Forest Net Spend last season = £5.5m Forest Net Spend 20/21 = -£0.5m Forest Net Spend 19/20 = -£8.78m So they've actually gained £3.78million on net transfer dealing over the last 3 years. Incidentally, Forest haven't bought a play in the last 3 years until they achieved promotion who cost as much as Gallagher.

And yet when some people call Waggot a liar he gets defended by others. This is why you can’t take anything he says in an interview as being true.

Burnley, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Leeds, Huddersfield off the top of my head all managed promotion. Success in my head for a manager without parachute payments would be top 6. Others do it every season. We couldn’t.

Generally, at least 2 clubs every season finish in the top 6 without parachute payments. I'd class top-6 as a success for a non-parachute payment club.

By "We", I meant the club and the player went they sit down for discussions. But you're right. Ultimately he can do what he wants.

All Broughton is really saying there is "we will decide if he leaves in January or the summer". He doesnt clearly talk about offering Brereton a new contract to stay beyond the summer. The articles hints at it, but the quotes do not.

I’d probably put it as failing to get in the top 6 in the next 3 seasons. Or being seriously in a relegation battle in any of those seasons.

Because the players we have don’t fit that model. And players who do fit that model will be difficult to find as they will cost a lot of money and be sought after. Im not talking about his game plan in general. Just the decision to want to play everything out in short balls from the back. I reckon it’ll shoot us in the foot shortly, and then we will see him eventually start to tell them clear it from the back a bit more direct more often. Another thing that worries me a little bit of whether he will be prepared to mix it up with a plan B if plan A is not working. Luton and Bristol City games suggest not.

And in my opinion that is why he will fail.

In general you can't complain with 6 wins and 6th place at the start of October. However its not the general style of football and possessional play that bothers me. If we want to knock it across a back line for a bit to try and find an opening that's fine. Its pretty dull to watch and if the game is going against us it will be highlighted, but if it helps us control games and thus get more points great. If that's how he wants to play then great, although Buckley and Dack suit possession play more than Gallagher ever will. I'm seeing less and less of the "high press" we thought he would instill. However Kaminsky passing to his centre halves or midfielders when they are stood 12 yards from goal and under pressure is incredibly high risk with little reward. It's cost us goals already at Luton and should have cost us yesterday. The players we had yesterday are simply not good enough footballers to receive the ball and pass out in that situation. You say "It takes time though to grow to be more incisive & build up confidence", but it doesn't matter how long JDT works at it Ayala, Travis, Hyam, Pickering and Wharton are not going to be able to regularly receive the ball 8 yards from our goal-line and play it through the opposition lines to get us attacking the front foot.

Hull sack their manager after 4 straight defeats.

This one seems doubly painful as it was so soon after the Queens death cancelled a full weekend of fixtures.

Lee Trundle and Ricky Otto scored Le Tissier-like goals every weekend.

Cheston has been here since 2014. He will have footed several toilet refits already.

I’ve already said I’d rather not have international breaks and continue the domestic season. But IF we are to have international breaks, I’d rather this than friendlies.

I started a post earlier with ‘accepting that there will be an international break’. If you were arguing to never cancel domestic weekend football, and just play the odd international on a Wednesday night then hell yeah. I’d be all for that.

In other news, Foden looks a bit shitter without KDB and Co. around him

So what’s the problem with it then if the solution is to organise these games anyway? What it does do is give other European countries a shot at some success they might not normally get. If Hungary were to win the finals next summer, do you think they’d see it as forgettable. If Israel or Montenegro win in group B and get promoted to Group A, they will see that as some success and progress. International football Iis not all about the European superpowers winning the Euros and Worlds. It’s also a simple format to follow. I just don’t see the problem with it.

Accepting that there is always going to be an international break, it’s either this or friendlies. At least this gives us an indication of where England are rather than beating Paraguay at Wembley.

You tell Hungary tonight that they’ve just won a few friendlies. You can tell they are more competitive than friendlies because we are getting rolled over in them. How many subs have there been in this game so far? 12? 15? 18? Nope, just 5 for both teams combined. No team in any game in our group has made more than 5 subs in any match.

Because at least they are competitive. You forget how shite firendlies were when they passed around the back for 60 minutes and then changed 10 players. Id rather not break up the football season for internationals, but if we do, this is far better than playing Costa Rica or Mali in a friendly. It also grounds the ‘hype’ that England are great.

Every pack of Panini stickers in the 1980s contained Luther Blisset.

Every time Ronaldo faced Ashley Cole in international games, Cole had him in his pocket.

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But the game was going terribly and the formation / tactics were not working. JDT obviously didn’t think Dack the right person for that situation, but the changes he did make had no positive impact. I wouldn’t start Dack next game. But if we are playing poorly and desperately need to create openings and need to score a goal I’d certainly be giving him a chance as we know first hand what he can do.