Dman

Whilst I completely understand your point and agree we need a 'billy sharp type', the problem is, we had PL quality players in and around those you've listed above - I'm not sure we have any in our squad anymore. We'd effectively need a whole new 11 next season if we went up.

With no disrespect to Plymouth, who are a really hard working side, with a great manager doing really well on a tight budget - I wouldn't really use their opinion to gauge the the quality of potential PL players. As said already, he's this years Danny Fox and will be nowhere near good enough for the PL. Which is fine for us now, but he's very lucky he didn't go to Luton where it'd have been a nightmare season for him.

simple, effective and easy enough for the hand clapping seals to join in. Make it happen.

Charley, Stu and based on Saturday Adam Armstrong. Probably, actually comfortably, our position in the squad

He's lucky he did - he crap at defending in this league let alone the one above.

I don't understand this link tbh - we seem to be stacked in the 'attacking 8 / 10' role, I hope this doesn't mean that Alcaraz is off.

They're clearly not though. If they were we'd have kept JWP, Che, Tella and recouped some security money on selling the others we have. As @Pilchards has said a few times, they're not expecting promotion this season and if we get it, that's a bonus. For me, the evidence of outs vs ins backs that up.

It probably didn't even work out all that cheap in the end - Assuming someone would have had to pay to rent the stadium considering we couldn't play in the one owned by SR...

I think you're massively miss reading the room. Here's a list of the wealthiest owners in the championship, all be it from last season. I might be wrong, but isn't Dragan net worth c.1B - so we'd be in and around Preston North End in 8th place.... https://the72.co.uk/2023/03/06/ranked-every-championship-club-owners-net-worth/

It should be easily enough to guarantee promotion - we could spend less than half of it still recoup what we wasted in January and build a phenomenal championship side, whilst leaving a bit in the bank for next year. Its why I see no logical sense in selling Che for anything under stupid money £20-25m. He could easily get 25-30 goals this season which would effectively mean promotion - That's worth way more to us than anything we'll sell him for. Imo, we should be risking losing him for nothing next season.

Who are equally as shite as we are. Everything SR seem to touch falls apart. Rassums is a complete blagger and Dragan is the poor soul to fall for it.

I think they'll be the 2 biggest challenges this season, alongside Norwich. If we can get through all 3 of those unbeaten at home (I don't think we will fwiw), then We'll have had a very good start.

Based on the chap who came on TSP - Sounds like they played the first 2 in typical Ainsworth route 1, but they don't have the players for it and on Saturday went to a formation / style that suites their players slightly more. Sounds like it'll be a back 5. We should have enough, but I've been drilled into just expecting us to implode.

He's shite Dave.

yeah, Issac Hayden.. Yipeee

All Wilcox has managed to do is shift the players who PL clubs are interested in - I don't quite get the praise at the minute, if I'm honest.

Mental Manji has been spouting that for months. Its bullshit, it always has been bullshit and it always will be bullshit. We have to sell to 1 - reduce the huge squad size, 2 - that huge squad is costing a fortune each week, 3 - we over spent in January and need to re-coup that money.

I know @Smirking_Saint and I disagree on this front, but this is exactly the reason why I would have compromised on the cost of a few players early on in the window, so that we had a settled (to a degree) side by now. Ultimately that extra £5m we held out for on JWP or £5m for Tella is no good when we have a week to replace them, by which point targets have moved on. Tino / Aarons was a fantastic example of that.

Funny enough I thought about him the other day as the exact type of striker we could do with. I thought he looked pretty decent on Saturday.

I'm not sure why you keep referencing Saints. I've never said he should move to us over them? Half a decent season potentially secures you a move, but so does a decent season in the championship... Just my opinion, but personally I wouldn't be rushing to either of those sides.

Potentially... or Hamer (specifically who i'm referring to) stays at Cov has another really good season or moves to someone like Leicester and he'll end up in the PL, for a stronger side in years time anyway. A move to Sheff U or Luton is a bad move for any player imo. On the pitch and financially. Regarding Downes. Realistically, Downes isn't coming to us if we didn't have Martin as our manager.

JWP had years of PL experience before the last season. Tino and Lavia are ready made top 6 players. Hamer has and isn't either. Apples and Oranges.

Getting battered every week and having a relegation on your CV - potentially, more like probably, being part of a record breaking (in a bad way) side. I'm struggling to see whats actually too like tbh.

Anyone going to either Sheff Utd or Luton are absolute idiots. Both whipping boys, both in contention to break the record low PL points. I'd happily stick my mortgage on the fact neither will be in the PL next season. Hamer going from Cov to Sheff is a ludicrous move on his behalf.

Shields clearly picked Lavia and Larios