With the amount their squad cost, they should have gone up automatically. Cavaleiro - £15m Mitrovic - £22m Hector - £8m Mawson - £20m Bryan - £6m

I'm in the wrong job. I need to get into a 'Senior' management position in the council ?

How can someone working at the council be paid double what the PM makes? Absolute lunacy.

It was a clever free-kick, but no keeper should be beaten from that distance like that. It was a comical dive as well, made it look even more ridiculous. *For the record I'm a big fan of Raya, but he was definitely at fault there.

This season just gone was the first time he scored under 15 goals in a season in the last 9 years. 11/12 - 21 goals 12/13 - 19 goals 13/14 - 23 goals 14/15 - 19 goals 15/16 - 34 goals 16/17 - 20 goals 17/18 - 15 goals 18/19 - 17 goals 19/20 - 14 goals

It'll be even more silly when he finds we want to use him as a right winger ?

I was thinking, "That's a bit harsh". Then I challenged myself to think of a worse one. I did eventually manage it, but seems a harsh comparison as he was in my football team and only 10 at the time.

I heard he was on money like that. It just shows how football clubs have (or at least had) money to burn at that level. Presumably if he was about to join Fylde, and Liverpool come calling with an offer of £5k a week, he'd have snapped their hands off.

Absolutely correct, and Mowbray would play him wide right. Bring in a top class central midfielder - play him wide right. Bring in a centre forward - play him wide right. Bring in a right winger - don't give him a game.

Whelan may have done as an ex-Rover, but a lot of their fans revelled in our misfortune.

Completely agree. If they let Wigan off without a 12 point deduction, then Barnsley will surely take legal action and have a good case.

Wasn't Tom White about 22 when he joined?

I spoke to a Wigan fan about him around October last year. He suggested he had a very shaky start, but he felt he was pretty competent later in the season. I feel he's very much a confidence player, which is probably very risky with a keeper.

Correct. There is something wrong with loaning a clown of a PL keeper though ?

Absolutely not.

Or more likely we'll get a GLK, LB and CB on loan, spend 5m on a striker no-one has heard of, and then play him on the wing.

O'Connell is a regular in statistically the 4th best defence in the Premier League this season. Lenihan a regular in the 13th best defence in the Championship. Appreciate there are other members of these defences - but not a chance they'd offer 10m plus O'Connell.

It's just a shame we can't produce players through our own academy of the quality of O'Connell. Oh hang on a minute ?

I've not read what sort of percentage of the stadium they will be allowed to sell tickets for - but lets say it's 35% of seats. We were at 44.5% on average of capacity last season. We'll be losing 9% of our capacity of ticket sales. Forest 90.7% of capacity - lose 55.7% of capacity sold. Bristol City - 79.8% of capacity - lose 44.8% Derby 79.6% of capacity - lose 44.6% And so on. Only Wigan had a lower percentage of capacity for average attendance in the division last season. This will spook other clubs finance guys massively more than ours.

I'm guessing reduced capacity restrictions will have less of an impact on us than others who actually fill their stadiums. If anything it could potentially reduce the value of players and have less of a negative impact on our income than say a Nottingham Forest or a Sheffield Wednesday.

I'd be tempted to try a 4-3-1-2 or a 3-4-1-2 (wing backs), with Dack playing in behind Armstrong and Gallagher and Travis and Holtby deeper.

If anything I think it shows a strong character, as he was probably under pressure to come back and play.

Very difficult to compare these stats when they are in different divisions playing for teams at different positions in the league, but I'd be concerned if Bell was classed as the better of the two defensively. I think my nan is better defensively than Bell (although she's not left footed, so probably not an option).

Mahrez cost Leicester City around £450k. Isn't there an argument that says they could have turned round and said he can't be that good if he's only costing £450k. There's no player of that quality buyable for £450k. Surely it's the scouts job to find the gems that are worth more than the selling club values them.

He's 35 now Ronaldo, so actually older than Graham. It's a big 'no' from me ?