Gerard

Incredibly frustrating for both Ipswich & Leeds to get last minute winners but we're still the favourites out of the three. Our fixtures look very good with 4 home games and 3 very winnable away games.

it's not the worst result with a point against one of the play off hopefuls away from home.A point gained on third today and another game less to catch us.

840's matched on Betfair. It won't just be the Ipswich fans who are gutted today.

I have to remind myself we won away from home tonight, that Ipswich comeback is so deflating that it feels like we conceded a last minute equaliser.

Switched it on after our game and Ipswich were 2-1 down and just about to take a free kick, I watched about 7 mins and in that time Ipswich scored twice and missed a penalty. You have to hand it to them, they seem to do this every other week.

We have some absolute screaming fannies in our fan base, Probably the only time they do scream at the football.

I have to be honest that one "40 yard hoof up the field" we did is the only thing I enjoyed about this match. Stoke had 34, there fans will be buzzing tonight.

Five goals is all well and good away from home but I'd like to see us play long balls over the top and 4-4-2 with proper full backs who can defend, two wingers who hug the touchline and get crosses in to the big CF who either scores with his head or knocks it down for the little man.

He's 29 in August, sell on clause is worth buttons as he would be in his 30's by the time he was sold anyway.

Reminds of this one though not football related.

I'm very relaxed about this, I really can't see us selling arguably the best player in the Championship for £30m in the January window. If someone wanted him desperately and were offering too good to refuse money then yes but £30m isn't it. If we want to sell for whatever reason we'd still get something around that in the summer. We're only 8pts ahead of third with 18 to play, no way do we put that in jeopardy for what is a reasonable fair offer but no more. In the summer then maybe but not now for a player who is integral to us.

Also a player who has all but agreed a transfer will not be giving his all knowing he's off after that game.

I must have missed those "outstanding" games. I've never once seen him on the pitch and thought he looked the best player or a cut above the rest. I could say that about 6-8 of our players at some point this season but not Casadei. Bad timing but not a huge loss, he was the player I wanted most this summer as he looked to have excellent pedigree but he's been a real disappointment considering he's just won the Golden Ball and Boot in the recent U20 World Cup. I'm quite happy to say he'll peak as an adequate PL player and no more and you'll be able to count on one hand how many Italy caps he wins if he ever gets capped at all.

Goodbye sweet prince.

I was in a pub in Norwich and seen someone with a Tigers top on, I asked him if he was from Leicester but he was from Norwich and a Norwich City fan.

On Betfair we're already an implied 93.5% chance of being promoted, I'm not sure if spending £5m on a transfer fee and wages until the summer improves those odds that much and probably certainly not value for money to improve those odds by 0.5%-1%. He seems surplus at Inter so they're probably chancing their arm with a €3m asking price and no apparent suitors but us. Come the end of the window they may reduce that to €1m just to get his wages off the books. A bit like us with Praet, 6 months left and stealing a wage.

Not sure why we'd pay €3m for him when we can have him for free in the summer, it's not like our promotion challenge is faltering.

For anyone who can't get a ticket

The only regular in the first XI was Ricardo with 22 Championship starts. The other 10 players have 35 Championship starts between them this season.

Has a cheese and onion pasty ever been great in the whole of human history?

He's been a huge disappointment for me because I had such high expectations of him. He was the one player I was desperate for us to get in the summer. The Golden Boot and Golden Ball winner at the U20 World Cup suggested to me he was going to the top of the game and at 20yo he's not that young that he shouldn't boss the Championship. I think a lower end PL player at best will probably be his level at his peak. Looking at previous winners of the Golden Ball and Golden Boot he's the 7th player in history to do it joining the likes of Messi, Aguero and Saviola but also these two both won it in 2009 and 2011 and had nondescript careers so perhaps shining at the U20 World Cup is not a guarantee of quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Adiyiah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Almeida Tournament Golden Ball Golden Boot Goals Golden Glove FIFA Fair Play Trophy 1977 Tunisia Vladimir Bessonov Guina 4 Not Awarded Brazil 1979 Japan Diego Maradona Ramón Díaz 8 Poland 1981 Australia Romulus Gabor Mark Koussas 4 Australia 1983 Mexico Geovani Geovani 6 South Korea 1985 Soviet Union Paulo Silas Sebastián Losada 3 Colombia 1987 Chile Robert Prosinečki Marcel Witeczek 7 West Germany 1989 Saudi Arabia Bismarck Oleg Salenko 5 United States 1991 Portugal Emílio Peixe Sergei Sherbakov 5 Soviet Union 1993 Australia Adriano Henry Zambrano 3 England 1995 Qatar Caio Joseba Etxeberria 7 Japan 1997 Malaysia Nicolás Olivera Adaílton 10 Argentina 1999 Nigeria Seydou Keita Pablo Couñago 5 Croatia 2001 Argentina Javier Saviola Javier Saviola 11 Argentina 2003 United Arab Emirates Ismail Matar Eddie Johnson 4 Colombia 2005 Netherlands Lionel Messi Lionel Messi 6 Colombia 2007 Canada Sergio Agüero Sergio Agüero 6 Japan 2009 Egypt Dominic Adiyiah Dominic Adiyiah 8 Esteban Alvarado Brazil 2011 Colombia Henrique Almeida Henrique Almeida 5 Mika Nigeria 2013 Turkey Paul Pogba Ebenezer Assifuah 6 Guillermo de Amores Spain 2015 New Zealand Adama Traoré Viktor Kovalenko 5 Predrag Rajković Ukraine 2017 South Korea Dominic Solanke Riccardo Orsolini 5 Freddie Woodman Mexico 2019 Poland Lee Kang-in Erling Haaland 9 Andriy Lunin Japan 2023 Argentina Cesare Casadei Cesare Casadei 7 Sebastiano Desplanches United States

Do you know this for 100% certain? That makes "obligation to buy" a one sided affair. Player massively excels and then the "obligation" is taken from us as they sell to another club, player has a career threatening injury and we're lumbered with him. Just for example if Fatawa if POTT at the AFCON, come back and scores 20 goals and 15 assists between February and the end of the season and Real Madrid gazump us but on the last day of the season he does a "David Busst" (don't google it if you don't know what I mean), Real Madrid pull out and we're forced to buy him. It seems obligations are too heavily weighted against the buying team as you get all the downside and a limited upside.

Your avatar man.

We're not selling any first teamer in January for a value price. It would have to be a price that turns our head.