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I would have liked Huddersfield to have gone up so that Duane Holmes was further down their pecking order. Him on loan / sensibly priced perm would be great IMO. He would suit our style of play.

I came on here to post about McAtee, but others have beat me to it. 22 he is - right age, playing in a division where he’s used to getting lumps kicked out of him rather than some prem U23’s. Worth a punt. Scored some goals this season. As an aside, not bothering to watch the Champ League...

I said at the time: Signing Waghorn and letting Biamou go was a strange decision: It left us with only Gyok as a striker with any physicality, particularly after we also let Baka go. Waghorn’s signing fee, agent fee(?) plus wages could have been better spent on Max PLUS a young prospect...

Can never understand the “bomb squad” tactic with players. There are very few that are going to say “ok I’ll write of a s*** load of money to play elsewhere”. Bogarde was an early example, Rodwell above also. Our players should be assets that we treat as such. There’s a better way...

Some players genuinely need a good 1-3 years to totally get over their injuries but because of the nature of pro football they rush / feel rushed / are pressured by clubs and agents to try to get back playing too quickly and cause more damage. Jodi, Allasini are sort of examples, but there are...

If Leeds come down they’ll bring an extra, say, 4000 fans to the CBSA compared to Burnley for their match here. Given that the tickets for away fans will be full price and a bit of F&B money then that might give us an extra £100k income. (Also, more home fans will want to watch us play Leeds...

Was it a decent cross with his right foot? Can’t remember Borrows ever producing a “s***. cross” before, first time for everything. (Exit stage left)

Great post. Can’t disagree with any of that. The only thing I’ll add is that if we can keep all our best players and replace the loanees like for like then we need to look at the goalkeeping. Spend all the budget we can, even if a season long Prem loan who costs a lot on a top top gk. Look...

I guess we can’t get a development fee for a transfer to Scotland? (I’m thinking if we loaned him again for a year, by which time his contract expires, he’ll be 23? Development fee if transferred to another English club?) How does it work with sell on clauses?

The good thing about sending players to the SPL rather than say, L1, is that they’ll get a possible opportunity to play against EPL level in minimum 4 games per season (and since Rangers are at the Euro Cup final I’m saying they (and Celtic) are EPL level and can’t be ar*** to argue). I’d like...

Don’t underestimate the power of peer reference, in any line of industry.

He was about 18 and playing against yampy bogans. Players mature and fill out, he was in track. His interview on one of the podcasts was insightful, had opportunities to go to many of the big academies as a youth but wanted to plough a different furrow.

£2m would have been handy money at the time, we were at the “bottom of the cycle” as TF succinctly spouted. I’m guessing, as was our MO at the time, the add one may have been promotion and sell on clauses. Leeds went up, so even handier money. He’s not worth this now (in fact he’s worth...

I thought they did. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/10/21/could-jodi-jones-play-himself-back-onto-leeds-uniteds-radar/?amp

In some cases yes, in some no. Looking at this case: He’s had all the ACL damage that could ever happen and it’s unlikely to occur again. He’s now got back to fitness for a while and looks useful. He’s 24, not 29. I still think some kind of retainer deal with and option was the way...

100% agree about sell on clause, particularly since he still had a contract term left. My entire point about JJ is that we’ve spent (guess) £200k on the fee and three years at (guess 2.5k/ week plus add-ons and treatment, £150k / year? 3 years?) Let’s say we’ve invested £600k-£800k on him...

I wish him well and hope for our sake he doesn’t do a JCH and become a £1m asset in a few months time. If there was a way of keeping him as our player and giving him a run in a lower league then, IMO, that would be an option to explore. If he became a hit, we get a fee / we bring him back to...

My 10p: Shame we couldn’t put a contract together where we pay him a base retainer and loan him out on a pay as you play to Moors or similar and see how he gets on. It’ll be a shame if we lose out on the money we’ve already “invested” in 3 years wages plus treatment costs and he ends up a...

Also got them auto promotion to L1. Means he’s less easy to pry away / cheap. Double edged sword that.

Had to watch the Luton game today whilst listening to the Cov match through EarPods. Felt a little bit wrong, but the other half is a mad Luton fan. My point: They went up a year before us and had a tough first year before finishing 11/12 last year. Similar story and budget in many ways...