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Possibly, but personally I think you're being over cautious. He suffered it at the back end of March. Meaning really he should be good to go by January if all goes well. Not sure sidelining him unnecessarily for the best part of half a season is the best strategy for him moving forward or in...

Personally I'd prefer the loan option. 6 months with a view to extending depending on performance / how able Dovin is to return into the fold. On reflection I really don't think it's overly pragmatic to be saddled with yet another permanent GK on our books really if we're unable to move Collins on.

I do agree. Unless we're in a miraculous position that sees Dovin coming back early, the club needs to set aside extra budget for a GK this season. Will help if we can move Collins on - which is far easier said than done.

Disagree, I actually think we stand a fairly good chance of hitting that. And I'm usually a huge pessamist when this discussion loops back around every year.

A lot hinges on Dovin's recovery time. If he's not back until the early part of the new year I would've thought the club will definitely look to bring someone in. If he's back much earlier than expected, which has been indicated by Saddle, then FL might feel inclined to just make do with what...

Would wages not be a problem? You would've thought he'd be on £30k+ pw.

It's neither here nor there really it's just highlighting human nature and what's realistic in the context of the discussion. You're entitled to take whatever position you want but the fact is the vast majority won't care and that's been proven from several case studies. Like you said the...

A tiny proportion of the fanbase would be bothered. Vast majority would still turn up week after week. Newcastle fans aren't at all bothered. Nottingham Forest is owned by the Greek equivalent of the Godfather whose rap sheet is longer than a giraffes neck. Again, they're not at all...

£30m with Rodon going in the opposite direction. I can sort of understand it with Gray though. 18, England U21, and had a hugely successful season individually despite being incredibly young.

As talented as he is that's a huge outlay for a player in the Championship if that's the case. I'll have to take your mate's word for it but I find that extremely dubious.

No they didn't. It was a £25m deal with £10m of add-ons most of which they didn't have to pay due to them being relegated. It's idiotic to think that Leeds made a £15m profit on him from a season in the championship.

Ultimately no one knows what we'd get. Entirely depends on what clubs are interested, how many are in the bidding pool and how hard nosed the club are about keeping him. Pointless trying to put estimates on it. That being said, DK is shrewd and drives a hard bargain so if a bid for most prized...

There's a less than zero chance that the £40m quoted would've been the actual figure. It would've been the fee tabled to activate the release clause but realistically it would've also been very heavily add-on based.

I doubt it really does much to help in building match fitness up to be honest. The quality is appalling. I remember Biamou playing in a few and ended up bagging about 5 goals in 3 games. Remember Ponticelli? You would've thought he was the second coming of Ronaldo based on his U23 record. If...

Maddison more or less came straight from the academy though, this is a different conversation. He was 17 when he broke through and started playing games semi-regularly. I'm more talking about allocating budget to the likes of Cashman, Jay McGarth, Tom Costello's etc. Individually they'll be low...

It will be to do with personal demands. I'd say for most transfers now certainly on the bigger scale of things they're usually the first to get sorted before speaking to the club.

It can't be cheap to run an U21s side, would be interested to find out how much of an overhead it actually is for us. When you include wages of players and staff, as well as the cost of food, drink, travel to games, treatment, equipment and any other extras that inevitably the average fan...

There's no real benefit for Gyokeres to actually stay at Sporting. Wage wise alone he will be able to earn probably 4x his current salary at least moving to a PL team. Sporting don't pay big wages and really their ceiling in terms of competing in the CL has probably already been hit.

He was unpopular for pretty much his entire time there. Not really surprising though given the amount of blunders he's made. Don't really understand how he's actually managed to have a career in football for so long tbh.

Huh? Haven't quite a lot of posters identified a RW as a priority to directly compete with Sakamoto? Most will recognise that his output was lacking last season and it's an area to address. EMC I'm less worried about as when he's fit and injury free we've seen the kind of contribution he can...