Armchair supporter supremo

Was Ayala really unavailable due to injury that much last year? Just felt more like Mowbray preferred leninhan,van hecke and Wharton for the most part, would be like signing a new player if the coaches can find a better way of getting the balance right with his training so we can try and get 30+ games out of him, plus his experience and leadership will be invaluable now unless we sign a couple of seasoned pros for the first team (which seems unlikely with our current transfer policy)

Was just about to say similar, defintely someone trying to force a the interested parties into action... Not necessarily BBs agent could by someone from rovers trying to make something happen quickly

They look a pretty shite club with nothing of any real note in their entire history! Frank Ribery is their current captain (at 39 years old) They do have 1 nice little rovers link though! Lars Bohinens Son plays for them on loan, he appears to be a decent young midfielder as well, sounds pretty identical in playing style to his dad according to wikis description

Personally id love him to sign a new bumper contract (with lots of extras ie. big bonuses and incentives) and let him have a release clause if a BIG club came in with a BIG BIG offer. id hate to see the lad go to some club just to warm their bench like Armstrong and become another of footballs forgotten men

I agree that I don't think either JDT or Broughton would have come here unless there was reasonable funds to play with The Lambert comparison wouldn't be the same this time around I don't think! Pretty sure Lambert only came on a very short contract or had some kind of release clause that allowed him to leave but without receiving any compensation, Where as far as I know jdt has committed to a standard 3 year contract, so I doubt he'd just walk away from that and lose out on up to 3 years salary

Have any trialists been spotted training with the team yet?

There's a difference between coming in and making the odd mistake And coming in and barely looking like a professional footballer though

Was just wondering the same 😄😄 Doesn't seem to likely though

I agree he's currently getting a bit too much praise and attention than is probably healthy for a young player at his stage, last thing he needs is to be getting a big head before he's even played 1 professional game. Hopefully when he's ready he does reach is potential with us though

Can't disagree! For a club wanting to get back into the prem the wage budget does seem very mid table championship, possibly with all the first team outgoings we've had so far this summer it will have loosened things up a bit to attract a few higher calibre players 🤞

yes eventually! and it's not "a few" negativity spreads like a cancer if not kept in check and Tommason doesn't seem the kind to want to work in a constantly depressing workplace environment Complain about legit things like st prices that can still be changed, but average players leaving because they want more money.... fck em, none of those players could give a toss about you or the club and they're gone now. I'm more interested in seeing who we eventually bring in to replace them

Can't be doing with the doom mongers lately and the team will never get anywhere if some folk are constantly looking for someone to vilify at the club, The new manager needs everyone pulling in the same direction and an air of positivity about the club otherwise he'll be gone in months and WE WILL just end up with a Simon Grayson type manager.

God I'm agreeing with Chaddly way too much lately! I pretty much agree on all of his points there.

Thoughts are lovely. But the facts are contracts have been on the table for them all season if not longer and negotiations have been on going ever since... The players clearly wanted a bumper salary and a nice fat signing on fee for themselves and their agents with being out of contract. Inconvenient bugger that all 3 contracts ended at the same time but that's just the way it is. Hopefully in a few weeks we'll have signed a few new players and all of this whinging will be forgotten about.

Frustrating, but the contracts have been there for them to sign for a long time... If they don't sign then what more can be done, none of them are worth changing or breaking the clubs wage structure for.

I agree absolutely.... Shearer, Bellamy, Hendry, Savage, Batty, Diof.... To name just a tiny few where nasty bastards on the pitch and probably just a twatty of it. As long as theyre murderers, cretinous perverts, violent wife beaters etc.. Then it shouldn't really matter, As long as they turn up on time for training and give all they've got on match day then it's pretty irrelevant.

He's probably worth half that at best!

Had my passport renewed last year, was kept up to date with the process by the automated service and received the replacement in less than 10 days, no problem 🤷‍♂️ Also renewed by drivers licence recently, all done online with no issues at all and recieved the new licence quickly. There's probably more people that are just crap at filing in forms correctly etc and checking everything is spot on before posting things off. Are you not a working person?

Gowd these threads take some weird tangents in the off season😅

Personally much prefer jdt over the mercenary carvalhal

My thoughts exactly. We need to get a rock hard bastard backline in place before blowing our limited funds on fancy dan luxory players.

Whatever the formation it does sound l8ke Tomassons way is going to be similar to Mark Hughes, Very high intesity, not give the oppo a second to think, fast direct attacking.. Cant wait 😁

This. Even Mercer has the grace to hold his hands up when his tales don't come to fruition.

Whether you believe or agree with him you should either reply with the same maturity as Glen does or just shut up and stop harassing the bloke.

So what are we expecting formation wise from JDT? I've read conflicting reports, some saying he strongly favours a more traditional 442/4411 with pressing forwards others saying he goes with 4231 with wide pressing forwards