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I know I’m projecting here, but the social media team flashing Hamer in all the training and match shots is positive to me. Classic confirmation bias though. With Gyokeres, I don’t think anyone believed he’d stay after the playoff final loss. Perhaps the recent paper talk with Hamer to Burnley...

We’ll sign a left sided defender soon. I do think McFadz needs to be replaced at some point. I think McNally could fill in that role in the future. I’ve seen Latibeaudiere has played left back in his career so may be able to cover there.

The club must find the conspiracy theories on SBT amusing…

Have you actually watched Bobby Thomas play? Plenty of players have proven they can make the grade. Including one McNally who we may be willing to pay £3-4m for. Likewise, Brentford paid £10m for Ivan Toney who went on to be the top scorer in the league without playing in the Championship...

Great minds think alike…

You don’t know the fine print of the deal. We were told £8m for Simms. Yet the details appear to be; initial fee of £3.5m raising to £5m based on performance and only raising to £8m upon promotion to the Prem. I doubt we playing big stack bully with the Gyokeres money. The deals seem to be...

I agree with you, but the loan market is there to supplement your squad rather than to plug gaps. COH is a case in point - he wasn’t brought in as a starter initially and worked his way into the team to be a key play and permanent player for us. The priority from Robins, Boddy and King that we...

That’s an exchange worth losing Gyokeres and Hamer for. Relying on 5-6 loans a season to plug gaps in the squad is not sustainable for long term.

McNally was signed from League 1 Oxford and only managed a few sub appearances for Burnley before going on to be crucial to our promotion push… I went to Barnsley v Sheff W and it turns out to have been quite the scouting trip hahaha…

Agree, to be candid, we were quite lucky last season that Hamer and Gyokeres could carry us the way they did and stay healthy. Overall, our team does need a lot of strengthening to add depth and replace potentially both of our stars.

He was on international duty then wasn’t he? Explains the delay. Likewise with Sakamoto, he was announced with pictures in the stadium and the interview 1-2 days after he was in Portugal with the team!

I thought the title of this thread was in reference to the score line tonight… Really positive comments from MR that we’re moving in the right direction and fair play to DK for opening the cheque book. Before the playoffs, Robins was bullish about our recruitment this summer (irrespective of...

It’s never a good time to lose your best players, but it’s part and parcel of football. What matters is that you replace them with good players. For example, Brentford lost Watkins and Benrahma in the same window and replaced Watkins with Ivan Toney. We replaced Gyokeres before he left. Ellis...

Exactly, players come and go. If Hamer is unwilling to sign the best terms we can offer, then we have to extract the most value out of him. He is good enough for the Premiership so it’s natural to want that progression. If we can get 2-4 good quality permanent signings out of his fee, it’s good...

Wouldn’t be much of a ‘rebuild’ if we keep the star players. The cost of losing the playoffs was the potential loss our two superstars. If we got £15m for Hamer, that’s a v good deal to be honest. Robins and his staff aren’t naive, they will have plans for Hamer leaving. So far, our signings...

We won’t get anywhere by letting our best players go for nothing on a Bosman… Hamer and Gyokeres are superstars (for the Championship). If we were able to sign 5-8 players in exchange for them to improve the overall quality of the team, you’d take it. For example, getting €24 for Gyokeres and...

I can see this escalating until another ridiculous SBT charity bet…

We probably should’ve taken the sponsorship money from a betting company until we had a sponsor lined up…

We’ll see how we line up in preseason. I think he’ll start the season in the box but may be tried at WB when Palmer and COH are fully fit. The more options we have and the more interchangeable the squad is, the better.

You regularly talk about us changing formation, it isn’t happening. We tried to play 3-4-3 in League 2 and I do feel it’s a system that Adi Viveash favours from his time at Chelsea. I vaguely recall Adi talking about Conte’s impact on him as a coach. Da Silva being signed as a WB and Sakamoto...