The dolan situation reminds me a lot of the nyame situation.... Player thinks he's better and worth more than he actually is. But if that was the case then a decent club would have snapped him up immediately. Can see his career nose diving and him becoming another player that doesn't realise how good he's had it here

Not missed much but feel free to jump back on the roundabout

Not seen anything new. Just the usual players that are linked in near enough every window being banded about

Thats us ruled out.

Yeah but clearly something not right about that pitch looking at the scores Gav. Starc and Cummings are top bowlers without a doubt but if we can keep Wood, Stokes and Archer fit we can compete with them.

We could do with him getting old all of a sudden.

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No name leaked yet on the winger we have bid for?

Edit - the 24 games should of course be 14 games.

West Indies are currently 18-6 against the Aussies! Starc took 15 balls to get 5 wickets, phenomenal and he goes past 400 test wickets in his career. Outstanding and worrying….

Just seems so quiet. Need unleaded to pop up and drop a name

Intrigued to hear the outcome of this. Should be tasty 🍿

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Smile of relief to finally get a contract for a real football club.

That's where you tell them that simply isn't good enough. These questions shouldn't even need to be asked in the first place.

I think he would be delighted by the move. A four-year contract for someone who has struggled with injuries is a coup. Unless he surprises us, he'll have one more contract in him after that before he has to pack it in.

He's irreplaceable when he doesn't get replaced.

I know they should be able to answer the questions, but it leaves them with the out of : We haven't got the answers to hand, but we will look into it.

You are being particularly pedantic at the moment. What has how I rate both players got to do with anything? I had never heard of one until last week, I dont hold an opinion of him. We wanted a right back to cover Brittain coming into the summer, we got one, now Brittain is going. Naturally, you would think a new first choice right back would come in. You even agree with that. If we dont directly replace Brittain, I will presume it is due to budgetary reasons. You don't possess the ability to adopt critical thinking. If we dont sign someone, you think its because thats what Ismael must have wanted. You cant fathom that he might not get everything he wants. You have totally missed my point about Gestede and gone off down your usual rabbit hole of parroting lines about players fitting Ismael's style and naming various members of the recruitment team. These contract situations are of critical importance but Gestede has not treated them as such, he keeps kicking the can down the road. Now our whole window is still in limbo as we are nonethewiser about what is happening with 2 of the 3, and with Brittain we only know due to other team's interest. He seems solely focused on playing real life football manager trying to sign players from across Europe without seemingly enough awareness as to the importance to balance that off. If we end this window with no Dolan, Batth, Brittain and then potentially Tronstad and Travis, chuck in Weimann too, and just add too many random European players, I suspect there may be a lot of anxiety.

Don't do that. They shouldn't need any preparation for these questions, they should have the answers right then and there on the spot.

Guess it'll go in the too hard basket like everything else then.

Surprised there's no new links today. There's usually a good one thrown in to deflect the negativity 😂. At least Ismael now admitted we will sell our captain/Tronstadt should an offer appear. Even the LET brigade are beginning to realise all is not well. There's nobody else to blame now the CEO has gone. Pasha/Gestede are going to have to nail a couple of decent signings soon as it's all on their heads.

I'd say he usually comes off second best in most debates he has on here. Has his moments though. But if he argues with the poster you quoted, he's basically arguing with himself.

rudi is picking players from the belgian 2nd division where he`s obviously got a contact,i suspect the other scouts you mentioned have recomended the players who have gone elsewhere or who we won`t pay for ,i.e keersmaecker,mannsverk,baradji etc, those lads will do a parke and leave by october when they realise their job is pointless,ironically that`s what we`ll be in the division,pointless!!!!!!!!!!!