Ken Tone

It used to be standard for footballers to be paid less in the summer. Story is that Tommy Docherty once complained to his manager that the was being paid less than another player at his club. He was told it was because the other fella was a better player. To which Docherty replied, "not in the summer he isn't "

I think maybe we have improved our options. Edwards especially looks like he'll live up to my Peterborough fan relative's top rating, and anyway we have Bednarek and THB. It's just that Russel seems to want to play Stephens anyway!

You're right in that I doubt we'd keep everyone, but presumably we wouldn't be as bad a financial position as last time, so wouldn't have the same pressure to offload expensive players.

There's often confusion in such social media rumours between pounds and euros, which makes it hard to tell how informed they are. There's quite a difference. Why would a bid from an English club to a Scottish one be in euros?

"Come on you pinks" doesn't sound quite right does it!

Thank goodness. Sorry!

Well mostly yes, but it does actually say they've signed Dom Ballard for £4m. If that's true, it seems a real shame as he's a promising player (assuming h he's recovered from his injury) and what's more he's a goalscorer !

So I can't go to the first home game and want to transfer my ticket to my son. I understand I can just email it to him, BUT my ticket is for an over 65 and he of course is under 65. Anyone know what I'm supposed to do?

Are we playing 3 CBs? Looks depressingly like RM still sees Stephens as a first choice defender, not just back up.

Personally I'd be sorry to see Charles go permanently, although a loan would be good for him. I think he'll develop into a genuine PL standard player. Only 19 isn't he?

I am rhe only person who clicked on this link thinking "Never heard of him, but I hope he's a striker " 😉

Re Ramsdale wages and loan fee etc. Genuine question ..... isn't a loan fee often just a way of a club paying the player's wages? So if we paid all his 120k a week would there necessarily be a loan fee on top? Whereas paying a loan fee then covering say 'only' 75k of his wages would effectively still pay all of arsenal's costs but not appear to break our wage structure.

Weren't we paying Forster around 100k - and JWP? So a similar amount for a top keeper like Ramsdale now we're back in the Premier doesn't seem out of the question, especially if there's no transfer fee.

So he seems, as you say, to play from the left rather like AA did last season from the right. Either/both of them will benefit from a central striker surely? With Stewart suspiciously left at home so presumably still not fit, we need to make finding a target man type of player a priority. I worry that we're goingg to end up with AA playing in the middle. He just didn't seem to do as well there.

I notice Brereton Diaz is often referred to as a winger. Is he another of these half winger, half striker players? Or is he really a 'proper' striker?

Can someone please explain how sending him to goztepe helps with the work permit? Will a year there mean he somehow then becomes eligible for a permit?

With Kylie, it's all about the bottom line.

Re Ings ... Rumour has it west ham offered to pay some of his wages, so we could maybe afford the risk of taking him to begin with but .... He only has 1 year left on his contract so I suspect he/his agent want us to guarantee a contract of several years, continuing after the first year with a wage much closer to his current £125k(?) than we can afford. Which would explain why he has reportedly turned down a move to us. As with virtually many, if not most, rumoured transfer, it's more about wages than transfer fee. Ditto Oxlade-Chamberlain. ... what wage?

In a sense it's every other ST holder who should vote. It's us that will have to look at it. Those in the Northam won't see a thing!

Is he insured whilst he has no contract? Better not slip on the soap! 😉

I imagine his agent will encourage him to wait until near the end of the window when teams panic and offer silly money contracts.

Distant elderly relative is a lifelong Peterborough fan. He really rates Edwards.

Yes but success not guaranteed--- eg Elyounoussi. Scottish football is such low quality that it's not a very good guide to how good a player is.

Thing is.....it's not a transfer fee of 5 or 6 million. It's the wages. West Ham want to offload his £120k a week. I imagine we'd only sign him if they paid say half(?) of that for at least the rest of his contract there. Because we'll not pay that much and I very doubt he'd take a pay cut.

It's nearly always wages that are the issue, not the transfer fee. Can't see us matching Arsenal wages.