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More than anyone i hope that Baybrooke has a good loan. His confidence looked shot in pre season which was sad to see. Even if he doesnt break through with us hopefully this loan puts his career back on track after that injury.

Considering Nelson isnt getting a sniff im not sure any of our loanees are likely to have a future here. If you cant get a chance after having a successful loan at the level the club are at currently then we won't be giving chances to league 2 loannees or league one or championship for that matter.

He was good against Huddersfield and Charlton which i assume are the two weaker games you are referencing. You dont need to be exceptional every game to be good. In comparison to the average BCDR game which contains multiple misplaced touches and a lack of taking on the opposition on, every game Monga has played for us has been good.

what is the defender doing

Monga has been good every time he has played. Has BCDR ever had a good game for us, maybe Brighton where he got a goal and assist? I think it's a reach to say the youth isnt as good as the old guard, especially when referencing Monga against Reid.

Good opportunity for Page to re-establish himself in the starting lineup at least.

Is there any point in making any more comments on here? Everything that can be said about Skipp has already been said.

One of the main draws of the playoffs is that it keeps the league season more interesting for longer. With 8th securing a playoffs spot you will have the 4th-6th place teams likely in limbo for 1/3 of the season having secured their playoff places unless the league is unusually tight. I think it should be kept more exclusive between the 3-6th place teams.

I find it interesting that our exits dried up soon after we announced we were comlliant with PSR after selling James Justin. It's just a hunch but I think we are far more capable of selling players over the last few years than we have shown, it's just the club are hoarders and are scared to move players on. That's the only way I can see the lack of sales making sense, for example refusing £5mil for Iversen then losing him on a free.

He played a really good ball to play the striker in at one point and had a few good dribbles. We're probably not going to get him to turn into a £5mil player, at least before his contract runs out, but I do think there's a good player in there if he has a good loan and a chance we can have him come good.

I think we can get our money's worth if we get him on a good loan in January. Can see him kicking on at some point. The ability on the ball is there but he just goes missing in games a bit too easily.

2-1 juventus, number 11 scored a very well taken goal. Not sure who it is.

Both are similar levels of defenders except Amartey knows he's not great and plays within his limits whereas Faes tries to play like he's Nesta/Maldini.

Was that oxford's first team though? Also that Brighton team contained a number of recent £10m+ purchases that are being integrated into the team but are not necessarily worse than Brighton's starting options.

Hopefully youre right and this is the case.

If we go up are we not at risk of breaching the PL's 3 year PSR rules. We had one of our largest ever net spends last summer and still have a number of players on PL wages this year, even taking into consideration relegation reductions, whilst in the championship.

Bilal isnt a big sale if it goes through. We will still owe £10mil of his transfer fee to Genk next summer so it will be only £16mil net, around the same as Mcateer. We will probably need one more.

https://www.youtube.com/live/_-cRM-WI4Mw?si=8R2klqKw4AdZ4Mgr&t=8072 Goal at 2:14:35

We will make at least one big sale if we go up anyway like we did with Dewsbury Hall, likely Fatawu. Getting back to the Premier League and Premier League money is just a short term fix and can damage us in the long term like it did last time when we went up and signed Reid, Ayew, Skipp. It can only help us if we are run competently in the first place, the main priority should always be offloading the overpaid want-aways like Faes, Winks and Kristiansen. Going up with the wrong players making up the spine of the team only weakens the integrity of the team long term and guarantees us relegation the following season.

Vestergaard was horrible against Preston. The difference is that it was treated as a free hit and allowed to rebound, Nelson wasnt allowed that opportunity. Most of us would have been happy had Vestergaard left on a free at the end of the season before last, most of us would be horrified if Nelson leaves on a free at the end of the next. That is the difference in value between the two.

Gray is, Ali is a bit older so assume he already has a contract.

I think it's just the funnier scenario that the opposition got so embarrassed that he had to go to ground. Youre probably right that he goes down with a sore foot but if it gives people a chuckle there's no harm in people believing otherwise.

So then surely freezing him out is the right choice if there are no avenues to get him to perform.

I feel like im in the upside down world. We're talking about a player who was playing in the u16s just over a year ago and has now been training with the first team for almost half a season. I dont think Ndunkwu or Connor Tee were ever on the outskirts of the first team in their time here despite being with the academy to an older age than Evans is now. It's not just my evaluation of him, Evans's CV alone for a player his age speaks for itself, it's outstanding. I cant believe people are comparing him to players who were only ever decent for us at youth level.

Neither were rated as highly as Evans, they didn't even make their first team debut. I dont remember there being that much fervour around them?