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See i'd argue thats too attacking for Cifuentes from the start so far. The #10 doesn't quite play that role at the minute, more of an 8 but fair point.

High time Soumare proved to be one of the best midfielders in the Championship, like Cifuentes thinks he is.

This is the scouting report on him from his breakout season under Marti before he left to come to QPR. https://medium.com/@TLFootball/player-report-jusef-erabi-f6df2eaccd7d

Page and Monga have only started when no other via senior option is available in that position. For Nelson he's got 3 other CBs to fight for two spots with. So far Cifuentes has only been a minor improvement on past managers for picking academy players but its very early days yet.

Ironically just signed up to the same agents as Cifuentes 😂

Alves was on the bench last weekend? I disagree on his best position, he's much more dangerous out wide. Lack of time and space on the ball centrally doesn't help him currently.

Defies logic he was OK to be in the PL match day squad but not in the Championship. Something doesn't add up.

I wonder if this is gamesmanship from us and wanting Ivanovic.

Strange one, still massively well regarded in Swedish football but hasn't yet cemented this place as their main striker, he was arguably more reliable for them a year or two ago. Cifuentes brought him through though so could be the one to get that from him. You'll not be surprised to know I suggested him a good while ago.

*in the 1st half

Still no Jake Evans is bizarre

Still no Jake Evans, bizarre.

I'm gonna see if O'Rourke will come on the podcast or at the very least come night fishing in the caravan with me. He sounds GREAT.

Plenty of us wanted him January 2024 when he was available for £2m and was the player we wanted Casadei to be.

Wonder if Cifuentes is proving to be easy to palm off on this, let's see how his demeanour changes over the coming months.

Zero, Ayew isn't even a striker.

And the irony is, it's been reported before that we have had links to someone who was involved with Right to Dream in the past.

Didn't Mavididi score more than Soloman? Both are the sorts of player at this level that you know will win you matches, like Soloman, Stephy won us a lot of points with his goals and assists in important matches.

I think the happy medium is £25m base with add ons and a decent sell on % Players like BEK will do the same each time they get a sniff of a bigger club and he's got massive potential.

Leipzig and Stuttgart are going to be keen but still don't see any of them paying north of £30m. We are going to have to play this right. I don't think it's worth keeping him, i'd take anything about £25m.

I've not been impressed with Ipswich's signings at all, smacks of an outfit not quite used to being in possession of a decent amount of funds.

I think they'd be the sort of club that would agree to a big sell on % if we compromised on the fee down to £25m + add ons.

*Alves

None of our academy players progressing through right now are first choice. As it stands, the 1st team players we have sold have just been replaced in the XI by previous squad players. Monga and Page started because they are back up to Mavididi and El Khannouss who weren't available. Stolarczyk has replaced Hermansen Hamza replaced Justin Okoli replaced Coady Skipp replaced Ndidi McAteer wasn't 1st choice anyway

Admirable record last season but given the disaster of Bobby Reid who has an excellent record at this level, i'd rather we didn't.