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Aren’t Brighton getting rid of their scouts to be replaced by AI? Perhaps we should just employ them? Seem to find a fair few decent players in the price bracket we seem tied to.

Absolutely agree with this. We don’t play a style that aids any of our players. Juric is no better than Martin in that he plays a style that he obviously likes even when we play worse with it. Aribo and Smallbone as a starting CM pairing in the prem was the end of the afternoon for me.

Arguably we did. We left an in form player at Burnley who subsequently decided he didn’t fancy coming back to us. If he could have carried that form into our side perhaps we’d have seen a different outcome.

Said similar about KS and how he hadn’t been fit. Think we’ve all thought the same about this squad under RM. Perhaps we feel we were burned letting Tella stay the whole season when perhaps we should have recalled him in Jan and used him in our last relegation season?

Judging by how Stewart defended crosses against Ipswich I don’t think he’d add a lot. its time for the tower. Give the people what they want. We can hardly get any worse.

BBD and Archer as your first and 2nd choice strikers stinks of relegation. How BBD didn’t even hit the target with his late chance I do not know. Dibling again excellent and we seem to have the start of playing ok but the divving about at the back and lack of quality up front will kill us.

But for being able to bowl out Kent last week and , was it Warks? Earlier in the year we could be celebrating a Championship today despite not really getting started until about 4 games in!

“We don’t need to score we’ve got your back four!”?

Think he has been worse than poor so far. No threat to the goal. Poor weight of pass and limited quality of first touch. Not helped by the tactics but his shithousery levels need to be backed up by being actually half decent.

Looks like Ipswich have probably brought themselves a little PSR issue in the next two seasons if they don’t stay up. Not sure how sellable their buys will be.

Youth teamer by the sounds of it.

Did anything come of the two Brazilian strikers or did that die off early? Hypothetically if we were to go back in Jan is either worth signing? Is the Brazilian league much good?

Feels like the perfect time for HR to start typing up their 11:15 lament about how difficult it is to conclude transfers during the summer window and how we’ve tried really hard but we’re fully behind Russell and feel like we will be ultra competitive with our bestest squad ever TM.

Perhaps but he went up a level from Sunderland not from top to bottom with us haha! Hopefully a deal can be done ✔️

Surely Ramsdale isn’t up for setting his career back as much as coming to us?! Arsenal 1st choice 40 games ago to relegation fighter?!

The only worry I have with this wait and consolidate business is that if in two years we’ve squeaked by staying up just about it’s a hell of a hard sell to get anyone decent to sign for us! hopefully a few sales this week will see us being able to spend a bit!

Lot of dross in amongst that, far too much for a club of our size to continually cope with. So long as we stay in the “punt/bargain” bucket we’ll struggle to do well over any period of time in the premier league.

Last 2 or 3? Orisic? Onuachu? ABK who had potential but is made of glass, Bazunu! We’ve had huge luck with Lavia coming off and even he missed significant amounts of football in the last 2 years which badly affected us. Also selling Romeu? Mad.

Of course not but when you’re after a top end target like MOR ( at our level) speed is of the essence. Had we bid closer to what they requested perhaps there would have been a different outcome? This what aboutery is easy isn’t it?

Feels a bit like these stories today have come out so in 3 weeks the board can point to all of the efforts they went to bidding on this higher quality player only to come up short and buy a cheaper unknown alternative. I think the MOR deal needed to happen quickly and be a surprise to others not getting us into a bidding war. Not sure I see his relationship with Russ as being strong enough to bat away Brighton sadly.

Another one of those utterly pointless what if style pieces of “journalism”; https://www.3addedminutes.com/sport/football/hull-city/hull-citys-game-changing-ps51m-transfer-window-predicted-with-southampton-roma-and-liverpool-deals-4727880

Feel like you’re going to be disappointed! What’s that ? At least another 70 million spend. Broja has done nothing since he left us either think he’s a busted flush.

In fairness the article is about how wrong their transfer window could go, I’m not sure it’s saying he has rejected them. As you say though I doubt Charles is being lined up to score 20 goals for Celtic haha

Only one of those welcome posts was decent 😛

Cape Verde international right?