Jimbo

Aribo has no place being near the first team

Decent keeper saves the first. second straight through him. Still not good enough

When the ball is knocked down at the edge of the penalty area from a long ball? Ideally not 12 yards off his line in no-mans land, backpedaling, causing him to jump off-balance... He's just not good enough in my view. Whether he will in the future is irrelevant, he is not good enough to start in the present.

i think you are looking too recently at a few games. My view of Bazunu is based on what we have season for more than a season. I still believe Bazunu is poor and a decent goalkeeper helps us win points. We would have had all three vs Rotherham, for example, if Bazunu had better positional sense. That doesn't absolve the atrocious finishing we have seen from the team over the last 2+years now. Equally true that we could and should have had a handful of goals vs Rotherham for example. However, when it comes down to it, good teams tend to have a strong foundation at the back. Even if we had our defence sorted, I would not be confident of winning 1-0 with him in goal. Just my opinion, of course.

touche. 21 in 11, 2nd worst in the championship.

Depends on your view I guess. First goal vs Sunderland for example - a classic leap over the ball when it goes right next to him. And his positioning vs Rotherham...beyond words. Am sure there were others, but there's so many goals going in these days they all blur into one.

who cares, he's rubbish

If they’re serious about a promotion challenge, they need to tighten up fast. not sure this guy is the man to do it. Would give him 2 more games to show he can change, or he should go

agile as a cat at jumping out of the way of it when he could just stick his foot out and save it. Forster saves that first goal.

Looked to me like it bounced over/past his arm and was very saveable

Just seen the goals. All terrible. Defence a shambles. Marking is abysmal. Bazunu has perfected the art of looking busy whilst getting nowhere near some saveable shots, diving over/under the ball etc. Reminds me of Gazzaniga. 1st goal - should have saved it. Goes right past him. 2nd goal - benefit of the doubt due to deflection 3rd goal - should never have been beaten at the near post from there 4th goal - not his fault 5th goal - should be saving that

No it isn't, £150m is recognised at sale, less any unamortised to date accounting cost for those players, which is deduced in full at sale (not the same as unpaid transfer fees). the principle is you buy a player registration, and spread the accounting cost over the contract. If you sell part way through a contract, you no longer own the registration, and you book a gain/loss based on sale value less remaining cost on the books. This

At signing. Capitalise and amortise the cost of acquired players, not development costs (inc signing on fees/youth development costs etc) of internally developed players.

Granite and Tame are correct. It isn’t £150m profit, it’s £150m less the unamortised cost of the players sold. however, the unamortised cost of the players that have been sold is pretty low, so it will be relatively high profit, just not quite £150m. eg JWP & Tella cost is nil, Salisu is c£3m (signed for £11m 3 years ago on a 4? Yr contract). By the same logic, tino, Lavia Carrrying values will be <£15m combined.

wasn't he linked with a move last summer, started well, and then ended up with 5 goals? i know PL > Championship, but am not convinced if he stays he scores 25 goals.

from next year, not this year.

The cost of a fee is spread over the number of years of a contract, irrespective of cashflow profile. Whether Chelsea paid cash £53m upfront, or over seven years, would have no bearing on how the £53m is reflected at ~£7.5m p.a. in Chelsea's P&L / FFP calcs.

That’s not the point we were discussing. We were discussing whether or not anyone on here had been expecting us to spend £50m or £100m this window. I said more than a few had been (not me!).

I think you’re debating a different point. My point was there’s been more than a few people who have expected us to spend >£50m, not more than a few £10m+ signings.

Couple of examples from the summer exodus thread alone.

There’s been more than a few since April.

my comment was aimed in response to someone saying “bollocks did anyone predict this”…so I’d say it’s fair game in answer to your question, depends how bored I get with people seeming surprised we haven’t spent £50-£100m, or asking where the money has gone - given you asked me to highlight them a few days ago…

yep - agree. maybe one in one out on a couple of players (ABK and Adams) leaves us overall in an ok position. Am a bit worried that our first XI looks ok, but after 2-3 subs we look very weak / reliant on untested youngsters. 46 games is a long season if there were an injury crisis.

See below. Apart from (4), not bad. You can call me Nostradamus for predicting th

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