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And it’s been cancelled, no FM25
at 08:00 7 Feb 2025

It’s a massive failure, in a business when something this disastrous happens a CEO is lucky to keep his job as carries the can
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Who is going to be the Left Wing Hero?
at 19:40 6 Feb 2025

But it has to be both, which was all I suggested
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Coventry XI?
at 15:42 6 Feb 2025

I imagine we'll see a fully changed side - think you have to to keep squad players fresh and almost a bit of a 'social contract' between the club and the subs that they get these games:

Palmer
Godfrey-Woolfie-Burgess-Towsend
Phillips-Taylor
Johnson-Philogene-Clarke
Hirst
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Who is going to be the Left Wing Hero?
at 15:33 6 Feb 2025

How does cosying up to the EU and not being a part of it make us any more relevant?
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Who is going to be the Left Wing Hero?
at 13:15 6 Feb 2025

Why? The EU is hardly thriving now is it....right wing populism is spreading though there too - Orban, Meloni, Swedish Democrats, National Rally, Vox, the AFD.....

We need to be what we've always been - someone between the EU and the US and do the best we can from that position
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Second chance to sign a 3rd striker or central midfielder
at 10:40 6 Feb 2025

Diego Costa coming in to mentor Liam Delap on the art of sh1thousery
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7th highest transfer spend this season
at 09:24 6 Feb 2025

Sorry - bad assumption by me as generally Transfermarkt are the most accessible on this
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7th highest transfer spend this season
at 08:32 6 Feb 2025

No it is their value on Transfermarkt
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7th highest transfer spend this season
at 15:44 5 Feb 2025

I think it's just almost impossible to close the gap. Harry Clarke here is almost 3rd choice RB, looks a long way off the level required really for the PL currently......he goes on loan tot he team 2nd in the Championship, they start him straight away ahead of a player who has started basically every game of the season and their fans are raving about him.

Ali Al-Hamadi, 'nuff said re your thoughts on ability, btu he goes to Stoke and scores on debut, roasts a defender for pace on the touchline for a cross later in game and NTT20 podcast was waxing lyrical about him

Those 2 look so far off where we are, so think we can see how the levels have just gone mental, if they continue to excel at the level below after good starts.....these players we've got currently fall between PL and the Championship, and this season at this level will make them better players for next season - but there's no short cut to getting PL ready players unless you risk it like Cajuste and Phillips and we get 60 minutes between them each week
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Squad List / Transfers / Transfer Rumours (Updated)
at 07:40 5 Feb 2025

No reason not to name 4 GKs as Burns not got a chance of playing
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Not looking good for FM25
at 07:15 5 Feb 2025

Yes re transfers, loans, contracts and all the fixed stuff.

With regards to attributes and ratings again it’s all down to me but within a framework helping roughly dictate where the players overall rating should be
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Lack of Premier league experienced signings
at 07:12 5 Feb 2025

Guess it’s a case of looking at which PL experienced signings, that moved in the summer, should we have been in for and would we have been able to get them ahead of who they went to?

There really isn’t/wasn’t that many of those type of players and most who were either underwhelming or flawed
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Not looking good for FM25
at 21:11 4 Feb 2025

All the data is continuously updated throughout every year so it wouldn't need a team to be put together to do it - but just obviously can't be done for whatever reason.

My year as an ITFC researcher has been no different to any other re deadlines etc
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Assuming no surprises - transfer window out of 10?
at 09:20 4 Feb 2025

6-7 for me.

Palmer - with Walton injured and Muric seemingly shot at the moment we just had to get a deal done, and managed to pick up one of the most impressive keepers in the Championship who is playing regularly and ready to come straight in for a good level fee. He might not be the perfect keeper for long term, but he's here, ready, and a good character so that's a plus

Godfrey - we needed to upgrade this position as Harry Clarke didn't look ready and Axel Tuanzebe is very fragile. It might be that he doesn't play a huge amount but think it is an excellent squad pick up

Enciso - Looks a real needle mover where we need it, someone who loves a shot, tries to make stuff happen, and is massively talented.

Philogene - long term target who we were desperate for in the summer, signing a long term deal at the club is always good news to me. Not been the best start but he'll come good over his contract, we've seen how talented he is and I'd rather us revisit those who we have pinpointed than panic in a window to try and stay up and potentially hanstring us down the line.

Issues

Centre midfield - I would have liked Downes and think we'd have got him had we won on Saturday and still feel we are a little short in there. Phillips isn't going to get it back, Morsy just not quite up to it for 90 mins week in-week out, Cajuste is eye catching but makes too many errors and can't last 90 minutes.....needed an upgrade and work to do there in the summer.

Centre forward - We needed one, but I'd give the club a bit of a pass on this as just isn't the market and was the right thing to do to get Ali out on loan. Brighton just spent £20m on a teenage Greek striker with 10 goals in the German second division and left him out on loan.....that's the market and it's impossible for us.

Right wing - can you sign someone just because have 2 long term injuries there? Had Burns gone down before signings of Philogene and Enciso would we have acted differently? Quite possibly but that's timing and was out of our hands.....we want deals early and this can be the outcome.

But we are in a better position than we were, but think we all hoped for a bit more after the success of the last last 2 January windows
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Squad List / Transfers / Transfer Rumours (Updated)
at 09:06 4 Feb 2025

Minor note but Binns is no longer at Bishops Stortford, he'd broken his finger and was expected to go back but is now back here and getting fit in U21s ahead of trying to get back out
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Review of transfer policy needed this summer
at 22:06 3 Feb 2025

He started 32 games across 4 seasons for Brighton, is that really a proven PL player?
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Ashton, Werhun & Probert
at 16:11 3 Feb 2025

So you wouldn't really have taken any of the players who were available to newly promoted clubs, but would have found some other better ones somewhere in the world instead?
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Ashton, Werhun & Probert
at 13:01 3 Feb 2025

Leicester and Soton have had a decade in the PL, are miles ahead of us off the pitch and who of their signings would you swap for ours?

The point basically boils down to "we should have signed better players" with no allowance for the situation we were actually in and 20/20 hindsight
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Bringing in a keeper is the right thing to do
at 12:24 3 Feb 2025

I don't think we need to worry about Slicker too much - no keeper will start playing at this level without having a loan in lower leagues first and he needs that desperately (maybe Bristol Rovers when WBA recall Griffiths).
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Alex Palmer - WBA GK
at 11:50 3 Feb 2025

It is a panic buy, it's desperation but desperate times call for desperate measures.

The GK situation needs addressing now and will do again in the summer - we ballsed up by letting Hladky go and haven't recovered
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