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Lack of a sponsor to go on them I imagine

I’m surprised Fraser hasn’t been wrapped up by now, assumed it would have been a simple one to confirm. Any news?

The fact the club didn’t do a Che leaves the club on 30th June suggests to me we are working to still keep him. i think a clean break is what’s needed for both parties imo

I’m sure they will once we have one confirmed

All very quiet by the COT. Nothing about McCarthy or Taylor signing and nothing about possible Wood signing either..

Only played 18 games and scored 4. has 3 in 4 for Korean u23’s too.

End of the day, if KWP doesn’t want to sign a new deal then we are right to look to sell this summer when there is still some money to be had from him. We won’t want to repeat the Adams issue and allowing his deal to run out. he probably agreed to give us one more year last summer in exchange for being allowed to go this year.

When we go red and white stripes everyone comes out with, it’s too Stoke or too Sunderland, too Brentford or too Sheff Utd so what would a red and white stripe shirt need to look like to not be that??! only so much you can do.

One thing that’s disappointing is watching the euros and seeing all the template Nike and adidas kits on show. It’s crazy they get away with offering one template to everyone and then they just tweak colours. i fear ours will be like this with Puma too

I’m sure it’s just the case of interest from PL sides and us not having the ability to offer that or a big wage to try and keep them. Judge it based on where the end up, if in the PL you know why. If it’s another Championship side then maybe it’s just a budget thing, but unlikely

There is no way we’ve gone from struggling to get a Turkish side to offer anything remotely near what we want asking price wise, to a club giving us the fee we want and 3 players to our Turkish team.

Plays for Valencia, bit out our price range I’d say.

If we did pay €12M then we’ve got the remaining accounting value of him so no loss (or gain) to go through this years accounts. It’s a wage off the books which is the positive, so frees up funds to go elsewhere.

Agree, I think our interest would have passed now, especially as we then loaned and now signed THB

What do you think will happen with Joachim Kayi Sanda next season?

It’s 10yrs ago FFS get over it. Imagine holding a grudge for that long over something that didn’t actually affect you personally.

Don’t we need a new U21 coach? Beyond possibility it might be Fonte with Lallana assisting?

Onana and Branthwaite will be sold as they will raise the most money for them and help from their FFP perspective. I think they will spend very little this summer and expect they will go down the free transfers and loans route as cheaper options.

Maybe we should take the Man Utd approach and expect the government to pay for it.

I guess on the stadium expansion front it’ll help bring more money into the club both on a commercial front and more fans into each game. The extra funds will then help enable more to be spent on the team etc. i would imagine we will want to stay up this season but then will start to look into this, given all the time it’ll take and to get approval etc it makes sense for this to be earlier in the 10yr plan than later

Anyone know why THB wasn’t there?

I suspect Dibbling, Meghoma, Ballard (once fit) and maybe Sam Amo will go out on loan next season for game time.

Think the play offs showed the importance of an experienced keeper. I hope we bring one in, even if just on a 1yr deal. Get rid of those who now won’t be good enough / didn’t want to be here and a rebuild can begin. Let’s not fool ourselves , the gap is huge and the squad will be a lot of strengthening

Alright for some, mine went up an hr and is dropping roughly in real time still. You’ve overtaken me in the queue

Now gone up to 2hr 40 , queue doubled right in front of my eyes