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Or Ray Wilkins viewing houses in Wilpshire

We're on form in here today hahaha

Not sure that Ismael implemented the system of his own accord There were noises that it was top down from Adam Owen, which may explain why Ismael (being "aligned") hasn't changed it back despite not having any strikers or wing backs for the past month That being said, your point remains, without wingbacks who can provide an attacking threat, this system is useless

Very apt - always close to bankruptcy, change policies and business models regularly, have been bailed out by the owners who now want it to suddenly break even, suffer from having overpaid staff previously and then implementing extreme cutbacks, have downgraded many aspects of their product, repeated talk about new ownership that never happens... Maybe we will see an anniversary plane in all white with a maltese cross on the tailfin in the future 😜

I see you're a seasoned pro in these parts!

When was the last time we had to pay someone's contract up after a year? We are allegedly paying 3.5 mill for him. It would be beyond idiotic to give him a 2 year deal. It would also be ludicrous to pay anything like that for a player we thought might flop after a year and need paying off.

Adult kindergarten is a phrase that springs to mind 😉 (but it would be fun watching the inevitable "fall outs")

Have a feeling Pears will go his window.

If he wants a challenge, he should come here to get us back up to the Premier League. It'll be like starting as Poland in the Total War games.

I'm just going to sit here and assume he classes wing backs as an attacking option. The formation he implemented relies heavily on having very good wingbacks to form part of the attack. When Alebiosu is back, we are sorted on the right but as it stands we have no good option on the left. And we'd still; need a backup for both sides.

That's the one part that made sense. His wife plays for Man Utd, so not too strange that he may have a car in north west England The fact that he would cost too much, would want paying too much, and plays in a position which we don't need meant it was never going to happen

The wrong one at that

I'd assume he'd want more than this lad being a British player already on thousands per week.

Never got the Lambo thing to add up, why would he choose a 16-hour drive from Toulose up to Blackburn, in January?

Donnum spotted in his Lambo is the new Luca Toni seen at the Dunkelagh

I don't know if wages were the problem with Cleary, so much as the £4m cash in hand demand from Barnsley.

Val saying we can now afford to be patient in the market, thinks the defence is solid and wants to improve attacking options. Expecting a fortnight of still missing first team players It's definitely an opinion...

See also the England T20 side…

They won't have committed to anything like that as an initial fee it will have loads of add ons. This comes hot on the heals of them flirting around the Barnsley lad but not offering more than a million or so, that's a good marker. They've done what they always do and taken a punt on the cheaper waged option.

Agree completely. I groan inwardly whenever I read something like "versatile forward who can play anywhere across the front line" or "can play at RB or midfield" etc. Seems to be viewed as the no. 1 priority by most Head Coaches these days. I see it as "Jack of all trades, master of none".

Great to read stories from such long standing supporters we need more of it on here it might break up the angst and bickering a bit. Saw a post on Facebook the other day from Rovers at Spurs i think it was the FA cup run up to the 1960 final ? Must've been half a dozen different people talking about the games then that they were at including that one and it made such a contrast to the normal crap you read on there.

If we can sell Big Mak for actual money then I don't think we need to worry too much.

They apparently wanted him in the summer and were pipped by Bodo - so we're still fishing in the same pond.

Not impossible. However if he only had, I dont know, an 18 month deal, if he made an instant impact then we'd be in a position where he wouldnt sign a new deal and we'd lose him for buttons.

He's obviously been carrying something for months and i'm sticking to my original opinion that he needs minor surgery but is trying to put it off as long as possible. Chances are he'll disappear completely in a month or two.