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Reply | Hayden Hackney
at 17:57 19 Jul 2025
I'd be amazed if that impacted on our ability to complete a deal. Agree that McKenna has a key role to play but even with 3 training sessions a day I'm sure he's still conducting lots of conversations with prospective targets. |
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Reply | Hayden Hackney
at 16:48 19 Jul 2025
I think Luke Werhun deals with most of the contract negotiations these days. Even if it was Ashton leading on it I doubt he'd be off his phone just because he was in Austria. |
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Reply | Time for Clarke & Philogene to prove their worth!
at 15:23 18 Jul 2025
Even if he's only in it for the money then he has to perform. He's on a good deal now but he's far from set up for life and will need to win a new deal/get a move elsewhere a couple of years into this contract.
Also, while I'm sure the money is nice I don't think there are many players who don't want to get better/score goals/do well etc. |
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Reply | My thoughts on omari leaving…
at 14:35 18 Jul 2025
I think where we might closer to that is on wages/signing on bonus to get someone of the right level in. The fee itself might be lower but the deal value could well be up there. |
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Reply | My thoughts on omari leaving…
at 14:16 18 Jul 2025
Brentford probably better for us though - if he does well there they'll sell him on in a year or two whereas if he went further up the food chain that might not happen.
Agree we have to persuade players to come here but that transfer fee gives us more PSR headroom to pay the wages that might make the difference. |
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Reply | My thoughts on omari leaving…
at 14:13 18 Jul 2025
From a PSR perspective we'll be able to book the entire fee upfront though. The instalments only really becomes a problem for cashflow if our investors don't want to fill the gap. |
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Reply | Ruiz Unused Sub
at 06:24 18 Jul 2025
They changed 10 out of their starting 11 - apparently resting their starting players for this weekend's fixture. I hope we get him as he looks exciting but not sure we can read too much into this. |
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Reply | Kipre lcb in some training clips
at 20:58 17 Jul 2025
Good competition for that slot I think and maybe a bit of 'horses for course' for some games. Think the club we'll be hoping that Greaves gets back to his best with a good preseason as we'll want to maximise his value.
Reckon they'll get a half each on Saturday. |
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Reply | Ipswich currently 8th in championship table..
at 19:05 17 Jul 2025
Someone in a different chat I'm in pointed out that most teams in the Championship would swap our squad for theirs at the drop of a hat even without the reinforcements. Really don't think there are 7 teams who wouldn't. |
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Thread | Championship Signings So Far
at 18:55 17 Jul 2025
Was interested (and a bit surprised) to see that we're pretty much middle of the pack here so far. Given that we'll wait a bit longer to get the quality additions we need this is quite encouraging (although I'd still like to see another CM and 9 in as soon as possible!)
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Reply | FAO Phil/Or anyone else ITK
at 10:59 17 Jul 2025
That's probably the ideal 3 to come in in my opinion. Hackney has the league experience and might be expected to be starting more league games in the early part of the season while Ruiz adapts to the league/playing style/country etc but starts in the cup games, etc. |
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Reply | Where are the stewards inside knowledge threads ?
at 18:33 16 Jul 2025
The big question is what has happened to the VAR steward. Has he been moved to normal stewarding duties? Does he want a move to another Prem club to VAR steward for them? |
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Reply | omari bid apparently
at 07:42 16 Jul 2025
It would free up more PSR headroom for 2 more quality CM options. I think we'll also be a favoured option for top 6 Prem teams to send young attacking players on loan knowing that they'll be developed well. |
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Reply | omari bid apparently
at 07:39 16 Jul 2025
Guessing this refers to a bid submitted yesterday that didn't make the media until now. |
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Reply | Malick Yalcouye - Brighton…
at 20:34 15 Jul 2025
I think it might be a bit more nuanced than an algorithm that identifies 'good players'. I suspect helps you to identify good players who you want to play a certain way in a certain system.
Think it's likely we're asking their system to identify different players to the ones they might be looking at themselves (although there might well be some crossover). |
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Reply | Time to trust KM
at 13:24 15 Jul 2025
I'm definitely enjoying the new improved positive mindset of your posts Frimmers!
I thought you often brought out some good points but quite often framed in an antagonistic/negative way. Much prefer your new approach. |
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Reply | Morsy
at 08:34 15 Jul 2025
Not sure the backroom churn is quite as much an issue:
We're still up 1 member of first team coaching staff compared with last time in the Championship. Aluko may well take over from Grant working with the forwards and has had a year learning on the job.
Strength and Conditioning Dept - looks like a managed change. Internal promotion on the same day as Mukandi leaves with an immediate backfill into the promoted person's role.
Undoubtedly we'll lose a lot if Morsy goes but O'Shea has been groomed as the heir apparent over the course of the season. Morsy is also likely to be one of the highest paid players and getting him off the wage bill might free up the money to get another big ticket CM with longer term potential |
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Reply | Morsy
at 22:32 14 Jul 2025
You would think that means we must be really close to getting another CM in then. |
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