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He owes us. We stood by him for a long time when he couldn’t play. It would be poor on his part to simply fuck off at the first opportunity. He doesn’t strike me as being like that.

Exactly.

Thank fuck for that. Hopefully that means less academy cast offs from other teams moving forward hoping to turn a profit further down the line.

After the kind of talent the club has brought in this season, I don't doubt we'll find a replacement for him. It's baited breath every time he goes down. He's one serious knock away from another season out, and with the upcoming season being essentially a last throw of the dice for promotion (before the parachute payments dry up at least) can we afford to nurse him through another season, or have him on the physios bench for months at a time? Don't get me wrong, I've been rooting for him to stay fit, and was delighted he got picked to go to the WC. But as a club we need to be ruthless now, if we're to go up.

We need more than a backup. Part of our success last season was that Ross and Cyle were both quality and stepped up at different times

£8.5M for him and Cyle Larin is, dare I say it, a bargain compared to our last few years of transfer dealings.

£6m is a fantastic fee for this guy

Nice one Leo. And you, Andy Hallett 👍 Whoever you are.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZOFwgagADt/?igsh=aHQ2N3Awdm85dW1r Congratlations!

Bit of quo .. And Here we go and here we go and here we go we’ll never be beaten with, Peretz in goal here we go ooh Daniel Peretz from Is raaa el

The irony is. We’d pay a greater transfer fee rather than a sign-on fee for Ross.

I think the FA need to be very careful, they’ll be weighing up all sorts. No fine/punishment could effectively mean the EFL shit the bed and went into overkill too harshly. Fuss over nothing etc. Then you have to think about how other bans have been in the past, the reasonings. For example if Tonda was banned for six months for being aware of a teenager spying compared to someone who has been outright racist and banned for five matches - tells you what they deem worse. But I do commend the FA for keeping everything behind closed doors and not leaking shit. Same with the club too. Personally I think he’ll get a small touch line ban of maybe four games and that’ll be that.

Have you been drinking? You sound angry (yet again). And your spelling is all over the place. And it’s late. Maybe put the whisky down.

Frustrating if he moves on, after the support we've given him... he's a very capable striker (when fit). What would we need to spend to bring in someone equivalent?

I heard off a mate it was done. Not saying I’m ITK but it was the same guy that mentioned to me about Aaron Ramsdale in early August and Ryan Fraser later that month two years ago. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Got the impression it was more a case of “spread the good news out, let it simmer etc”.

Disappointed if he leaves because we saw 6 good months out of 36 we signed up for with him. Like everyone else he will have options. Hopefully he signs up for ‘The Last Dance’ with everyone else.

Yeah I agree, if we didn't have Larin i'd be more concerned. As is I reckon we can find a solid backup to Larin.

Exactly this, purely angling for a better deal. Nothing wrong with that. But the club could easily call his bluff and say “that’s fine, we’ve moved on”, equally he could get crocked at the World Cup and be shit out of luck and without a salary again. Risky move more by his side than ours. I have confidence we’d look to the market for the right kind of player now.

Exactly this. Other option is Old Firm offer him 2 years with extra year option. Less intense league than the Champ, European football. We need another forward with Larin who can play 46 games potentially plus the cups. Ross is a good player but his body won’t enable that and probably joined on a decent wage. Might be best for all concerned. We can probably get better as Hull did if were quick off the mark like the club were today.

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I wouldn’t blame him, and equally I don’t think it’s the end of the world

Even if there is, they're ours. Important business seeing as the effect they both had on our season. We may lose 3 or 4 jewels but this has definitely made the jewels losses less felt. If, and I stress if because I don't see it happening, we keep hold of everyone now, we're definitely faves for the title. Just need to replace any we do lose as well ss we have done in the last 10 or so months.

I think he has a clause that if a premier league team come in for the right money, he can leave. I may have made that up. But we cannot stand in his way if a ‘big’ club make a move for him. Would love to keep him, that would be amazing.

Anyone else thinking that the lack of info out there about the FA enquiry is a tad odd? With the EFL enquiry we pretty much had a daily running commentary on what was happening, the time table, the make up of the panel, what the EFL regulation breaches were and the associated charges... And with the equivalent FA enquiry....? Nothing... Does the FA board conduct the investigation in-house, or do they commission an independent panel, like the EFL? What FA rules is Tonda (and whoever else is deemed to be involved ) being charged with breaking? What timelines are the FA working to? etc etc. Why is the FA investigation more 'cloak and dagger' than the EFL investigation? And why is it taking them so much longer to conclude their investigations than the EFL did...? I'm yet to see any kind of formal / official statement from the FA stating what they are doing, again, unlike the EFL, who issued a press release at the outset stating the charges and laying out the terms of reference for their investigation.... As I say, just seems a tad odd to me that we've heard zilch about it so far...