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Was debating this the other day. Some of the players going over there are young enough to still compete at the highest level i.e. Neymar, Henderson, Mane, Mahrez etc, but have gone for the money. Now if you offered me who isnt a millionaire to go over for that money id go tomorrow...however these players are already multi multi millionaires and already have more money in their accounts than theyll be able to spend in their lifetime. Would £700k a week make any difference to their lifestyle (during and after their carreer) to the £150 or £200k they would get in europe? Surely prestige and legacy would be more important to someone who already has money coming out of their eyeballs. Obviously not though.

I think Ennis needs to start. Hes looked impressive in all his appearances so far and bagged a cup goal. If he only lasts 60 minutes Leonard can get some more minutes. Think some are being a big harsh on Dolan and Markanday. Markanday has 1 goal in 2 in the league and also scored in pre season. So thats 2 goals in about 4 games after hardly playing. Stick with for now. Pears JRC Carter Hyam Pickering Tronstadt Wharton Szmodic Markanday Ennis Dolan

How are Chelsea still within FFP restrictions? I know they will have a big income via commercial deals, TV money etc but no champions league and they must have spent nearly £1billion over the last couple of years and are still bidding on every player going. Thought they wanted the squad to downsize. Their wage bill will be eye watering.

Thought Ennis would get the nod upfront as I think it will be a bit of a scrap. Good confidence boost to Leonard. Bit worried we're a bit lightweight against a scrappy Rotheram side. Hopefully we can get the football flowing early.

Good win with a bare bones squad against a team that should be challenging near the top. Leonard looks a lot more promising than Vale. A CF and RW we wouldn't look too bad when all are fit.

Any JDT interview yet?

Wow. 8 goals without reply. Guess the Austrian bundesliga isn't very good. Good to see Leonard off the mark early. I think he'll quickly be above Vale in the pecking order.

Haha first response...an advert. I agree, browsing the forum on a mobile is shocking.

Saka is a top top player these days. Added regular goals to his game. Now must be one of the top 5 or 6 wide players in the world. I used to think England should play sancho over him. Not even close now The TAA love in is getting a bit weird.

Can't believe Luton are going to be in the Prem. My mind still associates them with L1 or L2. We missed a humongous opportunity to go up this year. Don't think the league will be as weak as last year for some time. What could have been if it wasn't for the disintegration of the last 10 games and those two last second equalisers v the two finalist sides.

Nice to get some business done early for a change. Never heard of the guy until a couple of days ago. 24 years old and 13 goals in a title winning L1 side last year sounds decent business on a free. If he can add a bit of strength and pace up top it would be an improvement. Pretty sure George Hirst had 13 L1 goals before we signed him and we all know how good he was.....

We all knew this was coming as despite a decent spell after Christmas he seemed to fall out of favour with JDT again. Still a bit gutted though as I think we could have found a way to use his instincts around the box. Those two injuries were a sickener right in his prime.

Cant see there being any truth behind the sacking rumors, but the comments on there are full mowbray. Already talking about how good the teams coming up from L1 are and how hard it will be for little sunderland next season.

Where did we finish last year? On current form we might be on track to finish lower than the mogdagon days

Loss of form at the wrong time. The team doesn't seem to be have been playing badly of late but no one of any quality to take the chances up top. Them 4 dropped points in the last seconds of the last 2 games make this loss a killer. No way Is Brereton anything above championship standard. Should have sold him for £5m early in the summer.

Wtf.....95min and 94min to drop 4 points. Those 4 points would have made top 6 fairly comfortable. Simply can't afford to do this and expect to get away with it.

Did we seriously just conceed a 95th minute equaliser to their goalkeeper? Jesus christ, we really do know how to fuck things up. Win would have been massive looking at other results. No killer instinct in this team.

Why has Thomas fallen out of favour? Uninspiring line up.

How don't you win a game with 80% possession and 16 shots to their 9. And normal championship standard striker would bag a couple today.

Kiss the play offs goodbye. Even if we did sneak in there isn't a hope in hell chance that we'd be good enough to beat the other sides in there. Our position is mainly due to the weak league this year but even that has caught us now. No decent striker and no decent midfielder has been our ultimate undoing.

Not just us that are loosing our better players on a free. Seems to be much more common in recent seasons. https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/norwich-transfer-blow-blackburn-rovers-26640431

You just knew it didn't you. Absolutely nailed on to happen

Had no idea Khadra was at Brum. You know he's going to score probably for the first time since he last scored against us.

Not really an Academy player but a young player nonetheless. According to my football app Dilian Markanday has only made 1 sub appearance for Aberdeen since his Janurary loan. Not sure if he's injured but not what you'd expect if he had any decent prospect for us

I don't think from an on the pitch point of view losing BBD is the end of the world. We will miss his goals of late (still top scorer this year), but the games when BBD was injured we arguably played the best stuff all season. Others will need to step up and we will have to do sensible business in the transfer marker to make up them goals but its not impossible. Id rather keep Hyam. The massive loss is the lack of a transfer fee to re-invest. Annoying but not the end of the world. Loosing good players on a free is an unsustainable position for a club like us. Thankfully it looks like they're trying to sort it. As others have said its a funny one with BBD, because he was absolute garbage until 18 months ago, and by then his contract was already into its final 12-18 months.