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If they perform like against Brum, then I suppose it's OK. Though I expect JJ to soon replace Skipp.

King on a 6 month rolling contract?!

Tier 2

Not really uncommon. Josh King, John Carew, Mohamed/Tarek Elyounnoussi, William Osula, Jores Okore, Kevin Conboy, Martin Braithwaite, Mika Biereth, Mohamed Daramy, Patrick Dorgu, Pione Sisto, Riza Durmisi etc. And that's without the slew of Swedish-Bosnian players (Ibrahimovic et al).

Osula reportedly going to Frankfurt for £30m (!!!) I would've thought there was a realistic chance of him going to a Championship club, but that price seems wild.

FC Copenhagen reportedly had a bid of around £4m rejected, Häcken are looking for closer to £7m which Copenhagen won't meet.

Impressive getting two 1-0 wins after having the leakiest defense for the first four games.

Watch our second goal and where Thomas is. Faes is covering the full back position as Thomas is up between him and Monga. He's technically behind Monga, but he's not exactly in a position to cover for a counter.

Gray wasn't a particularly good player for us in all honesty. A handful of brilliant flashes were few and far between. Ayoze was more impactful and consistent. At least that's how I remember it.

Ayew instantly becomes more effective too as a result.

Ayew is much stronger than he looks. Glad we didn't get Gray however. He's been awful.

Humongas Riccy!!

It's almost impressive how poor we are at keeping the ball and stringing together attacks. Daka's touch is so unbelievably bad, but his movement is good. If he can't finish first time, there's no hope

Instantly replacing JJ with another JJ. I like it.

People would lose their zhit if they saw this guy playing in front of Vestergaard

Are you forgetting Woyo? How could you!?

We don't know the details of the deal though. Maybe he's on low wages. Maybe it's with a view to going into coaching. Maybe there's a termination clause that allows him to be released at a discount. There can be a million ways a contract is set up.

Ipswich have reportedly bid for Sindre Wallet Egeli, deal looking close

Hmmm wouldn't have minded Osula on loan, but I guess he will stay there this season and maybe have more cameos off the bench now.

He's not the injury since the same. Good luck JJ.

@Guest keeps reeling them in

We agree in general. My issue is that it's too little too late. We're relegated (again), charged with PSR breaches (again) and the talent we have left in the squad is reduced to Fatawu, Monga and a few other Academy prospects. I don't trust any other player in our squad to currently or potentially be good enough for the PL. Even if we were to miraculously make a push for promotion and go up, I Imagine we'll have to basically breach PSR again to have any chance of surviving. So while I commend our sales (I mean, they're OK in the context of today's market, no more), I'd rather we got rid of Reid, Ayew, Daka, Winks, Skipp, Soumaré, Faes, Vestergaard and maybe Kristiansen who are all still here. Glad Coady was sold though. With competent management (like we saw under Enzo), I don't think Justin is nearly as bad as some make out and would have been a better option than Thomas or Hamza imo.

But did we actually try to sell him? Can't blame the player for not extending his contract. If anything, he's probably been completely up front and transparent about his intentions all along. We absolutely could do something, if he was resisting a move - don't play him and see how that hurts his changes with the Belgium squad. But we didn't play hardball which to me suggests he wasn't a bad egg.

Yea, and that's 7 millions a few seasons ago from a lower league club. He's been part of a top 5 PL team, played in Europe, been on the fringes of the England squad and we can recoup marginally more than we paid. I won't say no to 8 million in our situation, but I wonder what his value was 2-3 years ago.

Gratz on the first win of the season!