Ric Flair

Of course we don't. But I got a suspicion we might have been banking on players leaving (as we seemingly do year after year, only for them not to and we can't buy) and was waiting for an article saying as much. It's now arrived. It's like groundhog day.

You might well be right. It's certainly confusing that we've bid upwards of £20-25m for Soule and then it's ground to a halt.

Yeah fair assessment, but would have been nice to sign and send to Leuven. Diaz is good enough to play at a top level.

Missed an opportunity to pick up a few players for free off Bordeaux. Pedro Diaz would have been a decent back up. Swansea nabbed Vipotnik too who I suggested.

KDH money has no impact on 24/25 as we sold him to try and comply with 23/24. Obviously had we not sold him we'd have been in a world of trouble. I wonder if the club will risk breaking PSR for 24/25 by spending in the next few weeks and know they have to sell at least 1 player before the end of June. It's a calculated risk.

That was before Chelsea moved on from Hermansen.

Probably could have signed him for less than half what we paid for Okoli and used the rest on going towards a creative midfielder. Not my club

You'd think so mate but I'm getting familiar bad vibes.

Hermansen

Backs up exactly what I surmised doesn't it. We were banking on a big sale to fund the likes of Soule and other positions we needed to strengthen. All so inevitable.

Or just promote Oli Ewing from the U21s

Almost exclusively a left winger is he not? Maybe Cooper is going to move Mavididi in as a 10, or have them creating havoc together by interchanging.

Jord still wouldn't get it with such Intel.

R8ght, I'm going to absolutely hammer them. Cheers for the heads up.

Hahahaa we did Andy Johnson before, that game was Mandaric's first in charge as an owner. I was garried and in hospitality and he came in to greet everyone. I allegedly got him in a headlock and gave him a friendly knuckle rub. I didn't get Horsfield earlier because I remembered more goals than Jord claimed he'd scored via Wikipedia! He got 2 vs Cov, 1 vs Leeds and possibly more?

We'd quadruple his wages, so he quite possibly would.

£17m over 5 years, with 2 to go we can sell for £6.8m. Saving on his wages too, but probably have to pay off agent and loyalty bonus for not asking for a transfer. £10m should cover it.

Thanks mate, I'll follow up with them. Getting sick of this.

If he goes abroad they get nothing, do they not?

My issue is he's yet another striker who's only decent output came when he played in a front two. Same as Iheanacho, same as Daka, same as Cannon. That doesn't mean he can't play on his own, but we've seen with those three that they need either a striker alongside them or a 10 at the very least right behind them, compared to attacking midfielders. Cooper's system might get players closer to the striker centrally, than previous regimes. This helps occupy the defence for the striker with the best movement and finishing to get openings but I still think we need a physical striker.

Did it? This isn't the first time we've found out Sports Social have had gambling adds on our podcast. We went wild at them the last time. I'll have a look.

Reminds me of Billing at Bournemouth and Berge at Burnley

This ought to be countered by an excellent scouting and recruitment network rather than relying on agents for targets that sometimes seems to happen with us.

Wish we'd try for Adam Hlozek