they would want just in case it happens but we all know, thats not gonna be the case.

And if we keep him and still don't get promoted?

We can't keep letting players walk away for free.

It's just fuching stupid!

I really am start8ng to worry that we will sell absolutely anyone we can and sign no one.

Oh, I am under no illusion that it will all be used, and nor should it. If we saved all those wages whilst bringing in £60m+ I would expect to spend about £20m on a striker, #8, #6 and #10 and even then, one or two of them will be loans. The key would be to get the correct players in who have the quality, the profile and more reasonable wages and that's exactly were i think we would mess it up.