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Every manager does, including the 'Greats'! Gould's success rate in finding us top players was second to none though, even if he himself didn't have the capability to make a successful team out of them beyond the first half of a season being in charge.

To be fair the one thing the 'idiot' Gould was good at was finding hidden gems, bringing the likes of Pearce, Peake, Gynn, Bennett, Gibson, Ogrizovic and Babb to join us. Gayle wasn't his most inspired signing though :)

It's a prediction, but not a safe prediction. This time last year most people thought Norwich were the 'safe' prediction! Many people on here also thought that Kompany's inexperience and wholesale changes to Burnley's playing style would adersely affect them and that they would struggle - I...

After the game has finished yes, but otherwise best to feign indifference, before and during the match.

Dele Alli was probably the most comparable talent to have left a League 1 club before that, and according to Wikipedia he transferred to Spurs for an intial £5.5m.

Apparently there's this African Prince who has access to $5m and is willing to pay you $1m if you share him your bank details!

Only in the same way as you would say Marcus Hall could also play right back because in one game we played him there. In reality, like Marcus was, he is basically one footed and not at all suited to playing right back.

Dennis Wise is the exception not the rule. 2 goals last season in a free scoring side is a big warning. He is not the Billy Sharp of years gone by. For every Dennis Wise you will get a De Zeeuw, a Waghorn, a Michael Hughes, a Colin Cameron, a Darius Henderson, a Stephen Hunt etc etc. When we...

His last season tells you all you need to know, just as Waghorn's should have done before he joined us. Despite a prolific goal scoring career the goals significantly dried up last season, a sure sign of his decline! Sharp is even older than Waghorn though, and a big factor his advocates are...

Sharp is a definite no from me. Great player in his time, but that time has gone. He would also command a hefty salary that could be better utilised elsewhere. We need to learn the lessons from the Waghorn signing and not repeat it.

I imagine a few Championship clubs will be waiting to see if Scott Twine will be loaned out by Burnley.

If we sigh Simms I think we will be playing 2 up front next season. Godden is probably more suited to playing in a partnership with Simms than he was with Gyokores and will probably score more as a result. If are to regularly play 2 up front though we need more depth so signing at least one more...

Every team in the Championship has some reliance on loans, including the cash rich clubs with parachute payments.

Villa had to pay something like £50k a week for Abraham, which was one of the reasons their play off final against Derby was shit or bust. Derby also had expensive loanees, including Mason Mount. If Villa had lost they would have breached FFP & could easily have gone the same way as Derby.

Ideally you are correct, but as last season showed how you start the season doesn't set your season in stone. It is far more important that we have as strong a team as possible come September and the season afterwards, which in all likelihood means we will have to wait, not only for the better...

I suspect the agent stands most to gain from selling Gyokores to Lisbon. Probably sorted himself a higher commission from them than he would get for a deal elsewhere!

Well it looks like we do :) I suspect Lisbon do too, as I'm sure its primary in their minds that they can make a decent profit on him following a successful season or two in Portugal. Sure I also read that they intend to have a buy out clause in his contract set at a ridiculously high figure...

He would have been likely to do it our League 1 winning season if it han't been curtailed!

So Lisbon won't pay over 17m, but nevertheless will then put an 80m transfer clause on his contract? I've mentioned it before but if we feel we have to sell to them under those conditions and end up selling him cheaper than our value of him, them we should seek to counter that by insisting on...

On the OP's message!