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Under the last ownership we would have loaned in Thomas after learning his price, raised his value over the season with Adi's coaching, and watched him go to a side better off next season (see Ostigard, JCS, McNally*). We will still need the loan market but hopefully only for more unattainable...

Don't think we'll get 10 but the fact that it is the aim and that we have the budget for it if things were to fall in place is very promising.

Need to think bigger picture. We're going to have an overhauled squad this year with a lot of young guys coming in who will improve over time. May need to take a step backwards this year to set ourselves up for the following few years with sustained play offs pushes

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If we had sold Rose and then had similar injury issues at CB to the ones we had in midfield in the second half of last season everyone would've been crying and saying we were stupid to sell him.

Was just thinking this. Man City doing it a lot and I expect the rest of the top 6 to follow suit. The likelihood of BNC reaching champions league & Arsenals level is incredibly slim. Surely they would sell with a decent sell-on % and a buy-back clause. Win win for both if he reaches his...

Interesting he said back in April that he wouldn’t be the main sponsor

The difference between Sharp and Waghorn, Henderson, Yak etc is expectation. They were all signed to be starters for the team. We need someone who is happy to be Plan B and come on to try and impact a game as a sub. At his age you can imagine he’s more likely to want to fulfil this role than...

On the break last year we were typically moving forward with 3 players - usually Gyok, Godden & Palmer/Allen. When all of our 10's got injured and we moved to 3-5-2, the responsibility to provide that 3rd attacker fell to (mainly) Hamer and Eccles. Doubt we'll go back to that system next year...

If you're going to have a 4th choice striker I think Sharp is the perfect kind of player. Free transfer, won't be crazy wages, experienced head for the younger players in the team, been promoted out of this league 3 times, will provide an impact as a substitute, won't be unhappy with a low...

You would think he would prefer Rotherham but we will probably offer more money. Apart from the squad turnover argument - I'd rather have Sharp than Godden in the substitute striker role.

Interesting. Didn’t expect that. Would make sense for Godden to look elsewhere if it looks like he’s not going to get many minutes this year. Derby probably the right fit too. Although he played his part in the play off run I don’t think he is involved enough in Championship games if we want...

Was solid at the end of the season and would only improve with a full season with us. Only 19 as well. Would absolutely love to get him permanently as the coaching staff could develop him into top player. Not sure another loan suits us that much though.

What is more annoying is the denial on twitter that Parachute payments have anything to do with it and that it's all funded by their player sales (it was Burnley fans last year and Leicester fans this year). Acting as if the £45m they're given makes no difference.

You still have to negotiate wages & fees with agents. With agents fees being capped after this window it wouldn't surprise me if they're asking for bigger fees than usual, especially on free transfers. Also wouldn't surprise me if agents are seeing that we're about to get serious money from...

Don't the supposed bids for the dutch fella and Kitching of £1m+ indicate we are willing to spend money before Vik leaves... I don't understand why so many people think we have no budget/are missing out on targets based on nothing? There could be loads of different reasons why we haven't got...

May already be out of date but... Birmingham - 3 Tyler Roberts Ethan Laird Krystian Bielik Blackburn - 3 Sondre Tronstad Niall Ennis Arnor Sigurdsson Bristol - 3 Rob Dickie Ross McCrorie Haydon Roberts Cardiff - 1 Ike Ugbo Cov - 1 Jay Dasilva Huddersfield - 0 Hull City - 1 Liam Delap -...

Same reason Southampton didn't use 29-goals in 1 Championship season & £15m striker Adam Armstrong in their relegation battle. Doesn't mean they're not really good players at this level.

Wonder if our formation could count against us for another loan. If Burnley are looking to integrate him in the future they will want to see how he performs in a 4 man defence, which is what Milwall play with.

He scored 7 in 17 last year for Sunderland and their fans were saying he was getting better before being recalled by Everton - how is that essentially a Prem U23? He was on to match Gyok's goalscoring record in his first full season with us and is younger & English. Would anyone have sold Gyok...

Probably a fair-ish fee for a 22 year old English striker who was on to score 15+ goals in this league last year at the rate he was scoring. Would love to have him but not at that fee as surely too much of a dent in our budget. Most likely to same with Yates. Going to be really interesting...