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5pm tweet announcing a new sleeve sponsor for the “2024/24” season is just outstanding work all round

Love the suggestion that other clubs will be looking at Doug King’s quotes to gauge how much money we have, as opposed to the Sporting Lisbon press release that says they’re giving us €17 million.

Including add-ons it comes to £20.5m, so if he’d have gone through with the bet then I would have lost!

Surprised he didn’t wipe away a tear with a €100 bill

So do we get a farewell video out of that private jet trip to Faro or did he just forget his shinpads

Those windows don’t pay for themselves

‘Unforeseen costs’ HERE WE GO

It’s turned out to be a good deal over time, and we’ve been fortunate with how his career has panned out, but compared to the deals for Delph and Alli (two clearly inferior players) it seems a bit pedestrian.

I fail to see the problem - Eccles has developed really well. If anything his career path is a sign that it’s better to keep our most talented young players close by, rather than farm them out for years at a time.

I think the promise of being around a Championship first team (if you’re up to standard) and having an established pipeline to first team football is a greater pull to young players than the promise of a loan to a L1 or L2 side.

Tavares needs a loan to get back to fitness, but I think Howley would benefit from training every day with a better calibre of player. I imagine he’ll see a bit of first team action too.

None of the players we loaned out last season (apart from maybe Rus, I guess?) have any chance of bothering our first team and no loan spell is going to change that. We’re not loaning these guys out to hone them into superstars, we’re doing it to manage numbers - it doesn’t matter where they go...

Like which ones? I’d say more than anything it’s the quality of the young players themselves, and our squad depth that’s the issue. Anyone even remotely promising in our youth sides has been needed to fill spots on the bench. Eccles and Tyler are the only players who’ve been afforded proper...

What level would we say the Dutch second division is? The only Netherlands-based poster on here said it was comparable to the English non-league.

Well given that the Dutch second division consists of several U21 teams, then yes?

The U23s league is a lower level for me Either way - it shows that he “knows where the goal is”. Does it mean he’s good enough to be one of the main men in the Championship?

If we really want a guy who’s mostly famous for scoring loads at the lower levels to be one of our main strikers this season, why not just wait for Tavares to come back?

Huge window for us

Looks like an U10s team kit

Stephen Hughes in goal Onandi Lowe as team doctor