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Reply | Big Cam linked to Valencia
at 11:10 12 Jun 2025
Sounds like he has a few offers in La Liga. Personally would swerve Valencia if I were him, they're a bit of a basket case. |
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Reply | When Town bought Delap
at 19:35 27 May 2025
Think Hirst would definitely slated to start the first game if he'd been fit. |
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Reply | Now the dust has settled who do we expect to leave in the summer:
at 10:43 26 May 2025
I think we'll be pretty circumspect about outgoings. The numbers leaving before pre-season will be limited - just Enciso, Phillips, Godfrey, Delap, Burgess and Harness. Reckon Tuanzebe's going to sign a new contract and we'll sort something for Cajuste
Then everyone else it will be depend how our incoming business unfolds.
If we get two centre midfielders in early, we might feel like we've got scope to move Jack Taylor on.
We've probably got one too many amongst the non-striker forwards. Reckon Jack Clarke and Nathan Broadhead are probably the two closest to being surplus to requirements but we'd only move one on if we're confident in keeping the rest of them.
If we can find a good LCB for a reasonable price, we'll probably sell Baggott.
Goalkeepers is a bit of a shambles, so who knows what we do there. |
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Reply | McKenna
at 10:31 26 May 2025
Most managers you hire fail. Rare enough to find one that achieves roughly in line with your budget, let alone takes you to back-to-back promotions. When you find one that does that, you have to hold on to them as long as you possibly can. |
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Reply | England squad
at 12:01 23 May 2025
Not sure there's much mystery about Chalobah's inclusion - him, Colwill, Burn and Konsa are the only CBs regularly starting for Top 6 clubs. |
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Reply | England squad
at 11:52 23 May 2025
Would be interesting to find out what Tuchel thinks cost England in the last three international tournaments.
Lack of a possession-controlling midfielder seems the obvious answer but hard to argue any of the centre midfielders selected address it. |
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Reply | After this weekend...
at 10:31 23 May 2025
Just tend to think that the club that kept Sone Aluko on the books as a player in 2023-24, that kept Marcus Harness and George Edmundson around until deadline day 2024 just in case, that only arranged loans for Harry Clarke and Ali Al-Hamadi in January is not nearly so interested in player trading and squad churn as some imagine.
Wouldn't say 4 loans ending and 3 contract expiries is an especially huge number for this time of year, especially when we're looking to retain 3 of them and 3 of them we've barely used of late. |
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Reply | After this weekend...
at 07:04 23 May 2025
Think some of the talk of mass changes seems a bit unlikely. We're yet to properly cash in on a first team player under McKenna and generally we've looked to keep developing players rather than cash in and re-invest.
To have a grand reset now would be a major shift and there's been no indication that's our intention. In fact, the reverse is true, McKenna has talked about keeping out of contract players at the club and about signing Cajuste permanently if we can.
I don't think it would surprise me if we retained Tuanzebe, Burgess and Cajuste in the end, Delap was the only major sale and the only other exits were loans returning. |
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Reply | Omari
at 10:12 22 May 2025
Yeah, I don't think it's totally out of the question that either (a) a middling Premier League club decides he's the one and is willing to pay over the odds for him or (b) one of the 8/9 clubs that do regularly pay that kind of fee decide he's that good.
But I think those comparisons with Barnes and Maddison probably flatter Omari somewhat. Barnes' PL record when Newcastle paid £38m for him: 146 games, 35 goals, 25 assists. Maddison (£40m): 163 games, 43 goals, 34 assists.
Archie Gray is a different case still, in that he was 18 rather than Omari's 21. |
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Reply | Omari
at 08:36 22 May 2025
I think it's unlikely anyone triggers a release clause that's £35m or more.
For context, Bournemouth have been linked and that's roughly what they paid for Evanilson last Summer, their record signing and a full Brazil international who had played and scored in the Champions League.
If a club like that fancies him more likely we get tested with an offer in the region of £25-30m plus clauses. [Post edited 22 May 9:50]
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Reply | Europa League final
at 08:29 22 May 2025
To be fair, that the 5th/6th/7th-placed teams and cup winners from across Europe weren't good enough to knock out two of the worst teams in the English top division probably is a great advert for the Prem's strength in depth. |
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Reply | Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in
at 08:27 22 May 2025
Amongst the 30,000+ people who support Ipswich Town you are always bound to find every opinion under the sun, but seriously doubt that more than 1 in 10 is anti-McKenna at this point. |
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Reply | Omari
at 08:14 22 May 2025
11/20 Premier League clubs have never paid £40m for a player.
Last Summer there were only 7 transfers over £40m.
Massive stretch to say £40m is a middling fee for a decent PL player. |
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Reply | Omari
at 18:01 21 May 2025
Feels that way, but it is actually a lot of money for half the clubs in the Premier League.
It would be a new transfer record for Forest, Fulham, Brentford, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth. Brighton have spent that much once in their history, Wolves twice, Everton once.
At £35m, for basically half the division he'd be their marquee signing for the Summer. [Post edited 21 May 18:02]
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Reply | How will the anticipation, enthusiasm and excitement match last season in champ
at 17:50 21 May 2025
In the 30+ years I've been watching us, only 2000-01 surpassed 2023-24 in terms of how it felt. There's nothing we could do next season which would match back-to-back promotions after two decades in the wilderness.
But football goes on and on, every season, even the godforsaken one we're nearly done with, adds something to the whole tapestry. |
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Reply | Minimum expectations for next year….
at 12:28 20 May 2025
Yeah, can't see that Saints have any major issues that should make them intrinsically any weaker than us. They'll also be able to recoup the full value of their biggest talent, which we won't.
Leicester might be in a bit more trouble if they get a points deduction, though they're about to get their 2022-23 financial calamity off their FFP calculations so might have more headroom? |
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Reply | Lineker leaving the beeb
at 12:19 20 May 2025
Think it's very peculiar that we've somehow ended up the media spending half their time bemoaning how "you can't say anything these days! Cancel culture is destroying free speech" and the other half of their time going "I think you'll find that's a trope, actually" and demanding sackings. |
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