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It's the net figure between ins and outs that counts. Can't see that being more than an additional 3 or 4 tops. But everybody that goes need replacing, ideally to a higher standard Definite ins regardless of any departures - keeper, central defence, 1st choice left back and back up right...

Then you are going to be disappointed

I was at Wembley today. He is only 19, a Welshman and with a sri Lankan background. Lots of potential. Good in the air and on the deck.

Not me. Still got a better positional sense than Da Silva and gets in crosses with his left foot. We need a new LB with Bidders as back up and give Da Silva the old heave ho. All that dandy dan dribbling but no end product

I think that is a fair description of my view, as a fully signed up member of the Jake Bidwell fan club. My cult hero - see other thread - was Jim Holton "6 ft 2 and eyes of blue, big Jim Holton's after you". But before you deride it and demand namby pamby defenders who wear gloves and pass...

We can have one of BT and LK but not both. One of those needs a proper upgrade. Please just look at the stats. The defence cost us a lot of points and it was only because all the other teams were also inadequate that we squeezed in. 68 points was 4 light of what normally gets you 5th or 6th

Why? We scored lots of goals but conceded lots. It's pretty obvious what the problem is. Let's go more Burnley

I also think there is room for improvement. In the first leg against Sunderland they closed him down all the time and even with his fantastically quick feet he couldn't do much to create space. It was the first time I'd seen that done It showed how reliant we were on him but also he needs to...

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I don't know the bloke (and am always astonished how much football some of you guys must watch to know so much about other players, or claim to know at least), but this profile is exactly what we are looking for. In fact it should be number one priority along with left back and and a back up or...

I see that had already been said. I was playing catch up on the thread and hadn't reached it

It may seem counter-intuitive but I would have thought we could get better than Sheaf for less than the money we can get for him

Will MVE attract > 5m pnds? It would be nice to get a good replacement and turn a profit (that's not as easy as it sounds as we have seen with Vik & Hamer).

Odd thing is when Wharton played for Blackburn against us in autumn 23, I thought he had a bit of a mare. It was also one of the worst games I have ever seen since promotion.

I suspect all we'll see is the departure of the usual suspects plus 2-3 incomings all in defence. And the incomings most likely will be blokes from Europe we have never heard of. Good outside bet - Frank persuades DK to forego his veto on loans

It would so tarnish his reputation. To adapt Winston Churchill he would have been a rat and then been a rat again

He was as hard as f**k though

Me too, but for the sanity of those on here, I hope we do better. If we plateau then DK will be gone, and who knows what comes after?

Ok I'd take Ballard. But please don't tell me that Thomas is hard (see comment above). He terrorizes nobody. The litmus test is "who would you least like to bump into on a dark night?" Historically the answer was always Roy Kean or Neil Ruddock. That's the type we need - they get into the...

You know that regular thread "Name the unpopular opinion you have about (enter subject e.g. your football team). Well mine is that we need a real brute at the back - even harder than Kitching, who is pretty hard, a real shithouser. For those of a certain age who remember him, "six foot two...