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Offline Uknowthescore

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #120 on: May 27, 2018, 10:55:35 PM »
Too many pessimistic people on here. I understand it’s still raw but it ain’t that bad we will lose snodgrass Johnston terry grabhan, who can be quite easily replaced if they were that good we would have gone up. Looking forward to a team of

Gk steer

Def bree Hutton Chester ( new signing cb )
Mid bjarnasson Jedi hourihane
Att Grealish o hare kodjia

Subs Davis Albert hogan green Lansbury( a few defenders and a keeper on the cheap)

With a forward thinking manager we will be up there UTV

Offline Steve67

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #121 on: May 27, 2018, 11:05:28 PM »
Does anyone have a list of the available Bosman's?

Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #122 on: May 27, 2018, 11:08:11 PM »
Does anyone have a list of the available Bosman's?

Yeah...

Bruce..

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #123 on: May 27, 2018, 11:09:43 PM »
Too many pessimistic people on here. I understand it’s still raw but it ain’t that bad we will lose snodgrass Johnston terry grabhan, who can be quite easily replaced if they were that good we would have gone up. Looking forward to a team of

Gk steer

Def bree Hutton Chester ( new signing cb )
Mid bjarnasson Jedi hourihane
Att Grealish o hare kodjia

Subs Davis Albert hogan green Lansbury( a few defenders and a keeper on the cheap)

With a forward thinking manager we will be up there UTV
Except there won’t be Grealish or Chester.

Offline Steve67

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #124 on: May 27, 2018, 11:14:40 PM »
Or Hutton.

Offline Uknowthescore

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #125 on: May 27, 2018, 11:23:50 PM »
Too many pessimistic people on here. I understand it’s still raw but it ain’t that bad we will lose snodgrass Johnston terry grabhan, who can be quite easily replaced if they were that good we would have gone up. Looking forward to a team of

Gk steer

Def bree Hutton Chester ( new signing cb )
Mid bjarnasson Jedi hourihane
Att Grealish o hare kodjia

Subs Davis Albert hogan green Lansbury( a few defenders and a keeper on the cheap)

With a forward thinking manager we will be up there UTV
Except there won’t be Grealish or Chester.

We will see.

Offline Uknowthescore

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #126 on: May 27, 2018, 11:28:13 PM »
Or Hutton.

The only reason he never got a new contract was because we thought we were going up. If Bruce stays he stays I don’t think we’re as skint as what all the doom merchants are thinking.

Offline Ads

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #127 on: May 27, 2018, 11:30:50 PM »
We're not skint at all. We're just prohibited from making it rain with anti-competition rules that choke just about every club in the football league.

How prohibited from spending remains to be seen. Wyness seemed confident of altering the rules and Recon sponsoring everything seems to be a massive means of jibbing the rules.

Offline David_Nab

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #128 on: May 27, 2018, 11:43:41 PM »
Or Hutton.

The only reason he never got a new contract was because we thought we were going up. If Bruce stays he stays I don’t think we’re as skint as what all the doom merchants are thinking.


Disagree , the spending in the last 2 Windows ( plus Bruce constantly bringing up FFP) shows we were already down to poundland spending.With the parachute money decreasing further I fail so see how we are not skint. We bet it all on Bruce and he failed

Offline VinnieChase84

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #129 on: May 28, 2018, 12:10:44 AM »
Surely the ffp rules are about to be changed? If 12 clubs have failed it for the season just gone then it is clearly broken and needs altering.

Offline tomd2103

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #130 on: May 28, 2018, 12:25:52 AM »
I think the big thing will be how many players who are surplus to requirements we can get out of the door this summer.  If we can move on some of the bigger earners who fall into that category then we should have a bit of wriggle room financially.  For me, Gollini, Elphick, Richards, Taylor, Lansbury, Gil, McCormack and Hogan all fit into the surplus to requirement category and are likely to be on good wages, so if we can move some of them on then we should have some financial leeway.

It’s going to be a bit of a rebuilding job as I think we need a first choice keeper, centre half, left back, central midfielder, wide player and centre forward to come in.

Offline OzVilla

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #131 on: May 28, 2018, 12:37:23 AM »
Dear Lord there's a few names there that I thought were long gone and would never darken our door again, hopefully their loan clubs will take them on, do we know if they've performed well?

The mismanagement of the club in the twilight Lerner and early Dr T days are coming back to hurt us.


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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #132 on: May 28, 2018, 01:39:32 AM »
Too many pessimistic people on here. I understand it’s still raw but it ain’t that bad we will lose snodgrass Johnston terry grabhan, who can be quite easily replaced if they were that good we would have gone up. Looking forward to a team of

Gk steer

Def bree Hutton Chester ( new signing cb )
Mid bjarnasson Jedi hourihane
Att Grealish o hare kodjia

Subs Davis Albert hogan green Lansbury( a few defenders and a keeper on the cheap)

With a forward thinking manager we will be up there UTV
Except there won’t be Grealish or Chester.

Even with Chester and Grealish, a team with a midfield of Jedinak, Hourihane and Bjarnason isn't getting promoted any time soon.  Quite the opposite I would think.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #133 on: May 28, 2018, 02:01:10 AM »
If we had a more attack minded manager I believe we would have qualified automatically, the difference in the two halves of football Saturday was mind blowing. I want the next manager to be someone with the mindset of winning games not one whom tries to defend all day and try and pinch the game.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread
« Reply #134 on: May 28, 2018, 07:21:24 AM »
I can't agree with that. Our squad was too old to ever be able to maintain the punishing Championship schedule. It's no league for  old men. Attack minded or not. all we were able to do in too many games was literally huff and puff.

 


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