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Genuinely impressive how Selles has utterly ruined Sheff Utd so fast.

Gally on the right wing.

Condolences. That was a lovely write-up.

Nuno sacked at Forest - seemed inevitable after everything that came out lately. Looks like Ange will replace him. Bold strategy.

Feels like Tuchel has somehow managed to make us even more dreary to watch than when Southgate was in charge. Perversely impressive.

To be fair, it's pretty much the same at every club. The king is dead, long live the king.

Pasha is the one constant, and basically the arm of the owners, the other constant. Everything else is noise.

That website looks like it hasn't been updated since 1998.

When it comes to arguing Waggott vs Gestede/Pasha it feels a bit like arguing whether being punched in the face or kicked in the stomach is better. Neither is a great option. Waggott was, if nothing else, a canny operator who was able to do as instructed by keeping us in the Championship without spending a great deal. He had the ability to charm many who met him and leave them believing things weren't so bad. He was in many ways the perfect person for our owners to have in the CEO position, much like Mowbray was the perfect person for them to have in the managerial seat. With our chronic lack of serious ambition to go beyond trundling along in this division it boggles the mind as to why they'd want to remove either of them.

Levy steps down at Spurs. Unexpected.

Not sure how professional it is to tell strangers on LinkedIn that players wanted to leave, and got offered contracts but went for more money elsewhere.

It was ever thus. Some are genuinely just very optimistic people. Some just like to wind people up. Some swing between optimism and pessimism depending on which way the wind blows. Regardless of the reason, it only becomes a problem when the personal digs or attempts at thread moderation begin.

If Pears has any confidence in himself, and the hierarchy truly want him gone, then mutual termination might be best for him and the club. I suppose it depends on whether the club think they can eventually get a fee for him either in January or next summer that recoups the wages lost paying a player who they have no intention of putting on the pitch. The sensible option would be to reintegrate him as second choice, obviously, as he's not going anywhere until January at the earliest and the only other goalkeeper at the club with proper senior experience.

The idea that clearing out the decks was necessary after comfortably finishing 7th or 8th in 3 of the last 4 seasons is very odd to me. I don't understand the idea that we needed an "overhaul" when we finished 7th last season, barely missing out on the playoffs. You keep your core players and build around them. You identify areas in the first 11 that can be improved and sign players who should be able to push the team on. It's what we haven't done well enough over the past five or six years. We've mostly just signed players who have kept us at the same level, or more recently had managers able to squeeze as much as possible out of an increasingly limited squad. You don't sell all of your Championship experience and replace it with mostly cheap gambles from lesser leagues. That's a plan which has a miniscule chance of actually being successful. Selling a first team centre back with no replacement, even worse. I understand people want to have hope, but I can't see this transfer window as anything other than a catastrophe.

Tronstad recently turned 30, so there's two.

The issue I have with this is that if he's such a good player, why is he being loaned out with an option to buy after only signing for the club in February? I appreciate Brum have spent money and signed a lot of players, but as a young player and utility man you'd assume he'd be useful to keep around if he's decent.

Oh fuck off. (them, not you)

It really does feel like if somebody whose only experience was Football Manager was given full control of the transfer strategy. Unfortunately in real life you can't download a tactic that breaks the game engine.

There were rumours about Taylor Gardner-Hickman - not seen anything suggesting it's happened, though. Might be the club keeping it quiet. Didn't see anyone else linked. Looks like the club have pocketed the Hyam cash and are fine with letting even more Championship experience walk out the door. After our blistering start to the season I suppose they think we can cope with it.

I think, regardless of owners, the EFL will be fairly strict on the matter. Allowing one club to slip through the deadline, even on a technicality, sets a precedent and opens the floodgates in future. Probably more sensible to just take a hard line with everyone.

I suppose it's just a case of having a soft and a hard deadline. The former encompassing the initial paperwork between clubs, and the latter relating to ironing out the final details. You could call 9pm the 'real' deadline, with 7pm being more like a final call for any deals concluded between the clubs but with player terms still to be thrashed out.

Possible they may just be run professionally and actually get it done on time tbf.

Probably exactly what the EFL sent back to us when we appealed O'Brien and McGuire.

It wasn't that long ago we were turning down higher bids for the likes of BBD and Rothwell, supposedly at the owners' behest, preferring to retain their abilities rather than allow them to leave (rightly or wrongly). Now £2.7m for our main CB on deadline day, with no replacement, is something we 'can't turn down'. I don't see this as some masterful evolution of our strategy to stop players leaving on a free - it's the taps being turned off and us needing to claw in whatever transfer money we can, whilst making sure the wage bill continues to drop. It would be interesting to know what the actual terms of our permanent transfers are, in terms of how the fees are being paid, and how these signings contrast with a like-for-like comparison to the wage savings of those being replaced.

Come on now, I was trying to muster some optimism.