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Reply | If McKenna goes in the summer
at 11:58 22 Apr 2025
I haven't seen Rosenior's Strasbourg team but the style Hull played under him was very different to us. |
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Reply | Cam Humphreys
at 11:09 20 Apr 2025
I imagine it will expire on 30th June |
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Reply | Cam Humphreys
at 11:01 20 Apr 2025
You can't recall loanees outside of a transfer window. |
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Reply | Should we sign Sarmiento for next season?
at 06:51 10 Apr 2025
I’d ignore Sarmiento’s performances for Burnley this year, it’s so tough for attacking players to thrive in that system.
I wouldn’t mind bringing him back at all. Chappers and Szmodics will be competing to play in the ten role but when Omari goes we won’t have a ball carrier there who can also play wide, which McKenna likes to have as an option. |
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Reply | Should we sign Sarmiento for next season?
at 06:48 10 Apr 2025
Those players were signed from Man United and Marseille, with top flight experience and probably on big wages. A completely different market to Clarke and Philogene. |
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Reply | John Sutton once scored against Sutton.
at 12:53 1 Apr 2025
Not quite the same thing but Hartlepool were managed by Paul Hartley a few years back.
In 2013, Peter Hartley and James Poole scored their goals in a 2-0 win against Notts County. |
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Reply | Besiktas interested in Philogene loan ....
at 12:08 28 Mar 2025
There will be a market for Muric. The stuff he's good at (or was before this season) is what clubs are increasingly looking for in goalkeepers. Maybe a loan to buy deal to Ligue 1 or Serie A?
I could also see Russell Martin wanting him if his next job is at a club that can afford him. |
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Reply | Richard Kone
at 14:33 11 Mar 2025
Not surprised to hear this at all. He seems like the obvious Delap replacement if we go down. |
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Reply | We are too lightweight
at 13:21 9 Mar 2025
One of the pitfalls of back to back promotions is that the infrastructure to search for bargains in other European leagues hasn’t been there because we didn’t have the scouting networks set up.. Until 2023, the rules were such that the only players who would have qualified for a visa were way out of our price range as a League One club, so there was no point scouting abroad.
Wherever we bought players from, we needed 60%+ of our signings to be clear successes in order to stay up. In future, I want us to cast the net wider but last summer it made more sense to take calculated risks on domestic players rather than blindly going into markets and offering fees for players we didn’t know enough about. |
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Reply | Rupert Lowe
at 18:44 7 Mar 2025
Quite. Considering they’ve got a convicted woman beater in the parliamentary party, I’m sure they’d have swept these allegations under the carpet if he hadn’t criticised the dear leader. |
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Reply | That meetings going well ( not)
at 19:11 28 Feb 2025
This has got to be the worst thing Trump has ever done, either this or January 6th. They'll be dancing in the Kremlin this evening. Abhorrent. |
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Reply | Like any business that is failing
at 15:33 27 Feb 2025
Luton recruited in a completely different way to us. Burnley and Sheffield United were equally horrendous in the Premier League and they're both in the hunt for automatic promotion. |
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Reply | Missing Wes Burns
at 15:22 24 Feb 2025
Yeah this is why I was really keen for us to sign Tom Fellows in January. Our right-winger is such a unique role and while he's a bit different to Burns and Ogbene, he's more direct and more comfortable operating in deeper areas than Philogene.
I appreciate that the Burns injury didn't happen until after Philogene had signed, but I think he would have been a better use of funds. |
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Reply | The 3 promoted sides……
at 19:16 22 Feb 2025
The point I was making was that comparisons with Forest, Brentford etc don’t work because they at least had teams in their second season of the PL to compete against when they went up. |
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Reply | The 3 promoted sides……
at 17:19 22 Feb 2025
But every year the promoted three go down, it perpetuates the cycle and makes it harder to break.
Next year, there will be 17 teams, all with at least four consecutive years of Prem experience (and the TV money that goes with it) competing against three newcomers. Leeds are the only ones that will stand any chance. |
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Reply | JD Vance creating equivalence between Thunberg and Musk impact on democracy
at 22:02 14 Feb 2025
Pretty rich to give a lecture on sovereignty and democracy when you work for a man who’s willing to sell Ukraine down the river and attempted a coup to overturn the presidential election because he didn’t like the result.
Interesting to see the Reformers suddenly liking foreign politicians telling us what to do. |
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Reply | Left Backs
at 12:13 6 Feb 2025
Can't see it, he'll have option to move elsewhere. Palace may want a more attacking option than Mitchell and Wolves will lose Ait-Nouri to one of the big teams so they'll be after a LB in the Davis mould if they stay up. Edit: Bournemouth and Leeds also fit this category, as per the poster above.
Also, Newcastle and Chelsea don't have great full-back depth so if they're back in the Champions League they'll need reinforcements there too. He wouldn't be a game changer for either team, but they probably won't get much better than him as back-ups. [Post edited 6 Feb 12:14]
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Reply | if we get relegated....how will the team line up by end of August?
at 11:57 6 Feb 2025
Loads of potential scenarios to come yet and these things rarely work out as predicted but this is a rough guess.
Palmer
H Clarke
Woolfenden
Greaves
New LB
New CM
Taylor
Ogbene
Chaplin
Philogene
New ST
Rest of the squad; Walton, Johnson, New CB, Baggott, Townsend, Humphreys, Morsy, New CM, Burns, Broadhead, New AM, Szmodics, Hirst, New ST.
Leaving: Muric, Slicker (loan) Davis, O'Shea, Tuanzebe, Burgess, Luongo, Hutchinson, J Clarke, Delap, Al-Hamadi
I think we'll lose quite a few because the growing gap between the leagues means that recruiting relegated players will become more important for newly promoted teams.
Muric will leave. His performances won't have endeared him to many, but lots of teams now want a ball-playing goalkeeper, so we'll be able to send him abroad or to whoever Russell Martin manages next. Palmer the first choice, with Walton as back-up (if he's happy) and Slicker on loan.
I think Davis, Tuanzebe and O'Shea will get Premier League moves and Burgess may look elsewhere with his contract up and Greaves the long-term priority here. We're quite well futureproofed here with Woolfenden and H Clarke top end Championship players and Baggott probably ready to be in the squad now. It's probably only a starting LB and reserve CB that we'll need. Johnson doesn't fit the RB role right now but he may do against weaker opponents, plus his wages will be hard to shift so we'll have to accomodate him.
There will be a big overhaul in midfield, whichever league we're in. Wouldn't surprise me to see Taylor get more minutes as he's shown a lot of progression in his cameos this season and hasn't looked out of place.
I've put Jack Clarke on the list to leave, not because I particularly want him to but with four players who can play on the left/in the left 10, I think someone will inevitably have to go and he's the least suited to the position. Perhaps a return to Sunderland if they swap places with us? If McKenna is still here, he'll want another ball-carrier to play a number of positions behind the striker. Maybe a certain Ecuadorian...
Up front, we'll go big on a striker to replace Delap. The club have probably sent Al-Hamadi to Stoke to inflate his value for a sale, so maybe two additions here as Hirst will struggle with fitness. [Post edited 6 Feb 12:17]
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