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Baradji is already in our squad. Who else? Maybe clear up some wages so we can actually get a decent player to sign…

Hope it's not the same 'sauce' claiming someone has bid for the club @Mercer

Ipswich sign Mehmeti for £3m. Good signing for them.

Baradji has come from a lesser quality league and a long injury lay-off so probably needs a bit of time to adapt. Has looked great in spells, but also large spells have been frustrating, but I think at the moment our only defensive sound midfielder is Tronstad and he can't carry the whole team by himself. I think I would scrap the 3-5-2 for now, seeing as we're not playing Alebiosu anyway. Put Pickering or Ribeiro back in the team and let Atcheson play RB, with McLoughlin and O'Riordan as CB's. That will give us extra support in the middle, and we can play de Neve in a 4-5-1 / 4-3-3 with good support, and same with Jørgensen on the other flank. Tronstad, Baradji and Forshaw as CMs.

Pears? Why are you trying to sell our players? Need him as backup.

He was mis-managed unfortunately and it was too much too soon and another breakdown. Hopefully they’ll learn when it comes to easing Carter back in.

How many senior players have had their contracts renewed this season? Scott Wharton is the only one I can remember but he's a true Rover and spent the majority of his senior career on the treatment table unfortunately. Ismael is blaming injuries but the game last night was dead and gone and the two subs he made were youth players. Why isn't he letting Ohashi rest for 15-20 mins when he's highly ineffective? Toss Pratt up top, who cares... if we're waiting for everyone to come back from injury in order to be able to win games, Ismael should ensure we don't take maximum risk of suffering further injuries

McLoughlin not captain material for me, neither is Cantwell. Are we zonal marking on defensive set pieces? Never works.

We had two footballers on the field tonight; Tronstad and Forshaw. Tactically we're a mess and look a really disjointed side. Very worried about the remainder of this season. Jørgensen is lightweight and has to adapt quickly. He is better in a 4-5-1/4-3-3 but was probably 'too good to turn down' for us. Yeah........what to say.

He’ll replace Henriksson who does know the system but who’s a reserve player playing out of position.

And a lot quicker than Cashin.

Cashin looked completely immobile and incapable of playing in that role imo. Shocked that we’ve signed another slow defender.

Glimt play 4-3-3, so you're correct but he can probably play as a second striker in a 3-5-2 as well. I think if we stick to the say formation and Henriksson is the other alternative, then Jørgensen has to start tomorrow night.

I’m about to lose faith in VI after that performance. Incredible that Henriksson was handed another start upfront.

Can’t persist with the same formation when we don’t have the players for it. And that brand new back three constellation was asking for trouble. Maybe he wants out…

Groundhog day

I would start Jørgensen, he was preparing for the CL match against City and match fit. A good outlet to have on the counter too.

Nypan on the bench again tonight for Boro. Another loan deal we could possibly do the old swaparoo with? AM and not played well for Boro so far but highly rated. Not sure of the details in the deal with Boro.

Maybe it read A.P. and was actually Aynsley Pears' new ride to match his fresh summer haircut?

Yeah, he's a bit of an egg/character. But with that being said I would say he dresses quite normal compared to the French National team:

The most logical thing would be that Dønnum, Jørgensen and Cleary were all targets with Cleary main target as the cheaper and youngest option, until Barnsley negotiated their way out of the dealings. Then Rovers focused on Jørgensen and landed him. The white smoke tweet from Nixon possibly alluded to there being some different opionions on who we should sign, maybe it was Ismael who got his way this time?

"Have agreed a deal" I wouldn't say that's backtracking. So Dønnum on the left or is he a replacement for Alebiosu? Trying to make sense of it all.

He can play as an inverted winger on the right and would work well with Alebiosu, helping him defend as well, but reportedly we chased Morishita in the summer for a good while and he plays on the right, so not sure where we would fit Dønnum into our team at this moment. And the argument that his wife plays for Manchester United so he would want to move closer, doesn't make all that much sense either. I'm sure while pregnant that she'll spend more than enough time in France, even though she will probably still show up at United and do some work/training there to keep herself fit. We'll see...

Dønnum or Cleary + Hardie on loan would be pretty good business.

As a Dane himself, Neo should know better 😉