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Players like Simms and Wright are our highest paid players because they’re strikers and the club believe they are players who can compete in the Prem if we got there. Browne is a top end Championship player and would be a good signing, is he someone to compete in the Prem? Probably not. At 29...

That’s not what is on offer though, is it? If PNE are outbidding Sheffield United for Browne, does it not tell you that they’re perhaps overpaying him? You’d think they’re offering close to 22-25k per week to keep their talisman. I’m not sure he’s worth that to us.

That’s not what I said. The point is around overpaying players on our internal valuation. You had Blues and Derby signing players for overinflated transfer fees and wages. Ivan Sunjic cost £6.3 million, for example.

If he’s on 15k per week now and has been offered a ‘record contract’, we’re not competing with 15k per week, are we? He’ll be a good signing if we get it over the line, but if PNE want to desperately keep him and throw money at him, leave them to it.

It’s not just wages though, there’s things like contract length to address. In the short term, Browne would be a fantastic signing over the next 1-3 seasons. If we want to be in the Prem in the next few years a longer term contract might make more sense for PNE to offer rather than ourselves...

Hadn’t scored a league goal since February. I’m sure other players would be criticised if they had similar barren runs. The elephant in the room too is that he is still within the ‘at risk’ period of re-rupturing an ACL. I genuinely wish him good luck from here, he is a modern day terrace hero...

Just accept COH probably isn’t going renew and wants a fresh challenge - money is besides the point here. We’re not outbidding a If he wanted to, he would’ve renewed when he was injured. In his own words, he wanted to focus on his recovery. He was going to Burnley before he did his ACL.

It’s not though is it? Besides, if we offer 25k and a Prem team does, he isn’t staying here. That’s a relatively cheap punt for a Prem team too. Splitting hairs and they don’t agree he’s worth £25k a week or they would have sanctioned that deal. COH between Dec-Feb was great. A real game...

We’ll have to wait and see for when COH is in court and his salary disclosed… 😂 Joking aside, MR is working to a budget and without knowing our plans and the targets we’re pursuing, it’s an academic conversation. It’s telling that the club haven’t given up on him re-signing a contract because...

COH isn’t on the same level as Wright or Simms and I don’t think he’s worth £25k per week. It’s best to avoid overpaying players - stick to your evaluation of a player and move on if they don’t sign.

Even the best Prem goalkeepers give the ball away, Raya in the North London derby gift wrapped a goal for Son. Imagine the reaction had they dropped points that game? A lot of fans ‘don’t like’ their GKs playing from the back but there’s a reason so many coaches up and down world football have...

It’s trickle down, isn’t it? Championship teams know Prem teams have money from their own player sales and TV revenue. So we will demand 10s of millions of pounds - plenty of Championship players have proven they can make the grade too. Likewise, plenty of good players have come from League 1...

Give it another a season and we’ll see how this pans out. MR and his team have the long term in mind, not the here and now.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day…

If anyone cared to look at individual stats, Johansson plays the exact opposite to how we want a GK to play. His distribution is ‘hoof ball’ (in short). In part, that will be in part tactical to how Rotherham play but he’s unlikely to be a GK we’re interested in. The next GK we sign will be...

Did we pay £4.5m upfront or is there a lot of performance incentives in there? More than likely, it’s the latter and if he meets those performance incentives, he’s probably been a good signing. We got incentives and sell-ons for Bayliss and because he did nothing there we ended up getting a lot...

Kitching started more often than Binks for a reason… Binks had a few good cameos and looks tidier on the ball, but a better defender right now? Unlikely.

Did McNally play in a 4-2-3-1 and be expected to play out from the back for us? No. Burnley did not want to sell to us for a reasonable price, apparently they wanted a lot more than £4m. My mate who’s a Stoke supporter didn’t rate him highly. He’s obviously not become a bad player and he was a...

Without doubting your inside knowledge, Robins having £20+ million to spend last season is hardly a cause to panic. The squad was short last season, undoubtedly. However, he was given record sums to spend to bring in quality players. Honestly, last season I doubt a few loans would’ve made the...

That was true last season, we don’t know what’s changed and we know Prem loans don’t come until late in the summer window. It just seems people have latched onto his comments about the medical team & performance director. In reality, he gave a politicians answer where he avoided the subject of...