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Would rather Gus go now and the team go through major growing pains now and probably kiss goodbye our hopes of a top 6 finish this season. If he stays and leaves on a free we lose out massively financially and spend the start of next season figuring out how to play without him.

I expect us to have 20 shots each and the game to finish 0-0

Crazy that they have gone from a front 2 of Akpom & Archer (55 goal contributions in 78 games in 22/23) in the play offs to Rogers & Crooks (16 goal contributions in 57 games in 22/23) against Milwall last week.

Seem to be in most pundits/experts top 6 but don't see it myself. They wouldn't have made it last year without Diallo in the same way we wouldn't have without Hamer.

Sunderland fans thought Simms was shit until November & Wright has just moved country and had no pre-season with us. We probably will not see the best of these two for a good few months.

If Godden had put away 1 of his 3 big chances against Leicester the bedwetters would be wanking into their socks saying we're going to win the league.

3 out of the next 5. I imagine if they identified one of the seasons that we would be least likely to be pushing the play offs it would be this one. We've had to overhaul the squad and many of the signings came in later than we wanted so didn't get a pre-season. If Hamer goes we're losing...

Having 5 loans was necessary last season to patch up the defence as we didn't have a pot to piss in. Not the case now. For comparison, Brentford had 2 players on loan in their promotion season: Saman Ghoddos - loaned with an option to buy in the Summer window which they triggered in Jan...

Going to be incredibly competitive this year with loads of teams having good windows on paper or already being strong. We're an unknown quantity, especially if we lose Hamer. Could just as easily see us replicating Luton and finishing 3rd or finishing 16th at this point.

I believe if we’d had Gyok for the whole season we wouldn’t have been able to sign him by the end of it. We were lucky he wasn’t fit when he arrived and the coaching staff only got 6 months with him.

I'm sure our Recruitment team know plenty about him.

To double down... O'Hare only signed because we got promoted and would not have signed if we hadn't. So Gyok is the only instance of turning a loan into a purchase while in the same league and that is because he had just had 2 underwhelming loan spells in this league. The idea that we...

Sheaf doesn't really count as a "loan" as it was with an obligation to buy if we stayed up. We couldn't afford to sign him yet as we'd already signed Hamer & Walker that summer. Doesn't fall into the same bracket as Gyok and O'Hare at all (not trying to attack you but seen him added to this...

Under the last ownership we would have loaned in Thomas after learning his price, raised his value over the season with Adi's coaching, and watched him go to a side better off next season (see Ostigard, JCS, McNally*). We will still need the loan market but hopefully only for more unattainable...

Don't think we'll get 10 but the fact that it is the aim and that we have the budget for it if things were to fall in place is very promising.

Need to think bigger picture. We're going to have an overhauled squad this year with a lot of young guys coming in who will improve over time. May need to take a step backwards this year to set ourselves up for the following few years with sustained play offs pushes

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If we had sold Rose and then had similar injury issues at CB to the ones we had in midfield in the second half of last season everyone would've been crying and saying we were stupid to sell him.

Was just thinking this. Man City doing it a lot and I expect the rest of the top 6 to follow suit. The likelihood of BNC reaching champions league & Arsenals level is incredibly slim. Surely they would sell with a decent sell-on % and a buy-back clause. Win win for both if he reaches his...

Interesting he said back in April that he wouldn’t be the main sponsor

The difference between Sharp and Waghorn, Henderson, Yak etc is expectation. They were all signed to be starters for the team. We need someone who is happy to be Plan B and come on to try and impact a game as a sub. At his age you can imagine he’s more likely to want to fulfil this role than...