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Are we unable to afford/consider a decent back up keeper until Ramsdale has been sold ? I mean, George Long, come on, he's the third choice guy surely?

Been thinking about This a bit. In a perfect world, him out and the millwall fella in.

I had a vuvuzela app on my phone at the time, so whenever i shaked the phone it honked....managed to annoy swathes of people that whole WC.

The club had the right to activate a one-year extension but (in their complacency) didn't. It's complicated by the deadline for the club to do so being dictated by when they played their last game, and the club not knowing the second playoff semi was the last game until a few days later. So I'm not going to be too mad at the club for failing to activate the extension when they were (possibly) thinking that we could get promoted and then not want Stewart around for the Prem. (Even though I think he's good enough for the Prem.) I'm also not going to be mad at Stewart. It's not his fault the club didn't lock him down and, having failed to lock him down, it's not incumbent upon him to sign a one year deal with the club with the already-agreed conditions. Maybe he resigns with us for a year and gets a pay rise or a signing on bonus he otherwise wouldn't have. Maybe we give him a two year deal instead. Maybe Hearts give him a pay cut but the security of a three year deal. Maybe he scores ten goals at the World Cup and replaces Lewandowski at Barcelona. He might end up back here. I think there's a good chance he ends up back here. I'd love for him to end up back here. The fact that - as of right now - he won't be here next year isn't something to get upset at him or the club about.

They should, but if you look at Leeds when they first dropped down. Every club is going to want to do a number on them, and a half empty London Stadium isn't going to help...

The bottom line is promotion..and we should be aiming for autos. Last season our right side attack combination of Fellows and Matsuki produced 4 goals and 6 assists in league games....that's simply not good enough if you want to get in the top 2...fine if you're happy to be playoff contenders. Will Smallbone got 6 goals and 4 assists in the 23/24 season and isn't good enough for us. Adam Armstrong got 21 goals and 13 assist from the right in 23/24. There's no room for sentiment or because he seems a nice guy..this is where we go wrong. I want end product or your out.

Understand this from an attacking and goals scored POV, however his biggest useful contribution IMO was his ability to wriggle out of tight spaces in defence when under opposition high press and allow us to break forward. Pretty essential when our Armstrong was not there to drop deep. In that regard he played a big part in the success of the 2nd half of the season.

Always makes me laugh that. Like any player would ever sign that these days.

How do you know the club were complacent? There’s more than one party involved here.

Why do people always talk about some nonsense 'pay per play' deal? Never in a million years would he accept that.

Not sure what Bree extension has to do with the transfer window opening. The transfer window only affects the official registration of players nothing to stop contract extension being announced and signed before then. What's the long summer of defensive negotiations all about? Surely the only other defensive doubt is THB, Manning having already extended or announced intention. What has been notable is that no one seems to have mentioned Welington, hopefully we will retain him, defensively he is much better than Manning, but granted that since we changed to 4 at the back Manning has become a better option all round with his attacking contributions. Good to have two contenders at LB.

Needs some of this

What an excellent Foreign Secretary he was.

I was surprised he ever came back to competitive football after his first episode. He has a defib implant which clearly did it's job but maybe time to hang up the boots. I wish him well.

Hopefully RM can convince Leicester's board to part with a significant sum for Bazunu

Injuries withstanding he's a great striker at this level so I hope we manage to keep him. The club should orient any new contact more to a pay per play basis to protect us from more long term injury. In terms of ambition where else is he going to get a better deal? A prem club? Just can't see it. Questions about his ability\injuries would put them off. Celtic\Rangers? Unlikely - injury record. Another prem chasing champ club - same again PLUS why not just stay? Decent European club? Injuries again. Any other club outside of these would be a downward trajectory.

Also worth pointing out that international football is a part-time thing. Maybe you’d have 3 or 4 games in that time. Equivalent to a two week ban in the EFL

Nessen Dorma, Schillaci, Cameroon beating Argentina, Roger Milla, Gazza crying ... it was a really good one! (Not the crying, but just memorable images)

Agree with most of that. I like Fellows and his dribbling at times was brilliant to watch, just want to see more end product which as you say, means crosses instead of trying to dribble most of the way to the goal. Pretty sure we'll see a better version next year, I hope so, seems like a decent guy.

I think Fellows is fine. He didn't have the best season and his form certainly dipped at the end but an upgrade on him wouldn't be a priority for me, especially if Matsuki stays as well. The frustrating thing for me is that he seemed to change his game and try and add some variation - instead of taking on his man and getting to the byline to cross he seemed to cut inside too much. Stuff that - he's probably the best in the division at crossing so stick with that. Not sure if he'd been told to cut inside more but I don't think he's at his most effective when he does it.

It is like the hot girlfriend who delivers on all front but then lets herself go and you are glad to see the back of her but there is always that nagging doubt that she will turn into a hottie again with someone else down the line.

The agents are taking advantage of the option running out due to the season ending prematurely. I do feel there is a bit of ingratitude, but also the club were complacent, also with Bree.

We will have limited funds for strengthening. I'd rather put all our efforts into keeping as many of the players as possible.

Regarding Fellows I think he actually looked at his best when played out of position by Still, but maybe the caveat to that is that everyone else looked absolutely shocking. There’s a player in there, just needs to find his confidence. If he cuts in and slots one in the far corner early in the season, maybe it’ll jolt him into life. Just needs a bit more variation to what he’s doing. Work on crossing low and hard from the right, and early crosses with his left if he cuts in rather than dribbling into traffic. I doubt that position will be high on the list to make expensive changes.

You can’t sack a player because they are injured and you can’t just stop their rehabilitation.