"Hi Macron, we play in reversed blue and white halves" "Best we can offer you is a blue and white halved kit from the stock - otherwise there's an additional charge for such a bespoke design." "Thank you for your time, we'll be taking our business elsewhere"

We wouldn't get near Dolan.

This is surely at odds with the requirement to field x,000 minutes of Academy graduates, right? Transfermarkt tells me he's a RB. We've just bought a RB and have a promising Academy graduate RB who's 20 (i.e. sink or swim time) in Duru. Are we really trying to buy another RB?

As opposed to the 'hard working, but delaying / putting the wrong weight / picking the wrong pass, turning back into trouble with a pointless pirouette and being run down by every fullback' types? The legend of Dolan has grown exponentially since he decided he wasn't staying. He's an average Championship player, with his workrate carrying a significant portion of that value.

I've stopped worrying about it. Eustace walking out to leave a relegation threatened Derby was the final straw for me. We're not a serious football club.

Pears wouldn't get a game in my weekday 7 a side kick-a-bout. He's awful.

Pears isn't a professional GK - moving him on isn't a downgrade.

I think you've got the wrong scouting report, mate. Burst of pace? Lad looks like he's running in treacle.

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.

On the ball, perhaps. Off the ball - PL wingers would roast him.

It used to be that FBs were frustrated / failed CMs. Now a FB is often the best player on a team - they're asked to do SO much in the modern game.