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I agree with you, but the loan market is there to supplement your squad rather than to plug gaps. COH is a case in point - he wasn’t brought in as a starter initially and worked his way into the team to be a key play and permanent player for us. The priority from Robins, Boddy and King that we...

That’s an exchange worth losing Gyokeres and Hamer for. Relying on 5-6 loans a season to plug gaps in the squad is not sustainable for long term.

McNally was signed from League 1 Oxford and only managed a few sub appearances for Burnley before going on to be crucial to our promotion push… I went to Barnsley v Sheff W and it turns out to have been quite the scouting trip hahaha…

Agree, to be candid, we were quite lucky last season that Hamer and Gyokeres could carry us the way they did and stay healthy. Overall, our team does need a lot of strengthening to add depth and replace potentially both of our stars.

He was on international duty then wasn’t he? Explains the delay. Likewise with Sakamoto, he was announced with pictures in the stadium and the interview 1-2 days after he was in Portugal with the team!

I thought the title of this thread was in reference to the score line tonight… Really positive comments from MR that we’re moving in the right direction and fair play to DK for opening the cheque book. Before the playoffs, Robins was bullish about our recruitment this summer (irrespective of...

It’s never a good time to lose your best players, but it’s part and parcel of football. What matters is that you replace them with good players. For example, Brentford lost Watkins and Benrahma in the same window and replaced Watkins with Ivan Toney. We replaced Gyokeres before he left. Ellis...

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...