Really poor showing from 56 Abhimanyu, get your mic sorted Also someone from England called Nick is unmuted in the background

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How long is this break?! Get it on with it Judge

Oh he is shite, and at any functioning club I would like the news of replacing him. But this is Venkys, he will be sold and no-one brought in

No no no to selling Travis. We don’t need the money, it wouldn’t be reinvested. The only reason I can see this happening is forcing Travis out. As rovers insider said

I didn't respond because what point are you trying to make. I don't know who I would have, Jerry Yates has struggled at Swansea and it is too early to know about Ohashi. Would you rather have the 1 million pound player in Viktor Gyökeres (when Coventry bought him) or Ohashi? Would you rather have X player when Y was free? The whole point is that no one knows 100% how a transfer will work out. But spending money, even if it is a million pounds or 500k, will on average get you a better player than a free transfer.

It is complete exaggeration to say often the opposite. It can happen but it is surprising when it does. Also what do you mean lower quality player, compared to who? If one scouting department has 5 mill to spend and one has 0 mill on fees then 9 times out of 10 the first one gets the better players This seems like way too naive a viewpoint to me. If you want good players you have to pay money, unless you assume you are far smarter than everyone else in the room. You also have the addition downside that players on free are often far lower in resale value due to them being much older. Out of all the players we have signed I would say that only one has potential for good resale value, Gueye, the one we paid money for

But once again, if you have a well organised scouting team who can consistently hit on free players, then why would you not allow them to spend a bit extra to get that extra quality.

What the made up concept where you can spend 0 on transfer fees and still think Venkys are investing into the team?

But we don't go and buy huge free agents, we buy free agents no one else wanted or those on low wages. You are being completely delusional

Who said my two statements were connected apart from you 1. He isnt a good CM 2. He has been shite the last two games

I thought your whole argument was having some super duper scouting setup allows you to get good freebies. Wouldn't the same super duper scouting set up be able to get you good players for that money Just seems to me you are trying to justify any pathetic amount of money Venkys will spend

Travis yesterday for their second goals sums him up, lumbering around with no intensity, pointing is his strong point!

Travis reverted back to his typical self 45 mins into the season. He was not good yesterday and his yellow card was particularly moronic

The extensive list is Pickering, Hyam, Carter, Tronstad, Gueye, Ohashi

JRC is not a good CM at all. He has looked shite first two games

So would it be fair to say that you don't think the clubs needs to spend money on transfer fees at all to be successful as long as the scouting of players is good enough

Would love to understand this a bit more. We have received somewhere in the region of 35 million pounds for players in the last year. Yet you aren't bothered how much we reinvest in the squad because at the level of our self imposed spending restrictions free players are probably just as good as players we could get for a few hundred thousands? But you do care that we should be reinvesting way more money into the squad though right?, see Coventry for a good example

Ah yes Yuki the confirmed championship success after two games. I don't know if we hit the jackpot with Yuki (I hope so) but I do know I would rather not have to play the lottery when we have millions in the bank to spend on good quality targets

Not impressed at all by Ryo. Says everything about Venkys that that is the standard of player we are after despite selling Szmodics

Wasn't there something about Travis being one of the highest earners and they were looking to move him on. I can't remember if that was Nixon or someone else reporting it

We have known in the past that for whatever reason Venkys often have money available for a striker, Gallagher etc However, would striker be my top choice no. Spend the money on a goalkeeper first then a fullback.

You must be on the wind up

The Tronstad insane block, Norwich hitting the cross bar and a another couple of good chances they had

New boys fantastic Travis , Pears , Dolan get them replaced. Absolute shite