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Presumably, yes because the CM stock is a bit much now. You’d probably look to sell Eccles if there’s concrete interest and keep Allen as a back up. I’d expect Andrews to go out on loan again. Sheaf, Grimes, Torp, Pereira and Allen/Andrews seem well balanced and enough cover to me. You need 5...

Exactly my point! This is quite idealistic, but we need 2 GKs in competition with one another, particularly if we want to get promoted to the Prem any time soon. Imagine how costly it would be if we start the season with Wilson in goal and Dovin comes back in October (absolute best case) and...

Statistically, the metric used is the sum of his saves v xG faced. Over 28 matches and the quality of opposition, it’s not likely to be an anomaly. Unsurprisingly, Collins and Wilson score poorly here so it’s reasonable to conclude that we’ve got a capable keeper in Dovin.

Didn’t JJ come back for a handful of games, even scoring a goal to do his ACL v Peterborough? Then again the ACL on his other knee v Rangers in preseason summer of 19. Had he not been so unlucky with his ACLs, I’m reasonably certain he’d have been a good contributor for us in the Championship.

Exactly this. He made one big clanger all season but was instrumental keeping us level in games we won away such as Blackburn, Wednesday and home games like Watford, QPR and Bristol City. All 6 pointers that got us within reach of the playoffs. My rationale for wanting a new, ideally permanent...

Dovin was a top 5 keeper in the league last season. In the Jan-Feb winning streak Dovin was MOTM or thereabouts in most of the games. Even v Leeds where he made a basic error, he was out MOTM because his saves prevented the scoreline being 3 or 4 to nil. Keepers will make mistakes. However, we...

You could even argue KKH is better than MVE…

No one has left so ‘unless there are no new outgoings’, we’ll be exactly where we left off! 😂

Wright’s valuation already started at £15 million - one of the top scorers in the league whilst missing 3 months of the season. We’d seriously have to be grade A mugs to even pick the phone and negotiate someone opening at a bid less than £15m.

You can tell a lot of fans haven’t really cottoned on to just how inflated transfer fees are for Championship players nowadays. A top end championship player is comfortably worth £15 million. An increasing amount of 2nd tier players do v well at Prem teams.

He is when fully fit, 100%. The only concern is his fitness.

Yeah, I’d just about back us to finish 4th with an unchanged squad. From Xmas we picked up the 3rd most points so why not? The squad isn’t complete, we need more out wide and AM imo. Even if they’re role players. Modest improvements to our defence and it drastically improves our PPG. So it’s...

We’ll go one better, 4th place.

Disagree that the Grimes signing ‘went against our transfer policy’. The club has tried to add loans and experienced players before we signed Grimes. This narrative has crept in because since Hamer and Vik went, we needed to rebuild the squad which naturally leads us signing younger players...

We’ve come along way since the weekly ‘your grounds too big for you’ chants. The stadium is not far off being a perfect fit. The demand is high at the minute because the club is moving in a good direction. Until we’re in the Prem and established there comfortably, there will be no talk of...

Simms is supposedly a terrible player but the alternatives mooted are Carlton Morris, Keiffer Moore and now Rhian Brewster.

If the deal isn’t worth up to £20m with add-ons and so on, we’ve wasted our time. His initial fee was £7.7m and with two good goal scoring seasons, he’s clearly one of the best strikers in the league. £10m is probably break even after considering his wages and if you sell Wright, the fee needs...

If the deal isn’t worth up to £20m with add-ons and so on, we’ve wasted our time. His initial fee was £7.7m and with two good goal scoring seasons, he’s clearly one of the best strikers in the league. £10m is probably break even after considering his wages and if you sell Wright, the fee needs...

Lol £10m for Wright? 😂 The game is up, you’re on the wind up.

Certainly doesn’t justify the uptick in the 18-24 years claiming sickness benefit because of mental issues. A government handout doesn’t fix these issues, but more pertinently, the idea of a comprehensive welfare state only works if people are putting in more than they are taking out. 18-24...