I think we’ll beat these 3, Reading, Stokeand Birmingham
our season will hang on our tricky ties against Hull, Swansea, QPR, Watford and Middlesbrough. We don’t have stellar records against any of them
I laugh at this but - I feel king is making a few rational decisions despite never being involved in football - you know things like putting a director of football in place, sorting the commercial side out (according to Grendel)
Lol if it gets to Jan 1st his value becomes 0 on the basis he can sign pre contract agreements abroad.
if it was last summer - we could ask 30m, now it depends how much we need the money it’ll be much closer to 10m than 30 in his final year. Just look at Brereton Diaz
Exactly like that situation - and now Blackburn are scrambling around to get him to sign a new deal which he isn’t.
we’re not in any strong position here, which some of our fans think we are. We’re not a rich club and need to sell players to keep us going. Letting Gyokeres run his contract down...
Problem is we can’t force him out - his agent would rightly say wait until January… he’d get a bigger signing on fee rather than us getting a bigger fee
there weren’t queues of clubs waiting to pay for Brereton Diaz were there
We do people not take into account the players contract when valuing?
he’s got one year left, foreign teams can talk to him from 1st Jan 2024. Every day that ticks by knocks his value
Dunno where all this optimism is coming from I remember when Phil Brown managed them and they were 8 points back at the bottom of the league…we lost 2-1
This is no surprise surely? We’ll know by the end of the season whether he’s going. I’m sure the club are already having conversations with his, O’Hare’s, Hamer and Sheaf’s agents
I hope Man Utd smash them. The geordies always have that idea that they should be winning things. I call it the Liverpool mentality without the recent history to back it up
Win at Deepdale and I’ll believe. Will say one thing though - the 5 after that will make or break our season. Need to be winning at least 4 from Huddersfield, Hull, Wigan, Stoke and Blackpool