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Could also see the opposite effect as well to be fair. The team rally round and players step up. I mean it's happened in the past few years when losing our main goal threat..... As well as his goals he's a big personality to lose, but there does at least appear to be a few characters in that dressing room at present.

Now whilst i fucking despise Venkys, isn't that what we've always been? Our biggest talents and especially highest scorers have historically always been at risk of leaving for a 'bigger club'. This group of players must now knuckle down, heroes must emerge and ultimately goals must be replaced. (Very) early indications have been good, goals coming from different outlets, although against weaker opposition obviously. The prospect of losing Szmodics now doesn't seem quite as bad as when the alternative was Sam Gallagher... Team spirit seems really good, granted it can be easy for it to seem that way just in front of the cameras. My biggest worry here is that king rat will have been in the Venkys ears already, feeding them information that we're scoring lots of goals and can live without Szmodics or any further signings. Time is also not on our side given how we can drag things on.

Not sure on that. The fee will be undisclosed, again, and the cash will most likely go into the same black hole previous sales have ended up in. I hope I'm wrong like....

Fee agreed now on sky

There is of course an argument Szmodics is continuing to bag as a come and get me plea....

Which report was that? You realise that's like a 9+ hour round trip on a weekday right? Factoring in whatever he was supposedly doing there. Do you REALLY think that sounds legit and that he'd rush back home to play against Stockport?

I hope a better team come in for Szmodics than Ipswich at this point. I don't begrudge him a move as we literally owe our championship status to him. Obviously we don't know the full ins and outs but either 1 or both parties are being hard work and stubborn. If he does go to Ipswich it's almost certainly literally 1 season in the prem I would say. They'll go down and unless he absolutely takes the prem by storm, with another year on the clock he surely won't have many offers coming in, from prem teams. They'll get tubbed first game off Liverpool and second game against City, maybe then they'll hit the panic button and throw more cash at us, after that the window will be closing. Their current signings are over priced and inexperienced youngsters for the most part, they really ought to stop fannying about.

Did Szmodics even acknowledge the fans then when he came off? Maybe I missed it

Really like the look of Duru, if he was left sided surely he'd be straight in the first team

Was 9 last time I think, but as far as I'm aware they've not even said this time - standard

He's 21 though, at that age I think Szmodics was cutting about at Colchester right? I think its exactly the move he needed and if he stays fit I can see him scoring 10 goals + this season for Brentford easily.

Erm yeah but Luton should be in the same boat should they not? They were dogshit and will miss Barkley you feel, although they did have a fair few injuries as well. They looked like a team who'd barely had a pre season, although I'm sure Edwards said pre match they'd been good pre season. They'll undoubtedly be up there as they should be, but in a derby game if your players are up for it anything can happen. Sadly last time round at the turf they absolutely were not up for it, coupled with the totally wrong team selection. At Ewood, partly because he played Adam, we made more of a game of it.

Why? We beat them to Wahlstedt? Although in hindsight wish we hadn't.

Liverpool have said they'll listen to offers for Doak today

Yeah Plymouth look terrible. Sheff Wednesday haven't been particularly good either really that second goal was gifted to them. That shirt is bloody awful too especially the back of it.

The main problem with Sigurdsson, for me anyway, is that he appears to be made out of pink wafers and it's never long before his next injury strikes. Never had a consistent run of games and ultimately has never got properly up to speed with the championship.

Likewise if it's true, as a player would Szmodics even want to play for a cash rich team (at present) that won't stump up that amount? Seems an odd story which I find hard to believe. Chaddy the parrot will of course say Alan Nixon has been correct with backroom stories this last few months, obviously.

I'd give them less if at all possible, not sure the minimum requirements.

Was starting to look all so familiar when they grabbed the equaliser. Fair play though JE, probably the best use of substitutes I can ever remember, wouldn't be surprised if its some sort of record 3 subs scoring like that! Worrying how we got caught out numerous times on set pieces, although credit to Derby they were very good on them, mixed them up and clearly practiced them rather a lot in training. Promising debuts all round which was pleasing, especially when you consider a few were new to the championship and none of them fully fit. Derby weren't great though it has to be said, but their set pieces will probably pick a few points up along the way. A bigger test awaits next league game.....

More interestingly, a certain Andrew Cole has also commented

That's quite some achievement by Waggott tbf, 26 minutes or so of talking without actually revealing anything of any real interest that wasn't already known. That'll be it now for another year too, his 'communication' duties. Honestly he must think everyone's simple.

For all the shambolic things at the club, you'd think the facilities and tech available at Brockhall are a lot more capable of analysing a players match fitness than a few people on here making assumptions 🤣 I'm sure he's itching to use Yuki himself but he should know when he's ready using the info provided to him.

Pretty sure he will have allocated the task of informing them to someone else too the coward.

New sponsor set to be confirmed as whoever is jetwashing the Blackburn End probably, few squirts to cover sponsorship for the season, Steve the businessman.

Initially you mean, or thats it? Surely the former although nothing surprises me anymore.