honeybradger

Can't really be called stiffing is when it comes to paying a fee for Wout Faes. We should probably be paying them! (And likely will end up paying them to cover some of his wages)

I assume you also read through all 68 pages?

Not trying to prove something, could just see that Hermansen had lost something at the end of our last PL season and was happy for him to leave for a fee. Had he been with us this season we wouldn't be able to get any where near £15mil for him and I don't think he would have kept us up. Stolarczyk has been disappointing though, felt that certain fans were unfairly on his back after a good start to the season but he let his head drop too easily in response to that. The talent is there but the mentality isn't.

Seems to be a division between whether they think he is entirely poor or has some redeemable qualities. Positive remarks only seem to come up when in relation to Areola.

Starts today, massive game for cremonese

I think West Ham who have watched him every week this season would agree with me. Good goalkeeper for us but that injury has killed him off. Danny Ward also had 6 clean sheets in the first half of 2022/23, I don't think you would find many people saying he wasn't too shabby then.

Danny Ward had a decent couple of games before the world cup. Across the whole season Hermansen has put in a lot of stinkers. The kind of games you would forgive a PL level goal keeper for having once or twice in a season has been every other game for him.

Sadly he's finished now, not just at Premier League level. Been a complete liability for West Ham this season and was bad for us after his injury. No matter how underwhelming Stolarczyk has been, getting a fee for Hermansen when we did was the right decision.

When you have clubs like ours that would rather loan a big 6 academy player like Mukasa than play our own in Page then players need to be able to leverage their own value in order to convince clubs to play them. Whether we like it or not, agents give young players power in an industry that is incredibly cut throat. I prefer the reality where our young players are able to at least partly control their own future rather than leave it up to the likes of Rudkin who will always prefer ready-made journeymen.

What does dominating a league 2 game look like to you? It's an 11v11 game, as a midfielder it's difficult to win games yourself if the others aren't up for it. All you can do I be amongst the best on the pitch, which he was.

Won them 12 points this season apparently despite limited minutes. Celtic fans seem to love him.

Luke Thomas went on loan to Sheffield United in the Prem when we got relegated to the championship.

Would rather sign no one and keep Louis page and Aluko. Monga as well but he seems the most likely to leave.

Semedo was not better than Ricardo, he just had the benefit of playing for Barcelona. Cancelo maybe but he was also world class.

Vardy was also past his best when he played against Cavani and Ronaldo. At the time they were still deemed good enough for their national team. Van Persie, Falcao he played before his best.

We've seen a lot of world class strikers playing for the teams against us in the last 10 years. Rooney, Aguero, Cristiano Ronaldo, Cavani, Lukaku, Falcao, Van Persie, Osimhen, Kane. Apart from Aguero and Kane who battered us regularly and Osimhen who was brilliant on the day, Vardy was usually was better on the pitch than the others on the occasion.

Our current team aren't good enough so I don't get why the youngsters have to be better than players with more experience and on higher wages with no room left to develop. Sadly with our fan base we can never actually play the young players as they are unfairly expected to be better than the senior players and get half the grace as the senior players for bad performances. Look at Faes, when he was last starting for us we were conceding 3 before half time, but the second he leaves the narrative is that we shouldn't have let him go. Nelson on the other hand was nowhere near as bad yet has been written off by many.

To be fair as hilariously deluded as that quote is, if true, it's better that he is kicking up a fuss to leave rather than sitting on his contract.

Genuinely think no one will want him, he's absolutely trashed his career. He's a £5k-£10k a week player on £45k a week, the only we could get rid of him is if we subsidise the majority of his wages.

On the face of it I can respect that interview from Wellens, but Orient fans in the comments are pointing out that the troublemakers are players that he tracked and signed. Seems a bit more like a Rodgers meltdown blaming others for his own failures than setting the standards himself.

He's on 4,000 to 5,000 a week apparently, which is standard for league one. It would need to be their record signing though, which is currently £400,000. Shows the level of mismanagement at this club that we might be competing in the same league with the transfer fees and wages we have spent.

Alves does have the work ethic defensively but struggles with the positioning side of it.

Minutes at Liverpool are more important for a player's development than minutes with us. If a young player struggles to get minutes with us then that's his career trajectory scuffed, if he struggles to get minutes at a Europe level Prem club they can still get a good loan to the championship or move to a European club.

Ricardo's last home game on the bench? Hopefully despite the situation he gets a good send off.

Our academy produces leaders, our recruitment team signs pansies. Who came to apologise to fans the other day? Lascelles, Choudhury and Page, 2 out of 3 academy players. Look at the way Braybrooke has turned his career around after a nightmare loan and injury. Evans went to a relegation battling league one side at 17. Jayden Joseph, Wilson Brown both establishing themselves in league 2 at a young ages. These are players with the required mentality, not some 30 year old league one journeyman whose going to "lay down the law". The thing is we looked decent in pre season, lots of energy and players trying to prove themselves. Those standards were set by the young lads like Joseph, Wilson Brown, Aluko, Page looking to prove themselves and it got ruined by the senior lads coming in and taking back their place without having to fight for it. Experienced players reduce footballing standards because they retain their position in the team through dressing room hierarchy rather than footballing ability and desire. The way we fix the mentality at this club is through playing a young group of players who are competitive and hungry to prove themselves and by bringing in a manager who backs them and doesn't default to relying on experience.