No he wasn’t. Made his debut February 2024.

I dont get why whether one England under 21 manager selects him or not, why that determines how highly rated he was across the board? Also, international selections are often weighted towards bigger clubs. Surely more reasonable logic is to look at the direct circumstances. Where we desperate to sell? Yes. Was it in the summer when clubs spend far more, especially on players not necessarily to slot straight in? No. Brings the price down.

Not sure how many caps but yeah he was playing for them when at Bristol City

25 million Scott was with reportedly no sell on fee again I think Scott was being appreciated more than Wharton (wrongly) side and was starting ahead of young players at prem clubs for England u-21.I have previously said 25 max I think we would have gotten for Wharton I take your point about January spending but its rare a club are trying to push out a player as talented as Wharton for the price we sold him for .And for eg Spurs where looking for a midfielder like Wharton and if they favoured him over Gray they would have been putting a bid in when they knew we were desperate sellers rather than pay 30 for Wharton In the summer. We were playing poorly , Wharton had his share of poor games also as you would expect at that age It's my opinion that clubs had doubts about wrongly so...why is a lad who is obviously so talented not being picked for the England underage teams all the way up.The coaches must have had a reason for not selecting him, even with big club bias plenty of players from other championship clubs were being involved I wasn't sharing their doubts and every big club would pay a fortune for him now but after letting him prove himself at another PREM club

We accidentally over-ordered 2XL shirts from Macron & so need players who fit them…

Isnt pointing out the mistake "micro scrutinising" him and not supporting him?

I can see this happening in the near future, the new players are still trying to gel in the team.

they are definately rovers shills or telegraph employees being told to post happy clapping stuff,everyone leaving is a traitor and anyone coming in is an improvement and a good deal,come on please,nobody is that naive

Just paid around £20m for the keeper from Leicester. Making Pears look like Brad Friedel.

Yeah it’s me that’s dug myself into a hole over the Wharton fee.

The way Derby are going, he might change his mind 0-1 after 68 min.

Ismael is very much in your good books now, he can do no wrong.

I’m not so much worried about him being ready, as opposed to whether someone who has spent the majority of their career in the Italian pub leagues is anywhere near as good.

All fair points Parson. Given that Pears hasn't feature all pre season and the comments from Ismael plus these hair transplant rumours I don't think we see him again. Didn't Raya go on loan to Southport? Can I asked you for your opinion on Jack Barrett and whether you think he could make the step up to be third choice or not?

If you cant see that the twitter account in question is someone on the inside, trying to manipulate fans against departing players and trying to make the club seem helpless in such situations, then I dunno what to say. It is someone who has a 100% record in revealing news. For that, they must be right up the food chain. Whether its one of Gestede/Sufi/Owen or someone they are purposely feeding news to, I dont know. The account aside from revealing incomings has been happy to repeatedly imply that Brittain and Travis have been unprofessional, have defended the club on contracts and claimed they were offered ages ago despite all of those players saying publically that they hadnt, and has got into spats with fans who have not swallowed the bullshit, even calling Glen Mullan a "doom merchant." For someone so keen on strong communication, you surely not only can see that but recognise that its grossly unprofessional from the individual and the club to communicate like this from behind an anonymous twitter handle. I did expect Travis to leave but only because of our pathetic inability to sort contracts out. I also knew that these issues would totally overshadow everything else. Its depressing to see another key player leave and replaced this time by a guy relegated from the Swiss league, on loan, who is injured.

Weimann and Sanderson been really weak

Derby look atrocious - they've regressed badly since last season. Bristol look pretty handy also, some clever play.

Derby are losing again 0-1 at the moment.

The Venkys don't care. The really don't. They don't know how we're doing. They don't care if we get relegated. They don't care if you do or don't go on the games. They don't care who's in charge of the club on a day to day basis. They haven't provided instructions to the management on how the club is run as that would require them to care, but as I mentioned before they don't. They don't care if we sell our best players and replace them with cheaper players, they really don't. All they care about is the massive black hole they have on their balance sheet because they happened to buy an old English football team. A black hole which has been funded by debt and grants provided by the Indian government (and others). To this date they haven't realised that debt, there is no sunk cost fallacy. At the moment, they haven't lost anything, but if they sold they'd need to book a huge loss in their accounts. This is a problem. The thing is that the debt isn't on the club. If the Venkys sold up, the black hole wouldn't fall on "us" due to the equity set up (there are smaller debts, e.g. from HMRC, we do need to be concerned about but we can ignore them for now). If you chant against the regime at home games, it doesn't matter because they aren't listening. If you protest before the game, it doesn't matter because they aren't watching. If you throw a chicken on the pitch, it's done on deaf ears because, well, we're just an asset. The only way you can impact change is by one of the following: 1. Help get them promoted to the prem so that we are worth more than the black hole and we can be sold. 2. Get the debt in Indian forgiven so the owners will sell. 3. Make the situation so fucking embarrassing for the Venkys IN INDIA that they will stomach a huge loss on their balance sheet. This means going to India and doing things. So, what are you going to do? And I won't accept hiding from the problem by not attending the games or shouting Venkys out into a vacuum.

How poor is West Ham defending? They need a coupe of signings but I don't think they got the quality to play wing back system Chelsea doing all this without Cole Palmer.

Wet Spam 4-1 down after 55 mins. Potter under massive pressure already this season. They deserve everything they get there, deluded babies. Hounded out the manager who won them a trophy over 'style of football' and everyone they've brought in since to play tippy tappy has been muck Edit *5-1 after 58 mins 😄

Nothing but a fire sale.

So why did clubs spend 2 billion in summer but only 90million in January. Why didn’t they just all go out and buy their targets in January? How many England under 21 caps did Alex Scott have when he moved to Bournemouth in the summer before for almost £30 million?

Why are we only replacing Travis and not strengthening CM?

Its good that Travis's replacement has signed already and here. Looks hope he is ready after the international break. Loan to buy is sensible move given what we know about why he failed a medical a few weeks ago. On Travis leaving, its a shame he is going but most people thought he would go this summer. Don't get why Derby but its his choice. Eustace factor I guess. Well, its got busy later in the day and Nixon will do a story on a winger on Sunday who is turning on Travis? Didn't you think he would leave this summer given the Eustace links and he had 12 months left on his contract Yes I did and people did ridiculed me. I think its a very smart move by Ismael but also given Cantwell trust and leadership of the head coach.