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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...

Robins will have a plan to fit in the players he’s targeting. Having a winger play in our ‘box’ formation isn’t exactly a massive change. Allen, COH and Palmer all have to operate in wide areas and MR has played our more attacking WBs in the box too. The difference between 3-4-3 and 3-4-2-1 is...

Using Godden as leverage to secure a deal for a player like Willock is really shrewd business. I still can’t see us dropping the 3-4-2-1 / 3-4-3 it’s a shape that allows us to play with AMs/wingers.

Yates was scoring goals in a struggling Championship team and Vente scored a few goals in the Dutch 2nd division? I wouldn’t want to rely on Vente at this stage to be our main striker if/when Simms gets injured. We’ve done really well to keep Gyokeres fit and playing as much games as he has.

Where has the sell-on been quoted? I’ve not seen anything outside of SBT. £20.5m and 35% of any profit would be pretty damn impressive.

The valuation was not impacted by Sporting’s sales, the point there was that we were negotiating a price we knew the potential buyer could afford. If we had an extra year on Gyokeres’ contract we could’ve priced teams out of move if we wanted too - which obviously wasn’t an option. From...

I don’t think we were ever asking for an unreasonable fee especially given how they’d sold a player themselves for £40-50m. Personally, I think a Prem team may have been willing to pay slightly more later on in the window. Which would be a higher risk strategy and it seems like we were...

We sold Chaplin to a team in a higher division and made a profit. He didn’t reach the same heights with us as he did with Ipswich, but the signing can hardly be considered a failure.

No team has 4 star strikers in their team for obvious reasons. One thing that gets lost on a lot of people on here is the intended use of players. Were the likes of Biamou and Bakayoko supposed to be key players when we signed them? No, both were players signed to be developed. Even so, they...

Not at all. He’s managed McGoldrick, Leon Clarke, McNulty, Godden and Vik. With the exception of Wilson, he’s managed our best performing strikers post-premiership. Chaplin was sold for a profit despite not really living up to expectation. We’ve only really messed up buying Waghorn and not...

Elliot Simms at an initial £3.5m is a better deal for me - he’s the better player with more growth potential!

If we can get a good fee for Godden, I’d take it because he’s in the last year of his contract and his injury record has been mixed last few season. Likewise, we’re changing the way we play and from the games I’ve seen, it’s clear Godden doesn’t really fit in with our play style any more.

If we were to sign Sharp, the difference between this signing and say, Waghorn or a De Zeeuew/Kilbane is that Sharp isn’t being brought in to start games. He’s an experienced pro who can add leadership qualities and has proven his durability. A great mentor for Simms. I don’t think it’s a...

Both those signings came out of nowhere really. Generally, we get our business done quickly under Robins. In his second spell I only recall the Connor Chaplin saga dragging out for an amount of time.