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On the break last year we were typically moving forward with 3 players - usually Gyok, Godden & Palmer/Allen. When all of our 10's got injured and we moved to 3-5-2, the responsibility to provide that 3rd attacker fell to (mainly) Hamer and Eccles. Doubt we'll go back to that system next year...

If you're going to have a 4th choice striker I think Sharp is the perfect kind of player. Free transfer, won't be crazy wages, experienced head for the younger players in the team, been promoted out of this league 3 times, will provide an impact as a substitute, won't be unhappy with a low...

You would think he would prefer Rotherham but we will probably offer more money. Apart from the squad turnover argument - I'd rather have Sharp than Godden in the substitute striker role.

Interesting. Didn’t expect that. Would make sense for Godden to look elsewhere if it looks like he’s not going to get many minutes this year. Derby probably the right fit too. Although he played his part in the play off run I don’t think he is involved enough in Championship games if we want...

Was solid at the end of the season and would only improve with a full season with us. Only 19 as well. Would absolutely love to get him permanently as the coaching staff could develop him into top player. Not sure another loan suits us that much though.

What is more annoying is the denial on twitter that Parachute payments have anything to do with it and that it's all funded by their player sales (it was Burnley fans last year and Leicester fans this year). Acting as if the £45m they're given makes no difference.

You still have to negotiate wages & fees with agents. With agents fees being capped after this window it wouldn't surprise me if they're asking for bigger fees than usual, especially on free transfers. Also wouldn't surprise me if agents are seeing that we're about to get serious money from...

Don't the supposed bids for the dutch fella and Kitching of £1m+ indicate we are willing to spend money before Vik leaves... I don't understand why so many people think we have no budget/are missing out on targets based on nothing? There could be loads of different reasons why we haven't got...

May already be out of date but... Birmingham - 3 Tyler Roberts Ethan Laird Krystian Bielik Blackburn - 3 Sondre Tronstad Niall Ennis Arnor Sigurdsson Bristol - 3 Rob Dickie Ross McCrorie Haydon Roberts Cardiff - 1 Ike Ugbo Cov - 1 Jay Dasilva Huddersfield - 0 Hull City - 1 Liam Delap -...

Same reason Southampton didn't use 29-goals in 1 Championship season & £15m striker Adam Armstrong in their relegation battle. Doesn't mean they're not really good players at this level.

Wonder if our formation could count against us for another loan. If Burnley are looking to integrate him in the future they will want to see how he performs in a 4 man defence, which is what Milwall play with.

He scored 7 in 17 last year for Sunderland and their fans were saying he was getting better before being recalled by Everton - how is that essentially a Prem U23? He was on to match Gyok's goalscoring record in his first full season with us and is younger & English. Would anyone have sold Gyok...

Probably a fair-ish fee for a 22 year old English striker who was on to score 15+ goals in this league last year at the rate he was scoring. Would love to have him but not at that fee as surely too much of a dent in our budget. Most likely to same with Yates. Going to be really interesting...

I think most would have described Gyokeres as cumbersome two seasons ago based on his spell at Swansea & half a season here. He's 4 years younger than Yates and scored 7 in 17 appearances in this league last season. I don't think we could get many better on paper than him.

The bid for Diaz last year was supposedly only €10m (according to The Athletic which is reliable). I would keep Gyok if that was what we were being offered.

Romano has apparently lost some of his contacts and his credibility since appearing to get paid to tweet about certain players to drive up their value (look at his Mudryk tweets). Gyoks agent has probably paid him to try to drive down the value and quicken up the sale. Seems like he gets less...

The offer in the first week of the transfer window was supposedly €15m so now we will probably have to sell for £7m-£10m because Gyok answered a question directly and his agent is getting Romano to do a tweet? Lets not be daft. Doug is playing hardball as he should with the amount of clubs...

With the budget we had the strategy was to go for players who had promised a lot previously but for some reason their career had stalled (attitude, injury, etc.) They were very cheap and for a reason - add in acclimatizing to a new country and it isn't surprising in hindsight that it didn't...

Blues are being taken over & have a sizable Bellingham windfall arriving shortly. Also managed to pay 1.5m Chong last summer despite the supposed financial difficulties so they'll probably match Bidwell's wage.

Never heard of this clause ever existing in the Championship but may be wrong. This kind of thing only exists for the Man U & Chelsea's of this world.