Exiled_Rover

How does one find Iceland v Azerbaijan on the telly...?

"Hi mate fancy taking a 70% paycut to play at a team where you put no effort in for 6 months? No? No bother then, have a good weekend".

Absolute suicide, but hey it's all about saving cash.

The opposite - Wrexham were sniffing around for a CB in that price range (they were after a bloke from Bristol City for £2m and told to jog on).

I'm not confident saying we've drastically regressed until I've seen the players actually play.

Where do they get those figures from? e.g. even going off Transfermarkt, Derby's CF cost £6.9m and their RB £2.5m. Was Travis free? Carlton Morris free? No loan fees paid for Beck, Brereton-Diaz et al?

I mean he hasn't played for 9 months and it's still £40k a month at 35 when you're unemployed. He might.

I'd like him to start wearing trousers long enough to cover his ankles - and to start wearing socks.

So did Hyam escape without having to make a hostage video?

As people keep pointing out to me - it's more to do with the fact that Hyam is noticeably worse at LCB. I'm not sure why that is.

He better hope we don't loan anyone south of Birmingham. This lot wouldn't pay his M6 Toll expenses.

So what we've ascertained from these court proceedings over the... fuck me, years... is that the way the Venkys run our team isn't a 'them' problem. It's a cultural Indian problem.

Rudy telling people how to dress when his pants are always 3 inches too short for him and he doesn't wear socks.

I hope they do - I hope the lad thrives.

They haven't gotten away with it. The ground is half empty every week, tens of thousands hate them and they're on the hook for £200m. The apathy is because they're thousands of miles away seem to have the finances for that not to bother them.

He probably shouldn't miss so many chances / opportunities to shoot then, eh?

Do you want a bet now that the gap is still circa £20m a year?

I like my CFs to be able to hold the ball up (especially in any variety of formation where they're the tip of the spear). Gudjohnsen is 6'2", clearly has good body control and wins balls in the air. The ball always comes straight back when Ohashi is up front. If he's not scoring he's not contributing anything to the side imo. e.g. against Norwich they were pressing our wingers and daring us to play a long ball to Ohashi because they knew what the outcome would be.

He looks like a Carter / Hill RB to me i.e. he's athletic enough to play it, but he's not a natural FB.

So beyond all the bonkers - who's playing RB and CB if we get injuries? I assume now that Carter and McLoughlin are the preferred starters at CB. Is Miller the immediate backup to Carter and Wharton to McLoughlin? Who plays RB if Carter and Alebiosu pick up a knock? Gardner-Hickman? We've already seen Montgomery can't play there.

We genuinely don't have enough CBs on the books to play 3 at the back (consistently).

Hedges still starting games is criminal. I'd also expect Gudjohnsen to quickly displace Ohashi - he'll offer far more upfront.

That's frightening. How they're allowed to get away with this is beyond me.

Our home kit is a disgrace.

Even if it was a hand grenade it wouldn't warrant what they've done to us.