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Have to say I find it hard to believe we'll sign another striker all the time we still have BBD, Archer and Downs here. That said, Ratkov does look an exciting player and a more obvious replacement for Ross Stewart. If we ended up with Fellows, Scienza, Azaz, Dobbin, Larin, Mubama and Ratkov to choose from then can't really complain about lack of options or quality.

I dunno and I'm in two minds on the profile for the midfielder. I can see the logic in going for someone a bit more experienced but then they're probably more likely to want to start than not (plus will probably be on relatively high wages that dictate they should be a starter), so who do you drop? Downes? Jander? If you go down the route of more inexperienced but with potential then they might be a bit more open to rotation and also keeps that conveyor belt ticking over. Will be interesting to see who we do bring in and the club have had plenty of time to prepare so you'd imagine they know who they want.

Surprised he's worried about security concerns. Last I heard he was spunking 5M on his own personal security.

My mate is a massive Man City fan and he's followed Mubama since he signed for Man City and honestly, he's obsessed with him. He's watched every single minute of competitive and non competitive games that Devin has played, he's even peaked over his garden fence to watch him kick some balls around his back garden. There's nothing this lad doesn't know about Mubama. Anyway, finally got around to chatting to him yesterday and he said, he thought he'd be a useful squad player and that it'll be good for his development but he's surprised that we haven't gone looking for someone with a bit more experience.

Is that the ginger twat? He was insufferable. The little depressed dwarf next to him wasn't quite so bad and seemed to have a bit more actual insight and knowledge.

About the only thing so far that Smallbone has the edge on Bragg is scoring goals. Smallbone was actually decent at arriving late and chipping in with a few goals. Other than that I completely agree, Bragg is far more capable of holding his own in midfield and, unlike Smallbone, isn't a liability if he's played as one of two central midfielders.

This is just media types (and wannabees) getting carried away with their own guff because they have little to talk about and spygate is the easiest thing that comes to hand. Makes it sound like up until spygate we were lauded at every ground and had flowers thrown at our feet. Yeah, there's bound to be some chants but there'd have been chants about something else anyway. It's not going to make all away games cauldrons of hate. About the only games that might have a bit more of an edge are the Boro games and I thought they were pretty apathetic in the second leg when they should have been at their most vociferous so I wouldn't even hold my breath on that.

Yeah I’m kind of hoping we can’t read too much into nearly getting Dan Neil in. Would have been cheap experience but I wonder whether we’ve decided to not go relatively big money on a striker and will instead spend it on midfield instead.

What do we reckon on the Charles replacement then? Spors will have been well aware he was likely off for ages and the type of fee we’d get so he’s had plenty of time to eye up some targets. Another young with potential? Older experienced pro? Defensive Mid or more progressive? Personally I think Bragg and Downes can cover defensive positions between them so I’d like someone a bit more forward thinking. There’s not been a massive amount of links and off the top of my head there was Dan Neil, a lad from Palace and Josh Mulligan.

Ramsey Street - Australian lad.

Pretty damning indictment of Downs in that no one even considers him for third choice (not that I disagree). Just illustrates how bad a signing at 7M he was.

Surely only the referee can do that?

Haven't really seen anything of him since he moved to West Ham so hard to say. Chances are he'd probably be fine. Only thing I would say is that if you had four midfielders of Downes, Bragg, Jander and JWP then the bulk of that lot seems to prefer more deep lying roles. Jander likes to get forward and Downes does it pretty well at times but for the sake of balance, I think I'd prefer someone a bit more adventurous. We were linked with Josh Mulligan earlier in the window and I wonder whether that's something we might try. Fair bit of interest in him with Genoa the latest club to be linked so might not be feasible.

Worth reading some of the first pages of that thread where he gets a lot of praise as well. Seems like using a 19 year old kid in his first loan as first choice number 9 was probably a bit too much too soon.

Was impressed by Mubama at the start of the season and seemed quite a physical and powerful player, of the players we’ve been linked with this sounds as good as any of the others.