I think he's here until his contract expires - we saved him from the scrap heap. I also think he's desperate to get more athleticism in the squad, so that's the type of player he's asked them to target. Whether they've got anything more than athleticism is another matter.

Depends if the surgery went well, surely? It's 2025, not 1982 - modern medicine has advanced an awful lot.

To be fair Hedges does nothing in the final third.

Double swoop?

And they've not even fronted the cash to pay their own bills the last two years - it's been player sales. Plus it sounds like they're holding that £147m 'debt' over our head - a loan they can call in at any time and completely sink the club.

Nah, Chansiri is going to burn out and fade away pretty quickly. There's no sign of our purgatory ending. We, sadly, have the worst owners in football.

I'd look at the Commercial side of the club if I was interested in addressing that income to wages ratio. Embarrassing sponsors, embarrassing season ticket sales.

You can tell from the signings (and near signing) he wants athletes. You'd think Pickering has one foot out of the door if anyone offers anything for him. Ismael won't want to watch Harry trundle up and down the wing.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la.

Just par for the course, no? Eustace got a bitchy statement. Waggott got a sentence.

The senior players were annoyed? Imagine how the fans felt. We have to PAY to watch this shit - they at least get generously compensated.

Duru's gone from breaking through from nowhere, going out on loan to a L2 side and getting called up to the USA U20s to back behind a CM who did ok at Chorley on loan. Ouch.

Maybe Brittain saw Alebiosu in training on Friday and thought "fuck that, he's going to take my job" 😉

Honestly I think he'd make a fine LWB - he's quite useful until he gets into the final third. Then it all falls apart for him.

As much as I hate Gestede and co I'm not sure what you're getting at with these figures. I'm sure the figure is much lower than that 25%, in terms of players linked to signed, when you factor in that we've probably asked clubs about 100 players this summer. We're not Liverpool, Arsenal et al - our conversion rate is never going to be great. Coincidentally unlike Liverpool, Arsenal et al there are thousands of players that would easily improve us. There's perhaps a few dozen for them.