McDermott gone

Id say this week will tell a lot. Clearly the meeting Monday between Ross and Cellino will go a long way towards determining whether he will be sold or a team built around him. Hope its the latter

 

He's just handed in a transfer request

 

Is there any evidence for this TC, or is this a wind up?

 

I'm suggesting we have a snowball's chance in hell of keeping Ross. I'd happily take mid table obscurity for next season if it was offered to me right now.

 

I wouldn't take mid table obscurity. Ross is under contract. So I would expect Cellino to do whatever it takes to keep him, save the arrival of a silly money bid.

 

Well I don't see us doing any better. We appear to be relying on the youth team to improve the squad next season, and Cellino will jump at the first realistic bid to come in for Ross.

 

The first realistic bid has to be at least £8m.

 

He'll go for £5m at most.

 

Mid table would be an improvement on season gone

 

5 million gets you 3 million pound players and pays their wages for a year at £10-12 grand a week. If as often assumed, Ross won't have another season like this one, and taking into account that he's also 28 - is that good business?

 

Providing one of those players bags 20 goals plus then it's good business. Otherwise were gonna struggle big time

 

How can mid-table be an improvement on mid-table?

 

Mid table would be twelfth, we finished fourteenth

 

Let's go ****ing mental

 

Might as well Shaks

The lunatics have taken over the asylum

 

Watching Italy tonight, don't see much for England to fear(yes I know it's a friendly)

 

Howya Essex

 

So only one team finishes mid-table every year? Careful you don't pull a muscle with all this stretching.

 

Shaks

 

Hmm, by you reckoning so anything between what, say 9th and 15th is basically mid table and all the same. Don't think so. If we finished 9th in coming season, it'll be a hell of an improvement