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So if you come here you get allowance into a hotel with 3 meals a day and healthcare, including free dental and health care at the asylum seeker accommodation, as well as free prescriptions. You dont have to do anything for it. If you then work off payroll you can supplement your income. That is why people come. They have to do substantially less to have all this compared to their own countries. Plus you live in a much improved environment. Imagine coming living in a country where you have to work and still cannot benefit from free health / dental care, 3 meals a day et and you land here, get given this and get put up in London where you can freely roam around taking in the tourist sites. Too many incentives. The naivety of some on here is quite astounding.

after missing that sitter I wouldnt think many would be interested

Clearly, they shouldn't be in Bradford when they can speak Italian. 🙂

Talking about pissing it down, i bet it does at Lincoln, half our allocation is in this 'new' stand

We bought Sugawara for £6m. He then showed he wasn't up to it and was farmed out on loan. I can't imagine we were asking Werder Bremen to pay the full £6m we had forked out and yet they still decided against it. We did bloody well to get players out the door last summer (god knows how much of their wages we were paying), but if we somehow now get £6m after all of that I'd be amazed.

I can't see us selling him for 3 million. It simply wouldn't be worth our while and we can't really afford to write off that much of a loss.

£5m ?Can’t see it if the interested clubs are Preston and West Brom. There might be a £2m extra on some unlikely event like either achieving promotion but we won’t see that.

You post that we shouldn't post anything negative. Then, you're getting the ball rolling, knowing it will just go past him and into the net. Make up your mind. 🙂

Fair point about Coventry but we had goals through the team last season it wasn’t just dependent on the right side of Fellows and Matsuki. But it has to be maintained or improved this season.

I'd hope for 5 million for Archer as an absolute minimum and probably closer to 7. Possibly 6 for Sugawara too and bbd about 3 like you say. Hopefully 14-16 million for those three.

I agree with Blackmore. We've gone from the 23/24 season with Armstrong playing down the right getting 20 plus goals . Last season we alternated between Matsuki and Fellows in the same position and they totalled 4 goals... One of Coventry's strengths last year was they had consistent goalscorers in Wright, Mason Clark, Thomas Asante and Sims.

Just wonder how much we might raise from Archer and Downs. Archer possibly £3-4m, don’t see the clubs he’s linked with having the funds we want. Downs , very little, probably more of a deal structured on a next sale % in hope he improves. Then there’s BBD, surely Derby can rustle up £3m or so.

Probably rightly so, we have West Ham coming in all guns blazing, Wolves will be up there again and Burnley will still threaten. On top of that Boro have gone about their transfer business very well and the other usual suspects are stronger. We don't have a bad team but we have only really signed Dobbin and Mubaba to last season's squad and lost Shea and Stewart. We're almost standing still by other team's standards. I still expect a flurry of activity late on in the window though, there's only so long we can go with 3 CMs anyway for a start.

https://news.sky.com/story/asylum-seekers-warned-not-to-make-kissing-sounds-at-people-in-new-guidance-about-living-in-uk-13574744 Handing out leaflets now telling them not to rape women. Diversity is our strength.

Jury’s out at the least (being kind) in respect of Dobbin. For me neither he or Mubama stack up as a replacement for Stewart or what we needed. Despite the fiasco at the end of last season our squad was in a relatively strong shape. It’s now weaker and it seems disappointing if we’re scrabbling around the loan market. That said,Spors pulled some decent rabbits out of the hat at the end of the last window. So still hope.

I've listened to a few, they're (feel) quite long sometimes and maybe a little bit too straight, not too much scandalous humour but interesting enough whilst cooking the dinner etc. To be fair, at least they come across (and are) guys that have been there and worn the t shirt, as against someone like Football Martin, who just comes across as a desperate You Tuber (in my opinion). My opinion of Glenn went down after his hissy fit about Tonka, which he seems to have recanted on now. It would be good to have a fan on now and then maybe, an average Joe of sorts or maybe some one off the FAB.

Perhaps not embarrassed but I can already predict the skate bore comments on social media how they took more away to West Ham than we'll take at home to West Ham. The Hammers have already sold out the 3,008 allocation, surprised we didnt give them more to be honest like an FA Cup allocation

I think given the archer links away and reports of Downs to America, it's clear we are looking to offload attackers and bring another one in probably on loan near the end of the window. I don't think it's reasonable to rely on Larin not getting injured at any point.

I'm not sure they are in it for the money, I think it's just the fame and glory and autograph/selfie hunters. You only have to glance at Steve and he gently nods his head...'yes, it is me..'.

Used to make an appearance in kebab shop on Bedford Place as well after a few beers

I'm not too concerned about additions in central defense if we don't lose anyone. Under Eckert, THB and Stephens were a successful pairing. We will add depth to CM and I think Dobbin will come good if he's played centrally. My main worry is the CF position. We don't have a like for like replacement for Larin now that Stewart's gone which means we'll have to change the way we play when he's out of the team. Not ideal given it worked so well last season. I'm not convinced Mubama is an adequate replacement. I'm also concerned about the right back position. Roerslev isn't good enough cover from what I've seen so I'm worried we'd have to revert to a back three in Bree's absence. Perhaps we should utlise the loan market.

the Mubama signing clearly has not impressed him.

Agreed. Just interesting to hear someone like Blackmore saying it. From memory he was a lot more relaxed last summer and seems to be a fair bit more worried this year.

Don’t think many would disagree with that. Add in the need for a Charles replacement as well.

We give enough British people benefits who shouldn't have them, but unfortunately those that know don't have the balls to report them.