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What is he? 21? A bit of a late developer physically, perhaps. He'll not want to end up in L1 or L2 at his age, I'm sure that he'd rather go abroad. If he survives the "welcome" then he'll come back useful. I reckon he'll be training with the first team next summer and it's a take it from there...

He seemed to play low 30s number of games each season. I don't think last year was significantly any different and that's not a bad return. The idea that he's "injury prone" is completely ingrained now but then apparently so was Godden who knocked up 40 odd games at Charlton last season. I think...

Rudi's

I'd like to see Bidwell get it. Kitching can be a hot head at times.

Yep hope so. He had a knee injury a couple of seasons ago so hopefully that's fully behind him now

If there's any grain of reason in that then he'll be replaced sharpish. I bet he's not...

Our clubs can still sell, I'm not sure about buying though. The deadline date was only the same in bigger European leagues, not everywhere

Fancy being the new First Team Kit and Laundry Assistant? https://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/2025/august/27/vacancy--first-team-kit---laundry-assistant/

I don't see the figures behind your pruning the squad train of thought. We've registered around 23, or 24 senior players with the EFL pretty consistently. We've actually added U-21s and the GKs to kid the other sides that the squad is bigger than it really has been.

He went on loan I think

Of course but we will have injuries, we recalled Bell from his loan last season remember just to cover one weekend!

We registered 23 senior players after the January window and we added Paterson later to make 24. Where are we now? From that list we've lost Binks, Sheaf, Burroughs, Collins and Tyler. We've gained Rushworth, KKH, Woolfenden, Brau so it looks like 22 rather than 23. I don't think any of the...

Expectations were unrealistically high. It became accepted that we'd bid £10m+ here another £5+ there and people believed that we had money to throw around on pretty mediocre players. If we've bid that we must have money etc. etc and without selling anyone! We lost £8m in the year of last...

Turf Moor ain't going to cut the mustard with anyone let's face it. At least they own their ground though! The likes of Palace are valued close to £1bn!

You're expected to use the loan system these days but fans don't like seeing young talent going to L2 or L1 or even Scotland! Just look at the reaction to Rapha but the lad needs to play every week at this stage.

I wasn't thinking of that because that's new. If you imagine that promotion and parachute money brings in well over £100m on its own, while we have players under collectively worth a good bit on the open transfer market, a club considered to be oin the up with a pretty big and loyal fan base in...

Yes. This is a big season for the club or we're into another rebuild I think with Rudi MVE and Haji probably all moving on

I think the club was valued at around £150m even before the stadium deal.

I think it's a mixture of managing the wage bill and getting the necessary playing time for the young players. King will sell at some point but I don't think it's in his immediate plans (unless he got a silly offer perhaps). The new players are still getting extended contracts for example.

I've been consistent throughout. I don't believe we "bid" for Rushworth either when we found out they wanted £5+m. Just watch programmes like shed and buried if you want to see how this kind of process works, it's just the same.