Summer window

So not only did they decide to hinder his development by recalling him from us, they are now pricing the lad out of a decent move

 

Spot on in my opinion mate. Eyes in the back of your head bit in particular. When we coach the central midfielders these days it is all about awareness for them. We call it scanning, always checking where the opposition and the next pass is. It takes a lot of learning in my experience. The best young centre mids in my opinion are the ones who are the calmest heads. You need to be so comfortable receiving the ball tight, relax on it, be prepared play in any direction. It is a skillset that if your lad is always asking questions and thinking about his game he will develop or already have. I think the role of a central midfielder has changed a lot over the years. Even the likes of Makalele is probably not the blueprint anymore. It is now a real pressure position and those playing there are key to how a lot of teams now play. Tell your lad to watch Rodri at Man City, he is the perfect role model I think.

 

Spot on, we move on.

 

Just said this in a private conversation. We get attached to our players but this is the new way.

 

And we’ve proved it works with the signings last season, I’ve got total trust in the recruitment. I get that some find it frustrating but there’s loads of time left to get a striker or 2 in.

And then you have some fans like this…

 

And yet we've probably spent a few million already

 

"The Baz" sounds like an absolute moron to be fair.

 

Nowhere near a £10m footballer mind. He's a decent prospect, but a long way from even a finished Championship forward.

 

I wouldn’t go over two to be honest.

 

Yep. About that for me, maybe with an add on or two.

 

Probs 25M+ when you consider Will Grigg was three

Edit: crazy prices mind, and we are well out to if it.

 

Stoke spending 7m on Emin Bayram. He's highly rated. Must've been their second choice to Triantis

 

1.5 million for Simms and will take 10 million overall package. Final 8.5 million payment when we win Champions League……

 

For the 3rd year straight. Within a 5 year time frame.

 

Three million tops for me, but for that's made up on criteria like games played, goals scored, possible international call ups (he's eligible for England, Jamaica and Poland, apparently), benchmarks achieved etc. No way would I be paying it all up front, and definitely not getting drawn into a bidding war over him with him only having a year left on his contract.

 

Aye that’s true, you can’t go wrong with add ons

 

Whilst he nets a hat-trick in each Final v The Skunks

 

Nowt happening with transfers, so I'll post these mock ups of what's supposed to be the new kit...

 

****e source but we’ve had no incoming rumours for a while so **** it, Gerrin he’s going to be class

 

he was linked the other day. Can’t remember who by or how