Ric Flair

When you say transfer budget, what you mean is the amortised fees for the year. Paying the agent another £2m is not £10m to the amortised budget for the year, but just the equivalent of agreeing to pay £10m but over 5 years. Personally if we've missed out on him for £2m sniffs on the books in 24/25 it's a real shame. There's probably a but more to it.

Don't think so and the longer it goes on the more we are likely to get because he's destined to make it at the very top. Very frustrating really, he'd likely have been in our 1st team last season aged just 16 which would have been unheard of for us but such is his talent. Think there's more where he came from as well, our academy is starting to bear fruit of the previous decades hard work.

Yet managers in such scenarios seldom last, nor have the confidence and monetary to field a promotion push. If we're as crap as I fear we might he'll be long gone.

Isn't Fatawu a similar age to Alves and Golding? 😂

Walking in a Jon Rudkin wonderland.

That's so pleasing to hear. He is going to really get an opportunity at Wigan who have a great manager and some really talented young players. Thelo Aasgaard being the one I've been monitoring most.

Why not try one of your creative midfielders from the academy/who you've signed Steve? I don't think I've been less enthused about a new manager for a long while.

Just smashed 1 min 47 seconds off my 5k PB of the year. That's what Steve Cooper-ball does to a man.

I like seeing both wingers stay wide and then cut in when they get the ball, Mavididi is too far inside so far, he is far more devastating taking players on in space and diagonally attacking the goal with the ball.

I'm not talking about loads, he's not even started one of them in an area that's so weak that it's a perfect opportunity to try one of them. Like Maresca did with McAteer out wide last pre-season when we were still evidently going to strengthen. The outcome, he forced his way in to being a 1st team regular.

Cooper is not living up to his reputation of bringing through academy/young players. If he hasn't the bravery to start Alves, Braybrooke or Golding in a meaningless pre-season game in an area we are horrifyingly weak in then when will he? Making it very difficult to get behind him so far.

That is a horrid midfield trio.

Chesterfield is even further away from Sicily than Leicester is, so it's been done to piss them off.

Great stuff. Now if we can get loans for several more of them I'll be happy (keep back Alves and Braybrooke though please)

Will be interesting to see if this now propels him ahead of Hermansen in the Denmark national team. Mads has had to play 3rd fiddle already.

Sell them McAteer for £10m and buy Sara for £30m + add ons

Zan Vipotnik on a free from Bordeaux

This would be a very good piece of business but the fee is surely £25-30m minimum.

Look at it another way. Why on earth would a perceived gambling sponsor be willing to pay tens of millions of pounds to be on the front of a football clubs shirts? They aren't doing it out the goodness of their own hearts. This is an industry where there have been parliament papers written that confirm upwards of 60% of the industry revenue is generated from just 5% of gamblers seen as problem (compulsive) gamblers. So when the industry is earning billions from addicts, why on earth would they of their own free will stop coining that in? It has to be controlled elsewhere. These companies need to be dealt with more harshly for their tactics they use on honing in on that gravy train. I've experienced it, the stuff they do is no different to a drug dealer manipulating their hopeless clients, except one is illegal and the other are given pretty much free reign to devastate lives. I have absolutely no interest in seeing gambling banned by the way, just because a small % of gamblers have rhe ability to ruin their lives and their families around them doesn't mean that the rest of the recreational gamblers shouldn't be allowed to enjoy it as a past time but quite simply controls have to be put in place to stop preying on the small % that generate the majority of the revenue. That could be done, and it should.

Interestingly FFP in League One is far more relaxed and is based on wages to turnover ratio and nothing to do with transfer fees. Also cash injections from owners can count towards revenue for this. We should be offering Wrexham the chance to buy him for £2.5m and we subsidise his wages for 12 months and get him as far away from here as possible.

When Thomas first came in he had a very good delivery on him, as well as being proficient on the ball. Both things deteriorated the longer he established himself with us. I don't buy he needed a loan move first or shortly after breaking through with us, he was playing a very good amount of football in the PL and I don't see how that's hampered him.

The more I look at the areas we still need to fill, the more I'm left mystified by the purchase and purchase price of Caleb Okoli. That fee buys us Albert Gronbaek who be a key starter in a position we're criminally weak in. It's not the first time we've made an unusual defensive signing from Atalanta for what appears to be an inflated fee.

That's a decent move for him. They've some good young players coming through to play alongside.

It was a bloke with hair I thought although I was the opposite side of the pitch to thr staff. Huth was there an'all but not in the dugout. Edited to say, i think it was Leon McSweeney, I've just googled him and I saw him orchestrating things.

Yeah not sure where that article has got it's numbers from!