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Says loans and signings.

McNally - 8/10 - very assured defensively, not brilliant on the ball but just about good enough. Would have him back next season. Doyle - 7/10 - may seem harsh but it was a season of two halves for him. Looked rather shaky early on in the season but ended looking very impressive. Very high...

What on earth are you chatting?

Sure someone said Tristen Batanwi looks a decent prospect. Would be far too soon, mind.

That’s the confusion. Everyone in the league gets the ‘PL solidarity payments’. It’s only used in the example to show the real-terms difference between winning and losing.

Indeed, but then factor in the returning loanees, Maguire, Rose, Dacosta, the fact we’ve probably not had Hilssner’s wage available all season. Incrementally adds up I’d expect.

Backwards logic. How often does a millionaire sell their Ferrari for a tenner?

Oh absolutely, but if we’re shedding the wages of Waghorn, Walker, Dabo, possibly Kelly, etc. then there’s probably another £60-70k a week.

Said before, use a lot of any money we bring in to bolster the wage budget for 3 years. Far more sustainable. £3m a season (£9m overall) roughly equates to an extra £60k per week. That’s 4 decent players at this level.

Coming around to the idea of keeping hold of Hamer and seeing if we can do it next year. He’s fantastic but there doesn’t seem to have been the fanfare around interested clubs and if we’re only looking at £4-5m then it may be worth the risk.

Last time we made wholesale changes to the squad we won the league…

Finn Azaz could be of interest. 22y/o Villa player who has spent the season at Plymouth. 34 games, 8 goals & 8 assists.

Don’t think a development fee applies if he moves ‘abroad’ (England being classed as such as separate FA).

As has been mentioned, it’s intriguing whether we’ll go with the same/similar formation again next year given we’ve got pretty much a clean slate. I like it but agree that we need more attacking contribution from our wing backs. Think that stems from having a reliable back 3 and keeper - almost...

If we can pick up some decent free transfers and complement them with players like Sanderson who are likely to be moved on by their clubs, that could give us a good solid base.

Josh Maja?

Will never travel on a coach to Wembley again, traffic management was an absolute shambles. Didn’t even get a KFC…

If nothing else, this highlights that we need to invest across the team as a whole. The chances of us landing players the quality of Vik and Hamer for even a quarter of the fee they’d bring in is slim. With so much concentrated between two, there is an inherent risk that a single injury scuppers...

Separate one, David Datro Fofana is the striker, Wesley Fofana is the centre back.

I feel like the basis of ‘teaching’ the book is not to glorify it but to introduce critical thinking. That’s what I recall from school anyway. If you just looked at books without any controversy at all then what are you learning?