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The difference is pedigree. It appears that he was very well thought of in Palace’s youth setup and even represented England at youth level. But, was really unlucky with injuries and illness so had to drop into non-league. Whereas Biamou has spent his whole career at Division 4/5 be it in France...

The context is different though, Stevenson wasn’t getting first team football. Bayliss is getting first team football and is guaranteed to start in L1, so career-wise, unless Derby are going to offer first team football in the Championship, then it’s logical for him to stay one way or the other...

I’m optimistic we’ll keep him, and we’ve given ourselves the best opportunity of keeping him (and other key players) at the club. There’s a buzz around the club and with a good young side, which is presumably fearless given the bottle they had in the playoffs... We could possibly do well in L1...

Surprised no one has mentioned Peterborough! I remember when we took 3k there and Stead scored in a 1-0 win. Really good day that was. It all depends on my availability, but I want to do a few of; Sunderland, Barnsley, P’boro, Walsall, Bradford, Blackpool, Luton Bolton and probably Charlton...

Wouldn’t change anything about journey. The trip to Wembley was well worth it since we came away with a win!

Agreed, 100%. To add on to this, players like Jones, Bayliss, McNulty can definitely make the grade at L1 and likely get into most, of not all, teams in L1. Others like; Kelly, JCH, Doyle, Grimmer, Stokes, Willis and maybe even Burge have all made the grade to an extent at L1. Shipley I’m...

I find the rhetoric at the club very interesting right now. Players, managers and owners (via Fisher) have all spoke about ‘going for it’ in relation to back-to-back promotions. Indeed, rhetoric is one thing, but it’s all uniform. It goes away from the typical goal of ‘just staying up, then...

It shouldn’t be a case of forgive and forget... but we should avoid being cynically paranoid every transfer window of a sellout of all our players. Which hasn’t happened for a while.

What position does he play? Central or on the wings? It says all 3 on a website I checked. Typically, wingers and strikers attract larger fees than defenders and midfielders so that could possibly explain why he got such a larger fee than our own.

Well, if we were in for that Woodyard, who’s gone for a fee of £225k, you’d imagine we have at least about 150-200k to spend on a player. Presumably not including wages, and the fact we need more than one signing. Perhaps there’s a significant kitty.

Everton clearly values Lookman more than Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal (of rumours were to be beloved) valued Maddison if they were gazumped by Norwich to sign him... A team will pay what they believe a player is worth. Maybe there was a bidding war for Lookman? At least for Maddison and IIRC...

£2m at an absolute minimum. We wanted £1.5m for Stevenson in L1, and Bayliss is twice the player, and we’re under no pressure to sell. We should hold out this season unless stupid offers of £4-5m and above start coming in (unlikely). Robins would’ve spoke to Bayliss and said staying in L1 for...

This Lookman chap has 5 goals, 3 assists in 11 appearances in the Bundesliga, and has scored 2 more in the Europa League. You seem to be quite dismissive of his ability if you think Maddison is going to be ‘far better’ than him... Personally I thought £3m was a bit low, my basement was £5m, but...

We haven’t been ‘fisted’ at all. Without add-ons from Norwich, if he is sold for the quoted amount this summer, we’ll end up with about £5.5-9m. Which is more than what MK Dons got for Alli, who is going to World Cup with England, which undermines your rudimentary argument.

Try closer to £3m, with add-ons apparently making the deal worth up to £9m. With sell-on clauses, at 10% (which is low) we’d get £2.5-3m if he goes for the quoted £25-30m, it’s closer to 20%, those figures double. The total could be between £5.5-9m, so actually, if it’s not that bad a deal at...

Money isn’t everything in a footballer’s life. Career development is obviously the priority at someone his age. I’m happy he made his debut for Wales, and that’ll probably justify his move (to himself) because I doubt he’d have been selected had he scored 20-25 goals in L2 with us. This said...

I read somewhere he made 2 bench appearances. Unused of course.

We beat Cheltenham 6-1, Notts County 4-1 (only their 3rd loss at home) and Exeter 3-1. We seemed to change to a quasi-diamond/flat 4 in midfield against Cheltenham (after the Lincoln loss) and haven’t lost since.

He already has when talking to the Telegraph about keeping ahold of key players (Bayliss, McNulty and JP). He said it’s hard adjusting from 1st team football back into development football in what was obviously a swipe at Thomas. Let’s be honest, Thomas career has taken a backward step this year...

Shipley is so underrated and goes under the radar a bit because he’s in Tom ‘Golden Boy’ Bayliss’ shadow. He’s 21 in September and has only made about 7 more appearances (1 more start), yet, has the same amount as goals as Bayliss. He does give the ball away with that first time pass he does...