Dan

Get Thomas the **** away from this club. He wouldn't start for Cambridge.

That is actually quite impressive. But obviously no goal - if they seriously skimp on a striker again...

I think Ricardo played on for a bit with one once so seems plausible.

Would be a very us thing to happen as well. We get some ridiculous injuries in pre-season friendlies.

It wouldn't totally stun me if Daka did 'OK' at Hamburg. Defences in that league are pretty weak and our ability to extract the worst out of everyone is spectacular.

Yeah can't get it on TV. Successfully not watched a minute of whole pre-season at least.

Still a depressing looking XI. We've done about 40% of what needs doing this summer. Which is better than usual but it's still not enough.

Tell you one thing about Claude Puel, but he would make a great director of football.

Will be reported as 40k

When you're relegated with the biggest wage will in the division I think that's fair enough reason. People will change with evidence.

With our track record? Yeah I'd say it's palatable.

I've ended up writing a long post here and it isn't all addressed for you really but.. He should on the face of it be good enough for League One but I think it points to a lot of the deeper lying issues still being as strong as ever. These, for me are: - I made a bit of a point the other day about how we should totally ditch our scouting department while times are hard because I don't think it offers us a single penny in use. That is not the fault of the scouts, but we just clearly don't listen to anything they do. Every signing is done via an agent or a manager recommendation. They are completely redundant. - Rudkin is clearly still heavily involved in negotiating. Hence why we'll have paid over the odds in transfer fee and in wages. - This overpay in this means we aren't able to make a number of other signings. There was a good list posted on here the other day of on the up, 21-25 year old League One / Two players who had a year left on their contracts. For the price of this signing, we can probably sign three of those, plugging more gaps in our team. - While not being necessarily a 'bad' player for the level (though I think the Swansea fans' choice of compliments are really quite telling as well), his strengths are not what we are lacking, and his weaknesses are in line with plenty of others. To me this is sort of similar to the Skipp deal. It isn't as egregious as he should, in theory, be one of the better players in the division. To me though this is a relatively decent amount of money, for a player who doesn't really plug our gaps, who even if a success in the short term is not going to really fix things in the long term. It's clearly Martin's recommendation - I would imagine they've agreed to back him on this one to make up for pissing him around early doors. It's just everything I expect of this regime. The whole thing points to the same disconnect that got us in this mess in the first place. I genuinely wish him the best of luck, he seems a decent character and we've lacked them. But there are too many red flags to overlook here. We've seen this before and I'm offering a regime that have overseen the biggest decline basically ever no benefit of the doubt, as nobody should.

Crikey

If we make 16 signings this season then yeah, fair enough. But we won't.

Good luck to him. I don't blame him, but I think this is a silly move and a red flag that we haven't learnt a thing.

Of the teams in this division we faced last season, we played five games, we won one (Sheff Weds H), we drew two (Sheff Weds A, Oxford A), lost one (Oxford H) and lost one on pens (Huddersfield A). I'm not underestimating these sides at this point. We've been implausibly rubbish for four years. We'd have baulked at the idea a year ago that we could finish below Millwall, let alone be already relegated and denying them a win that would've gotten them promoted by the time we played them. When there is a way to fail, under this owner, they usually find it.

This and McFarlane are more like it - cost effective ways to improve our team.

We've had less moved so far than I thought we would. Wow we've fallen even further than I realised.

Some moved but their link doesn't work. Surprise surprise.

Came to say exactly this. It's a good year for a 'down' year I think as I really can't see the promoted trio doing a lot. I've similar concerns with Fulham but I just don't envisage any of the promoted trio getting above them either.

Nothing's really changed at all. The sooner people realise the better.

Anyone at Lens just knew straight away Okoli was guff.

He was a PSR fiddle. But because we have amateurs running the club we get lumbered with the crap while losing our good players. Meanwhile Forest get Elliot Anderson from it.

Could literally be describing Bob Reid.

Kristiansen as well actually.